History LimitedWardrobe / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': Most of the main characters – all except Daisy – wore the same outfits day in and day out, except for when the story called for something else:
** Bo wore a yellow button-down long-sleeved shirt (cuffs rolled up) and jeans.
** Luke's trademark was a blue plaid button-down shirt (cuffs rolled up) and jeans. (Early in the series, he also sometimes wore a Levi's jean jacket.)
** Uncle Jesse was identified by his off-white long-sleeved button-down shirt, red kerchief and dirty bib overalls.
** Cooter often had a khaki work shirt, jeans and a ballcap.
** Boss Hogg was rarely seen without his white continental suit and cowboy hat.
** The sheriff's department – Rosco, Enos and Cletus – were almost always seen in their sheriff's uniforms.
* Much like the animated programs that aired on Saturday mornings, live action programs – usually of the fantasy and/or action/adventure genre, often produced by Creator/{{Sid and Marty Krofft|Productions}} – featured the main characters always wearing the same outfits. Since children were the primary audience, this trope's use helped them easily identify the characters (e.g., the leader wearing a yellow button-down shirt and a denim/brown leather-accented vest, with jeans and a cowboy hat); plus, it helped cut down on production costs, as certain StockFootage inserts could be re-used. Programs airing more recently have gotten away from this, as the live-action shows are more sitcom based (with the characters changing wardrobe normally).
* ''Series/FantasyIsland'': In the original 1978 series, Mr. Roarke and Tattoo were – with very rare exceptions – never seen in anything except their dapper white suits, white button down shirts and black bow ties.

* Steve from preschool show ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' has the same outfit, including the green-striped shirt, in every episode while his "brother" Joe has a variety of different outfits.
** Although all of Joe's outfits were the same design just with a different color.
** It is understandable that they wear the same type of clothes because its a kids show and they want them to get familiar with the people
** Their closets have been seen, showing multiple copies of the same shirt.
* In the kids' science show ''Series/BeakmansWorld'', Beakman is always seen in his fluorescent green lab coat, and Lester is always seen in his rat suit. This, however, does not hold for the lovely young female assistant, who wears a different outfit for each segment.
** Though even the assistants don't have an UnlimitedWardrobe, as you can see different pieces of clothing mixed and matched throughout the episodes. (Example: the jacket Phoebe wears in the flatulence segment is the same jacket Josie wears in the segment on finding answers.)
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
** "Shadows in the Glass" reveals that Wilson Fisk's wardrobe is compromised almost entirely of black suits like the ones he's only ever been seen in since he was introduced. Later in the episode, Vanessa persuades him to start wearing lighter shades.
** Given Matt Murdock is a lawyer, he always wears a suit and tie when out of costume and never wears T-shirts except when sleeping.
* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': Jessica Jones almost always wears the same leather jacket, jeans, scarf, and boots. Lampshaded in ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' when she complains she hasn't changed her clothes since she took the case that got her involved in this war against the Hand.
* ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'' may be unique in using the Limited Wardrobe ''and'' UnlimitedWardrobe tropes at the same time. The Actives, while in the Dollhouse with their minds erased, wear the same few uniform designs in the same few colors... only to slip into a bottomless supply of fashions, appropriate to the innumerable personalities that are imprinted on them.
** A visual sign of the dolls' eventual liberation is the abandonment of their Active uniforms. On receiving their original personalities late in season two, Echo, Victor and Sierra dress individually again (probably by drawing upon the Dollhouse's huge wardrobe).
* Same for most of the humans in ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse''. Pee-wee always wore the same suit with bowtie, Miss Yvonne always had the same layer-cake dress, Cowboy Curtis always had the cowboy getup complete with chaps, etc.

