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* 616-verse Dazzler; it doesn't help that she was created to cash in on the disco craze. And in 1980, when disco was running down.
** Dazzler wears her 1970s costume these days, though. Apparently, her singing career got a revival, so she's all glam again.
* Misty Knight still wears a poofy 1970s-era afro (weirdly, though, it's far more exaggerated than her actual style in the '70s). [[Luke Cage, Hero for Hire|Luke Cage]], on the other hand, has managed to get his shirt buttoned all the way up.
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Jubilee]] is the most extreme example that comes to mind. Although semi-possible as an outfit that a young girl would think is "cool" in the 1980s, the bright yellow trench coat and wrap around sunglasses became just plain painful as the '90s continued.
** In Jubilee's early appearances she was a sidekick to Wolverine. Her costume was a parody of [[Batman|Robin's]], explaining the yellow capelike coat.
** She did have a more modern costume during her time with the New Warriors.
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{{quote|Thompson (with nearly the entire town parading behind them): "Don't look now, but something tells me we're being followed..."}}
*** They were also holding their canes behind their backs as they walked down the street, making all the more funny.
* [[Spirou and Fantasio|Spirou]] is perhaps the ultimate incarnation of this trope: When he started the 1938 he was a bell-boy elevator operator in a chic hotel wearing the traditional red outfit. The outfit (especially the hat) has become tied with the character, even as bell boys. The thing is, bell-boys in general and elevator operators in particular no longer exist. Most readers ended up not knowing what the hell Spirou's uniform came from, but changing it became problematic because it was so intrinsically tied with the characters. Thus Spirou wore his outfit for many decades despite it being out of place. Newer authors compromised by making Spirou wear a variety of red clothes, and only keeping the uniform's hat to be used occasionally as a [[Continuity Nod]]. Many characters have even remarked on the odd hat's appearance or even outright questioned where it's from.
** Of course, it's lampshaded in ''Le Petit Spirou'' where every single member of Spirou's family wears the outfit 24/7. Recent takes on the series justify the clothes in different ways: in Emile Bravo's version for example, Spirou is a bell-boy operator but the reason he wears the outfit all the time is that he's too poor to buy new clothes. Meanwhile, Fantasio's fondness for bow-ties remains unexplained throughout the series.
* The ''[[Bash Street Kids]]'' from ''[[The Beano]].'' There was at least one strip where this was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].
** In ''The Beano'', the artists occasionally tried to 'update' the characters clothes. It usually didn't take (as with [[The Bash Street Kids]] and, to some extent, ''[[Dennis the Menace UK|Dennis the Menace]]''), but subtler changes did (as with ''[[Roger The Dodger]]'' getting long trousers).
* Swedish military-humour character 91:an Karlsson still wears a blue uniform (outdated already when he was created in the 20's) despite most his comrades having switched to more modern camo.
== [[Film]] ==
* The 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie, set during the time of [[Star Trek: The Original Series|the original series]], updated the Starfleet uniforms somewhat, but the female version still consisted of a miniskirt and go-go boots. [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Not that this is a bad thing]], mind. [[The Sixties]] did get ''some'' things right.
** Somewhat ironic, since the original ''[[Star Trek]]'' is supposed to be set many years in the future. (For one thing, James Kirk hasn't even "been born yet.")
* Plot-relevant in ''[[Good Bye, Lenin!|Goodbye Lenin]]''. As stated below under [[Real Life]], this happened in the Communist bloc. The entire movie is about tricking protagonist Alex's mom into thinking Communist Germany still exists after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thus, everyone who is going to visit Alex's mom is required to take off their Capitalist Germany clothes and put on their Communist Germany clothes.
* Steve Rogers in ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]''. His fashion is hopelessly out of date (long-sleeve collared shirts, maybe with the sleeves rolled up and slacks) which makes him look stuffy and formal compared to Tony or Clint. Cap himself suggests that his old stripes and stars uniform is a bit old-fashioned. Coulson suggests instead that with everything that has happened, people "might need a little old-fashioned."
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* Portuguese fashion was decades behind other countries in the 17th century, which was embarrassingly shown when a Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza, sailed to England to marry [[The House of Stuart|Charles II]].
* Likewise the [[Commie Land|Communist bloc]] during the [[Cold War]]; this was much commented on in media coverage of the fall of the [[Cold War|Berlin Wall]].
* In 16th century England, portraits and funeral images show that the fashions of the country nobility were at least 20 years behind those of the royal court in London.
* Jeff Foxworthy once did a routine on how men in general (and his father in particular) tend to tune out fashion at a certain point after marriage and parenthood and simply keep wearing old stuff; the usual timing of fashion cycles and human development mean that dads' clothes are the most horribly dated when the kids are in early adolescence.
* Jerry Seinfeld also did a bit, saying you could tell what a man's favorite year was, since that's the fashion style he'll wear for the rest of his life.
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