History Main / DressesTheSame

** Of course, sports is one situation where not wanting everyone to dress alike makes sense - if you can't tell who's on your team with a glance (or worse, the audience can't), things can get complicated. This is why numerous sports leagues (from youth-level to professional) have every team have two sets of uniforms (White and some team-specific alternate color), and agree in advance as to which team wears what color to a given game.

-->'''Will:''' I'm gonna go ahead and change.

When someone is conscious about their appearance, buying clothes that look and fit ''juuuuust right'' can be a long and painstaking process. Seeing someone else in the same outfit is akin to an artist having their style copied. See MarsAndVenusGenderContrast, since two men in the same outfit are far more likely to laugh over it and move on (probably aided by the fact that men's fashion isn't nearly as varied; in most formal events, all men will be wearing identical tuxedos) Contrast WholeCostumeReference (in that wearing the same outfit is considered a good thing). Contrast also with CoordinatedClothes where characters intentionally wear matching clothes to show that they belong together.

* In ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'', the Imperial court plans to mock Shogun Iemochi's choice of clothing: if she shows up in Edo-style clothing, they'll make fun of her provincial style, if she dresses up in the Heian-style clothing of the ladies of the court, well, she's just imitating the ladies. The courtiers are flummoxed when she shows up wearing the same outfits ''they're'' wearing: she says if she plans on being the emperor's protector, she can't be wearing women's clothing that would get in the way. This ends up impressing Emperor Komei.

* In ''Film/MyFairLady'' at Ascot, there are two women with the same outfit (including [[NiceHat hats]]). Cue frosty looks and consequent ignoring of each other.

** In the episode ‘twas the night before the christening’ Hilary, Vi, and Helen all wear the same outfit by accident. When Helen arrives at the house her and Vi go to greet each other but they stop when they see that they are wearing the exact same clothes. Then Hilary comes down the stairs wearing an identical outfit. She stops and then goes back upstairs to change.

* ''VideoGame/HiddenCity'': Discussed and defied in a side quest. Fabien Delamode had received two identical dress orders from famous singer Sophia, and another regular customer of his. Knowing that having two influential women appear in the same dress during an important event will cause a scandal, Fabien asks the player's help to find modifications for Sophia's dress to make it look different from the other customer's.

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* Classic John Callahan comic panel: A woman at a funeral is leaning over the coffin and thinking, "That BITCH!" The deceased is wearing an identical dress.

** 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?

* In "Stitch Pitch" in ''Mad House Comic Digest'' #5 Super Sally and Dynamic Doll slap their tailor because he made them the exact same superhero costume, then walk out arm-in-arm to find a super-tailor who can understand them.
* Subverted in the sixth of the ''ComicBook/AdventureTimeGraphicNovels'', ''Masqued Mayhem''. The usually bad-tempered and bitchy Lumpy Space Princess and her frenemy Melissa both wear SeashellBra mermaid costumes to LSP's fancy dress party, but they end up complimenting each other with apparent sincerity instead of fighting.
* In the Comicbook/New52, Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} once worked for the mayor. One of her duties: at any formal event, she was to pick out any guests wearing the same outfit as the mayor's wife. To avoid this faux pas, said guest would then be brought to a special closet filled with expensive clothes, and was allowed to pick out anything that she wanted as a replacement outfit.

* Variation in [[http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-08-09/ this]] ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' comic.

* In a series of ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' comics, Andy forces Peter to wear a dorky shirt on the first day of school: "I'm asking you to dress nicely for one day. [[TemptingFate How bad can that be?]]" When he gets to school, he discovers, to his horror, that super geek Morton Goldthwait is wearing the same shirt. HilarityEnsues.
* A [[http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/ronald_reagan_wannabes/ political cartoon example]] from the 2008 US presidential election which depicts all of the then-Republican Party primary candidates dressing up as UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan for a Halloween party. The cartoon parodied both the influence that Reagan's legacy continues to have on the GOP as well as the general popularity of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon_mask wearing president masks as Halloween costumes]].

* Parodied in ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'', where two girls separately appear at a party naked and one complains that the other has worn the same outfit.
* Happens in ''Film/FreakyFriday2003''; Creator/LindsayLohan's character and another girl wear the same shirt to school. Lindsay turns her shirt inside-out to avoid looking the same and looks...well, actually, stupider than if she had just left the shirt as it was.
* In ''Film/MyFairLady'' at Ascot, there are two women with the same outfit (including [[NiceHat hats]]). Cue frosty looks and consequent ignoring of each other.
* In ''Film/UnfaithfullyYours'', Daphne [[DefiedTrope avoids this]] by asking her sister what [[PrettyInMink fur she will be wearing]] so that she wouldn't wear the same one.

