History LimitedWardrobe / WesternAnimation

* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil'' seemingly only has one outfit: a black T-shirt and a pair of hiphugger blue jeans.F

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': a shot of Stan's closet shows multiple pairs of his blue suit, complete with his lapel pin, hung up.

* Averted with Mabel from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', she wears at least one different sweater for episode. Everyone else plays it straight though.
** Lampshaded at least once when Robbie mocks Dipper for wearing the same shorts everyday.

** With the other human characters, whether they have multiple outfits [[ZigZagged varies a lot]] from person to person. Some, like Connie, are seen wearing multiple outfits. Others wear mostly one outfit, but that makes sense because it's a work uniform- Kofi and Fryman are always wearing aprons, and Lars and Sadie always wear their Big Donut t-shirts while they're at work, and have been seen wearing several other shirts while not at work. Some of the humans are always wearing the same thing, though- Ronaldo always wears a t-shirt with flames, cargo pants, and sandals (sometimes with an apron over the shirt while he's at work), for isntance.

** Lampshaded in another episode, a shot of Stan's wardrobe shows multiple pairs of his blue suit, complete with his lapel pin, hung up.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Not a Particularly Desperate Housewife": Steve, locked in Hayley's closet, threatens, "Let me out, or I'll rip up all your clothes!", to which Hayley responds, "Go ahead! If you haven't noticed, I only wear this one outfit."

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' usually plays this straight (except for Roger's many disguises) but there was a one-off exception in "Stan Time." In the first scene, Hayley bugs Stan to drive her to the headband store. This isn't mentioned again, but in one later scene she is wearing a white headband (as opposed to her usual green) without comment.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' is guilty of this as well, but starting from the middle of the fourth season onward, the main characters all get different sets of clothes... which they continue to wear day in and day out. They do have some different outfits for specific situations, like sports clothes, party clothes, night clothes, etc but their main attire rarely changes. Lampshaded in episode "Ghost Channel", when a "bug" in the ''Matrix''-like simulation makes Sissi wear a yellow shirt.

* Kevin in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' always wears one outfit of a red varsity jacket and jeans. Partially justified in that he was sucked into Video Land and didn't have access to his real world wardrobe. Simon Belmont, meanwhile, is portrayed as such a vain peacock that one would think he'd have multiple outfits [[FanonDiscontinuity but we don't talk about that particular portrayal of the character much]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is another show that only lampshades this once, but uses the trope consistently. Specifically, Danny has remarked on how Dash owns an entire closet full of leather jackets, despite the fact that Danny wears the same clothes every day as well (as do most characters.)

* One of the biggest exceptions to this convention is ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', in which the three central characters have a variety of unique outfits (when out of their uniforms).

* On ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'', the main characters are almost always seen wearing the same clothes, at least those that wear clothes anyway. Toot is identifiable by his bright yellow shirt and brown/khaki shorts or pants. Puddle normally wears a white shirt with black stripes and a blue jumper. Opal wears a mostly pink dress.

* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil'' seemingly only has one outfit: a black T-shirt and a pair of hiphugger blue jeans.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one episode, when their mother tells them to pick out new clothes for the coming school year, and they enter and exit the store in less than two seconds because, as Phineas notes, "We have a pretty standard look." Then they each pull out the other brother's outfit from their bag, look at each other for a beat and switch them.
** While she's occasionally seen in other outfits, Candace usually wears a red blouse and white skirt. This is lampshaded in "Monster from the Id", where they go inside Candace's mind and one of the self-doubts that can be heard at the Waterfalls of Anxiety is "Is it okay that I only wear one dress?" Though, unlike everyone else on the show, she actually has another outfit she's worn on multiple occasions (other characters have worn different outfits for particular events or songs, but no one else seems to have more than one everyday outfit, except Candace) as seen in "One Good Scare Outta do you Some Good" and "Comet Kermillion" (in the former case she's dressing up to go over to Jeremy's house, in the latter on a date with him.)

* The boys of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' are defined almost entirely by their clothes, and this is parodied in "How To Eat With Your Butt", which features the boys without their caps on Picture Day. In another episode, Kenny is unrecognizable without his orange coat. In the episode "Super Best Friends", all of the people of South Park had shaved their heads and were wearing the same clothes, which made it impossible to tell them apart (Stan had to find Kyle by using their CatchPhrase). Kenny also removed his coat in the SP movie, revealing he has blond hair. Cartman is probably the major exception because he's visibly fatter regardless of clothes. Exploited for TheUnreveal in "The Coon": when Mysterion takes off his mask, everyone gasps and comments on how they never thought it would be ''him'' -- but the viewers have no idea who it is. It's [[spoiler: Kenny]].

