Line #2 PlayingWith/FrozenFashionSense


1	'''Basic Trope''': Immortal beings don't update their fashions.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice became a vampire in TheRoaringTwenties, and still dresses like [[TheFlapper a flapper]] in the 21st century.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Elder vampire Karl still prefers the PeltsOfTheBarbarian he wore as a viking raider.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Alice became a vampire in the 1920s, and while she can blend in with contemporary fashions, her formalwear and TwentiesBobHaircut hint at her age.
5	** Robert became a vampire in the middle ages and while he couldn't get away with dressing today without standing out blatantly, he goes with aspects which resemble the old as soon as they come close to in vogue and stays closer to them. Such as going with baggy shirts and tight pants when they were in fashion as they resembled his doublets and hose respectively.
6	* '''Justified''':
7	** Alice's fashions [[AwesomeAnachronisticApparel have aged really well]], and she sees no reasons to fix something that isn't broken.
8	** Vampires suffer CreativeSterility. They ''can't'' figure out modern fashions without TheRenfield to dress them, and look ridiculous when they try.
9	** As an extension of mostly forgotten vampiric myths, vampires would sooner leave their clothes to decay into ancient corpse rags rather than adopt clothing which wouldn't be suitable for a pedantic historical reenactor.
10	* '''Inverted''': Alice is at the bleeding edge of modern fashion as often as the bleeding edge of her victims' throats.
11	** Time Travelers insist upon wearing SpaceClothes even when it makes them stand out.
12	** Suffers of MerlinSickness wear clothes from several eras ahead.
13	* '''Subverted''': Alice is initially seen in a costume from her era -- as part of an ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself scene. She dresses in contemporary fashion later.
14	* '''Double Subverted''': ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself is one of the rare times she dresses herself; otherwise she's reliant on TheRenfield or another such lackey to pick out her fashions and ensure she doesn't stand out.
15	* '''Parodied''': A [[SuperLoser pitiful, recently-turned vampire]] tries, and fails, to dress centuries out of date to give the impression he's an ancient vampire. Alice, a truly elder vampire with a modern fashion sense, calls him out on it.
16	** A cabal of ancient vampires is revealed to be responsible for enforcing the relative stagnation of the state of men's formal wear.
17	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Some vampires dress like modern people, some don't update their fashions at all, and some combine both into a distinct style all their own; it varies from vampire to vampire, or perhaps serves as a visual shorthand for particular factions.
18	* '''Averted''': Alice dresses in contemporary fashions.
19	* '''Enforced''': The fashion sense serves to make vampires easier for the audience to pick out even when the camera isn't close enough for fangs and pallor to be obvious.
20	* '''Lampshaded''': "My grandmother's updated her fashion sense. Somewhat. Why haven't you?"
21	* '''Implied''': Alice is never seen but her manor does have an abundance of old flapper dresses in good condition within - whether or not she actually wears them today or just collects them is unclear.
22	* '''Invoked''': Thermuthis is perfectly capable of keeping up with the latest fashions, but when she wants to remind lesser vampires just how ancient and [[StrongerWithAge powerful]] a vampire they're dealing with, she dresses approximately as she did when she was turned in AncientEgypt.
23	* '''Exploited''': Vampire hunters keep an eye out for strangely frozen fashions; aside from some embarrassment with cosplayers and those going for AwesomeAnachronisticApparel, it's a pretty successful tactic.
24	* '''Defied''': After being awakened from her long slumber, Alice's first command is for her minions to fetch her "this era's finest fashions".
25	* '''Discussed''': ???
26	* '''Conversed''': ???
27	* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice was turned in TheEighties. And her fashion sense was ''bad'' even then.
28	* '''Played for Drama''': Alice is shown to have dressed in Great War era and it emphasizes her tragic past when her father and brothers were sent off to war and died. [[DrivenToSuicide She tried to commit suicide in her grief but wound up cursed as a vampire.]]
29	* '''Deconstructed''': Elder vampires wind up outed as their old clothes wear to rags, and it becomes increasingly difficult to impossible to source their preferred clothes. Especially when they were originally made by lost peoples. Custom commissions tend to attract attention even if they offer proper hush money the vampire hunters will notice wealth.
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34	%% * '''Implied''': ???
35	%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
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37	%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???

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