* Used as a BatmanGambit in ''Film/TheTransporterRefueled''. The women involved in TheCaper all dress the same to create confusion about their numbers and who they are.

* Male version in ''Film/TheFirm''. Dom shows up at the pub wearing the same outfit as the Boss, who is not amused. (2009)[[/folder]]

* In the children's book ''Ruby the Copycat'', Ruby wants to be friends with classmate Angela so she [[InvokedTrope keeps dressing up in the same clothes]] and eventually copies every single thing the other girl does. Angela gets annoyed and doesn't want anything to do with her, and when the teacher tries to talk to Ruby about her behavior, she does the same thing to the teacher instead. She finally learns that [[BeYourself she should just be herself]]

* In ''Series/{{Glee}}'''s Prom episode, a girl walks past Santana wearing the same dress as her. She rolls her eyes and carries on enjoying the night, the implication being character development in that she didn't start a fight over it.
* There's an ''Series/ILoveLucy'' episode about this happening to Lucy and Ethel. After ignoring Fred and Ricky's ([[StrawmanHasAPoint actually pretty logical]]) argument that, since they're performing in a talent show, dressing the same as a kind of sister act would be cute, decide that neither would wear the dress and they both promise to take the dress back. Of course they don't, and it climaxes with them tearing decorations off each other's (highly) [[http://content9.flixster.com/question/55/26/22/5526227_std.jpg overdone dresses]], [[HypocriticalHumor while singing a song called "Friendship."]]
* There's a ''Series/SisterSister'' episode about their senior prom. The girls had bought a dress they liked each but Lisa had made them some too, in order to not hurt her feelings the girls planned to change in the back of the Limousine. When they did, and went to the prom, all the girls there were wearing either Tia's dress or Tamera's dress. They go back to the Limo but they're locked out, when Ray and Lisa show up Lisa's miffed initially but in the end it all works out.
* ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'': Kate and Miranda wear the same outfit on Picture Day.
* Played with on a Halloween episode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}''. Jackie is dressed as Morticia Addams and Crystal is dressed as Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark - but their costumes are identical. Even better, later on, another friend of theirs comments that she can't believe they both came dressed as Cher.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In "Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa," Randy shows up to a Christmas party with a sweater he claims his aunt made for him by hand... until he sees a Japanese-American detective wearing the exact same sweater. The other detective says he got his at Wal-Mart for 15 bucks. Randy is convinced his aunt copied that design, until Natalie points out the tag on Randy's sweater.
* Used in the ''Series/{{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.
* A variation appears in the ''Series/MamasFamily'' episode "There's No Place Like...No Place." When Thelma is mistaken for being a vagrant and arrested, she asks the cop, "Do I look like a homeless person?" Just then, an actual bum is brought in behind Thelma, wearing the same housedress as her. The newcomer comments, "Cute dress. You get yours at the mission too?"
* An episode of the 90s sitcom ''Series/LivingSingle'' 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.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'':
** Dorothy and Blanche buy the same dress for an occasion. Each takes her dress back without telling the other, trying to be the nice one. After a brief scare that they've bought the same dress again, they reveal two totally different dresses, only to have Sophia emerge wearing the same dress as Blanche.
** When Rose and Sophia are competing against Dorothy and Blanche in a bowling tournament, Rose and Sophia [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope by buying the same bowling shirt as Blanche, in order to throw her off her game.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** PlayedWith when Cordelia complains when she sees a woman at a homeless shelter wearing her one-of-a-kind blouse -- unaware that Angel gave away her blouse to the shelter.
** In "Couplet" Angel thinks that Groo is taking over his life. Wesley assures him they are two completely different people -- only to bump into Groo with Angel's SpikyHair and BadassLongcoat.
* In the ''Series/LookAroundYou'' episode "Maths", one of the problems is to compute the probability that Queen Elizabeth III, Queen Elizabeth IV, and Queen Elizabeth V all show up at a party wearing the same dress. The answer: [[spoiler:the party is canceled.]]
* On an early episode of ''Series/MurphyBrown'', Murphy is shown getting ready for work as "Devil With A Blue Dress" plays. When she gets to work, she discovers Corky is wearing the same blue dress she has on.
* In an opening of ''Series/TheAmandaShow'', Amanda and Nancy Sullivan were embarrassed to find out they were wearing the same dress to the show, as were Drake, Josh, the Camera men and the Dancing Lobsters.
* During TheTag at the end of an episode of ''Series/{{Community}}''. Abed and Troy both [[SpeakInUnison spoke in unison]] with and dressed the same as Jeff. Annie apparently wanted in on the gag too, but got stuck in traffic and arrived just after the joke had ended. The joke had apparently taken months to prepare.
** Season 3 opened with a big song-and-dance number - Shirley makes a grand entrance in a sparkly purple gown - then the Dean enters wearing the exact same thing. Shirley is creeped out.
* In the second All Star edition of ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' (Unfinished Business), this was deliberately invoked as a joke by Zev & Justin, when they showed up to the starting line wearing the same Globetrotter gear worn by Harlem Globetrotters Flight Time & Big Easy when they originally raced together on a previous season.
* At the 61st UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, Martin Short and Carrie Fisher show up to present the award for Best Short Film wearing the same LittleBlackDress.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] this trope in the episode "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas". Agents Mulder and Scully go ghost-busting to a HauntedHouse and a couple of ghosts play tricks on them to get Mulder and Scully re-enact their suicide pact. The agents discover two decomposed corpses under the floor who have the same clothes as the agents. They are supposed to represent them which means that the pair of ghosts {{Invoked}} it.
-->'''Scully:''' Mulder, she's wearing my outfit.\\
'''Mulder:''': How embarrassing!\\
'''Scully:''' Yeah, well, you know what? He's wearing yours.
* A cycle 11 episode of ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' had this as one the examples of an "Award Show Disasters" photo shoot. Other disasters included a snobby interviewer, reacting badly to losing an coveted award, being too emotional during an acceptance speech and falling ''up'' the stairs on the way to accepting an award
* PlayedForDrama in ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'' when Sierra sits down next to a woman on a train dressed exactly the same as her, including hairstyle. Her eyes widen in surprise until Sierra jabs a knockout hypo into her thigh. Turns out she works for the National Security Agency and Sierra is stealing the woman's identity to infiltrate them.
* In season 8 of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Elliot gets annoyed when fellow doctor Veronica shows up to work every day in the same dress she does. When Elliot gets her dress dirty and has to change clothes, Veronica also changes into the same clothes Elliot has on.

