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Space pajamas are quite logical, apparently.
Captain, get out your spandex suit. We're sending you on a space journey.
There are a few types of clothes people wear when they are traveling in space:
- Military style outfits (much loved by the Stargate SG-1 crew)
- Standard overalls with a plethora of badges (real astronauts, and quite a few characters in Used Future science-fiction).
- 21st century stuff (or, in a humorous version, 20th century (1960-1980s) stuff).
- Stripperiffic items most universally worn by the female members of the Green Skinned Space Babe race.
- Just Space Clothes - stuff that is quite frankly stupid looking anywhere. Huge shoulder pads, pocketless spandex, clashing colours, reflective foil, long trailing skirts, capes, daft hair (or even dafter hats).
Today, Space Clothes seem to be largely a thing of the past, as everyone goes military-style or contemporary. The problem with the latter is that people may well not wear those sorts of things in the future. Compare Spandex Latex Or Leather.
Examples
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Anime and Manga
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: After acquiring the final ship in the last arc of the show, the cast upgrades from contemporary clothing to hilarious Space Clothes, including the super Stripperific kind for resident Ms Fanservice, Yoko. This is actually a homage to Super Robot anime of the past set in space, such as Getter Robo.
- Simon's outfit is just a recoloured and Stripperiffic version of Captain Harlock's, another classic anime set in space.
- It also resembles what he wore pre-timeskip to a degree.
- Last Exile has the Guild, who fit a great deal of "alien" stereotypes (live in space/the upper atmosphere, pointy ears, Anime Hair in a setting where everyone else's hair is relatively normal, etc.). Naturally, they have odd clothes to match; Delphine's bodysuit has to be seen to be believed.
- The aliens in DearS dress in what could be considered space clothes. All of them are ornate, outlandish, brightly colored and clearly collared. They also have much more hair than your average human character.
- Sora Wo Kakeru Shoujo seems to be made of nothing but space clothes.
Film
- Dune the movie managed to come up with one set of strange clothes, thanks to the really weird mind of David Lynch, along with particular distinctive physical quirks (Mentats have giant eyebrows, the Spacing Guild are all bald and have weird voices, Harkonnens are red-haired and have terrible acne). The miniseries reveals its low budget by distinguishing people...by their hats. Children of Dune was slightly better about this, as the budget was a mote higher.
- There seems to be universal agreement that the Space Clothes of Star Trek: The Motion Picture were the dumbest EVER. One set of Space Clothes was the most expensive costume in a film up to then. Behold it in all its horrifying glory here.
- Padme Amidala of the Star Wars prequels has set a standard for far out that will be difficult for future designers to match. Natalie Portman commented that she was incapable of walking in several.
- Her costumes were, though, influenced by actual Mongolian and Russian royal fashion.
- Everybody in the galaxy far, far away has a fantastical design to their clothing. Upper class citizens dress in primary colors, and often some sort of robe. Middle to lower class dress in contemporary clothes, but often bulkier (or just dull robes similar to Jedi). Han Solo dresses like a gunslinger, and then of course we have the Jedi Robes, which are based off monks. Most species belonging that can be called a Green Skinned Space Babe wear Stripperific clothing, or just generally skimpy.
- Space Mutiny: the men have space clothes, most women wear stripperiffic outfits.
- Starship Invasions features quite a few variations of Space Clothes, from tinfoil bikinis to the bad guys' goofy shapeless hat/hood things.
- The Fifth Element has a plethora of clothing made out of plastic and rubber.
- Project Moonbase. United States Space Force astronauts dress casually in shorts, tops and tight-fitting skullcaps (presumably to stop one's hair floating about in zero-gravity).
Western Animation
- Futurama! Occasionally unusual fashions are seen or mentioned—extras often wear censor bars, and military uniforms are like Star Trek without pants—but for the most part, everyone wears 20th/21st Century clothes...but with peaked shoulder rings. Grimy denim jackets, janitor's cover-alls, even the wall-eyed old lady's old-lady-shirt.