** The cast of Creator/SethMacFarlane[='=]s other shows, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', also qualify, although they do dress up for special occasions.

* ''[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh My Friends Tigger & Pooh]]'' - Pooh Loses His Shirt" has this, with the gag being that there's only honeypots in the closets. When Pooh loses his signature red shirt and it becomes the mystery of the day, Tigger says that he has an easy solution. They'll just search Pooh's closets, since surely Pooh must have a bunch of them. Wrong. It turns out that Pooh only has the ''one'' red shirt and washes it every evening then hangs it out to dry before going to bed. Later in the episode, when it's suggested that he wear a different shirt, Pooh comments that his red shirt just "feels right" on him.

* Doug of {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}'s ''{{WesternAnimation/Doug}}'' always wears the same outfit: white t-shirt, green vest, khaki shorts, and sneakers. In one episode, a character in a popular ShowWithinAShow started wearing the same outfit, and Doug had to convince everyone that he wasn't following a trend since he'd ''always'' dressed that way.

** Funnily enough, present-day Shaggy's outfit was identical to his original one with a teen shirt; the virtual version was wearing a version from the 1980s movies with a red shirt. You know, the ones with Scrappy.

** Funnily enough, present-day Shaggy's outfit was identical to his original one; the virtual version was wearing a version from the 1980s movies. You know, the ones with Scrappy.

* The cast of ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'', the titular duo being the guiltiest. They never take their superhero costumes off, even for bathing.

* The cast of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' may be the archetypical set of examples; their standard costumes are so identified with them that the outfits were faithfully reproduced for the live-action films. In ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'', they acquire new outfits, and even change them occasionally, but consistently maintain the same colour schemes as the original series.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' had an excuse since its characters all wore uniforms, but being a Creator/{{Filmation}} product, it still needed to cut corners further -- Uhura's earrings never changed, and at least one ''Trek'' professional has complained about it.
** They also created force-field belts for this purpose, so that they could only slightly modify stock footage for those scenes, instead of having to animate the crew in the full spacesuits (which themselves only appeared in live-action once before [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture The Motion Picture]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' parodies this in "Take My Life, Please": Ashley compliments Ray Ray on his shirt (a red shirt with a picture of a fist on it).

** In another episode, Jody walks in, wearing her usual outfit, and says, "that new boy is so cute, I changed outfits for him!" Everybody stares at her, and she adds, "twice!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''

* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', the three male protagonists wear the same thing nearly every episode (especially Omi, who we almost never see out of his red and black robes). However, Kimiko has a new outfit and funky hairdo with each episode.
** ... Which reverts back to her usual ponytail when in "combat mode".

* The main characters of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' are never seen in anything other than their superhero costumes. They even ''sleep'' in them.
** In fairness, Cyborg technically doesn't wear clothes.
** Robin did wear a tux to prom and Starfire wore a hot pink dress, but Robin's tux was custom made to be instantly removable, and Starfire was wearing her uniform underneath it and not wearing her dress at the end of the episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' is guilty of this as well, but starting from the middle of the fourth season onward, the main characters all get different sets of clothes... which they continue to wear day in and day out.
** They do have some different outfits for specific situations, like sports clothes, party clothes, night clothes, etc.
** Lampshaded in episode "Ghost Channel", when a "bug" in the ''Matrix''-like simulation makes Sissi wear a yellow shirt.

* Most Franchise/{{Disney|AnimatedCanon}} characters have an iconic outfit that they wear for most if not all of the movie. A main character will get a costume change with a change in circumstances, but rarely for any minor reason. A secondary character will never change clothes. Strangely, this applies both to [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} poor characters]] and to [[Franchise/DisneyPrincess royalty]].
* Characteristic of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. Arthur is almost always seen wearing a yellow shirt, blue jeans, and the same pair of shoes. D.W. wears a pink vest over a white/pink-striped outfit (though the pink stripes are only present in the books and in the film ''Arthur's Missing Pal''.) All other characters generally have standard outfits as well.