** Fourth Doctor: Mostly in earth tones. His most recognizable image was of a long brown, gray or burgundy coat (though for his first season he wore a short corduroy jacket), various waistcoats (though for his first season he wore a cardigan), a wide-brimmed felt fedora, buccaneer boots, and ridiculously long scarves (at least one of them knitted, according to the Doctor, by Madame Nostradamus). In the final season of his tenure, the variations ceased and he wore a much more stylized burgundy version of his traditional costume - still with the long scarf but now with breeches, a heavier, longer burgundy greatcoat, and the first appearance of stylized question marks on his shirt collar. The later costume was supposed to emphasise the slightly 'darker' tone of the episodes.
*** The Fourth Doctor and his companion Harry Sullivan suffer from this in Season 12, an {{Arc}} that appears to take place over the course of only a week or so and involves limited TARDIS access for most of the time. Both get in a bit of DressingAsTheEnemy in "Genesis of the Daleks", but otherwise Harry sticks to his blue leisure suit and the Doctor to his 'eternal student' corduroy jacket-and-checked shirt look. The Doctor finally changes his shirt (and swaps his cardigan for a waistcoat) for "Terror of the Zygons", and even swaps his hat and scarf for [[CultureEqualsCostume Scottishy equivalents]] in the first scene. Sarah, on the other hand, gets two costume changes in "The Ark in Space" alone and a baffling one in "Genesis of the Daleks" that was inserted to prevent a continuity mistake.

*** In ''Planet of Fire'' he ditched the coat and jumper altogether whilst in the warmer climes of Lanzarote and wore an embroidered waistcoat instead.
*** During the early part of the Fifth Doctor's era this was extended to companions as well. Adric (yellow Alzarian rompers), Nyssa (burgundy velvet jacket and trousers) and Tegan (mauve flight attendant uniform) wear the same costumes in every single story in Season 19, except for the fancy-dress party in "Black Orchid". Poor Adric wore exactly the same clothes in '''every''' story he appeared in. Later on, Tegan got a few costume changes, but Turlough wears his school uniform shirt and suit in every story, apart from [[BeachEpisode his last]], "Planet of Fire".

*** BBC Video even used the expanded-universe blue outfit on the cover art for the DVD release of "Timelash" (an episode from 1985), rather than portraying the outfit that actually appears in that episode. (Although they appear to have done so by running the technicolour dreamcoat through a blue filter, since you can still see the patterns.)

*** In the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novels, he wore a cream linen suit, occasionally with a waistcoat, and a white fedora.

** Ninth Doctor: Utilitarian garb with black shoes, black trousers, a brown/black leather jacket and a jumper (again, a pullover sweater for you Yanks out there) of varying colours. This trope was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when his companion complained about having to change into an elaborate dress for the time period while the Doctor only changed into [[ChangedMyJumper another nearly identical jumper]] while wearing the same leather jacket.
** Tenth Doctor: Converse trainers in various colours, a brown suit with blue pinstripes, and some combination of various shirts and ties or, less frequently, no tie and a T-shirt underneath. Often complemented with a long brown wool trench coat he claims to have been a present from Janis Joplin. In his second and third seasons, he gains a new suit with a reversed colour scheme - blue with red pinstripes. During these seasons he regularly switches back and forth between the two suits.
*** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Donna when she meets the Doctor for the second time :
--->'''Donna ''': You've even got the same suit! ...Don't you ever change?
*** His companion Martha also wore the same burgundy jacket for half the episodes of series 3.

*** While these clothes are items he stole from the cloakroom of a hospital in order to look decent for his imminent showdown with the Atraxi (he had spent the episode up to that point wearing the badly stained, tattered and scorched blue dress shirt and tie worn under the Tenth Doctor's pinstripe suit when he regenerated....which became the IconicOutfit of ''Amy's'' imaginary friend the "Raggedy Doctor"), and jokingly kept the new clothes as recompense for saving the earth.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'':
** Captain Jack Harkness: blue shirt, dark trousers with braces, and a rather iconic RAF greatcoat (apparently Ianto's first priority after breaking Jack out of jail is to find a replacement coat for the one that got blown up).
** Ianto's wardrobe seems to entirely consist of impossibly well styled three-piece suits. According to Jack, [[RightHandHottie this is part of his job description.]]

* The various ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' series have a variation of this: while the actual outfits of the characters may change, [[ColorCodedSecretIdentity the outfit is always predominantly, if not entirely, of that character's color as a Ranger.]] In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', Tommy Oliver, who has been a [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Green, White]], and [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Red Ranger]] in previous series', hangs a lampshade on this by complaining about having to change his wardrobe when he becomes a Black Ranger.
** In ''Mighty Morphin'', the background cast also didn't vary their dress much.
** Some of the middle seasons though have teams that wear the same ''street clothes'' outfit for virtually every episode (unless the plot explicitly calls for a change of costume). Later seasons mix the two: varying street clothes in a color scheme that matches the ranger color and a uniform that they wear constantly.
** Some seasons justify it by having some sort of team uniform they wear when not morphed anyway.
** To mention Tommy again, he wasn't immune to this from the start, especially when he was in his "evil" phase. Apparently being mind-controlled makes you want to keep to a select wardrobe. Even afterwards, that one green flannel shirt showed up in a ''lot'' of his outfits.
* In TheAbridgedSeries WebVideo/TruncatedPowerRangers, Zordon points out that their Ranger colours match the clothes the teens are wearing and that those colours will now dominate their respective wardrobes.
-->'''Zordon''': I hope you like pink, whore.

