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[[Fan Service|Usually]], your [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|characters]] need to [[Naked First Impression|wear clothes]]. If your show is set in modern times (and sometimes if it isn't), you'll dress the characters in appropriate clothes for the time. After all, it would look weird if a modern character wore last decade's styles, right?
Unfortunately, fashion is highly context-sensitive. There are only a few fashions that have stood the test of time (like tuxedos, T-shirts and jeans [though they were strictly the purview of menial labors prior to [[The Fifties
In other words, fashions that don't just tell you what year the show was made, they scream it loudly enough to [[Metaphorgotten|deafen your eyes]].
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Compare [[Outdated Outfit]], [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.]], [[I Was Quite a Fashion Victim]], [[No New Fashions in the Future]], [[Hollywood Costuming]]. For those who are immune to fashion dissonance, see [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel]].
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▲=== There are many eras with regrettable fashion trends. Here are a few ===
=== The 1960s ===
▲== The 1960s ==
[[The Sixties]] are justly famous for mini-skirts, tie-die and
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]''—the original series: Justly famous for its mini-skirt and go-go boots uniforms, and William Ware Theiss' famously titillating costumes. And for the ladies, James T. Kirk's tearaway shirts.
* ''UFO'': Set in the eighties but made in the Sixties featuring regrettable Nehru suits and, on the plus side, delightful peek-a-boo uniforms for both sexes.
=== The 1970s ===
[[The Seventies]] were polyester heavy. [[Seventies Hair|Hair was worn thick and often frizzy;]] men wore bushy mustaches and beards. Trousers were flared, and there was too much corduroy. Sixties features like beads were still hanging on. And eyeshadow was bright blue, regardless of the wearer's skin tone.
==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* Pick up any anime or manga from The Seventies, especially if it's [[Shojo]], and you'll see bell-bottom pants everywhere.
==== [[Comic Books]] ====
* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' had a number of different eras, but Phantom Girl's bell bottoms and Tyroc's afro stand out.
==== [[Live-Action TV]] ====
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]''.
* ''[[Charlie's Angels]]''.
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* ''[[Gemini Man]]''—all six episodes of it.
==== [[Film]] ====
* Many of the very chic fashions in [[Annie Hall]] look dated and silly by today's standards, notably, Tony Roberts's perm and white leisure suit. Ironically, [[Hollywood Nerd]] Alvie's rather dowdy wardrobe seems inoffensive by comparison.
* The [[James Bond]] movies with Roger Moore.
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* [http://sarajaye.superbusnet.com/Pictures/fashiondissonance.JPG Alan Chan] of ''[[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]'' was truly a product of his time, right down to the striped bellbottoms and groovy shades.
=== The 1980s ===
[[The Eighties]] were almost as silly as the Seventies, but are looked back at with marginally more fondness (mainly because many of the looks from the era fetishized the Cool aesthetic). Note, in particular, [[Eighties Hair]].
==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' is a particularly weird example. Since the series has been ongoing for more than 20 years but only a few years have passed in the story itself, it seems like fashion progresses from its 80s starting point to the present at a tremendous pace. There's also been a couple of art shifts and Keiichi gave up smoking without it ever being mentioned, possibly showing the changing attitudes about smoking over the past couple of decades.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Just look at what the girls are wearing. It's so frighteningly eighties.
==== [[Live-Action TV]] ====
* ''[[Knight Rider]]'', particularly David Hasselhoff's [[Eighties Hair]].
* ''[[Miami Vice]]''.
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* Similarly to ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'', the earlier episodes of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' (which aired from 1990-1996) had a lot of fashion holdovers from the 80's, especially with Vivian and Ashley.
==== [[Music]] ====
* A deliberate aversion was done by [[New Wave]] band
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* For a kid's show, ''[[Jem and The Holograms]]'' are more or less textbook examples of eighties fashion.
=== The 1990s ===
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* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]''. In fact, the first seasons even had some 80s fashions still hanging around.
* ''[[The Nanny]]''
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', especially in the case of Tommy Oliver going from a mullet to a ponytail look in the course of the show's run. When a photo of him with the latter look is mocked by the Rangers in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'', airing 11 years later; Tommy retorts that it was the style at the time.
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== Other ==
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Al's fashions in ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' were truly bizarre, even for the Eighties, and even if he was from [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]. A [[Angel Unaware|surprisingly knowledgeable]] homeless lady once warned him that his chances of getting into heaven were poor, as they had a [[Dress Code]]. (This serves a purpose from a narrative perspective, though: Al's bizarre fashion sense makes him stand out, no matter [[Time Travel|what decade the episode takes place in]].)
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* In ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'', the former of the titular characters is normally fashionable-to-a-fault. So when Penny shows up at the airport to greet her friend wearing a [http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1066 top] that looks like the shape of a "Y", fans raised eyebrows. The writer, T. Campbell, assured them that there was a reason for it. It turned out to be [[Foreshadowing]]: She was intentionally dressing a bit more like Aggie in order to {{spoiler|[[Les Yay|signal her interest]].}}
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