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{{quote|"All I have to say is that she walks through a doorway, and has a wardrobe change. I got one -- sorry, two dresses and the first one looks the same all the way around."
Some characters never seem to wear the same outfit more than once. Whether they are rich, or shouldn't have nearly enough clothes, they seem to have a new outfit for every other episode, to every other scene.
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Contrast [[Limited Wardrobe]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Alive the Final Evolution]]'' has the protagonists swap clothes quite a bit, which is a little odd when you remember that Taisuke, Nami, and Yuta are all runaways surviving on whatever Taisuke can earn with short, part-time jobs. Partially justified in that they get into fights and require a change of clothes afterward, but sometimes it seems to be just for the sake of a new outfit.
* Tomoyo from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' always gives Sakura a different dress for every single time she must fight a card, even if that means using 2 different dresses for each episode. Also justified, because Tomoyo is Sakura's [[Cosplay Otaku Girl|Costume Tailor Otaku Girl]] and has a huge bank account at the Crédit Suisse bank.
** This seems to be a requirement for anything under CLAMP's belt. If one considers ''X/1999'', [[Kobato.]], ''Tsubasa'' '''''and''''' ''xxxHolic'' (see below for elaboration on the latter two) one could make a very compelling argument that the female quartet just wants to draw anything and anyone in [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]].
** What makes Tomoyo's work so impressive is she has outfits specially made to deal with specific cards. And she has these outfits as early as the (actual) second episode.<ref>As opposed to the "second episode" of Nelvana's [[Macekre
* The goddesses from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' had unlimited wardrobes as well, although this was briefly demonstrated as an ability the goddesses had; they [[A Wizard Did It|used their magic]] to create outfits for themselves. This occured in direct contrast to Keiichi, who almost always wears the same outfit in every chapter (white shirt and jeans), a fact which was often lampshaded in later volumes.
* In ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', Asahina Mikuru never wears the same casual outfit twice. This doesn't come up much, as she's usually either wearing her school outfit, or is being forced to cosplay by Haruhi.
** In the anime version of "Endless Eight" we get to see the Brigade in a lot of different clothes.
* Yuko Ichihara of ''[[
** There are two outfits that buck the trend in order to indicate thematic/plot information: the formal gown from her first appearance in ''Tsubasa'' recurs at least two more times, both very solemn occasions involving huge wishes and prices. Her kimono with butterfly wings attached to the obi has appeared once in each series, both times at an extremely important plot juncture involving Watanuki.
* Isaac and Miria from ''[[Baccano!]]'' wear new costumes or disguises on each theft. These range from dressing up as mummies to what can be even considered as cosplay.
* Fujiko Mine of ''[[Lupin III]]'' rarely wears the same outfit across more than one episode.
* Beginning with ''[[Initial D]]'''s ''Second Stage'' arc, every character wears different clothing from day to day.
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* The costume designer for the titular Princesses of ''[[Princess Princess]]'' falls all over himself to create costumes, each more fabulous than the last.
* [[Kobato.]]'s outfit changes every day. This is weird, considering [[Perpetual Poverty|she has little money, and her only possessions are a futon, a bottle and an empty suitcase]]. Though this is probably the least mysterious thing about her.
* [[Lady of War|Erza]] of ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is a borderline case. Usagi and her friends would wear a "new" outfit in an episode, then change it to another in the next one, and change it again... and after a while, you'd notice that the outfits repeated themselves in a regular basis. (It was specially notorious in the case of Ami, who seemingly owned just ''one'' pair of pants and one more boyish sweater...)
* [[Hana no Ko Lunlun|Lunlun]] has this as her superpower, since her [[Transformation Trinket]] gives her access to an unlimited range of outfits.
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* Plus the X-Men teams in general have had far more costume changes over the years than typical superheroes.
* [[Batman]] may be an archetypical example of [[Clothes Make the Legend]] but in various adaptations, he's got other outfits ranging from [[Powered Armor]] to [[Humongous Mecha]] to even costumes fitted for his allies, ''[[Crazy Prepared|just in case]]''. Who knew [[Superman]]'s logo looked pretty good on Batman's suit?
* [[Archie Comics|Betty and Veronica]] are classic examples of this trope. It's also one of the rare instances when the
** ''[[Katy Keene]]'' has had so many outfits, that Veronica once celebrated finally owning more outfits (although Katy still modeled far more).
* Tony Stark updates the design of his basic [[Iron Man]] armor every ten or so years. This is done by the artists to prevent [[Zeerust]]. Stark is also shown on more than one occasion to have ''hundreds'' of purpose-built armors, stored in a gigantic cellar.
