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== Literature ==
* Cheery Littlebottom of ''[[Discworld]]'' embraces that she is a female, [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|against Dwarven traditions of looking gender neutral]]. In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' she and other dwarves like her make some dresses to show off their newfound femininity, but their dresses look silly. Others are too polite to point it out.
** At the end of one novel, Cheery admits that that one green dress does make her look like a big cabbage.
** Happens in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''Pyramids''. Ambassadors to the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Djelibeybi]] court have tried to look their best, but because many items of clothing from Djelibeybi's seven ''thousand'' year history are sometimes employed only in ''very'' specific circumstances, they end up looking like utter fools. The effect is described thusly:
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** Angus Deayton went in for this back when he hosted the show too. Most notorious was his bright brown suit...
* In [[Entourage]], Vince almost dismisses [[Show Within a Show|Aquaman]] because of the first costume design.
* In a "Non-Denominational Holiday" episode of ''[[X-Play]]'', Adam dissed the antlers he wore, while Morgan dissed his sweater.
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* Jake in ''[[Homestuck]]'' has [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006083 an array of wearable computers] that make him look like an [[Up to Eleven|even more pimped out]] version of the already impossibly tacky series [[Big Bad]] Lord English. Oh, and that skull thing to his left? That's a helmet computer that [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006088 he could've also been wearing].
{{quote|You put on a few of your more ostentatious devices. Luckily (or unfortunately) you grew up alone, so there was never anyone around to point out how ridiculous you look.}}
* ''[[Mike: Bookseller]]'' has Jason's incredibly loud [http://www.krrobar.com/mikebookseller/comics/292.html Hawaiian shirts].
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