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* '60s ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' comics have many garish fashion choices carried over from the 40s and 50s that were viciously excised from later continuity. Goons would have brightly colored striped suits and flat caps, Bruce would wear big colourful suits and dressing gowns at the manor and Catwoman's costume was a long green dress.
* ''ComicBook/TheFantasticFour'' has quite a lot of this in its early days, with Marvel's original Nuclear Family wearing [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSCednraQxuCq1QjHdJuJ7pCLFnl574dghw_w&usqp=CAU wonderfully tacky fashion]]. Sue wears a pink blazer and skirt with bouffant hair, Johnny the hip one wears a jumper over a business shirt with rolled flared sleeves (which makes him look a grandpa nowadays) and Reed casually wears a ''Series/MadMen'' style suit and of course casually smokes a pipe. Ironically Ben the rock monster who just wears shorts, undies or a trench coat with a fedora and shades will likely look the most tolerably fashionable to a modern reader.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The comics of course started off with plenty of this with Rick Jones's checkered jacket, Betty Ross's Jacqueline Kennedy outfit and Bruce Banner's iconic purple pants, which wouldn't have been seen as so garish back then as it is today. Interestingly later Hulk comics such as ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' when flashing back to early days unlike other comics [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeH5BtsnXabuQTSYH_G_pfzKF_zBxaG0hh9g&usqp=CAU deliberately don't bother modernizing the outfits]], no matter how much it jars with the modern characterization of the cast, such as Betty who wouldn't be caught dead wearing a pillow box nowadays.
* The original ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' run by Creator/StanLee and Creator/SteveDitko [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWEWUlLIlkdIqKy-Y2a0dbBgzv4ZSqMrT9JA&usqp=CAU is all over this]] with even the clothes worn by the "hip" characters being as painfully dorky now as the nerdy clothes Peter wears. Betty Brant in particular hasn't lost her 60s bob cut with fringe despite the decades that have passed.
** ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' #11 "With Great Power comes Great Coincidence" by Joe Kelly mercilessly pokes fun of the era, when Wade and Blind Al travel back in time to an issue of ASM #47 and are baffled by the fashion choices of the Spidey characters. Wade in particular is completely freaked out at Harry and Norman's hairdos and compares MJ's party dress to a checkers board.
* Open any [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' comic and you'll be flooded with daggy suits, long dresses, fedoras, checkered jackets, and pill box hats (which ComicBook/LoisLane frequently rocked). Jimmy Olsen in particular hasn't been able to shrug off the dorky 60s look and still wears big green jackets to this day.
* Similarly early ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics have this in spades, particularly when the team is out of costume and are in [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQyd7z2HVtlNP9XENzXLGLuhw9DKCVc_78SPA&usqp=CAU casual clothes]] (special shout out to Jean's granny dress, blazer and beret as well as Scott's plaid pants). Of course later comics would remove the daggy 60s fashion with {{flashback}}s and ''X-Men Origin: Jean Grey'' retroactively giving the X-Men modern clothes. ''ComicBook/XMenGrandDesign'' however brings the 60s aesthetic back with a vengeance.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': '60s ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Batman|1940}}'' comics have many garish fashion choices carried over from the 40s and 50s that were viciously excised from later continuity. Goons would have brightly colored striped suits and flat caps, Bruce would wear big colourful suits and dressing gowns at the manor and Catwoman's costume was a long green dress.