** At least Robbie has pajamas. Sportacus ''only'' ever wears his blue-and-white superhero outfit...even to bed!

* Clark in ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' wears a red jacket over a blue shirt 95% of the time, as an homage to his [[{{Franchise/Superman}} future superhero identity's colors.]] In fact, one of the dead giveaways to the viewer that an evil alien clone was masquerading as him was that the clone was wearing those colors inverted. It used to be one of many outfits he wore (he always did favor a blue shirt) but as the series went on he started wearing it more and more (perhaps a homage to him growing into his super hero role). Quite possibly the most extreme case was in the return of the shapeshifter episode where he was wearing a brown jacket when said shapeshifter paralyzed him with kryptonite, but apparently switched to his red one before confronting her (thus making it easy for us to tell them apart).

* It's an incredibly rare event when one of the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' boys gets a new piece of clothing. Sometimes they have to wear the same clothes for episodes at a time -- Sam, for example, didn't change from ''Salvation'' to ''In My Time Of Dying''. WordOfGod says that they tend to stink a bit. Justified in that they pretty much live in the [[CoolCar Impala]] and with the trunk packed with their weaponry, there probably isn't a lot of room for many wardrobe changes other than their disguises.
** Castiel has been wearing the same outfit since his introduction in Season 4. Even when he was temporarily human in season 5.
** All the angels are like this. But then it's doubtful angels care much about fashion trends.
** ''All'' hunters tend to favor a somewhat "blue-collar" style of dress. [[http://www.beyondhollywood.com/tv/alona-tal-to-guest-star-in-this-weeks-supernatural/ It involves lots of jeans and cotton]], presumably because they're cheap, generic, and don't stand out in most settings. Crowley even refers to our heroes as "denim-wrapped nightmares".
* ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'': Julian never wears anything other than a black t-shirt, black jeans, and an earring and choker. Ricky changes clothes literally once per series.
** Lahey and Randy usually wear the same uniform in every episode, and Barb usually wears her denim-and-cowboy boots outfit.
* Justified on ''Series/{{Lost}}:'' Most of the characters are plane crash survivors living on a deserted island, and the only clothes they have access to are the ones in the luggage that survived the crash, and so they often wear the same outfit for several episodes at a time.
** Further justified by the fact that multiple ''Lost'' episodes routinely took place over the course of a single day. For example the framing portions of "Dr. Linus", "Recon", "Ab Aeterno", and "The Package" all took place on the same day.
** The most notable example is Ana Lucia, who wore the ''exact'' same clothes her entire time on the Island...even after they reunited with the main group. The only difference was that sometimes she had the jacket, and sometimes she didn't.
** While most characters would change the wardrobe every few episodes, Frank Lapidus only got to change his clothes once over the course of ''three full seasons''.
* Contrajustified on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': they're a zillion light-years from home, they have to make do with what they can scrape together, but the top priority is getting the rebels out of their leather trench coats and steampunk armor, and into the exact same Starfleet uniform as everyone else. Flag on the play.
** Justifiable as they were seriously trying to ''integrate'' the Maquis crew into the Voyager one. There's a reason teams wear uniforms - keeping them in their markedly different outfits would've been counterproductive.
** A slightly less extreme example of the straight version is Deanna Troi who (as one humorist put it) went from cheerleader to aerobics instructor after the first season typically wearing one of only two or three full body unitards throughout most of the series.
* Horatio Caine of ''Series/CSIMiami'' regularly wears a black or dark blue suit with a tieless blue shirt and "The Sunglasses of Justice".
* Mike from ''Series/BurnNotice'' seems to pull something similar, except he prefers a wider range of colours. His favorite suit is pretty much a khaki version of Horatio's, which has been established to be Armani. He will generally wear whatever's appropriate to the job, otherwise. In season two, he started wearing thermal shirts. [[{{Fanservice}} A lot.]]
