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* This is the ''default'' mode of clothing for the cast of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''.

* Most of the ''[[Digimon]]'' cast's outfits—in particular, the [[Running Gag|liberal]] use of [[Goggles Do Nothing]] and [[Glove Tropes|gloves]]. The reason the franchise's homepage is linked and not individual series is because it would be faster to list aversions than go through each series's weirdly dressed characters in list form. In fact, the only total aversions are Hikari in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', Iori in ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', and four minor characters in ''[[Digimon Frontier]]''. ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' actually got backlash for generally neutralising the weird clothing, with the result that ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' sees the return of the rummage sale rejects in [[Up to Eleven|truly spectacular]] force. Comparatively ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' also toned it down somewhat; only Hirokazu's clothing - and at a stretch, Ruki and Jenrya's - couldn't totally pass for normal.

* Raikou Shimizu of ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'' is a triumphant example, sporting a sleeveless... jean-jacket... thing in combination with black hakama and colorful bracelets (plus pink hair and a huge number of talismans...) And it gets [[media:WAAAAT 1901.png|worse]] when he's stressed out.

 

* [[The Creeper|Jack Ryder]] actually got his costume from a costume shop's rejected costume parts. And it shows. In ''Batman: The Animated Series'' he acquired the costume from various clothes in a Vintage Clothing boutique.

* [[Green Lantern|Alan Scott]] got his costume from a theatre's box of spare costume parts.

* Ditto for Jack Knight as [[Starman (comics)|Starman]], whose costume is something he ''literally'' pieced together in a few minutes from things he hadn't sold in his secondhand shop.

* Also from the ''[[X-Men]]'', Sprite (as Shadowcat was originally known) briefly had a home-made costume. Intended to look like something a young teenager in [[The Eighties]] would think was cool, it was [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501072049/http://girl-wonder.org/dimestoredames/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kitty-1.jpg a gold lamé monstrosity with legwarmers and rollerskates].

* Subverted with Manhunter, whose costume was assembled from whatever super-weapons she could grab from the evidence room. It looks [[Badass]].

* One incident forced [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]] to done pieces of costumes from his fellow West Coast Avengers to retrieve one of his missing armors. Hawkeye ended up giving him the joking name "Spare Parts Man". Thankfully, he retired that "armor" pretty quickly.

* Delirium from [[The Sandman]] comic's patchwork outfits are always an odd mixture of thrift store fixtures.

* In ''[[Elf Quest]]: Rogue's Curse'', Rayek literally assembles a new outfit by raiding boxes of leftover wares. [http://www.comicvine.com/winnowill/29-1888/all-images/108-212307/winnowill___rayek/105-1226508/ Some people rather liked the results.]

* [[Johnny Turbo]]'s outfit. Just... the whole thing.

 

* Tyler Durden's outfit in the movie version of ''[[Fight Club]]'', although the [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]] aspect of his thrift-store outfits is probably a result of them being worn by [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Brad Pitt]].

** [[Word of God]] is that the tacky pink bathrobe he wears in one scene actually belonged to his girlfriend at the time.

* The [[Puma Man]] costume definitely qualifies. Khaki pants and a poncho do not a superhero costume make.

 

* Most of the time, when characters in the [[X Wing Series]] have their clothing mentioned at all, they're in pilot's jumpsuits. But in ''Wraith Squadron'', when three Wraiths doing [[The Infiltration]] are passing as [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist|wild-shirted tourists]], well - better just to quote.

{{quote|Wedge shook his [pile of clothes] out. A short-sleeved tunic in orange and yellow tropical fruit patterns and short pants in lavendar. "I'm going to throw up."

* In ''[[American Psycho]]'' most of the other characters apart from Bateman embody this trope. The clothing they are all wearing is fine if you don't think about it too much. However the second you start to imagine what all the other characters are wearing your quickly realise that they would all look really stupid.

* In ''[[Lonely Werewolf Girl]]'' Agrivex deliberately dresses in the worst faux-punk outfits she can create as a way of rebelling against her fashion obsessed, always immaculately dressed, Aunt.

 

* Various incarnations of [[Doctor Who|the Doctor]] take this approach to their outfits. The later versions tend towards less outlandish but nonetheless distinctive looks.

