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=== Other [[Comic Books]] ===

* ''[[Archie Comics]]'' are painfully guilty of this. Jughead's hat [http://learning2share.blogspot.com/2009/04/search-term-jugheads-hat.html was actually in style] for [[High School]] boys in the late Thirties/early 1940s. Archie's ''car'' has gone from the intended "old beater" to "classic" ''twice'' (generic 1930s tourer and early Mustang).

** Reggie's central parting seems to come and go.

* ''[[Tintin]]'':

== [[Literature]] ==

* The [[James Bond]] of the novels has a pretty good sense of timeless style, except for the ''nylon underpants''.

 

* The notion of an Outdated Outfit became a running gag on ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', with the character of Lupe who was known to wear exclusively hand-me-downs from Lucille. This usually resulted in funny background gags, such as a Halloween jumper on Thanksgiving or a Bush/Cheney jumper in late 2005.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' occasionally identifies vampires by their old-style clothes. (One of the more hilarious examples was in the episode that introduced Faith, where Faith is first seen dancing with a ''disco vampire''.)

** [[Joss Whedon]] originally intended all vampires to wear [[Frozen Fashion Sense|clothing matching the time period in which they died]], but realized that the concept was major [[Nightmare Retardant]]. The first episode had a passing reference to the idea, with Buffy identifying a vampire based on his 80's fashion.

** Spike has been using the same leather jacket since he looted it off of Nikki Wood and has had the same bleached hair since at least before Billy Idol, seeing as it's been mentioned in canon that Billy stole his hair from Spike.

* [[Steve Buscemi|Tony Blundetto]] of [[The Sopranos]] went to prison in [[The Eighties]]. [[Miami Vice|It shows]].

** Fedoras and trenchcoats remained popular with older men in some of the more "traditional" eastern U.S. cities well into [[The Nineties]].

* Parodied in [[Flight of the Conchords]]. Jemaine and Bret have updated their look, with gelled hair and 80's synthpop-like clothing, which leads to this exchange;

Jermaine: They're not from the 70's, they're from New Zealand.

Dave: Isn't that the same thing? }}

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* Most of the girls in ''[[Peanuts]]'' usually wear typically [[The Fifties|1950s]]-style dresses. (Lucy and Sally eventually started sporting slacks, but kept their coiffed '50s hairdos.)

 

** Similarly in England Arsenal used a kit design based on their original colours during their final season at Highbury stadium.

** The Los Angeles Lakers tried to play a game with the uniforms from [[The Eighties]]. They changed back to their normal uniforms at half time. [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/12/lakers-bring-back-short-shorts-for-80s.html Short shorts on gigantic men do not work well together.]

** For some reason the Tampa Bay Buccaneers trotted out throwback unis based on their infamous orange-and-white "creamsicle" look in 2010. [[Nostalgia Filter]]?

* Think you'll be immune to this if you wear a nice, conservative suit? Nice try. The cut of the jacket, the width of the lapels, and the height of the gorge (the point where the collar and lapels come together) all change drastically over the decades, and it's immediately obvious in a crowd when your suit is not the same as the ones currently in fashion. That said, you could probably get away with a [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel|double-breasted '30s suit with a pleated back]] in a way that you couldn't with a hilariously exaggerated '70s number with a wide tie, or an '80s Power Suit. Just hope that you're at the age where you buy most of your business apparel when things are at a happy equilibrium. If not, you will look dated for the rest of your adult life.

*** No, you won't. What about venting? Structure? Silhouette? Canvassing? Pleats? All this stuff noticeably changes the look of a suit. Fashion is persistent and inescapable, even in conservative menswear.

*** Then again, fashion can ''also'' be consistent. The basic appearance/design/template of a suit has stayed more or less intact from the 19th Century.

 

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