** Sam Axe uses the "theme" example. When his dress code isn't being dictated by a job or social function, he is reliably clothed in some kind of loose Hawaiian-style shirt and light colored pants. The outfit suits him for two reasons: One, it fits his laid-back, Mojito-sipping, rich-older-woman-seducing personality, and two, the loose shirt is good for concealing a handgun. This is possibly deliberate, as Sam is never shown making specific arrangements to arm himself, yet is always able to produce a weapon from somewhere on his person.
* Played with in the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Seven": Jerry's GirlOfTheWeek wears the same dress every time they meet, confounding him.
-->'''Jerry:''' What in God's name is going on here? Is she wearing the same thing over and over again? Or does she have a closet full of these, like Superman? I've got to unlock this mystery!
* In ''Series/KnightRider'' (1982), Michael Knight always wore a polo shirt (often red, sometimes blue or pink... don't ask about the pink) underneath a leather jacket, with jeans. It helps a lot with {{stock footage}}.
** The 2008 series has Michael Knight (Jr.) with a gray t-shirt and khakis. For cold weather, Michael wears a red long sleeved shirt underneath the gray t-shirt. Word of God says that the iconic leather jacket will come into play later in the season.
* On ''Series/GilligansIsland'', Gilligan, the Skipper, and the Professor almost always wore the same stuff outside of {{dream sequence}}s and the like (though the Professor had a tweed jacket that he would wear from time to time). Mary Ann, by contrast, had a variety of outfits, and the wardrobes of both Ginger and the Howells were virtually {{unlimited|Wardrobe}} (leading to FridgeLogic about why they would take so many clothes with them on a three-hour tour) [[note]][[WildMassGuessing Because of the Nuclear War]][[/note]].
* Like Gilligan's Island, the male leads of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, wear the same outfits through the series. But the most important female character, Trillian, magically appears in a new outfit each time the Infinite Improbability Drive is used.
* In ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' Louie usually wears [[RealMenWearPink a pink shirt]], a red tie and a gray suit [[note]]In an early publicity photo he wore a white shirt and in "Bobby's Big Break" he's seen with a dark grey shirt and a black tie, except for TheStinger[[/note]] while Jim would always wear a blue blazer, a blue shirt [[RuleOfThree and blue jeans]]. Justified with Latka, as he's only seen with his mechanic outfit.
* Justified in ''Series/TwentyFour'' where an entire season takes place in 24 hours, giving most characters no chance to change outfits between episodes.
* Justified for Annie in ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'': she's a ghost, and always wears the clothes she died in. However, there are subtle changes depending on her mood, etc. The benchmark seems to be her strength and confidence in herself; the stronger she is, the more form-fitting her outfit is, but when she's more scared and self-conscious, she develops more layers to hide in.
* Jamie Hyneman on ''Series/MythBusters''.
** Even if the white shirt is taken off for whatever reason, Jamie tends to stick to the black/gray/white color scheme. It was almost shocking to see him in bright red Nomex for one test.
** If he has to wear other clothes, he will usually still wear his black beret, if possible. When they met the president, he wore a suit and beret.
** Lampshaded extensively in an episode where Adam and Jamie had to each pass themselves off as the other. They had a test to see how long it took for Kari and Grant to notice that "Jamie" was really Adam. To focus their attention on something besides his Jamie mask, they changed one piece of his standard outfit at a time and made them pick out what had changed (like a red beret instead of a black one).
*** Grant is very rarely seen in anything other than blue jeans and a black t-shirt.
* Kotaro Minami from ''Series/KamenRiderBlack'' and ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX''. [[spoiler: In a press conference that promoted the crossover movie in ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' his actor was seen wearing an updated version of one of his old jackets.]]
* Series/{{Columbo}} wears a shabby raincoat, an odd asymmetrical haircut, and a tiny cheap cigar. Equally iconic was Peter Falk's real glass eye that caused him to constantly look at things crooked.
* ''Get a Life'' had a particularly odd version of this: Chris's parents wore pajamas and robes at all times, in and out of the house.