* In ''Series/TheHoneymooners'' episode "The Safety Award", Alice and Trixie end up buying the same dress to wear to Ralph's award ceremony.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'':
** One of the office highlights that happened while Jake had the assignment infiltrating the mafia is that detectives Amy Santiago and Charles Boyle wore the same outfit to work one day. It was a grey pantsuit and a salmon shirt.
---> '''Amy:''' ''[angry]'' How does it look better on you?
** In one episode detective Jake Peralta goes undercover wearing a ski mask to try and find out who hired the hitman he's posing as. He's slightly taken aback to find that when he meets the employer, they're both wearing the exact same ski mask.
--->'''Employer:''' Don't worry about it. Happens all the time.
* Male example: In the beginning of an episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Will shows up in a nice suit. Ashley comments that it "has way too many buttons and the color is very '95". Will boasts that he knows what good fashion is, until Carlton walks into the room, wearing the exact same suit and giving a thumbs up to Will for their shared taste.
-->'''Will:''' I'm gonna go ahead and change.
** In the episode ‘twas the night before the christening’ Hilary, Vi, and Helen all wear the same outfit by accident. When Helen arrives at the house her and Vi go to greet each other but they stop when they see that they are wearing the exact same clothes. Then Hilary comes down the stairs wearing an identical outfit. She stops and then goes back upstairs to change.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' in one episode Frasier and Niles meet for coffee and realise to their horror that they're wearing the same suit. Frasier blames the personal shopper he'd introduced Niles to for not keeping track of what they were buying. Niles claims he bought the suit on his own, without the shopper, because it went with his shoes. Cue the brothers looking down and realising that they're also wearing the same shoes.
* ''Series/GeneralHospital''. Lucy Coe shows up at the annual Nurses Ball wearing a gorgeous red dress. When her archenemy Bobbie Jones shows up in the same dress, Lucy has to scramble to change. Luckily, she's the emcee and has a slew of dresses available.
* A small gag ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' has Moze and Suzy showing up to their double date with the exact same dress and hairstyle. Neither of them mind and just compliment the other's great taste, though this causes problems later when their dates can't tell them apart from the back.
* In the second season of ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'', the students threw a MasqueradeBall to celebrate the opening of a special Egypt exhibition on their school-grounds. Jerome had to sell dresses to help pay off a debt, and sold ones to Joy and Nina...but never told them that they'd be getting the ''same'' dresses, causing them to show up at the dance and discover on their own. This lead to Nina and Joy chasing him around to get a refund, them both competing over who looks best, and [[spoiler:Joy taking advantage of the opportunity by stealing Nina's mask and tricking Fabian into kissing her.]] Additionally, he also sold Ms. Andrews the same dress too, as an extra little gag before things got serious.
* The prom episode of ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' has Andrea ashamed about what her friends would think about her "poor" prom dress (due to its simplicity). Her fears were unfounded as the gang liked her dress (as well Brenda and Kelly being more concerned with their own matching dresses and fighting over Dylan and Donna being too uncomfortable in her ''Gone With the Wind'' esque dress).
* A similar gag was used during a ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'' episode with Katie fearing her "plain" dress, only to be complimented by Maria, whose own dress was ridiculously restricting and Rachel, who wore a dress at least three other girls wore.
* In an episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'' (S7E14, “Tim ‘The Landlord’ Taylor”), Brad comes home from the mall wearing a new (and very loud) shirt that he’s very proud of. When he leaves the scene after showing the shirt to Jill, Randy immediately walks in wearing the same shirt. When they see each other wearing identical shirts, they get in an argument and spend the rest of the episode bickering with each other over who gets to wear the shirt when so that they are not both wearing it to school on the same day. While Brad is wearing the shirt at the end of the episode, Al comes by the house to talk to Tim...and takes off his winter jacket to reveal that he is also wearing the same shirt.
* A Season 1 episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' opens with Sabrina walking down the hallway at school, only to discover she's wearing exactly the same outfit as Libby. She hurries to the bathroom and zaps on a different outfit, only to run into Jenny who is, you guessed it, wearing exactly the same thing. Jenny however takes it all in good fun.

