History Main / CostumeInertia

* Americana (1981): A soldier comes back to his homeland after the war but instead of settling down he starts wandering in his military uniform from town to town like a vagrant without any apparent reason or purpose.

* Americana (1981): A soldier comes back to his homeland after the war but he instead of settling down he starts wandering in his military uniform from town to town like a vagrant without any apparent reason or purpose.

* HarleyDavidsonAndTheMarlboroMan: Marlboro always wears the same boots that he got from his father, they are old, worn, patched and taped but he won't give up on them. Eventually they save his life.

*** This was taken to rather absurd levels in "[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Dimensions In Danger]]" when Tommy, Rocky and Kat return on screen together for the first time since the first episode of ''Turbo'' and Tommy is the only one who wears a Zeo costume (and even then only briefly) due to having a morpher that grants access to every Ranger form he's ever had.

* In the ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' radio plays and the novels, television series, movie, comic books, and video games based on them, Arthur Dent is rushed out of his house one morning in his dressing gown (what Americans would call a bathrobe and slippers) and doesn't change out of them for ''years'', despite (eventually) having ample opportunity to do so. Although this was slightly retroactive -- in the radio series and first two books, Adams didn't think much about what Arthur was wearing, and then wrote a scene where he changed clothes for the TV series, which was cut by the director because it was funnier that way. The dressing gown is mentioned for the first time in the books in ''Life, The Universe and Everything''. Arthur ''probably'' has a change of clothes by the final chapter, and defintely has by the next book.

* In the ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' radio plays and the novels, television series, movie, comic books, and video games based on them, Arthur Dent is rushed out of his house one morning in his dressing gown (what Americans would call a bathrobe and slippers) and doesn't change out of them for ''years'', despite (eventually) having ample opportunity to do so.

** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': The majority of the team continued to use the costumes from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' despite adapting footage, mecha and some characters from ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' and ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''. Tommy was the only Ranger in MMPR to undergo a costume change with his new suit being that of the SixthRanger suit from ''Dairanger''. It wasn't until ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' that we got full on costume changes for the team.

*** The ''Zeo'' costumes tend to be an inversion of these. Since the Zeo morphers and powers were never shown being destroyed on screen there is no in-universe reason for why the Rangers stop using them in favor of the [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Turbo powers and costumes]]. If a ''Zeo'' cast member returns - such as Tommy in ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]'' or Adam in "[[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Once A Ranger]]" - chances are they will be wearing a costume from before or after the Zeo days.

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', Jotaro's outfit is a heavily-modified high school uniform, fitting his status as a 17-year-old JapaneseDelinquent. All of Jotaro's outfits in later parts are variations of this same look. He's ''still'' wearing it in ''[[{{Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean}} Stone Ocean]]'', more than twenty ''years'' after graduating high school.

* Brazilian comedian Sérgio Mallandro was the host of a kids game show during TheEighties and wore clothes such as flamboyant colorful blazers and proppler hats during it. He kept wearing those kind of clothes after the show ended and still wear them ocassionally as part of his performances, even though he's already in his 60s and his jokes are not quite appropriate to kids.

** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': The majority of the team continued to use the costumes from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' despite adapting footage, mecha and some characters from ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' and ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''. Tommy was the only Ranger in MMPR to undergo a costume with his new suit being that of the SixthRanger suit from ''Dairanger''. It wasn't until ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' that we got full on costume changes for the team.

* Brazilian comedian Sérgio Mallandro was the host of a kids game show during TheEighties and wore clothes such as flamboyant colorful blazers and proppler hats during it. He kept wearing those kind of clothes after the show ended and still wear them ocassionally as part of his performances, even though he's already in his 60s and his jokes are not quite kid-friendly.

* Brazilian comedian Sérgio Mallandro was the host of a kids game show during TheEighties and wore clothes such as flamboyant colorful blazers and proppler hats during it. He kept wearing those kind of clothes after the show ended and still wear them ocassionally as part of his performances, even though he's already in his 60s.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_angus_young.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/{{ACDC}} Angus Young]], Angus old.]]
%%

!!Examples

[[folder: Live-Action TV]]

[[folder: Multiple Media]]
* In the ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' radio plays and the novels, television series, movie, comic books, and video games based on them, Arthur Dent is rushed out of his house one morning in his dressing gown (what Americans would call a bathrobe and slippers) and doesn't change out of them for ''years'', despite (eventually) having ample opportunity to do so.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]

''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': The MilestoneCelebration episode, "Forever Red" saw Cole, the Red Ranger of the Wild Force season teaming up with every previous Red Ranger including Jason Lee Scott, the original MMPR Red Ranger and TJ Johnson, the second Turbo Red Ranger. Despite both of those powers having been destroyed on screen, no explanation was given for how they were able to assume those forms again.

** The ''Zeo'' costumes tend to be an inversion of these. Since the Zeo morphers and powers were never shown being destroyed on screen there is no in-universe reason for why the Rangers stop using them in favor of the [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Turbo powers and costumes]]. If a ''Zeo'' cast member returns - such as Tommy in ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]'' or Adam in "[[Series/PowerRangersOpertationOverdrive Once A Ranger]]" - chances are they will be wearing a costume from before or after the Zeo days. This was taken to rather absurd levels in "[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Dimensions In Danger]]" when Tommy, Rocky and Kat return on screen together for the first time since the first episode of ''Turbo'' and Tommy is the only one who wears a Zeo costume due to having a morpher that grants access to every Ranger form he's ever had.
**

[[quoteright:250:[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SakuraSFIV250px.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:250:You're in your twenties, [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Sakura]]. You need to move on.]]

** Sakura Kasugano, pictured above, takes it perhaps ''too'' literally. In the ''Sakura Ganbaru'' manga, she justified fighting in her school uniform as being ready to fight at any time. Thusly, being a student, she wanted to be ready to fight in clothes she spent much of her day wearing. By ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', Sakura has since graduated, but as you can see still wears the uniform to fight (she even considers it her proper sparring attire). However, at the end of said manga [[spoiler:she wears a different uniform -- because she's a PE teacher now. And since it's an alternate costume for her in ''IV'', this is evidently the case there as well, as seen by her ending in ''SSFIV''.]] This is finally averted in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', where she has graduated from high school and works part-time at an arcade, though her new costume still superficially resembles her old sailor suit.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' Gohan wears a helmet as part of his Saiyaman costume. When he enters the annual fighting tournament as Saiyaman, he replaces it with a cloth and sunglasses because armor isn't allowed. In the 13th movie when Gohan dresses as Saiyaman, he still isn't wearing his helmet. Averted as of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', where Gohan goes back to the helmet.