* Understandable on ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', where the characters are refugees and former prisoners who are frequently on the run. However, over the course of the series their wardrobes ''did'' evolve, reflecting the [[TookALevelInBadass levels of badass]] they were all accruing. The most obvious case was when Crichton gave up his IASA jumpsuit for Peacekeeper leather.
* Ben Matlock on ''Series/{{Matlock}}'' always wore the same light colored suit in court. One episode even made fun of this when his daughter tried to get him to wear more modern custom suits for an episode.
* Justified in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. Most of the cast are military and wear uniforms, and the rest are pretty much stuck with whatever they happened to have in their suitcases when the Cylons attacked.
* Justified in ''Series/StargateUniverse'', where, like in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', the occupants of the ship only have the clothes they escaped with. The limits are explicitly referenced when we see Young repairing socks by hand.
** There are some inconsistencies, including both Chloe and Rush getting new outfits. From a production perspective this makes sense as the alternative would be them wandering around in alien jumpsuits for the rest of the series.
* Justified in the reality shows ''{{Series/Survivor}}'' and ''Series/TheAmazingRace''. On the former, teams are dumped in a remote location with only the clothes on their back, while in the later teams have to carry their entire wardrobes on their back.
** This was best exemplified with Richard Hatch, who at one point [[NakedPeopleAreFunny just stopped wearing clothes pretty much altogether]], much to the annoyance of the other characters. [[spoiler:He won, by the way.]]
* Played completely straight in ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. One assumes the costume designers didn't want to create any alternate outfits. It's justified, though, in that the main characters of both series are WalkingTheEarth; it's not like they'd have a place to store alternate outfits.
* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' doesn't use this for most characters, but Connor wears the same outfit every day. (He turns out to have Asperger's Syndrome.)
** This included one of the few non-comedic closets (well, OK, a suitcase) full of identical clothes.
** When in middle school, Clair wore a school uniform, and continued wearing it for a while in high school.
* In ''{{Series/Caprica}}'', the first three or so episodes feature Zoe-A and/or Zoe-R (It's Complicated) appearing in exactly the same outfit. For a while, it looked like this was going to be a JustifiedTrope with the reason being Zoe's inability to change her wardrobe (due to her being dead) but then immediately thereafter it turned into an AvertedTrope, with Zoe showing off a new costume for each episode since.
* Ryan on ''Series/TheOC'' wore either a wifebeater or a black t-shirt most of the time, although he did get a more varied wardrobe as the show went on. Possibly justified to show that he's poor and basically has nothing, and the first thing Kirsten says they need to do after adopting him is buy him some clothes. It's also lampshaded several times by Seth.
* In Series 3 of ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' Malcolm Tucker wears a light grey suit in every episode, sometimes even with a grey tie. When we see him in casual clothes we discover that practically every other item of clothing he owns is also grey. As well as matching his hair colour, [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance this is very fitting for a press officer who likes to hide in the background]], never becoming the story.
* Quinn, Santana, and Brittany on ''Series/{{Glee}}'' wear their cheerleading costumes everywhere, apart from when they're dressed up for group performance numbers. All three of the girls have, at various points, not been on the Cheerios, but when they are, they wear them. Lampshaded in the episode following "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle" in which they all leave the team, during the "Here's what you missed on Glee..." narration, in which the narrator remarks that the audience will finally get to see them in their street clothes.
* In ''Series/ShitMyDadSays'', Edison Milford "Ed" Goodson III (played by Creator/WilliamShatner) can be seen wearing a rifle green fishing vest almost all the time.
** In one episode he said he was going out and wanted to dress nice, [[LampshadeHanging so he just put on a different color fishing vest]].
* Jason Morgan, the resident brain-damaged hitman of ''Series/GeneralHospital'' wears a black t-shirt and black leather jacket exclusively. Possibly lampshaded in a moment where a closet door was left open and the only things hanging up were leather jackets.
* Hank Moody on ''Series/{{Californication}}'' appears to have two outfits: jeans and a black t-shirt for everyday wear, and jeans with a black button down shirt (with or without a blazer) for more formal occasions. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one scene when his daughter comments on his lack of fashion sense and he explains that he has a uniform that works for him. He does occasionally have a different color t-shirt on, and has been seen in work-out clothes a couple times.