** The entire cast is this, but they also have summer and winter clothes, which are ''also'' always the same. Arthur's blue short-sleeved T-shirt with a darker blue stripe in the middle is the most memorable of the summer clothes.
*** They do change outfits for plot related reasons but their outfits are mostly the same.
* Justified in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheDiamondCastle'', as the main characters are likely too poor to afford more than one dress (and one of Alexa's wishes is to have more dresses than she could possibly wear), and no one else is seen for more than a day.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb.'' {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one episode, when their mother tells them to pick out new clothes for the coming school year, and they enter and exit the store in less than two seconds because, as Phineas notes, "We have a pretty standard look." Then they each pull out the other brother's outfit from their bag, look at each other for a beat and switch them.
** While she's occasionally seen in other outfits, Candace usually wears a red blouse and white skirt. This is lampshaded in "Monster from the Id", where they go inside Candace's mind and one of the self-doubts that can be heard at the Waterfalls of Anxiety is "Is it okay that I only wear one dress?"
** Though, unlike everyone else on the show, she actually has another outfit she's worn on multiple occasions (other characters have worn different outfits for particular events or songs, but no one else seems to have more than one everyday outfit, except Candace) as seen in "One Good Scare Outta do you Some Good" and "Comet Kermillion" (in the former case she's dressing up to go over to Jeremy's house, in the latter on a date with him.)

* The only time [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack Skellington]] ever changed out of his tuxedo is, of course, when he [[SubbingForSanta imitates]] SantaClaus (well, besides one scene when he's in bed and wearing off-white pajamas, but that's only for a couple of minutes). Possibly even taken UpToEleven, since in "Poor Jack", when Jack declares that [[LargeHam HE IS THE PUMPKIN KING!!!]], he rips off the tatters of his Santa outfit to reveal that [[FridgeLogic he's been wearing his tux underneath the suit all this time]]. Sally also wears the same dress throughout the film, though considering that either she's locked up by [[MadScientist Dr. Finklestein]] or [[StalkerWithACrush stalking Jack]], this is more justified. Both cases are also justified with the fact that it would be needlessly complicated to have StopMotion characters wear different clothes.

* Lampshaded in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', when Fry initially moved into Bender's apartment, which an area of roughly three square feet, not counting the closet. He asks where can he hang his clothes, and Bender responds, "Listen, you've only got one set of clothes, and you're not taking them off while I'm around." This is actually justified, since Fry is from the past/present, all he'd have coming out of the cryotube was the clothes currently on him.

* Almost everyone in ''WesternAnimation/HuntikSecretsAndSeekers''. The four protagonists only change their clothes for a couple of missions, but other than that, they're always seen wearing the exact same outfit.
** Stated on-screen that Dante has a closet full with copies of his trademark trenchcoat.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In the first of the two [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials specials]] preceding the movie, the ponies' human ally Megan wore a cowgirl outfit that never made it to toy form, and in the second she wore a generic outfit with a pink polo shirt and dark pants followed by the dress that came with her toy (its sole appearance). From ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie'' onward, Megan's default outfit was a pink shirt with a white collar and cuffs, a set of aqua blue overalls with frilly straps and a pink heart sewn to the front, and a pair of pink shoes. She did not wear socks. This was a loose interpretation of the separately-sold "Country Jamboree" outfit. She rarely wears anything else on-screen, apart from the "Sweet Dreams" nightgown (normally we don't see her up in the middle of the night, this presumably gets plenty of wear off-screen) and the "Ice Princesses" outfit in a couple of episodes. Otherwise she wore the overalls and pink shirt come hell or high water. And no, that's not figurative.
** The cast of the fourth-generation ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' tend to avoid this, as most of them don't wear clothes much (with the exception of Rarity who, being a fashionista and designer, is often wearing a variety of designs for various occasions), but those who do tend to have very iconic wear: Applejack is almost never seen without her hat, Big Macintosh wears a horse collar even though it's not attached to anything, and Applebloom is always wearing her red ribbon. Despite her limited appearances, Trixie's magician hat and cape became so eyecatching that it's hard to find any fanart of her without it, and when she showed up in "Magic Duel" with a dark cape and evil amulet combo, everyone knew that something was amiss. (Once she loses the amulet and regains her sanity, the magician outfit is back on.)
** Applejack's house was recently revealed to have a "Hats and Bows Closet" filled with identical Apple Bloom bows and Applejack hats. No sign of Big Mac having multiples of the collar.
* This is taken a few steps further and mixed with MagicPants in ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi''. The main characters with clothes, Milli and Geo, will add face-plates, flippers, fur (Milli only), scarves, and/or just switch the palette of their usual clothes, with a few additions or alterations for protection or warmth.
** In some cases, they just alter their usual costume slightly, like in Haircut Hijinx with the pictures, or largely/change the outfit entirely ([[http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/558393_485216511491527_612940283_n.jpg like this pic]])

