∇
troperville

∇
tools

∇
toys

Must be Monday. New podcast! Just click on the fancy logo below.

SubpagesMain

main index

Narrative

Genre

Media

Topical Tropes

Other Categories

random

Subpages:

source

history

edit page

Person with the Clothing

When a character is referred to by a signature outfit of piece of clothing that they wear. It is NOT just for any character who has a signature article of clothing; the clothing must be in the title of the work or else be part of the name the character is consistently called by. Often, no other name is even given for the person in question.

Examples:

open/close all folders

Anime & Manga

Luffy from One Piece is often called "Strawhat boy" and is the leader of the Straw Hat Pirates (despite being the only member of the crew wearing one). He even has it on his Jolly Roger!

Comic Books

One of the members of the Elite in The DCU is called Hat, after his magic hat.

Films — Animation

Bowler Hat Guy from Meet The Robinsons.
Again, Hat of the Elite in Superman Vs The Elite.

Films — Live-Action

Men In Black
The Man in the White Suit: Subverted at the end, as the suit falls apart when its experimental fabric decomposes.
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe and its remake, The Man With One Red Shoe.
The Woman in Red
The Woman in Green
Two of the key characters in the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are credited simply as "Panama Hat" and "Fedora". The latter character is the one who presents the young Indy with his trademark fedora.
- While advertisements for the movie proudly announced that "The Man with the Hat is back!"
The character in The Princess Bride whom Inigo Montoya calls "The Man in Black".
Black Hat from the movie version of Priest (though he's never referred to as such in the film, only in the credits).
The Boy With the Purple Socks from the film version of Harriet the Spy.
The titular Devil in a Blue Dress, though we do learn her name: Daphne Monet.
Ronin. Although not involving clothes, the unseen man who recruits the mercenaries is only referred to as "The Man in the Wheelchair".
The Busby Berkeley Number "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat" from The Gang's All Here.
That Lady In Ermine

Fairy Tales

Charles Perrault's Donkeyskin and Little Red Riding Hood.
Joseph Jacobs's "Tattercoats", "Catskin", Cap O Rushes, and Rushen Coatie.
The Brothers Grimm's All-Kinds-of Fur and Bearskin
The ghost story The Woman in Black.

Literature

The Man in the Yellow Hat from Curious George, depicted in the image.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (also a movie)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (also a movie)
The Man in the Iron Pail Mask by Shel Silverstein
... Which references another example,The Man in the Iron Mask.
The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Man in the Brown Suit
The Man in Black in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.
The Man in Black in The Princess Bride.
The Lady of the Green Kirtle from The Silver Chair.
The Cat In The Hat
The Man in the Mackintosh in James Joyce's Ulysses.
The Sorceress in Green from the Dragaera series.
Deerskin by Robin McKinley, an adaptation of the fairy tale "Donkeyskin"
Exploited by the man in The Black Fedora who wears his iconic outfit to make it harder to recognise him when he takes it off and reverts to being one of the main characters.

Live-Action TV

Bennett from Heroes earned himself the Fan Nickname The Man With The Horn-Rimmed Glasses (despite his glasses not actually being horn-rimmed), but this was often shortened to HRG.
The Man in Black in LOST.
Person of Interest. John Reece is always referred to as "The Guy in the Suit" by the police detectives pursuing him.

Music

Ray Charles's "What'd I Say":
See the girl with the diamond ring
She knows how to shake that thing
See the girl with the red dress on
She can do the Birdland all night long
Johnny Cash, "The Man in Black".
Chris DeBurgh, "The Lady in Red".
"The Guy with the Polka-Dotted Tie," one of the earlier song compositions of Jule Styne.

Pro Wrestling

ECW's Hat Guy.

Theater

In the stage version of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, all the women in the play are referred to by what color they wear.
The Woman In Black
The Motherfucker with the Hat, about a man who finds someone else's hat in his girlfriend's apartment.

Web Comics

Black Hat Guy from xkcd. Also Beret Guy.
The Idiot in an Awesome Hat (listed as such on the vol.7 cast page) from Girl Genius.
The Booted Wight from The Order of the Stick.
- Redcloak also qualifies.

Web Original

That Guy With The Glasses
- And derivatives like "That Dude in the Suede".
- Linkara called himself That Guy With The Hat when auditioning.
- That Chick With the Goggles.

Western Animation

A Looney Tunes short titled "Boston Quackie" had secret agent Daffy Duck tracking down a MacGuffin stolen by the Man in the Green Hat
An animated segment on Sesame Street about the letter V featured "the villain in the Panama hat" (who even referred to himself as that).
Throughout the South Park episode "Woodland Critter Christmas," the narrator refers to Stan as "the boy in the red poofball hat."

Video Games

Pyramid Head from the Silent Hill series. Listed as "Red Pyramid" in the movie credits.
On account of being an unnamed protagonist, the main character of the original Persona is most often referred to as The Boy with the Pierced Ear.

TV Tropes

Real Life

Man In The Iron Mask (also a movie)
Many figures seen in the famous Zapruder film (the most complete and clear recording of the Kennedy Assassination) are known only by their clothing and possessions, most notably the Babushka Lady and the Umbrella Man.

Personalized Uniform

Costume Tropes

Pimp Duds