History Main / NoNewFashionsInTheFuture

* You can always tell when a ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comic was produced by the characters' outfits and especially by their hairstyles. Despite being SpaceClothes, you'd never mistake a 50's-60's LSH outfit for one from a 70's story, an 80's story, or an early 90's story. Interestingly, despite happening in the middle of UsefulNotes/TheIronAgeOfComicbooks, the mid-90's reboot somewhat averts this by making everybody clean-cut. When Creator/AlanMoore and Curt Swan did the [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Superman]] story "ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow," they needed the early version of the Legion when Supergirl was very young, so both the time-travelling Legionnaires and their enemies the Legion of Super-Villains appear in their original outfits and hairdos. It's most notable with Lightning Lord, whose close-cropped hair and little moustache couldn't possibly look any more 1950's.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* Tragically played with in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, most notably ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''. [[AfterTheEnd It's been 200 years since nuclear Armageddon]], but most of the townies you encounter are still wearing pre-Great War fashions, mostly held together with darning thread and good intentions. Wastelanders, Scavs and Raiders, on the other hand, tend to wear cobbled-together but functional attire more reminiscent of the Wild West or ''Fist of the North Star'' in the case of Raiders (long sleeves, cargo pants, boots, wide-brimmed hats -- the latter to protect you from that post-ozone sunshine), and the non-armored members of the Brotherhood of Steel wouldn't look out of place at a Renaissance Faire. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the Brotherhood is heavily based in knightly legend, and the rest of civilization is presumed to have more or less stopped in the [[{{Zeerust}} heavily 50's-flavored period of 2077]].
** Some comments indicate the NCR is beginning to have actual fashions by 2241, as part of being well on their way to restoring the standards of living of the 50s. Fallout 2 not having all that much graphical detail, and Fallout New Vegas taking place in the wild frontier outside the NCR's main territory, just ''how'' different the fashions are from the rest of America's cobbled together/stuck-in-the-50s fashion is uncertain.

[[caption-width-right:350:Either '80s nostalgia is huge in the 23rd century, or the designers were being lazy.]]]]

* ''Film/StarTrek2009'' is generally good at averting this, but there are two notable exceptions: Kirk's brother wearing 2009 era skinny jeans and, in what is most likely an example of the GrandfatherClause, [[TheSixties Sixties]] era miniskirts for female Starfleet uniforms.

*** The exception in ''Enterprise'' is the "[[SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains sexily evil]]" female Imperial Starfleet uniforms for the Mirror Universe two-parter, which have a non-more-early-2000s ultra-low-rise BareYourMidriff look that appears incredibly dated now.