** The Second Doctor had a many-pocketed, unkempt coat to go with his 'space hobo' look.

** Harper goes beyond this and into crazy costumer, since she makes her own outfits.

 

 

* The Flash Gits of Warhammer40000 "fame" often come across looking like the [[Pirate]]/[[Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry|jewelry]]/BlingOfWar version of this. Since they are [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orks]], they believe that [[Gold Makes Everything Shiny|the more shiny things they wear]], the [[Nice Hat|larger their hats are]], the awesomer the banner they strap to their backs and the bigger their gun (or guns!) are, the more respect they will get.

** This is universally true, but not for the reason you think. Orks naturally respect the biggest ork around, and since orks grow in size the more they fight, when a Flash Git has more bling, they also tend to be bigger in size to account for all the heads they had to bash in to steal the bling they currently have.

*** Although, by that time the other orks the Flash Git lived with have probably kicked him out of their clan for being too snooty, and then they somehow automatically become [[Space Pirates|Freebootaz]]. It isn't really explained how, nor does anything orky need to be.

 

* ''[[Rent]]''. Started a whole new fashion fad trying to duplicate the mismatching East Village thrift shop look, spending hundreds of dollars on what actually only costs $10 to achieve.

 

* To a certain degree, any RPG where the character model changes based on the items equipped will have this going, especially at low levels when character don't have much choice in what's available to them. [[The Elder Scrolls]] IV, Oblivion, is particularly egregious about this.

* Taken to extremes in the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series of games: the bizarre half-barefoot footwear in the [[Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy|first game]] are a particularly notable example. In ''[[Jak 3]]'' it's shown Jak still wears bandages fashioned like this ''under'' his boots.

* ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'': [[Hot Witch|Morrigan]]'s initial outfit consists of rags, polished stones, feathers and bits of armor. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] given she lives in a swamp, so every piece of clothing she owned was salvaged or found.

 

* Tsillah of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/crazy-meter/ dresses like this.] It appears to be a deliberate stylistic choice on her part, as she is perfectly capable of [[Casting a Shadow|constructing stylish clothing out of shadows.]]

 

* Jericho, of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', dresses every day in clothes that are so gaudy and so mismatched that people actually get ill from looking at him. He's blind {{spoiler|and his psychic vision is black-and-white}} and uses that as an excuse.

** {{spoiler|He's specifically picked each part of his ensemble to not go with anything else in order to draw attention away from the crowd he hangs with. That or to fit in with them. Said crowd includes a Lamia, two tetra-armed demonic looking, fear aura packing receptive empath twins, a mute Ancient Apex Predator and an extremely violent current incarnation of the ''[[Ultimate Blacksmith]]''. Besides, if he's forced to, he will wear the school uniform. Just don't ask WHICH school uniform...}}

* [[Trope-tan]], the [[Moe Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic representation]] of TV Tropes, wears an orange midriff top, patchy brown pants, yellow shoes, [[Too Many Belts|crazy belts]], and [[Goggles Do Nothing|goggles]]. She was ''[[Invoked Trope|designed]]'' to be a Rummage Sale Reject.

 

* [[Deadpan Snarker|June]] from ''[[KaBlam!]]'' wears: A long sweater that's orange with black spots (think [[The Flintstones|Fred Flintstone]]), a yellow t-shirt, green plaid baggy shorts, and purple shoes (or cleats in the earlier episodes). If anything, it just makes her even [[Badass Adorable|cuter]].

* Done intentionally with the Freedom Fighters in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', who are noted in the artbook to be wearing random piece of clothes they scavenged and pieces of armor they stole.

* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|The New Batman Adventures]]'', [[The Creeper]] literally bought his costume (a speedo, boots, gloves, and a giant cape-like red boa) at a thrift store in Gotham.

 

* [[Prince]] and the Revolution in [[The Eighties]] had this as their default mode, especially between 1983-1985. [http://www.last.fm/music/Prince%2B%2526%2BThe%2BRevolution/+images Evidence], complete with predictable [[Eighties Hair]].

* If Prince was bad in the [[The Eighties]], [[Cyndi Lauper]] was worse.

* Grunge/Punk/Hard rock band the Lunachicks have the tendency to wear outfits like this. At first, it seemed as if it was out of necessity due to lack of a wardrobe budget; later on however, it was very much intentional. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWKi6F5jMjo Evidence:]

** See also: the video for "Babysitters on Acid."

 

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