* While already noted in the video game section, this trope is taken UpToEleven in the animated USA version of Street Fighter. Low production values, combined with ViewersAreMorons, results in every single character always being in their game outfits, ''no matter how out of place it would be in the scene''. This results in numerous scenes where people are invoking GunsInChurch, NoOSHACompliance, and {{Stripperiffic}}, among other tropes. At one point, Ryu and Ken can be seen walking down a New York city street in a ghetto with bare feet, and Cammy regularly walks around in her Delta Red leotard regardless of the situation, Balrog (Boxer) always has taped-up boxing gloves on, no matter what, Vega is always shirtless and wearing his claw no matter what.

* In ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'', everybody except Ms. Frizzle wears the same outfit every day. Even when the bus magically makes them clothes appropriate to whatever situation it is the kids are in, the outfits are all color-coordinated to what the kid would ordinarily wear. One episode (where Arnold turns orange from eating too many carrots) has all the kids in formal wear for a fancy event. Their outfits are just dressier versions on their everyday clothes.

* Characteristic of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. Arthur is almost always seen wearing a yellow shirt, blue jeans, and the same pair of shoes. D.W. wears a pink vest over a white/pink-striped outfit (though the pink stripes are only present in the books.) All other characters generally have standard outfits as well.

** There has been a lot of back-and-forth on Fred's ascot. By the 80s, it was considered a completely goofy item for a man to wear, most iterations of Fred until [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryInc Mystery Inc.]] dropped it. Nowadays you could justify it as a very hipster-ish ironic item (although in the show Fred just thinks they look classy).
** Shaggy and (obviously) Scooby didn't actually change notably. Velma's outfit is identical; what's changed is that now she's got a figure (compared to the original series, when her body could be described as "boxy" at best, although I prefer "Hazmat drum on legs".) The change probably had something to do with the fact that Linda Cardellini (who played Velma in the live-action movies) is hot and looks really good in a bikini.
** In some of the newer animated movies, all of the human characters but Shaggy wear a variety of updated clothes, although Daphne still always wears something violet and Velma still looks nerdier then Fred and Daphne. They lampshade their previous consistency when they get sucked into a video game a friend of theirs made of their adventures. The computer version of them are all wearing traditional outfits. Daphne says that they must not have seen their friend often enough because he hasn't noticed their fashion changes. Then everybody stares at the two Shaggys who are identical except for the color of their T-shirts and the real Shaggy says "why mess with a classic?"
** Funnily enough present-day Shaggy's outfit was identical to his original one; the virtual version was wearing a version from the 80's movies. You know, the ones with Scrappy.

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Daria}}'', characters pretty much only change clothes for plot reasons. The Fashion Club members actually get new main outfits during the last two seasons, but even then they only ever change them if we see them on a date or similarly special event, despite how many jokes we hear about Quinn's massive clothes budget.

* The characters on ''WesternAnimation/OGrady'' each wear the same outfit every time (Abby is always in pink, Kevin in the same shirt and pants, etc.) and did the mandatory closet gag, plus one more. When Abby gets a (female) stalker, she's unsure how much she should worry -- until she sees the stalker wearing one of her pink outfits.

** For Ben at least, its eventually {{justified|Trope}}. Apparently, whatever he's wearing gets deconstructed every time he transforms, and when he transforms back, it gets reconstructed as clothing he was wearing when the transformation doohickey last booted up. He acknowledges that he could probably figure out how to upload new outfits into it eventually, but the one time it seemed prudent to do so he was rather busy with more pressing matters.

** Nearly every character in all iterations of Joe only wear their signature outfit (justified with the Joes as their uniforms, if highly customized), unless they're going undercover or the rare scene of them in civvies off-duty. Even THEN they seem to sometimes go on RnR in their Joe outfits.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Not A Particularly Desperate Housewife": Steve, locked in Hayley's closet, threatens, "Let me out, or I'll rip up all your clothes!", to which Hayley responds, "Go ahead! If you haven't noticed, I only wear this one outfit."