* Parodied in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971028 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip where Zoe dresses as a sexy French maid for a Halloween party, forcing Torg to change out of ''his'' sexy French maid costume.
* Happens in ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell''. It ends badly.
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/{{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]], worse.

* Parodied in a ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' guest story in which multiple temporal duplicates of Tip are created by a malfunctioning time machine, and are horrified that they're wearing the same dress.

* A running gag in ''Webcomic/HeroineChic'' consists of famous fashion designer rivals/ VitriolicBestBuds Dyna Cuff and Umbra Langoustine wearing identical outfits (plus or minus a few accessories). The matching doesn't appear to be intentional on their part, but it does extend to all their "onscreen" appearances together: even when Dyna ends up in the hospital [[spoiler: following an assassination attempt]], Umbra comes to visit her in an open-backed hospital gown (with a pair of Louboutins throw on, of course).

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/BeverlyHillsTeens'', where Bianca and Larke wore the same outfit to a costume party (save for some color differences), and then both got changed into new outfits, that are still the same.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy'' Picture Day episode:
--> '''Johnny:''' ''(holding out Plank)'' Hey, Jimmy! You and Plank ordered clothes from the same catalog! ''(Jimmy is horrified)''
* Done in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey''. Lilly and Mitsuki see each other and gasp... Then pan out to Mikey, Gonard, and Guano, all three ''also'' wearing the same dress.
* In a ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode, Clover is humiliated when she sees Mandy wearing the same outfit as her. She keeps on trying to switch to different oufits she thinks Mandy will never think to wear throughout the episode, but it backfires every time.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "The Mask of Matches Malone!", Black Canary, Catwoman, and the Huntress pretend to be BodyguardBabes for Batman's "Matches Malone" gangster persona. Catwoman arrives wearing the same dress as Black Canary, and the two [[VolleyingInsults snipe at each other]] until "Malone" arrives.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Brawl in the Family", a fight breaks out when Lori and Leni buy the same dress.
* The ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Miss Perfect" has Rhonda wanting to impress the sixth grade girls with her new outfit. But Lila shows up wearing the exact same outfit that the sixth grade girls are instantly impressed by since they think Lila pulls it off better than Rhonda.
** A small gag in the HalloweenEpisode shows Ernie and Mr. Hyunh arguing during a Halloween party because both are dressed as Frankenstein's monster.[[note]]Not Frankenstein, as both of them say; he was the scientist.[[/note]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'': In "Instant Replay", Jane and a snobbish socialite enter a party wearing identical dresses, leading to a conflict.
* ''WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie'': Among the first wishes Nina asks Pixel Pinkie for is to look as cool as Suzi. Of course, LiteralGenie Pinkie dresses Nina in Suzi's ''exact'' outfit.

