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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).
** In [[The Nineties]] Jughead got a backwards baseball cap. Fortunately [[The Powers That Be]] decided to change his hat back, given that [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022204816/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/12/18/comic-book-legends-revealed-186/ he was named after it].
** Reggie's central parting seems to come and go.
* ''[[Tintin]]'':
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The [[James Bond]] of the novels has a pretty good sense of timeless style, except for the ''nylon underpants''.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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*** 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.
* Likewise, neckties. Historically, they have varied in width from 1 inch up to 6 inches, according to the whims of fashion. The pendulum has just swung to the point where all those narrow ties from [[The Sixties]] and [[The Eighties]] were back in fashion in the early 2000s, but it's impossible to get away with an ultra-wide tie from [[The Seventies]] in any age. A fairly classic middle-ground lies between 3 and 3-and-a-half inches, but keep in mind that ties have also increased in ''length'' over the past 50 years: the near-death of the vest and the ever-lowering trouser waistband mean that old ties are simply too ''short'' unless you wear your pants up at your natural waist, which is near-impossible with what's currently{{when}} in fashion. (Of course, by the late-2010s/early 2020s, neckties had disappeared altogether in North America except in politics and upper management, so this particular "fashion" applies only to a very small group on that continent.)
** High-waistedness is coming back{{when}} for men and women, at least in America, and vests have just become extremely popular, possibly because of ''[[Mad Men]].''
* The dress uniforms worn by the Swiss Guard at the Vatican - usually reserved for parades and ceremonial occasions - haven't changed since the Renaissance. (The Guard wears a more modern uniform for routine work.)
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