How many costume tropes can you spot here?
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"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Yes, things you wear can be tropes. Time, place, setting, characterization, situation, symbolism, and what the costumer/artist feels like, can all dictate what characters wear.
These tropes can be included in works for several reasons, such as:
- Garnishing the Story: The writers just thought including these would help make the story more appealing.
- Meaningful Appearance: A piece of clothing can be worth a thousand words of Exposition
- Spectacle: The costume department just wanted to show off.
General Costume Tropes (see sub-indexes for more)
Related:
Categories:
- Bejeweled Tropes
- The Caped Index
- Characteristic Clothing Colors
- Clothing Reflects Personality
- Coats and Jackets
- Cranium Coverings
- Dramatic Dangling
- Disguise Tropes
- Dresses, Gowns and Skirts
- Fanservice Costumes
- Glasses Tropes
- Glove Tropes
- Good Guys Garb
- Improvised Clothes
- Let This Index Be Your Umbrella
- Mink Becomes This Index Most
- Opulent Outfits
- Partial Nudity Tropes
- Standard Superhero Suits
- Stock Costume Traits
- Stripperiffic
- Stripping Tropes
- Swimsuit Index
- These Tropes Are Made for Walking
- Tropes in Pants
- Tropes in Shining Armor
- Uniform Tropes
- Unmentionables
- Villainous Fashion Sense
- Who Was That Masked Index?
- Action Fashionista
- Adaptational Modesty
- Adventurer Outfit
- Age-Inappropriate Dress
- Ammunition Backpack
- And Your Reward Is Clothes
- Anti-Gravity Clothing
- Appropriate Animal Attire
- Arsenal Attire
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel
- Awesome Backpack
- Badass Bandolier
- Bandage Mummy
- Beta Outfit
- Blindfolded Vision
- Braids, Beads and Buckskins
- Bubble Pipe
- Bulletproof Fashion Plate
- Can't Tie His Tie
- Casual Sports Jersey
- Chained by Fashion
- Changed My Jumper
- Changing Clothes Is a Free Action
- Charm Point
- Cheap Costume
- Chest Insignia
- Clark Kent Outfit
- Classy Cravat
- Clingy Costume
- Clothes Make the Legend
- Clothes Make the Superman
- Clothing Appendage
- Clothing Combat
- Clothing Switch
- Collared by Fashion
- Containment Clothing
- Convenient Color Change
- Cosplay
- Costume Drama
- Costume Evolution
- Costume Exaggeration
- Costume Inertia
- Costume-Test Montage
- Costumer
- Crafted From Animals (can include clothing)
- Crossdresser
- Culture Equals Costume
- Doomed New Clothes
- Dork in a Sweater
- Dragged into Drag
- Dress Code
- Dress-Coded for Your Convenience
- Dress-Up Episode
- Dressed All in Rubber
- Dressed in Layers
- Dresses the Same
- Dressing to Die
- Earned Stripes
- Embarrassing Animal Suit
- Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit
- Enclosed Extraterrestrials
- Exposed to the Elements
- Expressive Accessory
- Expressive Shirt
- Eyepatch After Time Skip
- Eyepatch of Power
- Fanservice with a Smile
- Fashion Designer
- Fashion Dissonance
- Fashion Hurts
- Fashion Model
- Fashionable Asymmetry
- The Fashionista
- Fashions Never Change
- Feather Boa Constrictor
- Flung Clothing
- Forced into Their Sunday Best
- Full-Frontal Assault
- Fully Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Fun T-Shirt
- Future Spandex
- Gadget Watches
- Gendered Outfit
- Giant Poofy Sleeves
- Giant Waist Ribbon
- The Girl Who Fits This Slipper
- Goofy Suit
- Gorgeous Garment Generation
- Gorgeous Period Dress
- Gratuitous Use of the Tallit
- Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress
- Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist
- Hazmat Suit
- Hell-Bent for Leather
- Hollywood Costuming
- Hollywood Dress Code
- Homemade Sweater from Hell
- Hypno Trinket (many are something worn)
- I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable
- I Was Quite a Fashion Victim
- An Ice Suit
- Iconic Item
- Iconic Outfit
- Impossibly Cool Clothes
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes
- Incongruously Dressed Zombie
- Instant Cosplay Surprise
- Instant Costume Change
- Institutional Apparel
- It's a Costume Party, I Swear!
- Jacob Marley Apparel
- Jeweler's Eye Loupe
- Killer Outfit
- Kimono Is Traditional
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine
- Lady in a Power Suit
- Latex Space Suit
- Limited Wardrobe
- Living Clothes
- Loafing in Full Costume
- Loincloth
- Magical Accessory
- Magically Regenerating Clothing
- Meido
- Menswear Ghetto
- Mob-Boss Suit Fitting
- Mystical High Collar
- Necktie Leash
- Nerd in Evil's Helmet
- No Dress Code
- No New Fashions in the Future
- Noose Necktie
- Official Cosplay Gear
- One Size Fits All
- Outdated Outfit
- Overalls and Gingham
- Pajama-Clad Hero
- Pantsless Males, Fully-Dressed Females
- Pauper Patches
- People in Rubber Suits
- Person with the Clothing
- Plot Pants
- Popping Buttons
- Quirky Girl, Quirky Tux
- Rainbow Pimp Gear
- Recursive Crossdressing
- Red Sock Ruins the Laundry
- Ring Around the Collar
- Rip Tailoring
- Rummage Sale Reject
- Russian Fashion
- Same Clothes, Different Year
- Shell Backpack
- Shock Collar
- Shrunk in the Wash
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet
- Slave Collar
- Space Clothes
- Star-Spangled Spandex
- Suit-Up of Destiny
- Suppressed Mammaries
- Symbol Motif Clothing
- Tacky Tuxedo
- Tan Lines
- Technically Naked Shapeshifter
- Textile Work Is Feminine: All those costumes come from somewhere, you know.
- Throwback Threads
- Too Many Belts
- Underdressed for the Occasion
- Unlimited Wardrobe
- Useless Accessory
- Utility Belt
- Virtual Paper Doll
- Waistcoat of Style
- Wardrobe Flaw of Characterization
- Wardrobe Wound
- We Will Not Have Pockets in the Future
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head
- Wet Sari Scene
- Wet T-Shirt Contest
- White Shirt of Death
- Who Wears Short Shorts?
- Whole Costume Reference
- Widow's Weeds
- WTH, Costuming Department?
- Zip Me Up
- Zipperiffic
