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* Military style outfits (much loved by the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' crew)
* Standard overalls with a plethora of badges (real astronauts, and quite a few characters in [[Used Future]] science-fiction).
* [[No New Fashions in Thethe Future|21st century stuff]] (or, in a humorous version, [[Unintentional Period Piece|20th century (1960-1980s)]] [[Zeerust|stuff]]).
* [[Stripperiffic]] items most universally worn by the female members of the [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] race.
* Just Space Clothes - stuff that is just unbelievably silly. Huge shoulder pads, [[We Will Not Have Pockets in Thethe Future|pocketless]] [[Future Spandex|spandex]], clashing colors, jackets that look like couch covers, reflective foil, long trailing skirts, capes, daft hair (or even dafter hats).
* [[Ermine Cape Effect]]: Usually worn by a civilization of aliens who have a fondness for [[Crystal Spires and Togas]].
 
Today, [[Space Clothes]] seem to be largely a thing of the past, as everyone goes military-style or [[No New Fashions in Thethe Future|contemporary]]. The problem with the latter is that people may well not wear those sorts of things in the future.
 
See also [[Future Spandex]]. Compare [[Spandex, Latex, or Leather]].
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*** It also resembles what he wore pre-timeskip to a degree.
* ''[[Last Exile]]'' has the Guild, who fit a great deal of "alien" stereotypes (live in space/the upper atmosphere, pointy ears, [[Anime Hair]] in a setting where everyone else's hair is relatively normal, etc.). Naturally, they have odd clothes to match; [[Big Bad|Delphine's]] bodysuit has to be seen to be believed.
* The aliens in ''[[Dear SDearS]]'' dress in what could be considered space clothes. All of them are ornate, outlandish, brightly colored and clearly [[Chain of Command|collared]]. They also have much more hair than your average human character.
* ''[[Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo]]'' seems to be made of nothing but space clothes.
* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' uses space clothes for all its military forces -- check out the oh-so-[[The Seventies|'70s]] giant lapels on the pilot's uniforms, for instance. Especially ''[[The Movie|Choh Jikyuu Yousai Macross: Ai Oboeteimasuka?]]'', where the Valkyrie pilots get a suit that includes [[Awesome but Impractical]] glowing shoulderpads and a chest-monitor-thingy when they're in full flying kit.
* The Principality of Zeon in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' have almost [[No New Fashions in Thethe Future|Prisoner-of-Zenda-style ornate uniforms]]. Impractical capes, swords and epaulets and lots of gold decoration abound on officer uniforms. Other [[Alternate Universe]] works have taken this to even more ridiculous extremes.
 
 
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== Film ==
* ''[[Dune]]'' the movie managed to come up with one set of strange clothes, thanks to the really weird mind of David Lynch, along with particular distinctive physical quirks (Mentats have ''giant'' eyebrows, the Spacing Guild are all bald and have weird voices, Harkonnens are red-haired and have terrible acne). The miniseries reveals its low budget by distinguishing people...by their [[Planet of Hats|hats]]. ''Children of Dune'' was slightly better about this, as the budget was a mote higher. The Atreides and the Emperor seem to constantly wear military uniforms in the film. Justified with the Emperor, whose fetish for uniforms was mentioned in the books.
* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]''
** ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]''. One set of Space Clothes was the most expensive costume worn by a film extra up to then. [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Betelgeusian Behold it] in all its horrifying glory.
** The later movies have multi-layered uniforms with turtleneck sweater undershirts. Doesn't it get ''hot'' in those things? (One of the jokes of ''[[Star Trek IV: theThe Voyage Home (Film)|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'' was how well the crew blended in to the San Francisco crowds by merely removing their emblem pins.)
** ''The Next Generation's'' pajama jumpsuits. [[Word of God|Word Of Sulu]] says that the uniforms were [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_uniform_%28early_2270s%29#Background really impractical to the point that the cast threatened not to do another Star Trek film until they redesigned the outfits for the next movie.] Elizabeth Dennehy once said in an interview that the main cast of ''Next Generation'' made it a requirement that whenever a guest star first put on their uniform, they had to stand in front of the cast and proclaim, "I hate my space suit." Afterwards, they were officially one of the family.
* ''[[Star Wars]]''
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* ''[[Project Moonbase]]''. United States Space Force astronauts dress casually in shorts, tops and tight-fitting skullcaps (presumably to stop one's hair floating about in zero-gravity).