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* In contrast to her game version Amy in ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'' has numerous articles of clothing, apparently changing them every arc (including one-shots). She's worn eye-liner on one occasion, and has even sported a ''Gothic Lolita'' look in the [[Sonic the Comic Online|fan continuation]].
* ''[[Millie the Model]]'' has several outfits worn by the models.
* [[The Red Skull]], unlike most villains, has never settled on one costume. Sometimes he wore a standard Nazi uniform, sometimes a loose-fitting green outfit with a Swastika on the chest, and sometimes a smoking jacket over casual slacks. In the modern era (after having been reborn in a cloned body of Steve Rogers) he often wears an expensive-looking black business suit with a red tie, white gloves, and black shoes.
* [[Harley Quinn]] usually wears the same black-and-red jester themed costume, but the exact style can vary quite a bit.
▲== Fan Fic ==
* [[Costume Porn|Seemingly]], ''everyone'' in ''[[My Immortal]]''.
* In the ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' fanfic ''Blood and Spirit'', Arisa, having died and come back as a ghost, has the ability to imagine herself wearing any clothing, and thus change her outfit accordingly.
* Similarly, the Succubae from ''[[The Return]]'' need only try on an outfit once to be able to (re)create it out of thin air at any point in the future. An afternoon or two of wandering a mall every month would guarantee they never run out of designs.
== Film ==
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* As a rare male example, [[William Shatner]] in the [[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|first Star Trek movie]] changes through five or six uniforms during one mission.
* Jareth of ''[[Labyrinth]]'' condenses this for movie length by wearing something new almost every time he appeared on screen.
* Both Blind Mag and Amber Sweet in ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' have striking costume changes for each scene they appear in. Amber goes one step further, however, by also having different hair colors different body features, as befits an addict to high-tech plastic surgery.▼
* [[Elizabeth Taylor]] in ''[[Cleopatra]]'' had 65 costumes, a record for a motion picture. This works out to an average of one costume for every five minutes in the extended directors cut. She ''was'' the Queen of Egypt.
* [[Kirsten Dunst]] as [[Marie Antoinette]], for the same reasons as Elizabeth Taylor. Dunst wears five costumes less than Taylor in a movie that lasts half as long. Now that's ''got'' to be a record! Well, it got them an Oscar.▼
▲* Both Blind Mag and Amber Sweet in ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' have striking costume changes for each scene they appear in. Amber goes one step further, however, by also having different hair colors different body features, as befits an addict to high-tech plastic surgery.
* Well, screw both Dunst and Taylor: Throughout the film version of ''[[Evita]]'', [[Madonna]]
▲* [[Kirsten Dunst]] as [[Marie Antoinette]], for the same reasons as Elizabeth. Dunst wears five costumes less than Taylor in a movie that lasts half as long. Now that's ''got'' to be a record! Well, it got them an Oscar.
▲* Well, screw both Dunst and Taylor: Throughout the film version of ''[[Evita]]'', [[Madonna]] had undergone 85 costume changes, 20 more than the latter (including 39 [[Nice Hat|hats]], 45 [[All Women Love Shoes|pairs of shoes]], and 56 [[Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry|pairs of earrings]]), which is enough to earn her a spot in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records! That's a REAL Unlimited Wardrobe!
* In ''[[The Great Race]]'' [[Natalie Wood]] wears a different costume in every scene, despite taking part in a car race around the world.
* The [[Shirley MacLaine]] comedy ''What A Way To Go'' is interspersed with parodies of other movie genres. One of these is the "1950's Big Budget Hollywood Romance", and so her character goes through five or six extravagant costume changes in as many minutes. (And in the ''rest'' of the film she runs the gamet from furs to near-rags..)
* Maggie Cheung wears a different [[Qipao]] in every scene of ''[[In the Mood for Love]]''.
* Near everyone in ''[[Clueless]]'', but especially Cher who even has a program on her computer to pre-match her outfits so that she can hit a button on her closet and have the clothes roll out to her like at the dry cleaners.
* Lisa Fremont in ''[[Rear Window]]'':
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* ''[[The Duchess]]'': Keira Knightley wears a different dress in every. Single. Scene. Justified because the film takes place over several years and she's ludicrously rich, but still.
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** Amy Pond does occasionally reuse jackets and her long red scarf, but for the most part she has a pretty varied wardrobe. Though it is logical that she brought a decent amount of clothes with her, since she'd been waiting for him to return since she was 10 years old and would probably be [[Crazy Prepared]].
** River Song, so far, has worn a different outfit every time her personal timeline intersected with the Doctor's. As of the end of season 5, we've had a white spacesuit, two different black dresses, a skin-tight black pant suit, white overalls, and a Cleopatra disguise.
