History Main / DressesTheSame

* In the [[EdEddnEddy Ed Edd n Eddy]] Picture Day episode:
---> Jonny: *holding out Plank* Hey, Jimmy! You and Plank ordered clothes from the same catalog! *Jimmy is horrified*

* During the class trip in ''AzumangaDaioh'', Kaorin shows up at one point in a souvenir T-shirt... only to see Mr. Kimura wearing it, at which point she runs off to go change.
** To be fair, he's her pedophile stalker teacher, which makes it entirely justified.

* Tedd and Elliot both showing up in [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-09-02 girl's school uniform]] for that weird birthday party in ''ElGoonishShive''.
** Note that here Tedd (for his (or her?)) own reasons invokes this; Elliot [[LampshadeHanging calls it as he (she?) sees it.]]

** In one story, BettyAndVeronica appear at a party in the same dress, and they both act as if it must be a dream, because the thought of them wearing identical dresses is so outrageous, so terrible, that they refuse to believe it can be true. When they finally realize that it isn't a dream, not only do they destroy each other's dresses, but they wreck the entire place. Can you say SeriousBusiness?

* An episode of the 90s sitcom {{Living Single}} features the ladies going out to the club. Regine sees other women wearing her dress, and proceeds to go up to them and "accidentally" spill her drink on them so they'll leave to go change.

* In a Halloween episode of ''TheBigBangTheory'', the nerds initially show up all dressed as The Flash. Leonard comments "See? This is why I wanted to have a costume meeting."

* ''{{Monk}}'': Randy shows up to a Christmas party with a sweater his aunt supposedly made for him by hand... except there's another guy at the party in the same sweater, and he got ''his'' at Wal-Mart.
* Used in the ''{{Wings}}'' episode "The Waxman Cometh." When Casey goes to the grand opening of Lowell's new wax museum, she is mortified to see that the museum's wax figure of Eva Gabor is not only wearing the same dress as her, but also has better jewelry.

TruthInTelevision, at least for some women. It doesn't matter if they bought their dresses at the local Wal-Mart (especially if it's from Walmart, as then another woman knows you got your dress from the bargain bin and the image of luxury is shattered); wearing the same dress is undeniable ''proof'' that they bought a mass-produced consumer item, breaking any illusion of the dance taking place in a Jane Austen novel where all the dresses have to be hand-made. Reportedly, the painstaking process of selecting a dress makes them identify it so strongly as 'theirs' that to see another woman in the same dress is akin to seeing another woman with your boyfriend.

* Happens in ''CollegeRoomiesFromHell!!!''. It ends badly.

* There's an ''ILoveLucy'' episode about this.
** Is that the one where they start tearing decorations off the (highly) overdone dresses?

* In ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "De Plane! De Plane!", Candace finds a girl who wears the same swimsuit as her.

* Tedd and Elliot both showing up in girl's school uniform for that weird birthday party in ''ElGoonishShive''.

* Done for a costume party in ''BeverlyHillsTeens''. Bianca and Larke both show up as Cleopatra (just not quite identical), and when they both change, they both find the same costume to change into.

** Yet another is a psychic convention, where they not only wear the same dress but the exact same hair and makeup. The punchline is that it was completely unforeseen.

* Parodied in Rhapsodies [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=931 here]] where this makes a run in with a high ranking society lady, Kate had accidentally insulted in the [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=931 past]], [[ItGotWorse worse]].

* Tedd and Eliot both showing up in girl's school uniform for that weird birthday party in ''ElGoonishShive''.

* Parodied in Rhapsodies [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/walrus3/index.php?date=2009-01-22 here]] where this makes a run in with a high ranking society lady, Kate had accidentally insulted in the [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=931 past]], [[ItGotWorse worse]].

[[AC:RealLife]]
* This troper has seen a real-life aversion: a dress shop with a prom registry, so that two identical dresses won't be sold to two people attending the same prom.
* This troper [[DefiedTrope defies]] the trope by buying [[AwesomeAnachronisticApparel vintage clothing]] from thrift stores and altering it. (This can also be done with more modern-looking clothes from discount stores)
* Something rather extreme occured at this Tropers high school. On a regular day, two girls (who weren't even in the same year) happened to come to school wearing the same jeans. Since most simple blue jeans look kind of similar, one would think that it wouldn't really matter as long as the wore different shirts. It did. At one point during the morning the two girls met in the hallway, stopped, stared at each other's jeans, then gave horrified gasps and went their separate ways. Later that day I saw one of the girls wearing her gym shorts to class.

* Parodied in Rhapsodies [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/walrus3/index.php?date=2009-01-22 here]] where this makes a run in with a high ranking society lady, Kate had accidentally insulted in the [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=931]], [[ItGotWorse worse]].

* Variant in a ''{{Dilbert}}'' strip; On Casual Friday Wally mocks Alice's outfit (tan pants and a polka-dot top), saying it "combines unprofessional with unattractive while diminishing neither". Alice responds that male engineers know nothing about fashion ... just as Dilbert appears behind her in tan pants and a polka-dot top.

* Parodied in Rhapsodies [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/walrus3/index.php?date=2009-01-22 here]] where this makes a run in with a high ranking society lady, Kate had accidentally insulted in the [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/walrus3/index.php?date=2006-05-01 past]], [[ItGotWorse worse]].

* Parodied in ''Not Another Teen Movie'', where two girls separately appear at a party naked.