Fashion Dissonance: Difference between revisions

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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?

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]]. (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.)

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]]. (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.)

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]].