** Ross and Rachel's ex-boyfriend Tag own the very same red sweater and they meet on a street wearing it. Being men, they are not embarrassed and do not react hostile to each other because of it. [[spoiler: The real purpose was to throw the other friends off about who the father of Rachel's baby was.]]

** Of course, sports is one situation where not wanting everyone to dress alike makes sense - if you can't tell who's on your team with a glance (or worse, the audience can't), things can get complicated. This is why some pro sports leagues have every team have two sets of uniforms (White and some team-specific alternate color), and agree in advance as to which team wears what color to a given game.

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* [[http://www.johnnywander.com/comic/parallel-fashion Shows up]] in ''{{Webcomic/Johnny Wander}}'' based on a real life incident. And happens [[http://www.johnnywander.com/comic/parallel-fashion-2 again]] but inverted after an attempt to avert it.
* In [[http://nonadventures.com/2007/04/21/back-in-black/ this]] ''WebComic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' strip, Dana and Petri show up in the same dress. Then, because they were weaved with evil incarnate, the two dresses begin to merge.

* In one ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' story Monstress, who has recently become self-conscious that her altered skin colour makes her look like a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Khund]], discovers she's wearing the same dress as Leland [=McCauley=]'s Khundian assistant, Ms Crugg.

* ''Series/RupaulsDragRace'':

. In the episode ‘twas the night before the christening’ Hilary, Vi, and Helen all wear the same outfit by accident. When Helen arrives at the house her and Vi go to greet each other but they stop when they see that they are wearing the exact same clothes. Then Hilary comes down the stairs wearing an identical outfit. She stops and then goes back upstairs to change.

** Discussed in UK Season 2 when the queens had to pay tribute to a British queer icon on the runway. The two black queens of the season, Asttina Mandella and Tayce, both planned on dressing as supermodel Naomi Campbell. When they realized this, they admitted there aren't many black queer icons in the UK to choose from, so they both gave each other their blessing to do Naomi (Tayce later regretted not paying tribute to biracial Welsh icon Music/ShirleyBassey).

** Discussed in UK Season 2 when the queens had to pay tribute to a British queer icon on the runway. The two black queens of the season, Asttina Mandella and Tayce, both planned on dressing as supermodel Naomi Campbell. When they realized this, they admitted there aren't many black queer icons in the UK to choose from, so they both gave each other their blessing to do Naomi (Tayce later regretted not paying tribute to biracial Welsh icon Music/SirleyBassey).

** Discussed in UK Season 2 when the queens had to pay tribute to a British queer icon on the runway. The two black queens of the season, Asttina Mandella and Tayce, both planned on dressing as supermodel Naomi Campbell. When they realized this, they admitted there aren't many black queer icons in the UK to choose from, so they both gave each other their blessing to do Naomi.

** In "Lie to Me" Angel bitches about {{Vampire Vannabe}}s thinking they know how vamps think, act and dress. Cue one of the said vannabes walking by dressed exactly as Angel.

* Accidental in 1988 ''Film/BigBusiness''. SeparatedAtBirth[=/=]SwitchedAtBirth twins[[labelnote:*]]The film starts with a wife of a billionaire and a wife of a factory worker each giving birth to twin girls in the same backwoods hospital and nurses putting two newborns to wrong cribs.[[/labelnote]] (played by Creator/BetteMidler) behave the same way and end up buying identical dresses and wearing them for the climactic shareholders meeting. Their paths cross in a restroom shortly before the meeting, resulting in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZ43zj01b0 this]] MirrorRoutine. Their sisters, another pair of separated/misplaced twins (played by Lily Tomlin) also dress similarly to each other.

* Accidental in 1988 ''Big Business''. SeparatedAtBirth[=/=]SwitchedAtBirth twins[[labelnote:*]]The film starts with a wife of a billionaire and a wife of a factory worker each giving birth to twin girls in the same backwoods hospital and nurses putting two newborns to wrong cribs.[[/labelnote]] (played by Creator/BetteMidler) behave the same way and end up buying identical dresses and wearing them for the climactic shareholders meeting. Their paths cross in a restroom shortly before the meeting, resulting in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZ43zj01b0 this]] MirrorRoutine. Their sisters, another pair of separated/misplaced twins (played by Lily Tomlin) also dress similarly to each other.