Picture doesn't match the trope: Fashion Dissonance

The picture to Fashion Dissonance doesn't match what the trope is about. From what I'm reading, the trope is where fashions of the time a work is made turn the work into an Unintentional Period Piece. The picture illustrates the reverse, where an actual period piece uses fashions that weren't in vogue during the period.

I think that the the trope is supposed to work either way — when the fashions scream <one time period> but the setting is supposed to be <another time period>, regardless of whether the style is too old or too new for the appropriate time period. That's what the first several paragraphs ("Unfortunately, fashion is highly context-sensitive. There are only a few fashions that have stood the test of time ..., and odds are, yours didn't. If a character from a show that supposedly takes place in the 21st century has Eighties Hair, he's going to look weird... almost as if he's from the eighties.*

In other words, fashions that don't just tell you what year the show was made, they scream it loudly enough to deafen your eyes. ")

Then comes another paragraph that confuses the issue. That said, I do agree that the page image isn't particularly good, because both of them are dressed for a Mardi Gras ball, which is really more of a fancy-dress thing than normal formal wear, and speaking from personal experience working at a shop that made Mardi Gras outfits, neither one would necessarily look out of place at a Mardi Gras ball, now or in the '20's.

I think this needs more work than just a new page image.

That said, something like Pa◊ from Little House on the Prairie, compared to what Charles Ingalls' hair actually looked like◊)

edited 16th May '11 2:15:49 PM by Madrugada

A picture of Woody Allen and Tony Roberts from Annie Hall might work. As noted in the example below, Robert's stylish fashions have aged far more than Allen's generic Hollywood Nerd look.

There hasn't been much movement on this one. Clock maybe?

I kind of like the Pa Wilder examples.

As a young person i think that's pretty clear, but it might be better if we could see more of his clothes.

Bump.

Re-bump...maybe something from this◊, captioned "Because go-go boots and ultraminiskirts were all the rage in the 2200s."

That's less dissonance than an outdated form of space clothes.

Clock is set.

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No action is to be taken based on this thread.