Literature
- Guaranteeing that his Adept series will never be ruined by Hollywood, Piers Anthony averted this trope by having almost everyone on Planet Proton walk around naked.
- Toyed with in an H.P. Lovecraft story taking place in the wet jungles of a pulp Venus. The planet-hopping protagonist grouses in his diary about his sturdy leather suit, wishing for something made of indestructible shiny metal foil instead.
Live Action TV
- Blakes Seven. Just watch Jenna and Cally go down to rescue the boys in 'Star One' clad in floor length skirts and six inch heels. And then there was Avon's fondness for leather and studs...
- Zaphod Beeblebrox wears a suit apparently made of dayglo circuit boards in TV version of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
- Well, he was voted "Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the Universe" seven times running...
- Its good to know they paid such attention to detail.
- Babylon 5 had its humans wearing military uniforms or things like suit jackets with the lapels missing or oddly-cut (it looks kind of contemporary, but at the same time kind of foreign). The Minbari and the Narn, on the other hand, play this to the hilt.
- Played for laughs, when Zach is being fitted for a new uniform and mocks the Minbari fashion sense.
- And lets not get started on the Centauri ...
- For the Centauri, the fact that they look ridiculous is the whole point.
- In the 1970's British Series UFO (set in the future world of 1980) silver bodysuits are standard wear for space personnel (though interceptor pilots wear blue, with white plastic belts and boots). The Moonbase Bridge Bunnies also wore their trademark purple wigs, elaborate make-up, and cosmetic belt-kits (as seen in this famous scene. A non-canon explanation for the purple wigs was that they prevented static electricity on Moonbase, but that didn't explain why the men didn't wear them. But that wasn't as strange as the Skydiver personnel who wore fishnet shirts that showed off their nipples. Even the women!
- The original Battlestar Galactica.
- Civilian clothes in Next Gen era Star Trek are mostly Space Clothes done right — easy on contemporary eyes, but clearly not contemporary. In particular, men's jackets tend to be made of patterned fabric and often lack lapels; and women wear opaque tights that match their skirts.
- Stargate Atlantis uses completely plausible clothing (aside from fitting a bit too well), but you can see the Space Clothes inspiration. Some of the alien societies, on the other hand, go much further.
- The Wraith have the coolest clothing. While normal drones wear what looks like chitin and queens have gowns, officers are clad in black leather from neck to feet. Considering they are really pale and have white hair, this makes for a nice contrast. Travelers have a black & red version while Ancients and Asurans usually wear a futuristic white and cream-colored suit. Regarding the Vanir, they always tank around in copper-colored powered armor except in one case when they revealed their true nature: as Asgards, they are completely naked. And needless to say, Tau'ri wear BD Us. Genii clothing looks like WW 2-era Soviet uniforms.
Music Videos
- "Space Olympics". Also comes with Space Hair. Specifically, you've got shiny jumpsuits for the hapless space athletes, and froofy ceremonial "space ambassador" clothes for the incompetent olympic space impressario. . .
Table Top Games
- Gurps Traveller. The volume Intersteller Wars has the best art work of all the Gurps Traveller's(given that the others are all black and white, it's not a contest). It shows Terrans dressed in clothes that look reasonably similar to modern clothes and Vilani in exotic looking clothes(flowing robes and the like) that still look vaguely human. Both styles tend to be reasonably handsome.
Real Life
- The stuff worn by ravers can easily be mistaken for space clothes.
- That's the point. The labels of some rave-clothing producers such as Cyberdog even have small notes saying it is "Suitable for Terrestrial wear".
- Lady Gaga. Obviously.
Video Games
Webcomics
- Present throughout the "GOFOTRON Champion of the Cosmos" arc from Sluggy Freelance, usually in the form of gaudily colored spandex jumpsuits.
- Last Res0rt plays around with this; civilian clothes are shown to be pretty contemporary, the player's uniforms (and the Star Org's, too) are spandex in all but name and are said to "shrink to fit"; more than a few of Jigsaw's outfits border on the outright bizzare; and Celigan fashion is downright stuck in the 70's.
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