** The cast of Creator/SethMacFarlane[='=]s other shows ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' also qualify, although they do dress up for special occasions.
* {{WesternAnimation/Goldie Gold|AndActionJack}} is supposed to be the world's richest girl, and her outfits can be counted on one hand. Perhaps she's just really attached to her gold lame pants and [[PrettyInMink white fur coat]].

* Most Franchise/{{Disney|AnimatedCanon}} characters have an iconic outfit that they wear for most if not all of the movie. A main character will get a costume change with a change in circumstances, but rarely for any minor reason. A secondary character will never change clothes. Strangely, this applies both to [[{{Disney/Aladdin}} poor characters]] and [[Franchise/DisneyPrincess royalty]].

** In an episode where D.W. is imitating Arthur she gets an outfit that looks exactly like his, leading Arthur to ask if she already has clothes like that because they "look familiar".
** The entire cast is this, but they also have summer and winter clothes, which are ALSO always the same. Arthur's blue short sleeved T-shirt with a darker blue stripe in the middle is the most memorable of the summer clothes.

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Dilbert}}'', like the comics, everyone always wears the same outfit.
** This was also lampshaded when Dilbert was testing to see if his male coworkers could remember what they were wearing -- they couldn't, despite Dilbert telling them that it's the same outfit they wear every day.

* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil'' seemingly only has one outfit: a black t-shirt and a pair of hiphugger blue jeans.

'''Muriel:''' Oh my goodness so many things but mostly pink sweatshirts that say Paris.\
'''Sharique:''' Hmmm... oh I know just the site!\

* The only time [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack Skellington]] ever changed out of his tuxedo is, of course, when he [[SubbingForSanta intimates]] SantaClaus (well, besides one scene when he's in bed and wearing off-white pajamas, but that's only for a couple of minutes). Possibly even taken UpToEleven, since in "Poor Jack", when Jack declares that [[LargeHam HE IS THE PUMPKIN KING!!!]], he rips off the tatters of his Santa outfit to reveal that [[FridgeLogic he's been wearing his tux underneath the suit all this time]]. Sally also wears the same dress throughout the film, though considering that either she's locked up by [[MadScientist Dr. Finklestein]] or [[StalkerWithACrush stalking Jack]], this is more justified. Both cases are also justified with the fact that it would be needlessly complicated to have StopMotion characters wear different clothes.

* WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead only have two outfits each: the Creator/{{MTV}} look (Metallica and AC/DC t-shirts) and the merchandising look (Skull and Death Rock t-shirts).

* The kids on ''{{WesternAnimation/Recess}}''- even the fashionable [[OneSteveLimit Ashleys]] - only change their clothes when it relates to the plot. Examples: picture day, Spinelli dressing up for the pageant, TJ and Vince dressing as boy detectives "The Barnaby Boys."

* The three main characters of ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' basically wears the same clothes almost episode, and sometimes when Dan switches up he's wearing Chris's clothes.

** The cast of the fourth generation ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' tend to avoid this, as most of them don't wear clothes much (with the exception of Rarity who, being a fashionista and designer, is often wearing a variety of designs for various occasions), but those who do tend to have very iconic wear: Applejack is almost never seen without her hat, Big Macintosh wears a horse collar even though it's not attached to anything, and Applebloom is always wearing her red ribbon. Despite her limited appearances, Trixie's magician hat and cape became so eyecatching that it's hard to find any fanart of her without it, and when she showed up in "Magic Duel" with a dark cape and evil amulet combo, everyone knew that something was amiss. (Once she loses the amulet and regains her sanity, the magician outfit is back on.)

* While already noted in the video game section, this trope is taken UpToEleven in the animated USA version of Street Fighter. Low production values, combined with ViewersAreMorons, results in every single character always being in their game outfits, ''no matter how out of place it would be in the scene''. This results in numerous scenes where people are invoking GunsInChurch, NoOSHACompliance, and {{Stripperiffic}}, among other tropes. At one point, Ryu and Ken can be seen walking down a NY city street in a ghetto with bare feet, and Cammy regularly walks around in her Delta Red leotard regardless of the situation, Balrog (Boxer) always has taped up boxing gloves on, no matter what, Vega is always shirtless and wearing his claw no matter what.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', Darla Dimple's closet contains the same outfit; this may be {{justified|Trope}}, though, in that it's her signature outfit.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Doug}}''

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