* ''Series/FraggleRock'': The fraggles almost NEVER change their clothes and usually when wearing costumes, have their normal outfits under them. It's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d for Wembley (and for some reason ''only'' for Wembley) -- it's pointed out a few times in the series that he only has two shirts and they both look identical. He still sometimes has trouble deciding what to wear. [[note]]In the ''Fraggles Look For Jobs'' wrap tape, Wembley was also the only one to comment on the limited wardrobe; he told Gobo that the first thing he would do when the series ended was go out and buy himself a new shirt, because he was tired of always wearing the same thing.[[/note]]

* Dave on ''Series/HappyEndings'' has a wardrobe consisting entirely of V-necks.
* The sitcom ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has [[TheCasanova Barney Stinson]] wearing a suit every episode. Only two episodes have had him not wear a suit voluntarily, the first he stopped wearing suits after he found out the woman he lost his virginity to only did it because his gay brother slept with her and she claimed he was bad at it. The second was when he wanted to sleep with the new hot female bartender, even having a fantasy sequence where he sings about having to choose between women and his beloved suits ultimately having his cake and eating it too.
** There is actually a third example: He refuses to [[{{Catchphrase}} suit up]] for funerals.
** Also the SelfImposedChallenge to pick up a woman while wearing overalls.
** Yet another episode, "The Sexless Innkeeper," had couple Barney and Robin depressed and moping after their [[ItMakesSenseInContext "break-up" with]] Marshall and Lily:
--> '''Ted:''' "Barney, are you wearing sweatpants?"
--> '''Barney:''' "Maybe, but they're Armani."
* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' always featured crazed fan Penelope Taynt wearing the same outfit. A closet gag in one episode revealed that she had many copies of the same outfit.
* On ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Al always wears flannel shirts, and apparently does so because his father always did.
* Lampshaded and parodied in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit. Creator/DavidSpade, Creator/AdamSandler, and Creator/ChrisFarley are playing three teenage girls at the mall. It briefly cuts to "Four Days Later", and they're in the exact same place wearing the same clothes. Spade's character mentions "I can't believe we're all wearing the same thing we did four days ago."

* Japanese comedian Toshiaki Kasuga wears the exact same outfit for nearly every appearance he makes (both in ''and out of character''): White pants and a pink sweater vest over a white shirt and an orange tie.
* Both Sheriff Carter and Deputy Lupo only ever wear their uniforms on ''{{Series/Eureka}}'', so, justified. In the pilot, though, Carter has a different justification, as he's not yet Sheriff. He spends several days only wearing one suit. He's stranded in a small town by a car wreck and only ''has'' the one suit.
* Tom and Barbara on ''Series/TheGoodLife'' sport a very limited wardrobe, due to their ongoing efforts at complete self-sufficiency.
* Most of the characters in ''Series/MaidMarianAndHerMerryMen'', from Royals to peasants, have only one outfit, though Marian and the Merry Men themselves get two wardrobe upgrades — after the third episode of the first series they begin dressing mainly in green to "coordinate with the trees," and from the second season on their outfits have become more detailed, distinct and individual. The one exception to the trope is Robin, who has lots of outfits, and from the second season onwards seldom wears the same one two episodes in a row. Then again, this incarnation of RobinHood is a tailor by trade, so it makes sense that he would avert the trope.
* Victor and Rufus of ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'' both tend to wear the same clothes in most of their appearances.
** Rufus even wore his black turtleneck under his collector outfit.
*** This is lampshaded in one episode by Nina.
*** Nina: (About Victor) What if he never changes his clothes?
*** The students also have the uniform, however, they only wear them during school and even then they tend to be personalized in a way, or at least not the whole uniform.
* Lampshaded in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' by Gomez: "Querida, this is my best suit... Don't you remember? I bought dozens of them. I wanted nothing ''but'' best suits!"
** Lampshaded again by Wednesday in TheMusical: "Mother, I've worn the same thing every day for eighteen years." (And she's technically still wearing the same thing, but in a different color.)
* Saga Norén in ''Series/BronBroen'' practically always wears what may or may not be the same pair of black leather trousers, usually with a black jumper on top. Justified, since she's more than a little autistic and would quite plausibly have several sets of identical garments.
* Olivia Dunham on ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' everyday outfit is a black pantsuit with a white shirt and black overcoat. We almost never see her in anything but black and white. We learn that this was a part of her conditioning as a child.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': In the fairy tale world (The Enchanted Forest), most characters either wore the same outfit each time they were shown or had very few outfits. Regina (the evil queen) is [[UnlimitedWardrobe an exception.]]
** When Emma and Mary Margaret were trapped in the Enchanted Forest, they stayed in the clothes they arrived in until they go back to Storybrooke, while Mulan and Aurora also always wore the same clothes.
** In Storybrooke, Captain Hook, being an outsider and therefore not being exposed to the curse, is the only one who always wears the same clothes.
* ''Series/DocMartin'': Martin and his suits would make [[Series/HowIMetYourMother Barney Stinson]] proud. He changes into a new suit for his wedding (with the classic "wardrobe full of copies of the same outfit" gag), but nobody can tell the difference.
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Most of the characters - the exception being Penny - are extremely habitual in their dress-sense and shuffle the same few items to arrive at essentially identical outfits, all the time: Sheldon always wears one shirt over another shirt, Leonard always wears a hoodie over a t-shirt, Raj always wears a jacket over a vest over a button-up shirt over a t-shirt, Howard in a long-sleeved shirt over a dickie or a turtleneck.
** Sheldon's usual topmost shirt is a t-shirt with a superhero logo on it. He seems particularly fond of the various Lantern Corps emblems.
* In ''Series/{{Hex}}'' Thelma spends the entire first season trapped in the party dress she died in. In the second season she discovers that she can wear other clothes if she [[RobbingTheDead steals them from corpses]]. Azazeal also wears the exact same shirt, trousers and overcoat throughout the show, except [[MrFanservice when he doesn't wear anything]].
* In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Cal's wardrobe consists of upper-middle class business attire (one or two drab, conservative suits), reflecting the fact that he's been stuck in the moment when he lost his family.

