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[[File:cinderella_tacky_dress.jpg|link=Cinderella (Disney film)|frame|'"But the guests will mistake me for a present!" she cried.']]
{{quote|''"I'm a snow beast!"''|'''Toula''''s reaction to her wedding dress, ''[[
Some people like fancy, detailed clothing, but it's not always easy to make such clothes look good. This trope is when it's clear ''[[In
It could be that the character/dressmaker/[[Planet of Hats|culture]] has no taste. Or that the outfit was really rushed and this is the unfortunate result. Or the writer/designer is [[Writer
Often occurs with bridesmaids' dresses in sitcoms - they're ugly but the bride thinks they're beautiful or the bride ''knows'' that they're ugly, and picks them so that she looks better by comparison.
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Contrast [[Costume Porn]], [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]].
'''[[In
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== Film ==
* Some of the dresses in ''[[
* The costume department of 2011 movie ''[[Killing Bono]]'' clearly went to town in showcasing the absolute ''worst'' fashions of [[The Eighties]].
* In ''[[101 Dalmatians
* Stanley Ipkiss' pajamas in ''[[The Mask (
{{quote| '''Stanley:''' This is... impossible!<br />
'''Kellaway:''' Those pajamas are impossible. This actually happened! }}
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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
** 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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** Taura's civilian wardrobe also tended to this, which was why Miles had her consult his Aunt Alys when she arrived for his wedding. Alys' first stop in giving the bioengineered supersoldier a makeover was to have her previous wardrobe burned.
* Hepzibah Smith in [[Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince]] wears a [[Pink Means Feminine|large pink dress]] to impress Tom Riddle that makes her look like a "melting iced cake".
* In the [[Louisa May Alcott]] novel ''Eight Cousins'', the [[Naive Everygirl]] Rose showcases a very "fashionable" outfit. As it's a book, much is left to the imagination, but the narrator and characters comment on how overdone and awful it looks on her, except for the slave-to-fashion aunt who put her in it in the first place. Rose's uncle even lambasts the aunt on how unhealthy it is (then again, whalebone corsets? he has a point.) This is a case of [[Writer
* Early in ''[[Ciaphas Cain|Duty Calls]]'', Cain is attacked by followers of Slaanesh, one of whom wears a jacket so hideous that Cain claims wearing it is a capital offense. He refers to the man thereafter as "Vile Jacket".
** And in another instance, one wearing clothing so hideous even a Slaaneshi cultist would look down on.
* [[The
* In the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series, Dr. Tachyon is frequently described as dressing like this whenever he has the opportunity to dress himself. Canary yellow, emerald green, royal purple, cardinal red, and sky blue can all make an appearance in the same outfit. Apparently, this is considered a normal Takisian wardrobe, but since he's living on Earth, almost every human who looks at him comments on how ridiculous he looks. It's compounded by his metallic-red hair.
* In [[Alexandre Dumas]]'s novel [[Les Quarante Cinq|the Forty Five Guardsmen]] we are informed that they have no uniform and, since they are just arrived to Paris, they are provided with money to buy new clothes, the results were a motley assortment of styles and decorations, "generally in bad taste"
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** In another, she shows Frasier the dress she was supposed to wear for a wedding back in Wisconsin. After the typical cringing, Roz mentions that they're supposed to be awful "so the bride will glow." She then adds that "and standing next to this, she'll light up like a bug zapper."
* The Puffy Shirt in ''[[Seinfeld]]''. "I don't ''wanna'' be a pirate!"
* Several contestants fell prey to this on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'':
** Colin Mochrie is especially remembered for his insanely tacky shirts. During one episode, his shirt was so eye-seeringly horrible he was dubbed "Tacky Shirt Man" during the opening Superheroes game, turning it into a [[Running Gag]] for the rest of the show. The shirts were chosen by the show's wardrobe department, not by him.
** Ryan Stiles' custom-made shoes were also frequent targets, including a pair in leopard print, a pair in bright blue, and an impressive black-and-white pair with ''flames'' on the sides.
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'''Buffy:''' That's because the dress is radioactive. }}
* ''Benny Hill'' did a skit in which he was wearing a impossible tacky suit and he's strutting around,then they show a scarecrow wearing the same suit.
* While the outfit worn by Six in [[Doctor Who]] was the subject of much fan derision, it actually got an [[In
** Also referenced in ''Short Trips and Side Steps'', with the mind-manipulating Javaman stating flatly that there are only a handful of beings in the known universe to dress as tastelessly.
* Paul Merton frequently wears these on ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' (the rest of the time he wears a [[Fun T-Shirt]]). Once lampshaded when Paul wore a bright pink shirt with a yellow-gold dragon design on one shoulder.
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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
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== Video Games ==
* Brayko's clothing in ''[[Alpha Protocol]]''. Thorton will repeatedly mock him about this depending on your conversation choices. ''This gets Brayko to like you''.
* [[Big Bad Wannabe|Benny's]] checkered suit in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. Once the Courier kills him, several NPCs will comment on how tacky the suit was.
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== Western Animation ==
* One of the outfits ''[[Kim Possible]]'' tries after her regular mission duds are ruined is a mecha-style suit built by the Tweebs. The sight of it reduces [[Mad Scientist|Drakken]] and [[The Dragon|Shego]] to fits of hysterical laughter.
* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
{{quote| '''Hoity Toity:''' Who is responsible for subjecting our eyes to such horrors?! Not to mention, wasting my valuable time!}}
* The [[Green Lantern]]'s outfit is this according to [[Duck Dodgers]]: "Yech! Black vinyl and latex. How cheesy can you get?"
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