* Parodied in ''[[Bill and Teds Bogus Journey]]'', where people from Rufus's time wear ridiculously huge boots made of what looks like foam packing material. Yes, the [[Big Bad]] even dresses his Mooks like this, but ''all in black so they'll look scary''.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Dude, Where's My Car?|Dude, Where's My Car]]'' with the followers of Zoltan, whose "interstellar jumpsuits" are hoodies made of bubble wrap. The aliens, though, wear tight-fitting leather.
* Future fashion in ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'' tended towards ridiculously silly.
* The original ''[[Flash Gordon Serial (Film)|Flash Gordon]]'' serials set the standard for "Space Clothes" back in the '30s. The [[Flash Gordon (Filmfilm)|Movie]] turned it [[Up to Eleven]].
 
 
== Literature ==
* Guaranteeing that his ''[[Adept]]'' series will '''never''' be ruined by Hollywood, [[Piers Anthony]] averted this trope by having almost everyone on Planet Proton walk around naked.
* [[Stripperiffic|Everyone's nekkid]] in the ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'' series by Edgar Rice Burroughs... [[Pragmatic Adaptation|Understandably]], this aspect never came up in the [[John Carter (Filmfilm)|film adaptation]].
* Toyed with in an ~H.P. Lovecraft~ story taking place in the wet jungles of a pulp Venus. The planet-hopping protagonist grouses in his diary about his sturdy leather suit, wishing for something made of indestructible shiny metal foil instead.
* ''[[Known Space]]'' has its own fashions: from the very popular nudists (since everything is climatized in the future - obviously they also found a way of getting around the hygiene problems) to full-body pigment changes in weird-ass colours, and the Belter fashion of individualized spacesuits - and [[LARP|LARPers]].
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== Live Action TV ==
* During the "Time Capsule" Showcases on ''[[The Price Is Right]]'', the models would wear this type of costume as they revealed prizes to the theme songs of ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' and the disco version of ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.
* ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]]''. Just watch Jenna and Cally go down to rescue the boys in 'Star One' clad in floor length skirts and six inch heels. And then there was Avon's fondness for leather and studs...
* Zaphod Beeblebrox wears a suit apparently made of dayglo circuit boards in TV version of ''~The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy~''.
** Well, he ''was'' voted "Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the Universe" seven times running...
*** It's good to know they paid such attention to detail.
* ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' had its humans wearing military uniforms - proper uniforms with pockets, not pyjamas - or things like suit jackets with the lapels missing or oddly-cut and collarless shirts (it looks kind of contemporary, but at the same time kind of foreign). The Minbari and the Narn, on the other hand, play this to the hilt.
** Played for laughs, when Zach is being fitted for a new uniform and mocks the Minbari fashion sense.
*** Though in fact that is human style and Minbari material.
** Minbari clothes manage to look well while looking alien at the same time. Delenn wears robes of several colors (often emphasizing the purple)but the thick shoulder pads, almost like epaulettes make it look alien at the same time. She of course looks quite well in them because [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|Everything's Better With Satais]]. Being the [[Proper Lady|gloriously proper]] [[Lady of War]] that she is she can go through a [[Space Battle]] without disturbing her appearance one bit.
*** [[Word of God]] says that Minbari have a system of headbone heraldry; for instance Minbari females carefully carve their headbones while Warrior caste let them grow rough in appearance, and religious caste presumably have their own style. This justifies Delenn's headbone which looks suspiciously like a circlet.
** And let's not get started on the [[Gorgeous Period Dress|Centauri]] ...
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* In the 1970's [[British Series]] ''[[UFO]]'' (set in the [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|future world of 1980]]) silver bodysuits are standard wear for space personnel (though interceptor pilots wear blue, with white plastic belts and boots). The Moonbase [[Bridge Bunnies]] also wore their trademark purple wigs, elaborate make-up, and cosmetic belt-kits (as seen in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuXIBOqBitg&feature=related this famous scene] which seems like a lot of trouble to go to for a ten minute coffee break... A non-canon explanation for the purple wigs was that they prevented static electricity on Moonbase, but that didn't explain [[Double Standard|why the men didn't wear them]]. But that wasn't as strange as the Skydiver personnel who wore [[Fan Service|fishnet shirts that showed off their nipples]]. Even the women!
* The original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'' generally averted this, with a muted beige colour scheme and some pretty spiffing Wild West-style jackets, complete with cowboy-style ammo belts. The capes and thigh boots were much harder to take seriously, however.
** The [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|reboot]], on the other hand, averted this to the point of [[No New Fashions in Thethe Future|having the Colonials wear stuff more or less off the shelf]]. The sole exception were the Colonial Fleet uniforms, which were nevertheless not exactly far-fetched.
* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' costumes started out pretty racy already, and eventually evolved into All [[Fetish Fuel]] All The Time. ([[And the Fandom Rejoiced|Nobody complained]].)