* ''Franchise/{{Pumuckl}}'', the kobold protagonist of a German children's series, always wears a yellow shirt and green trousers.

* Dr Harrison Wells in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' always wears black sweatshirts, pants and sneakers, although very occasionally he'll wear a dark grey sweatshirt, and he sometimes swaps the sneakers for black dress shoes. In flashbacks to before the accident, he is only ever seen in a black suit, white (or black, on one occasion) shirt, and the same black sneakers with white soles.
* ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'' has one the Los Angeles Times listed as [[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-st-envy-awards-20150813-story.html "Costume designer's quietest cry for help"]]:
--> [costume designer Mikaela] Wohl's creative energies are clearly being overwhelmed by crafting such amazing costumes as Jeff the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat and a Russian Space Sex Gecko — because the ball has clearly been dropped on dressing Oliver. It's almost silly by now how many [[http://welltied.com/john-olivers-wordrobe/ checked]] [[http://welltied.com/john-oliver-suits-season-2-last-week-tonight/ tops]] he's been decked out in. Could Brooks Brothers do an intervention?

* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' plays peoples wardrobe pretty realistically, i.e. different outfits that keep a common theme- Earl prefers plaid shirts and has one for every day of the week, Randy wears slacks a t-shirt and a short sleeve button down shirt, usually brown, gray and/or tan (in one episode he explicitly states that he has 3 pairs of pants and 5 shirts), Joy usually wears tube tops and pink is her favorite color, Catalina is most often shown in her maid uniform or stripper outfit but is also shown in jeans and different shirts when she isn't working, even Darnell isn't shown to have a completely limited wardrobe and occasionally wears a long sleeve thermal white shirt as opposed to his customary white a-shirt.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s Captain Jack Harkness: blue shirt, dark trousers with braces, and a rather iconic RAF greatcoat (apparently Ianto's first priority after breaking Jack out of jail is to find a replacement coat for the one that got blown up).
** Ianto's wardrobe seems to entirely consist of impossibly well styled three-piece suits.

** Twelfth Doctor: Subverted with the Twelfth Doctor, he possesses arguably the most diverse set of outfits over the course of his run that do not follow a single theme. His original getup was inspired by a magician's outfit: an austere ensemble with navy blue Crombie coat (with red lining for a splash of colour), dark blue waistcoat, dark blue trousers, black Doc Marten boots, and a white shirt buttoned to the top. He also wears a signet ring (although that's because Creator/PeterCapaldi refuses to remove his wedding ring for roles, so they covered it with something more Gallifreyian). He mixes it up a bit in his first series, wearing different shirts or a holey jumper with the Crombie coat as his signature clothing article.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has this. Starting with the Fifth Doctor, each Doctor in the series has his own specific costume, as do most of the companions throughout the 80's. Before 1980 and the Fourth's regeneration into the Fifth, each Doctor typically wore costumes which were variations on a theme (in a way reflecting more of a "dress sense" than an actual costume). In the new series, the slight flexibility in wardrobe from earlier in the series is reintroduced; as the Ninth Doctor's sweater's colour often changes, as does the color of the Tenth Doctor's suit, the shirts and ties he wore under it, and his shoes. The Eleventh Doctor also has multiple different shirts, braces, jackets, and bow-ties which all mix and match into different outfits along one theme.

