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The hero has to go into action, but doesn't have access to his official costume. So he contrives a shoddy emergency costume. Usually [[Played for Laughs]].
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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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** The newspaper ''Amazing Spider-Man'' had a storyline where someone stole Spidey's costume and Peter himself fought crime in a Western mashup costume under the name of "Justice Guy".
** At one point at least, Spidey bought a Halloween costume from a store and found it was better than his current costume.
** During one part of the "Clone Saga," Peter once again found himself without a costume. He improvised with the tank-top and pants he'd been wearing in prison, a leather jacket, and the black mask, boots, and gloves left over from his cloth version of the symbiote costume (wearing his webshooters on the outside for some reason). Can be seen at the bottom of the page [http://www.samruby.com/Spiderverse/Spiderman/costumehomemade.htm here].
* In the ''[[Daredevil]]'' comics, Gladiator used to be the owner of a costume shop that specialized in superhero and supervillain costumes (the place looked kinda like a Wax Museum Morgue). He alters a DD costume for Foggy Nelson that looks pretty darn good for a knockoff. Except for the plastic prop billyclub, of course...
** In the "Born Again" arc, the Daredevil impostor hired by the Kingpin had such a convincing costume (also made by the Gladiator), the real Daredevil actually stole it from him and put it on himself. Of course he had no choice as all of his other costumes had been destroyed.
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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.
* In ''[[Kick Ass]]'', a few of the costumes are pretty lame. It's kind of the point.
* Harley Quinn's costume was just something she stole from a costume shop. Joker's duds may count as well, given he just wears a ratty old suit. This tends to fall into [[Depending On the Writer]] at times. In ''Salvation Run'', Joker mentions that his famed purple tuxedo is made of pure velvet.
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