* Civilian clothes in [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Next Gen]]-era ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' are mostly [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Space Clothes done right]] -- easy on contemporary eyes, but clearly ''not'' contemporary. In particular, [[Waistcoat of Style|waistcoats/vests are back in a big way]], men's jackets tend to be made of patterned fabric and often lack lapels, and women wear opaque tights that match their skirts. However, it's worth pointing out that [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]] really only developed a decent non-uniform clothing style after several years of the [[TNG/DS 9|DS 9]] era had passed. Up until then civilian clothing tended to consist of all-too-obvious jumpsuits (Jake Sisko in the first season of [[Deep Space Nine]] is a particularly bad example, as he's supposed to be a 14-year-old but goes around wearing what look like giant baby-gros).
** ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' often continues the "done right" trend, though it's hard to tell whether ''[[Star Trek: Voyager (TV)|Voyager]]'' meant to play this straight or not - Neelix is usually the worst-dressed being imaginable, with complicated cuts and folds of an eye-hurting blend of colours, but that also feeds his [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] as an irritating sociopath. Guest aliens include people who appear to wear strings of LEDs and wrap themselves in shower curtains.
*** The Ferengi civilian clothes are done quite notably well. Civilian Ferengi males typically wear clothing that is styled similarly to the uniforms of starship crew, but also different and more expensive-looking, in much the same manner that contemporary business attire resembles (usually older) military uniforms. (Until Quark and company came along, we didn't see any Ferengi that weren't crew on a ship.)
*** Their females are never seen, but this doesn't limit the ability to critique their clothes... as until the very end of DS9 they didn't wear any.
** While "Done Right" seems to apply generally to races we're meant to like, "bad guy" races tend to fall pretty hard into the Space Clothes trap. The Romulan Star Empire and its epic love affair with insanely large shoulder pads leads the charge, followed up by the Cardassian military and their horrendously uncomfortable-looking work uniforms, apparently made from hard plastic.
** On the rare occasions when Federation civilians were seen [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|the original series]], they tended to wear either the aforementioned jumpsuits (the standard outfit for non-Starfleet adult men, even when it makes no sense) or 1960s mod fashions (more-or-less reserved for women and children). In fact, the eventual look of Federation civilian clothes seems to have evolved from the mod fashions used in the original series. You can see the transition throughout ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' (mostly with children's costumes, since the adults tended wear uniforms, jumpsuits, or character-specific outfits).
* In ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'', the civilian personnel wear completely plausible uniforms (aside from fitting a bit too well), but you can see the Space Clothes inspiration. The military personnel, being normal modern Earth soldiers, wear normal modern Earth military gear. Some of the alien societies, on the other hand, go much further.
** The Wraith have the coolest clothing. While normal drones wear what looks like chitin and queens have gowns, officers are clad in black leather from neck to feet. Considering they are really pale and have white hair, this makes for a nice contrast. Travelers have a black & red version while Ancients and Asurans usually wear a futuristic white and cream-colored suit. Regarding the Vanir, they always tank around in copper-colored powered armor except in one case when they revealed their true nature: as {{spoiler|Asgards}}, they are completely naked. And needless to say, Tau'ri wear BDUs. Genii clothing looks like [[WW 2]]-era Soviet uniforms.
* While ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' is intentionally devoid of this for the most part due to its [[Space Western]] feel, with most of the characters dressing as according to the frontier concept or in ways related to American or Chinese culture in general, Jubal Early, the [[Serenity (Film)|Operative]] and several other characters wear straight-up [[Space Clothes]]. In the two named characters' cases, this is said to be body armour rather than regular clothing, though... but damn do they just look like jumpsuits.
** Jubal Early's jumpsuit thingy is a spacesuit, or doubles as one. He used it to float between his ship and Serenity.
** One does have to wonder, however, about how Pesephone's return to [[Regency England|Regency]] fashions came about...
* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' justified its famous miniskirts as being a symbol of Sixties liberation, but it's worth noting that spacewomen in 1950's TV sci-fi also had short skirts (e.g. Carol Carlisle in ''Space Patrol'', and Vena Ray in ''Rocky Jones: Space Ranger'').
* The 2007 ''[[Flash Gordon (TV series)|Flash Gordon]]'' series averts this, for the most part. Ming the [[Just the First Citizen|Benevolent Father]] almost always wears a military uniform and is only once seen in a ceremonial robe. Baylin, being a [[Bounty Hunter]], wears rugged clothing reminiscent of [[Star Wars|Han Solo]]. If anything, most clothing seems old, which makes sense given that Mongo is a [[Crapsack World]] after their environment was poisoned and the old civilization destroyed. This was probably deliberate to make the show less campy than the original.
