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[[File:mickeyinwizardshat.jpg|link=Fantasia|frame|[[Badass Long Robe|The robe is stylish]]. [[Nice Hat|The hat]] is ''[[Hat of Power|magic.]]'']]
Magic users, especially in medieval fantasy, will almost always wear robes of one sort or another. The particular type of robe varies, and even those mages who eschew the robe tend to wear cloaks, capes, or (for more modern characters) trenchcoats. At least in part, this seems to be because the loose, billowy clothes look that much more impressive during a magic-induced [[Chunky Updraft]] or [[Dramatic Wind]]. Even the [[Stripperiffic]] costumes worn by [[Vain Sorceress|nymphet sorceresses]] tend to have a few loose scraps of cloth fluttering about.
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** As a highly advanced, probability altering alien, her predictions are all 100% accurate (much to the chagrin of some students).
** In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', Konata [[Cosplay|cosplays]] as Yuki in the witch outfit.
* [[Cute Witch|Yukari Sendou]] from ''[[Rosario
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' present a strange mix of uses and inversions of this trope:
** The full garb is apparently part of the uniform of the two [[Wizarding School|Wizarding Schools]] the main protagonist and the [[Little Miss Snarker]] attended. Several other characters appeared with the [[Nice Hat|pointy hat]] and it's a permanent part of [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Anya]]'s clothing. There was also that child mage in the [[Bad Future]].
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** In ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', a Wizard's idea of going incognito (so people don't recognize that he is a wizard) is to wear a darker, less fancy pointy hat.
*** And of course, the Dean, who gets ... very gung-ho about whatever new idea has caught the wizards' fancy this time, has occasionally been spotted with pointy '' hair''.
** It's been noted in the Discworld series that pointy hats are pretty much hardwired into being a wizard, along with (at the very least,) deep seated distrust and dislike of other wizards, and a desire to build a tower.
* Wizarding casual dress in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series appears to be... you guessed it... a [[Robe and Wizard Hat]].
** The later films put Harry and company in a regular school uniform with a robe, possibly to avoid evoking [[Narm]] among the less fantasy-inclined members of the audience.
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**** Robes are encouraged, but the pointy hat is not. You can adorn your head with magical crowns, goggles, masks, helms, and skull caps, but there is a single magical hat (A hat of disguise, more suited for a trickster than a wizard) in any of the source books out so far.
**** Still, the artwork in the 4th edition books seems to be splitting evenly between flowing robes and exotic pants-and-shirt outfits that are only arguably more practical for combat. But the robes look ''awesome''.
*** There is the famous +1 Mythiral Twilight Chain Shirt armor in 3.5. The armor lacks both arcane spell failure and armor check penalty, as the penalties for not being trained in armor are based on the armor check penalty, there are no penalties for wearing the armor beyond the 5 pounds it weighs.
*** Although like most things in DnD optimizers can make good use of a pointy hat although its purpose is far from normal. You take am adamantine cone big enough for your wizard to stand in comfortably, then you use the shrink item spell on it to make it much smaller and cloth like and then wear it as a hat. Whenever your character enters an antimagic field the cone will expand and drop onto the wizard, cutting off line of sight and letting the wizard teleport away to safety.
** Speaking of [[Forgotten Realms|Elminster]], both the elves (who taught him) and the wizards of Dales (who want to learn from him) prefer practical adventuring clothes. The [[Word of God]] on this is that [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1901&whichpage=59#62283 the hat was largely a creation of the TSR Art Department]. It was also implied - and later [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15988&whichpage=21#383207 confirmed] - that "Old Mage" is an image cultivated on purpose, because "lead by example" works better when the example looks like a fellow mortal "old goat" in generic wizard garb rather than warrior-thief-priest''[[Gender Bender|ess]]''-divine agent or something.
** ''[[Spelljammer]]'' boxed set reminds that the tactical considerations tend to overrule in more aggressive settings:
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== Video Games ==
* Black Mages from the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series dress in blue robes and yellow wizard hats. Red Mages use a variation, a red tabard and a ''magnificent'' [[Nice Hat|red chevalier with a white feather]]. White Mages wear a white robe or poncho with blood-red triangles around the edges, which may or may not [[In the Hood|include a hood]], occasionally with a set of Cat Ears on the hood as in the case of {{spoiler|Krile}} of [[Final Fantasy V]]. Less commonly, the Time Mage class wear conical red hats with a star on them and loose-fitting robes and Summoners wear a phallic-headband-and-robe getup.
** By proxy, so do Red Mage and Black Mage of ''[[8-Bit Theater
{{quote|White Mage: "Pardon me, clown?"
Black Mage: "Oh, this guy is ''not'' talking to ''me''."
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== Western Animation ==
* [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle]] Donatello wears these as part of his videogame sorcerer persona in the episode "SuperQuest".
* SpongeBob wears one in ''The [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] [[The Movie|Movie]]''. He is also [[The Power of Rock|playing guitar]].
* [[Inept Mage|Inept mages]] Tyrone and Pablo of ''[[The Backyardigans]]'' both wear one in "A Giant Problem".
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