History Main / SameClothesDifferentYear

* In Franchise/TheMuppets special ''Series/TheTaleOfTheBunnyPicnic'', Bean Bunny wears the same red jacket and blue scarf in the FlashForward to when he's an elderly bunny as he does throughout the story.

* Present most of the time child versions of the ''PrettyCure'' protagonists are seen. This is particularly so in [[FountainOfYouth episode 38 of]] ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' and the flashback portion of episode 33 of ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure''.

* In ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'', if there is a flashback of any of the main characters, s/he will be wearing an outfit similar to his/her first outfit provided by the games.

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[[folder: Anime & Manga]]

[[folder:Comics]]

[[folder:Film]]
* The movie ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' opens with AMinorKidroduction, showing the main character, Flint, wearing clothes that are similar to the ones he wears in the rest of the film (including gaining the spray-on shoes and lab coat that he wears from then on). Played straighter with young Brent, who wears the exact same kind of monogrammed tracksuit and flipflops that he wears as an adult.
* In ''Film/HalfBaked'', when Thurgood has a FlashBack to the first time he and his friends got high (many years ago), they are all dressed in the same style as in the present day.
* The FlashBack opening of ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' features an infant Jay and an infant Silent Bob who are both dressed in baby-versions of their usual wardrobes.
* The LiveActionAdaptation of ''DudleyDoRight'' opens with the main characters as kids, with Snidely Whiplash dressed in his trademark black hat and cape.
* In ''Film/GunCrazy'', Bart's childhood friends Clyde and Dave remain recognizable as grown-ups, as they are still wearing NerdGlasses and a leather jacket in the style of the ones they wore as kids respectively.

[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* Three promos done for series 13 of ''TopGear'' show the presenters as children; they all have hairstyles and outfits conspicuously similar to their adult selves. There is also a mini white-clad Stig.

[[folder: Newspaper Comics]]
* Peter from ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' got this twice, due to his having the unchanging outfit of the cast. An example most in line with this trope was when Andy and Roger were sorting baby photos and Peter was wearing his usual hat even then. A similar take has Jason wearing Peter's clothes from fifth grade, which are exactly the same as his current clothes.
-->'''Jason''': It's high time someone asked you a question...\\
'''Peter''': Lookin' good!

[[folder: Puppet Shows]]
* In Franchise/TheMuppets special ''Series/TheTaleOfTheBunnyPicnic'', Bean Bunny wears the same red jacket and blue scarf in the FlashForward to when he's an elderly bunny as he does throughout the story.

[[folder: Video Games]]
* MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime, as well as most sports spin-offs that feature the characters' younger selves, depict them wearing more or less the same type of clothes that they wear as adults.
* ''TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' has the original cast looking exactly the same as they did two years ago, including Genis and Presea, who were only 12 [[spoiler: (at least, Presea was 12 physically.)]] The only real exception to this is Regal, who starts off wearing his original outfit from the first game when he's in jail in Izoold, but then changes into a fancy suit when he gets out.

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''SomethingPositive'' has a few examples, like Davan's shirt with the red dot (though apparently he just has [[LimitedWardrobe several copies of the shirt]]) and Aubrey and her choker-and-blouse outfits.
* Lampshaded in ''{{Concerned}}'', where Gordon is seen wearing the default male jumpsuit of ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' in his flashback during the time of the original ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life|1}}''. He quips that he expects it to to become fashionable.

[[folder: Western Animation]]

* The cast of ''APupNamedScoobyDoo'' are wearing little kid-sized versions of what the teen cast of the original ''ScoobyDoo'' wear.

* Subverted in ''TotallySpies'': When [[CoolOldGuy Jerry]] was younger, he wore loud shirts and a [[FunnyAfro ginormous afro]], whereas these days he's always in a suit.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', the garbage man featured is actually Sid Phillips, the main villain of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' (you can easily tell that it's him because of the skull on his shirt).
* In the 2001 animated Disney movie ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', the outfit Kida wore as an adult is actually a {{Stripperific}} version of the very same outfit she wore as a little girl at the very beginning of the film. Averted at the end, however, where she actually ended up wearing a long, flowing dress (as [[TheHighQueen a queen,]] she is not allowed to wear skimpy clothing), which is colored like her princess outfit, but with the color arrangments reversed (the bodice and train is now colored light blue instead of dark blue with pink and gold stripes like her sarong, and vice versa for the sash, which was originally the same color as her bikini).
* [[spoiler: Cornelius "Lewis" Robinson]]'s future self is actually revealed to be wearing the exact same outfit as his younger self near the end of ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons''.