*** As with the Tenth Doctor, the colour of his bowtie depends on whether the episode is past or future.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': "Shadows in the Glass" reveals that Wilson Fisk's wardrobe is compromised almost entirely of black suits. It isn't until that episode that Vanessa begins to persuade him to start wearing lighter shades.

** Twelfth Doctor: Somewhat averted with the Twelfth Doctor, he possesses arguably the most diverse set of outfits over the course of his run that do not follow a single theme, unlike the Third and Fourth Doctors. His original getup was inspired by a magician's outfit: an austere ensemble with navy blue Crombie coat (with red lining for a splash of colour), dark blue waistcoat, dark blue trousers, black Doc Marten boots, and a white shirt buttoned to the top. He also wears a signet ring (although that's because Creator/PeterCapaldi refuses to remove his wedding ring for roles, so they covered it with something more Gallifreyian). He mixes it up a bit in his first series, wearing different shirts or a holey jumper with the Crombie coat as his signature clothing article.

*** Martha wore the same burgundy jacket for half of series 3.

*** In Capaldi's final series, he mixes the two styles from the previous season, giving him more of a university professor vibe. He often wears a selection of hoodies under a black velvet Crombie coat with a blue lining, but sometimes wears his red velvet coat with or without a hoodie, holey jumper or a white shirt and waistcoat. A interesting variant includes a weathered grey frock coat, worn during more serious occasions rather than as a casual outfit.

** Twelfth Doctor: Somewhat averted with the Twelfth Doctor, he possesses arguably the most diverse set of outfits over the course of his run that do not follow a single theme, unlike the Third and Fourth Doctors. His original getup was inspired by a magician's outfit: an austere ensemble with navy blue Crombie coat (with red lining for a splash of colour), dark blue waistcoat, dark blue trousers, black Doc Marten boots, and a white shirt buttoned to the top. He also wears a signet ring (although that's because Creator/PeterCapaldi refuses to remove his wedding ring for roles, so they covered it with something more Gallifreyian). He mixes it up a bit in his first series, wearing different shirts or holey jumper with the Crombie coat as his signature clothing article.

** Twelfth Doctor: An austere ensemble with dark blue Crombie coat (with red lining for a splash of colour), dark blue waistcoat, dark blue trousers, black Doc Marten boots, and a white shirt buttoned to the top. He also wears a signet ring (although that's because Creator/PeterCapaldi refuses to remove his wedding ring for roles, so they covered it with something more Gallifreyian). He mixes it up a lot, much more so even than his predecessors - he has lots of strikingly different shirts, jumpers, hoodies, and even (thanks to the expanded time frame between the episodes) [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange haircuts]].

* Played with in the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Seven": Jerry's girlfriend wears the same dress every time they meet.

*** The colour of suit he's wearing depends on whether the episode takes place in past or future. Brown in past episodes, and the blue in future episodes.

* In ''{{Series/Monk}}'', the titular character wears the same type of sports jacket (different shade of brown or gray) in every episode. This is explained by his obsessive-compulsive nature, causing him to keep everything perfectly consistent, including his wardrobe. He even made sure every shirt he bought was inspected by the same person before it left the factory, and the stitching on his buttons had to remain perfectly aligned.

*** BBC Video even used the expanded-universe blue outfit on the cover art for the DVD release of "Timelash" (an episode from 1985), rather than portraying the outfit that actually appears in that episode.

* Dr Harrison Wells in ''Series/TheFlash'' always wears black sweatshirts, pants and sneakers, although very occasionally he'll wear a dark grey sweatshirt, and he sometimes swaps the sneakers for black dress shoes. In flashbacks to before the accident, he is only ever seen in a black suit, white (or black, on one occasion) shirt, and the same black sneakers with white soles.

*** His companion Jamie McCrimmon wore various top halves of his costume, but always wore a kilt on the bottom half.

* Justified for Annie in ''Series/BeingHuman'': she's a ghost, and always wears the clothes she died in. However, there are subtle changes depending on her mood, etc. The benchmark seems to be her strength and confidence in herself; the stronger she is, the more form-fitting her outfit is, but when she's more scared and self-conscious, she develops more layers to hide in.