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Often a character in a work dresses in an outfit practically identical to an outfit worn by another character or Real Life person, as a kind of Cosplay on the character's part, and a Shout Out on the part of the costumer, designer, and/or artist.
The Whole Costume Reference is when you take the cosplay part out. The character is just wearing that outfit. There is no indication or clue within the work that this character is dressing as that other person. Also:
- There's no fan convention.
- It's not Halloween.
- It's not a costume party.
- No one mentions what the costume is based on.
This can include live action works, when the costume actually is the costume worn in an earlier work, as a form of Prop Recycling. Many low budget works do this. But again, there has to be no mention or clue of the work it was reused from.
Compare Historical Domain Character, Serial Numbers Filed Off, Whole Plot Reference, Clothing Switch, Cosplay Fan Art.
Contrast Dresses the Same (in that wearing the same outfit is seen as bad).
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- Trinity Blood ended with Esther being crowned queen and wearing a gown just like one Queen Elizabeth I wore. But not her coronation dress.
- In Gundam Wing, Relena's Queen dress is the same one Audrey Hepburn wore as Princess Ann in Roman Holiday.
- Early on in Kuroshitsuji, Ciel has to cross-dress as a girl to go to a dance. His dress is a near replica of one worn by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.
- Rosario+Vampire: Moka, seeking help from a Chinese Mystic/cosplay fan, was recently required to don a tiger-striped 2-piece bikini and boots.
- In Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, in the martial arts episode, Sasshi is given an "Outfit That Makes You Feel Stronger" by Eutas. The outfit, of course, being a yellow tracksuit with a black stripe.
- Ms. Aki wears Ginrei's dress from the Giant Robo OVA in the same episode.
- In one of the Project A-Ko movies, B-ko's father dresses as Elvis.
- Utako of Man Of Many Faces wears a dress from My Fair Lady on one of her birthdays.
- In episode 24 of Cardcaptor Sakura, Sakura wears a dress that is rather similar to Alice's. This presumably is an intentional allusion, since the episode's plot revolves around size-changing antics.
- In Bleach, Kugo Ginjo's attire is an exact replica of Squall Leonhart's, right down to the necklace and fur-collar. The only noticeable difference is his shoes.
- In Paprika, the eponymous heroine wears another eponymous hero's outfit. During the scene where Paprika dives into Chiba's dream, she wears Monkey's iconic outfit from Monkey (Saiyuki in Japan), complete with staff and riding a flying cloud. Subtly Justified, as Paprika has powers in the realm of dreams that allow her to project herself however she pleases. It's easy to assume a trendy young Japanese Action Girl might have a childhood connection to Monkey.
Comic Books
- In House of M, Magneto's costume (and medals, and pose, and backdrop, and... yeah) was taken from, of all people, the Spanish king Juan Carlos.
- Kefong in The Intimates wears Bruce Lee's tracksuit from Game of Death in his first year at the Seminary... and one with the colors reversed in his second.
Film
Literature
- Discworld
- In Maskerade, the Discworld parody of Phantom of the Opera, Death himself is wearing Erik's Masque Of The Red Death outfit, with the only explanation being I do like to get into the spirit of the thing.
- Paul Kidby's sketch of Queen Magrat's complicated dress from Lords and Ladies looks exactly like the dress worn by Elizabeth I in the Darnley portrait.
Live-Action TV
- Land of the Giants had an episode where one of the girls ends up in the skating dress from the beginning of Snow White and the Three Stooges.
- It was said the reason Klinger stopped crossdressing on M*A*S*H was that he had worn just about every dress in the studio wardrobe stock that would fit him. So inevitably many of the dresses would be this trope.
- In the Firefly episode "The Train Job," the Alliance soldiers are dressed in costumes recycled from Starship Troopers. (To save money.)
- Similarly, the soldiers' suits were also used in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.
- Those costumes show up everywhere. It's a testament to how sturdy the suits actually are. They were used in at least two TV shows and were eventually re-sold back to the production of the sequels.
- When Tony daydreams about Kate in NCIS, she's wearing Gogo's school uniform from Kill Bill. This is entirely appropriate for film buff and Handsome Lech Tony.
- All the time on The Amazing Race with locals and Pit Stop Greeters.
Music
Video Games
- The picture is of Anne Boleyn wearing an ermine-lined gown, and the Ice Princess from the Spyro series wearing an almost identical one.
- The singer in a stage of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters on the SNES has Madonna's pointy bra.
- Like the film meta-example above, Chie's persona Tomoe in Persona4 wears a distinctive bright yellow tracksuit.
- In Final Fantasy V, Bartz' Dragoon armor is Kain's from the previous game, while both his and Galuf's Magic Knight outfits are Minwu's getup from Final Fantasy II.
- The armors in the Overlord games are heavily based on Sauron's. Although there is a lampshade hanging in Overlord Dark Legend, when a villager almost says what it looks like, but then says he can't say who.
- The first prince outfit in Etrian Odyssey III is extremely close to the king's outfit in My Life As A King.
- Star Wars The Force Unleashed II shows paintings of several Neimoidians in the clothes of Napoleon and Marie Antoinette. This only makes sense in the german version, where they have french accents, every other dub portrais them as different nations.
- Solid Snake in Boktai 2, unusually for a video game character Cameo, doesn't wear his own Memetic Outfit but instead wears a Whole Costume Reference to one of the outfits worn by Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (the outfit he wears when ambushed and forced to hang himself in the hotel).
Web Comics
- This happens all the time in Erfworld, due to the hundreds of pop-culture references the characters make unconsciously. Significant ones include Ansom fighting while dressed as Evel Knievel, Jillian dressing as Sandy from Grease while Vinny and his group dress as West Side Story thugs, several of Wanda's costumes referencing horror movies, and Jack veiling himself as Kain from Final Fantasy IV. In addition, this is a game mechanic that gives them more bonuses.
- The man in this & a few following cartoons of The KAMics isn't a Mountie, he just likes dressing as one.
- Zoe in Sluggy Freelance steels her nerves to join the boys' adventure, dressed as Lara Croft. (Is it possible the other costume changes in the Stormbringer arc were this trope?)
Web Original
Western Animation
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