* ''ComicBook/TheFantasticFour'' ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': The Fantastic Four has quite a lot of this in its early days, with Marvel's original Nuclear Family wearing [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSCednraQxuCq1QjHdJuJ7pCLFnl574dghw_w&usqp=CAU wonderfully tacky fashion]]. Sue wears a pink blazer and skirt with bouffant hair, Johnny the hip one wears a jumper over a business shirt with rolled flared sleeves (which makes him look a grandpa nowadays) and Reed casually wears a ''Series/MadMen'' style suit and of course casually smokes a pipe. Ironically Ben the rock monster who just wears shorts, undies or a trench coat with a fedora and shades will likely look the most tolerably fashionable to a modern reader.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The comics of course ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk1962'' started off with plenty of this with Rick Jones's checkered jacket, Betty Ross's Jacqueline Kennedy outfit and Bruce Banner's iconic purple pants, which wouldn't have been seen as so garish back then as it is today. Interestingly later Hulk comics such as ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' when flashing back to early days unlike other comics [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeH5BtsnXabuQTSYH_G_pfzKF_zBxaG0hh9g&usqp=CAU deliberately don't bother modernizing the outfits]], no matter how much it jars with the modern characterization of the cast, such as Betty who wouldn't be caught dead wearing a pillow box nowadays.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManLeeAndDitko The original ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' run run]] by Creator/StanLee and Creator/SteveDitko [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWEWUlLIlkdIqKy-Y2a0dbBgzv4ZSqMrT9JA&usqp=CAU is all over this]] with even the clothes worn by the "hip" characters being as painfully dorky now as the nerdy clothes Peter wears. Betty Brant in particular hasn't lost her 60s bob cut with fringe despite the decades that have passed.
** ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool|1997}}'' #11 "With Great Power comes Great Coincidence" by Joe Kelly mercilessly pokes fun of the era, when Wade and Blind Al travel back in time to an issue of ASM #47 and are baffled by the fashion choices of the Spidey characters. Wade in particular is completely freaked out at Harry and Norman's hairdos and compares MJ's party dress to a checkers board.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Open any [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Superman|1939}}'' comic and you'll be flooded with daggy suits, long dresses, fedoras, checkered jackets, and pill box hats (which ComicBook/LoisLane frequently rocked). Jimmy Olsen in particular hasn't been able to shrug off the dorky 60s look and still wears big green jackets to this day.
* Similarly ''ComicBook/XMen'': The early ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics run of ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' have this in spades, particularly when the team is out of costume and are in [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQyd7z2HVtlNP9XENzXLGLuhw9DKCVc_78SPA&usqp=CAU casual clothes]] (special shout out to Jean's granny dress, blazer and beret as well as Scott's plaid pants). Of course later comics would remove the daggy 60s fashion with {{flashback}}s and ''X-Men Origin: Jean Grey'' retroactively giving the X-Men modern clothes. ''ComicBook/XMenGrandDesign'' however brings the 60s aesthetic back with a vengeance.
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* ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'' was a French sitcom that ran until 1995. A casual viewer will note that the sets, the hairstyles and the clothes preserve a sort of time-capsule of everything considered chic or stylish in France in TheNineties. The bright, vivid, colours, for instance, and the way the male characters' hairstyles, especially, shout that this could be no other decade. The two child characters especially tick off all the boxes for teen and pre-teen fashion in the decade; the teenage boy Vincent especially (reverese baseball cap, loose baggy shirt, statement t-shirts and baggy trousers).

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* ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'' was a French sitcom that ran until 1995. A casual viewer will note that the sets, the hairstyles and the clothes preserve a sort of time-capsule of everything considered chic or stylish in France in TheNineties. The bright, vivid, colours, for instance, and the way the male characters' hairstyles, especially, shout that this could be no other decade. The two child characters especially tick off all the boxes for teen and pre-teen fashion in the decade; the teenage boy Vincent especially (reverese (reverse baseball cap, loose baggy shirt, statement t-shirts and baggy trousers).
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* ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'' was a French sitcom that ran until 1995. A casual viewer will note that the sets, the hairstyles and the clothes preserve a sort of time-capsule of everything considered chic or stylish in France in TheNineties. The bright, vivid, colours, for instance, and the way the male characters' hairstyles, especially, shout that this could be no other decade. The two child characters especially tick off all the boxes for teen and pre-teen fashion in the decade; the teenage boy Vincent especially (reverese baseball cap, loose baggy shirt, statement t-shirts and baggy trousers).
