Impossibly Cool Clothes: Difference between revisions

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''When we gasp and we say to each other in awe, "Look at what [[Hockey Night in Canada|Don Cherry]]'s wearing!"''|'''Bowser And Blue''', "Don Cherry's Tailor".}}

 

** According to [[Word of God]], in ''[[Batman Returns]]'' Catwoman/Selina Kyle's costume had to be sewn onto Michelle Pfeiffer. For several scenes in which she performs backflips and cartwheels she has a costume without the six-inch [[Combat Stilettos]], and the heels can be seen disappearing and reappearing. Also, all the squeaking had to be edited out.

* A few of the dresses worn by Madonna's character in the film ''[[Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy]]'' are fairly sketchy.

'''Tracy:''' Wearing that dress is a step in the right direction. }}

* Costume designers for ''[[The Matrix]]'' apparently struggled to create the right clothing for Neo. They felt he should wear a leather trenchcoat like your standard [[Badass Longcoat]], but even garment-weight leather is too heavy and stiff to billow and flow the way they wanted. They had to settle for a dark silvery-gray cloth coat.

* Lampshaded in ''[[Discworld/A Hat Full of Sky|A Hat Full of Sky]]'', when Tiffany visits a magical supply shop and expresses interest in a particular cloak, the "Zephyr". As the shopkeeper puts it, absolutely useless at keeping you warm or dry but looks fantastic in the slightest breeze.

** And subverted with the Assassins. They wear black because it looks cool. Vetinari wears grey because it doesn't show up in the dark, always useful when you're sneaking up to someone to kill them.

* The sky pirate outfits in ''[[The Edge Chronicles]]''. You have breastplates, goggles, giant tricorn hats, gauges, levers, backpacks, wings, pouches, pockets, several magic charms (usually), and an insanely huge compass, all hanging off of a gigantic coat. [[Rule of Cool|And it looks awesome]].

* At the end of ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]'', Wes Janson gets a cape that is essentially a supremely-flexible flat-screen TV. Being the comic relief character that he is, he sets it to an image of a bunch of Jansons with their arms linked, kicking their legs like chorus dancers. Wedge Antilles wonders if he can find a way to [[Thrown Out the Airlock|space it]] on the flight home.

* Whether they're cool or not is a matter of opinion, but no self-respecting Canadian can hear "impossible clothes" without thinking of ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'''s Don Cherry. He once wore a checkered sportcoat that alternated between mauve & [[H.P. Lovecraft|the color out of space]]...

* Speaking of Canadians, how about the Red Serge that constable Benton Fraser wears in ''[[Due South]]''?