* An episode of SCTV involving a spaceflight to upgrade a TV satellite ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) had the mission crew wearing jump suits with the shoulder seam rolls that show these are Space Clothes.
* ''[[Space: 1999]]'' was obviously an influence on ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' with its double knit uniforms in taupe. One standout design feature was the single colored sleeve that told the audience what department the character was in. Season Two added an orange parka that actually made them less Space Clothes-like.
* In ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', Rimmer and Lister initially wore their Red Dwarf uniform of jacket, shirt, trousers and boots (Rimmer kept his immaculate whilst Lister wore a [[Custom Uniform]] variation.) By the third season though Lister's clothing stayed pretty much the same, but Rimmer wore a bright green suit.
* Classic ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was a repeat offender, but the new series has mostly avoided silvery spandex.
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[GURPS]] [[Traveller]]''. The volume Interstellar Wars has the best art work of all the Gurps Traveller's(given that the others are all black and white, it's not a contest). It shows Terrans dressed in clothes that look reasonably similar to modern clothes(dark blue uniforms for Terran spacers for instance) and Vilani in exotic looking clothes(flowing robes and the like) that still look vaguely human. Both styles tend to be reasonably handsome.
* [[Warhammer 40 K40000]]: the only spaceship crew that actually have models are the [http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Tau/TAU-ACCESSORIES?filter_reset=1 Tau Air Caste]. They wear odd alien jumpsuits and vests in the traditional style of Tau armor.
** Eldar and Space Marine pilots wear the same sort of armor as the ground troops, Imperial Guard pilots wear heavier armor and breath masks in the style of the Stormtroopers, and Chaos pilots are typically fused with their planes.
* The illustrations in the [[Trinity Universe (Tabletop Gamegame)|Trinity]] rulebook tended to do Space Clothing Done Right, with unusual but generally not bizarre or impractical garments.
 
 
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* ''[[Halo]]'' avoids this for the most part, though the working uniforms worn by UNSC Navy crewmen seem to have been inspired a bit by ''Star Trek'', particularly the color-coded versions worn by specialized personnel. Still, even those are fairly sensible in appearance.
* ''[[Killzone]]'' features, among other things, PAGST helmets, 21st Century ballistic vests, and... orange sweaters.
* ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]'' has Mordecai in what appears to be a cross between a Mexican luchador and male dominatrix outfit - with ski goggles.
** [http://i52.tinypic.com/11wfvyv.jpg his outfit] is more of a [http://www.bbc.co.uk/crimewatch/images/appeals/2009/berkshire_mask_attack1.jpg gimp mask] with a sleeveless cropped motorcycle top. Still odd, but mainly the mask--if you're a sniper, why wear something that restricts your vision so?
* ''[[Freelancer]]'' plays with this. There are people who wear clothes that would be normal today, such as suits and and Trent's leather jacket. There are also those that wear clothes styles typically associated with Space Clothes. And then, there are Rheinland and Kusari clothes who mix old/traditional clothing with future fashions.
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== Webcomics ==
* Present throughout the "[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010611 GOFOTRON Champion of the Cosmos]" arc from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', usually in the form of gaudily colored spandex jumpsuits.
* ''[[Last Res 0 rtRes0rt]]'' plays around with this; civilian clothes are shown to be pretty contemporary, the player's uniforms (and the Star Org's, too) are spandex in all but name and are said to "shrink to fit"; more than a few of Jigsaw's outfits border on the outright bizarre; and Celigan fashion is downright stuck in the 70's.
* ''[[Far Out There]]'' generally sticks to [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027823/page-65-you-are-what-you-wear/ normal] clothing for its main characters ([[No New Fashions in Thethe Future|despite being set in the distant future]]), but secondary or background characters tend to look [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027695/page-48-what-we-have-here-is-a-failure-to-communicate/ a] [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1067787/page-158-three-semi-related-pieces/ bit] [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1124574/page-325-one-costume-change-later/ more] [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1185908/page-346-for-science/ fanciful].
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Futurama]]''! Occasionally unusual fashions are seen or mentioned--extras often wear censor bars, and military uniforms are like [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]] without pants (and we do mean [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|TOS]] miniskirts [[Fan Disservice|even on the guys]])--but for the most part, everyone wears 20th/21st Century clothes... with peaked shoulder rings. Grimy denim jackets, janitor's cover-alls, even the wall-eyed old lady's old-lady-shirt.
** One episode saw Fry and co. at a retro dance place:
{{quote| '''Amy''': Oh wow, it's totally retro!<br />
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