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The logical opposite of [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]. A combination of [[Rummage Sale Reject]] and [[Costume Copycat]]. Not to be confused with [[Your Costume Needs Work]], which is about the hero's ''real'' costume being perceived as an unconvincing imitation. Compare [[Improvised Clothes]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* In [[The DCU]], Nightwing had a "rival" hero called Nite-Wing with a 'costume' that consisted of a hockey jersey and combat pants.
* Molly Hayes of ''[[Runaways]]'' tried to make her own costume with a T-shirt cape and cheap mask. This lasted a few seconds before Gert yanked the mask off herself.
* Rorschach's costume in ''[[Watchmen]]'' is something of an inversion; he works in a tailor's shop in his day job and has the skills and equipment make himself any costume his imagination could devise -[[Fan Wank|it's possible he made Nite Owl II's in exchange for that]] [[Grappling Hook Pistol|rope gun]] - yet is content with a fairly low-key [[Coat, Hat, Mask]] ensemble with the mask coming from a fabric offcut that nobody at work wanted. It's probably the scariest costume in the comic. The pinstripe suit and shoes that he normally wears under it were probably quite expensive when they were new, for that matter.
** After he {{spoiler|escapes from prison}} he doesn't have time to do more than grab his coat, hat, mask and scarf over what he was wearing at the time, which definitely makes him fit the trope more.
* Towards the end of the [[Birds of Prey]] series, former Batgirl Barbara Gordon met with a teenage girl who was co-opting her old identity. The cheapness of the young lady's costume - the cape and cowl of which were made from binliners - became a plot point, when it was what led Babs to figure out that she was homeless.
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