* In a flashback sequence from the ''MikeLuAndOg'' episode "Flustering Footwear Flotsam", a younger Mike is seen wearing a similar red shirt, skirt and sneakers. The only difference is that she wears a red hat, something she doesn't wear now.

* {{Doug}} wore the exact same thing he does now when he was a little kid.

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* The pre-Crisis Superboy wore the same costume from his childhood debut through his Superman era adulthood. It helped that the costume's material was capable of stretching over the years, allowing him to keep using it over all that time. A 1980s story showed Superboy once tried to subvert this by changing his costume to an all-yellow one (Clark wanted a more up-to-date look). Unfortunately, the costume's heavy amount of yellow material (versus the small amount on his usual costume) wound up reflecting the yellow portion of sunlight that gives him his powers, thus causing power failures/reductions.

* Peter from FoxTrot got this twice, due to his having the unchanging outfit of the cast. An example most in line with this trope was when Andy and Roger were sorting baby photos and Peter was wearing his usual hat even then. A similar take has Jason wearing Peter's clothes from fifth grade, which are exactly the same as his current clothes.

* Maya in ''SeikimatsuOccultGakuin'' has apparently had the exact same white dress ever since she was a kid. If it wasn't for the fact that the titular school required her to wear its uniform, she probably wouldn't wear anything else.

* In ''HidamariSketch'', Yuno's parents show a photo of her from kindergarten and she has the same crisscrossed Bobby pins in her hair.

->"I guess our clothes are magic fabric, they grow with us."\\
"No, our moms just made bigger ones as we got older. 'I want one just like this only longer!'"

* In TheMuppets special ''The Tale of the Bunny Picnic'', Bean Bunny wears the same red jacket and blue scarf in the FlashForward to when he's an elderly bunny as he does throughout the story.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Clerks}}'', Dante tries to get Randall to remember the time they first met when they were children. In the flashback, the two are dressed the same as they are in the present, with the only notable difference being Child!Dante doesn't have a beard.

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-->"I guess our clothes are magic fabric, they grow with us."\\
"No, our moms just made bigger ones as we got older. 'I want one just like this only longer!'"\\
--'''Commentary''' on the dub of ''Manga/SoulEater'', episode 23

* Used with some characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' when they were younger (the flashbacks show them from kindergarten to second grade). T.J. wore the same thing, though he used to wear his hat forwards in his early kindergarten days and also didn't have a jacket, Vince wore the same thing in second gade, and wore a slightly altered version of his shirt in kindergarten, Gretchen wore the exact same thing in kindergarten, but wore a pink sweater with it in the second gade, Spinelli wore a completely different outfit in kindergarten and didn't wear her jacket in second grade, and Mikey used to have buttons on his shirt in kindergarten.

* In the 2001 animated Disney movie ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', the outfit Kida wore as an adult is actually a {{Stripperific}} version of the very same outfit she wore as a little girl at the very beginning of the film. Averted at the end, however, where she actually ended up wearing a long, flowing dress (as [[TheHighQueen a queen,]] she is not allowed to wear skimpy clothing), which is colored like her princess outfit, but with the color arrangments reversed (the bodice and train is now colored light blue instead of dark blue with pink and gold stripes like her sarong, and vice versa for the sash, which was originally the same color as her bikini).
* [[spoiler: Cornelius "Lewis" Robinson]]'s future self is actually revealed to be wearing the exact same outfit as his younger self near the end of ''MeetTheRobinsons''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Clerks}}'', Dante tries to get Randall to remember the time they first met when they were children. In the flashback, the two are dressed the same as they are in the present, with the only notable different being Child!Dante doesn't have a beard.

* In ''PokemonSpecial'', if there is a flashback of any of the main characters, s/he will be wearing an outfit similar to his/her first outfit provided by the games.

* [[{{Yu-gi-oh5Ds}} Yusei]] apparently hasn't changed his outfit much. Once during a flashback, even though the other characters were wearing different clothes with a similar color scheme (Jack's white hoodie and Crow's yellow T-shirt) Yusei was wearing the exact same outfit as his usual attire, minus the orange 'bubble' guards. [[FridgeLogic Though where he got exact replicas of his outfit in a child's size in a literal wasteland is beyond me.]]