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[[Fan Service|Usually]], your [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|characters]] need to [[Naked First Impression|wear clothes]]. If your show is set in modern times (and sometimes if it isn't), you'll dress the characters in appropriate clothes for the time. After all, it would look weird if a modern character wore last decade's styles, right? |
[[Fan Service|Usually]], your [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|characters]] need to [[Naked First Impression|wear clothes]]. If your show is set in modern times (and sometimes if it isn't), you'll dress the characters in appropriate clothes for the time. After all, it would look weird if a modern character wore last decade's styles, right? |
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Unfortunately, fashion is highly context-sensitive. There are only a few fashions that have stood the test of time (like tuxedos, T-shirts and jeans [though they were strictly the purview of menial labors prior to [[The Fifties]]], and [[Little Black Dress|The Little Black Dress]]), and odds are, yours didn't If a character from a show that [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|supposedly takes place in the 21st century]] has [[Eighties Hair]], he's going to look weird... almost [[Captain Obvious|as if he's from the eighties]].<ref> |
Unfortunately, fashion is highly context-sensitive. There are only a few fashions that have stood the test of time (like tuxedos, T-shirts and jeans [though they were strictly the purview of menial labors prior to [[The Fifties]]], and [[Little Black Dress|The Little Black Dress]]), and odds are, yours didn't If a character from a show that [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|supposedly takes place in the 21st century]] has [[Eighties Hair]], he's going to look weird... almost [[Captain Obvious|as if he's from the eighties]].<ref>Funnily enough, some types of [[Eighties Hair]] ''did'' actually [[Popularity Polynomial|come back in style]] in the first decade of the 21st century, though probably not in the way eighties sci-fi predicted.</ref> |
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In other words, fashions that don't just tell you what year the show was made, they scream it loudly enough to [[Metaphorgotten|deafen your eyes]]. |
In other words, fashions that don't just tell you what year the show was made, they scream it loudly enough to [[Metaphorgotten|deafen your eyes]]. |
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=== There are many eras with regrettable fashion trends. Here are a few |
=== There are many eras with regrettable fashion trends. Here are a few === |
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The Sixties are justly famous for mini-skirts, tie-die and pyschedelic colors. Hair was big and eye-make-up laid on with a trowel. Shows associated with Sixties fashion: |
The Sixties are justly famous for mini-skirts, tie-die and pyschedelic colors. Hair was big and eye-make-up laid on with a trowel. Shows associated with Sixties fashion: |
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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' |
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]''—the original series: Justly famous for its mini-skirt and go-go boots uniforms, and William Ware Theiss' famously titillating costumes. And for the ladies, James T. Kirk's tearaway shirts. |
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* ''UFO'': Set in the eighties but made in the Sixties featuring regrettable Nehru suits and, on the plus side, delightful peek-a-boo uniforms for both sexes. |
* ''UFO'': Set in the eighties but made in the Sixties featuring regrettable Nehru suits and, on the plus side, delightful peek-a-boo uniforms for both sexes. |
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*** May be due to [[Space Is an Ocean]], since sailor suits have them. Also done intentionally in ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]''. |
*** May be due to [[Space Is an Ocean]], since sailor suits have them. Also done intentionally in ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]''. |
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* Later seasons of ''[[Adam-12]]''. |
* Later seasons of ''[[Adam-12]]''. |
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* ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'' |
* ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]''—exceptionally funny writing and delivery, and the fashions just add to the funny. |
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* ''[[Gemini Man]]'' |
* ''[[Gemini Man]]''—all six episodes of it. |
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== [[Film]] == |
== [[Film]] == |
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The Eighties were almost as silly as the Seventies, but are looked back at with marginally more fondness (mainly because many of the looks from the era fetishized the Cool aesthetic). Note, in particular, [[Eighties Hair]]. |
The Eighties were almost as silly as the Seventies, but are looked back at with marginally more fondness (mainly because many of the looks from the era fetishized the Cool aesthetic). Note, in particular, [[Eighties Hair]]. |
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==== Here are some series strongly associated with Eighties Fashion |
==== Here are some series strongly associated with Eighties Fashion ==== |
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
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== The 1990s == |
== The 1990s == |
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==== Nineties Fashion |
==== Nineties Fashion ==== |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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