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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 [[
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]].
Since most costumers aren't psychic, this happens a lot when old shows are rerun. It can also cause [[Fridge Logic]] if the show is set in the future. "Wait... why do people in the year 2800 wear clothes from the '70s?" Fashion Dissonance isn't completely restricted to shows set in the future, though - in fact, it can also be obvious if they're set in the time they were made, or [[Hollywood Costuming|even if they're set in the]] ''[[Hollywood Costuming|past]]'' (see [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] for one example of this, but a more specific example is the question of why no one in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
Frequently appears in an [[Unintentional Period Piece]].
Compare [[Outdated Outfit]], [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.]], [[I Was Quite a Fashion Victim]], [[No New Fashions in
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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:
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''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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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''
* ''CHiPs''
* Most of the 70's [[Sci Fi]] shows, including the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', ''[[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century]]'', but most notably ''[[Space:
** [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6hDZt1e0ofY/SjMVF9kGFHI/AAAAAAAAEjI/xJFfWZr3saY/s400/space1999.jpg Bell Bottoms!]
*** May be due to [[Space Is an Ocean]], since sailor suits have them. Also done intentionally in ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]''.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Many of the very chic fashions in [[
* The [[James Bond]] movies with Roger Moore.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ah!
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Just look at what the girls are wearing. It's so frighteningly eighties.
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* ''[[Dynasty]]'', particularly the [[Shoulders of Doom]] on the Nolan Miller-designed outfits worn by Joan Collins, Linda Evans and the other actresses.
* The early seasons of ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' were very eighties.
* ''[[
* ''[[Moonlighting]]'' with Maddie Hayes' 80s-tastic shoulderpads.
* ''[[Saved
* ''[[The Cosby Show]]'': Particularly jarring when you see Denise or Vanessa fussing over shiny, loud, beaded, or otherwise eye-searingly hideous outfits when trying to look their "best". Even Claire was not immune.
* ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]''/ ''[[Degrassi High]]''.
* Similarly to ''[[Saved
== [[Music]] ==
* A deliberate aversion was done by [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
* ''[[The Nanny]]''
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', especially in the case of Tommy Oliver going from a mullet to a ponytail look in the course of the show's run. When a photo of him with the latter look is mocked by the Rangers in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'', airing 11 years later; Tommy retorts that it was the style at the time.
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