Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,480
edits
Outdated Outfit: Difference between revisions
reorganized comic book sections under new subhead
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (reorganized comic book sections under new subhead) |
|||
Line 2:
[[File:80suit.jpg|link=Miami Vice|frame|Gotta love [[The Eighties]].]]
{{quote|''"Does anyone... still wear... a hat?"''
Fashion is merciless. It beguiles kings and makes them slaves. It should come as no surprise that in the space of years (if not months) a perfectly fashionable dress or suit can go from ''tres chic'' to ''horrible,'' what ''is'' surprising is when someone keeps wearing said outfit... [[Long Runners|for over fifty years!]]
Line 16:
{{examples}}
== Comic Books ==
=== [[The DCU]] ===
* Jimmy Olsen sometimes still wears a blazer and bowtie in ''[[Superman]]''.
** Possibly lampshaded in ''[[All-Star Superman]]'', when Jimmy is voted worst dressed man in Metropolis. In that series, he also takes a shine to "Kryptonian Overpants"
Line 27:
** She did switch to 'letting her hair down' for a few years in 1970s, and again for the long-term in the early 1980s to the very end of the original Legion continuity in 1994.
=== [[Marvel Comics]] ===
* Mary-Jane Watson, wife of ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'', is a huge victim of this, being a fashion model during her appearances in the 1980s and 1990s. The funny thing was that the contemporary "big hair" look that Todd MacFarlane gave her in the 1990s actually dated more quickly than her "so outdated it's cool again" 1960s hairstyle, which was then brought back. The various artists had massive differences in what hair style she was supposed to have, though as a model its frequent changes were forgiveable.
** Played for laughs in ''[[Spider-Girl]]''. After May time travels to the past accidentally she meets her mom (Mary-Jane) who, unaware she's her daughter, tells her to fix up her wardrobe. Upon returning to the present May asks her mom to take her shopping and May acknowledges her sense of fashion is horribly dated, though she's glad to spend more time with her mom. As a teenage girl, most of May's outfit are now pretty dated themselves a mere
** Also in ''Spider-Man'', supporting character Captain Jean DeWolff dressed like someone out of a 1940s film noir and drove a matching vintage roadster, but that seems to have been a deliberately retro look.
* 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.
Line 40:
* Dum Dum Dugan's trademark derby hat was already old-fashioned for his social class and nationality during World War 2.
=== [[Disney]] Comics ===
* Several examples: [[Donald Duck]]'s sailor suit, Big Bad Wolf's one-suspender-trousers and Cat-in-the-hat-hat, Daisy's bow, and so on. Admittedly, both Donald and Scrooge's outfits were supposed to be outdated from the start. Attempts to modernize them (as in ''[[Quack Pack]]'') have been made, with mixed results. At best.
** Part of this is caused by a schism of canon among the comic writers: some of them consider the stories to still be set in the 40s and 50s while others insist that they take place in the modern world.
=== 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 [http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/12/18/comic-book-legends-revealed-186/ he was named after it].
| |||