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* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has quite a lot of this, as the manga and anime ran from the mid-80s all the way through to the 90s. When not in gi the Z-Fighters [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtLWh-dHpt4Zp1yfOc5jeWrb2tzgoGcN5zbA&usqp=CAU wore shorts, caps, tank tops, jeans, high socks and Hawaiian shirts]]. The crowning example is Piccolo during the beloved DrivingTest FillerArc, where he’s [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmJr3OVtAMxo90LX4pfzLXzSbiP87iSVWg4g&usqp=CAU wearing a backwards cap, bright yellow shirt over a purple long sleeved top]] [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRW2qBTs_XbcXkqSbENKgMtr0vbzbN8HGfSMw&usqp=CAU and wearing a pair of jeans with blue sneakers]]. The result makes the Demon King reincarnated look like he’s from ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''. Android 17 and 18’s wardrobe while more natural the most of the cast, is still extremely 90s, more so with 17 than 18.

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* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has quite a lot of this, as the manga and anime ran from the mid-80s all the way through to the 90s. When not in gi the Z-Fighters [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtLWh-dHpt4Zp1yfOc5jeWrb2tzgoGcN5zbA&usqp=CAU wore shorts, caps, tank tops, jeans, high socks and Hawaiian shirts]]. The crowning example is Piccolo during the beloved DrivingTest FillerArc, where he’s [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmJr3OVtAMxo90LX4pfzLXzSbiP87iSVWg4g&usqp=CAU wearing a backwards cap, bright yellow shirt over a purple long sleeved top]] [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRW2qBTs_XbcXkqSbENKgMtr0vbzbN8HGfSMw&usqp=CAU and wearing a pair of jeans with blue sneakers]]. The result makes the Demon King reincarnated look like he’s from ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''. Android 17 and 18’s wardrobe while more natural than the outfits of most of the cast, is still extremely 90s, more so with 17 than 18.
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* Many people have pointed out how odd it is that, despite Music/{{Eminem}}'s willingness to update his look to keep up with trends, he has ''never'' stopped sagging his pants, regardless of his advancing age, and regardless of whether the look is in fashion, or outdated and silly. He even kept sagging after switching to the body-conscious cuts of pants that rappers adopted in the late 2010s. Eminem even joked about it in a 2013 song where he bragged about being "''forty years old and I still sag -- teenagers act more fuckin' mature, Jack!''".
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The beginning of the New Millennium was futurist and optimistic, with bad CGI, bubble imagery, organically-shaped tech with clear cases, and lots of holographic textures and silver. UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror killed this pretty quickly, replacing it with kitschy Americana like flags, cowboy imagery, camo and double-denim. Men wore black flame-print shirts and bleached the tips of their hair or gelled it into a fauxhawk; women wore their hair zigzag-parted and ironed flat, an ultra-short crop top, an ultra-orange fake tan, and ultra-low-rise bootcut jeans to show off their rhinestone-studded thong straps and tribal tramp stamp of a Playboy bunny. The brighter skater, scene, and more gothic [[EmoTeen emo]] looks defined teens towards the middle of the decade; both genders got their ears stretched, or wished their parents would let them. Designer stubble was common for men, and in formal wear, skinny lapels on suits and skinny ties were popular. "Smart casual" for men included the now long-defunct trend of wearing an orphaned suit jacket (''not'' a blazer) with jeans.

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The beginning of the New Millennium was futurist and optimistic, with bad bizarre but ground-breaking CGI, bubble imagery, organically-shaped tech with clear cases, and lots of holographic textures and silver. UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror killed this pretty quickly, replacing it with kitschy Americana like flags, cowboy imagery, camo and double-denim. Men wore black flame-print shirts and bleached the tips of their hair or gelled it into a fauxhawk; women wore their hair zigzag-parted and ironed flat, an ultra-short crop top, an ultra-orange fake tan, and ultra-low-rise bootcut jeans to show off their rhinestone-studded thong straps and tribal tramp stamp of a Playboy bunny. The brighter skater, scene, and more gothic [[EmoTeen emo]] looks defined teens towards the middle of the decade; both genders got their ears stretched, or wished their parents would let them. Designer stubble was common for men, and in formal wear, skinny lapels on suits and skinny ties were popular. "Smart casual" for men included the now long-defunct trend of wearing an orphaned suit jacket (''not'' a blazer) with jeans.

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