* The [[Sliders]] seemed to have new wardrobe (and always plenty of money) every week, despite only ever taking one change of clothes through the wormholes between worlds. There were occasional attempts to [[Hand Wave|explain this]] (alternate versions of the sliders have the same ATM PIN), but it still strained [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief|credibility]] to have every cast member show up with a whole new ensemble each week, especially since this would happen even with episodes that were set immediately after each other, leading one online fan to ask the question "what really goes on in that wormhole??"
* While all of the other castaways in ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' had to make do with a [[Limited Wardrobe]] or a few token outfits, the Howells dressed as though they had a bottomless clothes chest. One has to wonder just what they were ''doing'' taking all that clothing on what was ostensibly a three hour tour. (Not only did they have several outfits each, but they had costumes, wigs, enough fabric to make long door curtains, and large bundles of cash in varying denominations.) Additionally, the castaways as a whole even had enough spare clothing amongst them to sew together to make a ''theater curtain''.
** The Howells brought so many clothes with them on the Minnow because they were rich <s> bastards</s> twits who were incapable of tolerating limited means, ever. In the unaired pilot you can see Gilligan struggling to carry several of their suitcases on board.
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*** Can't say I recall her wearing that [[Little Black Dress]] from her first dinner with Sheridan ever again. Shame, that.
*** She was seen in two [[LB Ds]], both of which appeared only once. The first one did suit her a lot better. The second, strapless, LBD made her look very top heavy given her headbone.
* Several characters on ''[[
** While it's true that they rarely repeat full outfits, if you pay close attention the characters will repeat articles of clothing. I do remember one repeated outfit though, Willow wore the same long pinkish dress in season 3 and 5; the cast also had limited coats that would be repeated several times.
** This point is mostly true, except that Tara's early outfits (on her first appearances in season 4) were not exactly fashionable (quirky is more like it). As with some other Buffyverse women, her fashion sense seems to improve apace with her self-confidence.
** Financial difficulties also don't seem to slow down these characters' clothes purchases, either, if Buffy in Seasons 6 and 7 {{spoiler|(after her mother's death)}} is any indication. Though Cordelia loses her family fortune, her wardrobe in later years stays varied, though less flashy and country club-like than in her high school days.
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* ''[[Firefly]]'' dances around this; though each character tends to wear a wide variety of clothing, a few of them have specific outfits they wear multiple times, like Mal's iconic brown and red shirts with suspenders, River's pink dress with white lace duster, and Book's priest outfit. On the other hand, Jayne, Inara, Wash, and Kaylee never seem to wear the same clothes twice.
** Watch carefully for repeating articles of clothing. For example, the top and veil that Inara wears in ''Trash'' is the same as what she wears in the flashback in ''Out of Gas''.
** And Kaylee has two distinct sets of coveralls (the green sleeveless one with the teddy-bear patch, and the grey boiler suit) which she wears with different T-shirts. She also undoes the top part and lets it hang around her waist when she isn't actively [[Wrench Wench
* Mary Richards of ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' was sufficiently well-known for this that ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' made it the central focus of its parody, "The Mary Tailor-Made Show".
* This is parodied in an episode of [[Big Wolf on Campus]] in which Merton Dingle wears a different costume (After he decides that he, the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|main character]], and [[Badass Normal|Lori Baxter]] are a superhero team) during each scene over the course of said episode. These costumes include a parody of [[X-Men|Professor Xavier]] and a pirate (complete with plastic parrot).
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* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'s'' UES characters. Notable exception - Chuck's pajama... coat... thing.
* All the ladies from ''[[Smallville]]'' despite Lana's frequent mention of a lack of money.
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'',
* ''[[Kyle XY]]''s female characters.
* Both Lorelai and Rory qualify for this on [[Gilmore Girls]], though the costume department had the sense to have them wear some articles more than once...at least, for the first few seasons. In the later seasons, however, Rory is turned into a literal fashion plate and never seems to wear the same outfit twice.
* Fran from ''[[The Nanny]]'' constantly goes through several outfits in each episode. Justified in that she's a fashion nut and shopaholic. But also justified that her cousin is Todd Oldham, the well-known fashion designer. He's the one that gives her all these outfits (already wore by other celebrities) because "she can't dress that nice on her income." And she has an obscenely rich employer/{{spoiler|eventual husband}} that (usually) adores her.
