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Line 48: 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]. Reggie's central parting seems to come and go. * ''[[Tintin]]'': [[Tintin]]'s plus fours. Tintin himself was slowly updated (he wore jeans instead in his last adventure, ''Tintin and the Picaros''), but the Captain and Calculus remained pretty unchanged. ~~Additionally in [[Tintin]], the~~The Thompsons have tried a few times to blend in when investigating in a foreign country, but their outfits were often too "folkloric", and on at least one occasion, the national dress of the wrong country. Far from blending in, they've been known to attract crowds come to laugh at them. * Nowhere more hilarious than ''The Blue Lotus'', where they come wearing '''17th century Manchu era''' clothes, complete with ponytails and fans! The result? {{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~~]]'': 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's20s) despite most his comrades having switched to more modern camo. == [[Film]] ==