History Main / IWasQuiteAFashionVictim

* The ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fancomic "[[http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/1772Old Maid Alliance's Dark History Presentation]] has Kanako dig up some dirt on Sanae's past. [[http://i.imgur.com/QzFKd0t.jpg Such as this image.]]

* Superheroes in general get this a lot thanks to the long-running nature of comic books, although how much of it is the characters or the writers is up to debate. An especially famous case happened to ComicBook/BlackCanary, who, after a stint with a cringe-worthy costume, actually ''set it on fire'' on [[http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3332/3620592838_166b9e21be_b.jpg the cover of an issue]]. In an issue of ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' she and Oracle go to a mall. Upon seeing a display of dolls featuring her '80s costume and having the clerk explain that they can't even sell the things, she buys up all of them so that no one else can see how bad it looked.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Buffy says when seeing her mother's yearbook photo:

* ''Webcomic/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'': In "Tournament", the CoolAndUnusualPunishment for the bat family's video game tournament is to wear Dick Grayson's original Nightwing costume (one with a very deep V-Neck) for two weeks, which they treat [[FauxHorrific with great horror]]. Dick has no idea why his old outfit is treated as a punishment instead of a prize, while Barbara Gordon remarks that he's impossible to embarrass.

* Creator/DaveBarry has noted that he distinctly remembers looking normal in high school, and was horrified to see that his yearbook photo shows [[http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1936671.html a very stereotypical nerd]].
* The website [[http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ Awkward Family Photos]] gets a lot of mileage from the outfits and hairdos of prior decades, especially TheSeventies and TheEighties. Likewise with the Website/{{Reddit}} community [[https://www.reddit.com/r/blunderyears/ Blunder Years]].

* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyofAmerica:'' The superhero formerly known as Nuklon thinks this of his ''Infinity, Inc.'' era mohawk and codename, though he admits that the rest of the outfit was alright (or at least his ''first'' outfit). It's one of the reasons he changes his name to Atom-Smasher (also to pay homage to his godfather, Al Pratt, the Golden Age Atom).

Compare OldShame, FashionDissonance, CondemnedByHistory, OutdatedOutfit, ImpossiblyTackyClothes, and FakeFabricFashionFauxPas. Contrast FormerTeenRebel, where the character's former ''behavior'' is seen as embarassing.

* Nowadays Superheroes tend to do this, although how much of it is the characters or the writers is up to debate. An especially famous case happened to ComicBook/BlackCanary, who, after a stint with a cringe-worthy costume, actually ''set it on fire'' on [[http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3332/3620592838_166b9e21be_b.jpg the cover of an issue]]. In an issue of ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' she and Oracle go to a mall. Upon seeing a display of dolls featuring her '80s costume and having the clerk explain that they can't even sell the things, she buys up all of them so that no one else can see how bad it looked.

* [[Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' does this a lot, with regards to both his scaly green underoo Robin costume and his first, disco-ish Nightwing costume.

** In the "Power of the Daleks" novelisation, the Second Doctor (on first regenerating) starts going through his jewellery box and finds a large earring, telling Ben and Polly that he used to wear it when he was younger. "Very fashionable once."

* ''Webcomic/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'': In "Tournament", the CoolAndUnusualPunishment for the bat family's video game tournament is to wear Dick Grayson's original Nightwing costume (one with a very deep V-Neck) for two weeks, which they treat with great horror. Dick has no idea why his old outfit is treated as a punishment instead of a prize, while Barbara Gordon remarks that he's impossible to embarrass.

* ''Webcomic/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'': In "Tournament", the CoolAndUnusualPunishment for the bat family's video game tournament is to wear Dick Grayson's original Nightwing costume (one with a very deep V-Neck) for two weeks, which they treat with great horror. Dick has no idea why his old outfit is treated as a punishment instead of a prize, while Barbara Gordon remarks that gets impossible to embarrass.

* ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'': Creator/JohnOliver [[SelfDeprecation often ridicules his older hairstyle which he wore when he was part of]] ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart''.

** In his verse in 2018's "Homicide", Eminem self-deprecates about the cheesy hip-hop outfits he used to wear in 2001-4:

* This [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l33pqkRrSg1qc6xeao1_400.jpg photo]] of a {{shirtless|Scene}}, [[CarpetOfVirility fuzzy-chested]], {{pornstach|e}}ioed, [[SeventiesHair poofy-haired]] Creator/ColinBaker from TheSeventies has become [[Memes/DoctorWho infamous]] among UsefulNotes/{{Whovians}}, who dubbed it "[[FanNickname Seventies Porn Colin]]" (though Colin Baker wasn't actually involved in literal UsefulNotes/{{pornography}}).

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' has one episode in which Cam is revealed to have beem an actress in a B movie called "Invasion of the Mother Suckers", that she acted in to pay for med school while she was in New York. In the movie, she plays a vampire who looks like a beatnik Creator/PamGrier. When her colleagues track down a copy of the film, she is understandably mortified.

** In his verse in 2018's "Homicide", Eminem self-deprecates about the cheesy hip-hop outfits he used to wear in 2003-4:

Compare OldShame, FashionDissonance, CondemnedByHistory, OutdatedOutfit, ImpossiblyTackyClothes, and FakeFabricFashionFauxPas.

-->'''Mike:''' I can't believe we dressed like ''this'' and thought it was cool.

* There's a reason ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} just wears a T-shirt and jeans these days. Take this exchange from ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'':

* ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'': Creator/JohnOliver [[SelfDeprecation often ridicules his older hairstyle which he wore when he was part of]] ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'', such as in 2020, during the spread of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, as he pleaded with people to stay home and put off haircuts until the pandemic had been brought under control:
-->'''John:''' Yes, people may see it, and yes, it'll be embarrassing, but you will get through it. (''shows old picture of himself'') Trust me. (''shows another old picture'') Trust me. (''[[RuleOfThree shows a photo of himself during high school]]'') Trust me.

Often shown during a home video, EmbarrassingOldPhoto or{{Flashback}}, where the trope can overlap with the FunnyFlashbackHaircut if the hairstyle was at least suitable for that age.

Often shown during a {{Flashback}}, home video, or EmbarrassingOldPhoto.

* A ''Webcomic/NothingNiceToSay'' strip has a group of teenagers looking in an old yearbook belonging to one of their fathers, making fun of his striking a Disco pose, in full DiscoDan regalia, sometime in the '70s. The final panel then shows them [[NotSoDifferent being modern-day hipsters, with all the ridiculous haircuts, accessories and clothes]] that entails.

Compare OldShame, FashionDissonance, DeaderThanDisco, OutdatedOutfit, ImpossiblyTackyClothes, and FakeFabricFashionFauxPas.

* ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'': In the last episode, "The Roamin' Nose", Joe Talbot, David Barnes, and Samantha Kepler are about to start high school, so their parents show them their high school pictures from TheSeventies. David's father gets embarrassed seeing that he had [[FunnyAfro a huge afro]] back then.

Sometimes it's the character acknowledging how dumb they looked, but just as often it's their friends laughing at how dumb they used to look and that character not denying it, or we see the character back then and get a good laugh out of it.https://projectrunway.com.vn/