Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Difference between revisions

'''Kellaway:''' Those pajamas are impossible. This actually happened! }}

* ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]'' along with the wedding dress that inspired the page quote, has hideous bridesmaids dresses that her cousin Nikki picked out. While the rest of her family coos in awe, Toula's response is a horrified gasp.

 

== Literature ==

** At the end of one novel, Cheery admits that that one green dress does make her look like a big cabbage.

{{quote|"If a foreign ambassador to the Court of St James wore (out of a genuine desire to flatter) a bowler hat, a claymore, a Civil War breastplate, Saxon trousers and a Jacobean haircut, he'd create pretty much the same impression."}}

* In ''[[To Say Nothing of the Dog]]'' by Connie Willis, all of Tossie's over-designed dresses tend towards this, at least in the eyes of the time-traveling protagonists, who are pretty put off by most Victorian design. But especially Tossie's dresses. Girl loves ruffles.

* In the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series, Dr. Tachyon is frequently described as dressing like this whenever he has the opportunity to dress himself. Canary yellow, emerald green, royal purple, cardinal red, and sky blue can all make an appearance in the same outfit. Apparently, this is considered a normal Takisian wardrobe, but since he's living on Earth, almost every human who looks at him comments on how ridiculous he looks. It's compounded by his metallic-red hair.

* In [[Alexandre Dumas]]'s novel ''[[Les Quarante Cinq|The Forty Five Guardsmen]]'' we are informed that they have no uniform and, since they are just arrived to Paris, they are provided with money to buy new clothes, the results were a motley assortment of styles and decorations, "generally in bad taste"

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* In a "Non-Denominational Holiday" episode of ''[[X-Play]]'', Adam dissed the antlers he wore, while Morgan dissed his sweater.

 

* In ''[[The Comedians of Comedy]]'', Patton Oswalt talks about how he hates stand-up comics who start their bits by making fun of the clothes they're wearing. Not only does it require them to wear stupid clothes to every single gig, but it doesn't make any sense. Did someone forcibly dress them moments before they got onstage?

* [[Robin Williams]] talked about these when discussing golf in his "Live on Broadway" special:

{{quote|'''Robin''': Where you can dress like a pimp, and no one will care! Where you can wear clothes that would [[Refuge in Audacity|make a blind gay man go, "Oh, dear Christ! That is loud! This isn't Carnivale; what the fuck are you people on?!"]]}}

 

== Video Games ==

* [[Big Bad Wannabe|Benny's]] checkered suit in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. Once the Courier kills him, several NPCs will comment on how tacky the suit was.

 

* Inverted in [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0057.html this comic] of ''[[Our Little Adventure]]''. When Julie goes to her appointment with the Everwood council, she passes a small group of nobility. Each of those nobles has an outfit more ridiculous than the last, though Julie thinks they're "stately and beautiful."

* Jake in ''[[Homestuck]]'' has [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006083 an array of wearable computers] that make him look like an [[Up to Eleven|even more pimped out]] version of the already impossibly tacky series [[Big Bad]] Lord English. Oh, and that skull thing to his left? That's a helmet computer that [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006088 he could've also been wearing].

{{quote|You put on a few of your more ostentatious devices. Luckily (or unfortunately) you grew up alone, so there was never anyone around to point out how ridiculous you look.}}

* ''[[Mike: Bookseller]]'' has Jason's incredibly loud [http://www.krrobar.com/mikebookseller/comics/292.html Hawaiian shirts].

 

== Web Original ==

* In a [[Doug Walker]] video, "Reverend Nutjob", he asked God to heal one guy's fashion sense (he was wearing a light yellow suit).

* In the ''[[Regular Show]]'' [[Christmas Special]] Santa tells Benson {{quote|you should have tossed [your christmas sweater] into the lava pit.}}

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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