* The Cylons on the re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Characters from ''[[Glee]]'' change clothes often enough, but Kurt is the [[Camp Gay|queen]] of this trope. One artist has a chibi Kurt's wardrobe from each episode [https://web.archive.org/web/20150905132424/http://mistysigh.deviantart.com/gallery/
** IIRC, the only outfit he's worn more than once was {{spoiler|his Cheerio uniform.}}
** However, while he might not rewear whole outfits often (with the exception of the Cheerios and Dalton uniforms), a closer look shows that he does rewear individual pieces reasonably often, and makes up new outfits by mixing and matching them.
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* Most female soap characters are rarely, if ever, seen wearing the same outfit twice.
* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' has the Hannah Closet, effectively a clothing store attached to a bedroom.
* The female leads in ''[[Shake It Up]]'', especially
* Roy of ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' has a large number of amusing t-shirts, but still occasionally makes repeats. This is truth in television for many geeks.
* [[
* ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' had a variation with [[Big Bad|Astronema]]; while her clothes were usually the same, the color and style of her hair tended to change every two or three episodes. {{spoiler|Justified, at least in a meta sense, as this frequent change of appearance would make [[The Reveal]] that she was actually Andros' sister harder to prematurely discern.}}
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* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' doesn't do this to the same extent, but Bayonetta and Jeanne have customizable outfits the player can make them wear, and a few of them come in three different types, such as a Japanese kimono-style outfit. Bayonetta can even wear an outfit similar to Jeanne's.
* You could spend millions of rubies on dozens of shirts, pants, skirts, belts, and contact lenses to customize the main characters in Resonance of Fate.
* [[
* [[Elder Scrolls|Daggerfall]] had such a bewildering variety of clothing that it encouraged this trope to the degree of a [[Guilty Pleasure]] for some. Characters could collect an unlimited wagonful of clothes, to wear a different outfit to every visit to court, every inn, every guild in every town. Daggerfall Fashion Gallery was the first mod, and was written to indulge fashion enthusiasts even more.
* With all the user-created content out there, it is very easy to turn your game of ''[[The Sims]]'' into this. There is a reason why it is listed under the [[Virtual Paper Doll]] trope.
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Erfworld]]: Wanda wears a different outfit in every battle.
* Mistress of [[Oglaf]], best shown [
* Dries in ''[[What the Fu (webcomic)|What the Fu]]'' takes this [[Up to Eleven]] by wearing a different outfit on every page.
* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' does this with most of its characters... at least, the ones who aren't [[Institutional Apparel|in prison]].
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** There was episode dedicated to Jack losing his trademark sandals, and trying out new shoes given to him by the owner of a post-apocalyptic "Foot Locker" until he finds a kindly old Japanese man who makes him a new pair. The episode began with Jack making a new hat for himself out of straw. Given Jack's variety of skills, he probably knows how to make a new set of his simple robes with whatever materials he can find.
* Kimiko of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' combined this with [[Limited Wardrobe]]. While she always wore the same outfit around the temple, outside she rarely has the same clothes... or hair colour.
* Similarly, while on the job the girls in ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' wear the same color-coded jumpsuits but in their "spare time" not only have a seemingly endless wardrobe, they love to go shopping as well. Apparently they have rich parents. And they do live in Beverly Hills, which in fiction never has anyone with less than upper class income.
* Anya in ''[[Anastasia]]'' doesn't have a different dress for every scene she's in, but she does go through far more costume changes than the average animated heroine (in order, she has a tattered peasant dress, a yellow ball gown in a dream sequence, a plain blue dress, a pair of blue pajamas, a purple flapper-esque dress, a blue dress similar to the purple flapper getup, yet another 20s-style dress [these last three all show up within the ''same musical number''], a tight-fitting purple evening gown with [[Pretty in Mink|fur coat]], a pair of midriff-baring pink pajamas, and finally a cream-yellow court dress). Most animated films give their female leads two, maybe three outfits at most!
* Princess Mérida from ''[[Brave]]'' has a total of 22 outfits.
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** Sissi, the Austrian empress, was known to change her outfits up to three times '''in the same evening'''
** Her contemporary, Queen Emma of the Netherlands, prided herself on the Calvinist simplicity of her dress, but still found to her annoyance that she absolutely needed at least 40 dresses for the 5 day wedding celebration of her sister.
** Empress Elizabeth of Russia, who effectively made having an
** Imelda Marcos, wife of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was particularly [[Never Live It Down|notorious]] for owning over [[All Women Love Shoes|2,500 different pairs of shoes]].
* Lots of modern-day celebrities go through a similar process because designers give them clothes for free, since they get good publicity for it. Some of them end up doing massive charity sales of outfits that were only worn once.
* Major [[Fashion Magazine
* Female hosts of the [[Academy
* The Oregon Ducks college football team is known for its flashy uniforms, which allow for countless uniform combinations, many of which are only worn for a single game.
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