Dress-O-Matic

So you're too lazy to dress yourself but you have access to cool technology, or you're undergoing a Transformation Sequence. Why not have a device put your clothes on your body?

Enter the Dress-O-Matic! Just select whatever you want to wear, step on inside, and presto! You're ready for the day!

These kind of machines can come in various flavors, but most involve the person to be dressed standing/sitting in place or on a conveyor belt while robotic arms put them into their attire. Can also overlap with Transformation Trinket if the dressing is caused by a handheld device. Commonly seen in the homes of a Gadgeteer Genius or a Mad Scientist, or in futuristic settings, like in a Smart House. May feature as part of a To the Batpole! sequence.

Compare to Instant Armor and Gorgeous Garment Generation. The Nudifier is the inversion of this trope.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Doraemon has a recurring gadget called the "Dress Camera", which duplicates articles of clothing via pictures loaded in its film compartment, transferring the wearer's current attire into whatever is depicted in the camera. It's extremely useful in situations where the gang needs a quick change of clothing and doesn't have any spare at hand, although trying to use the gadget without pre-loaded pictures will instead erase clothing.
• Interstella 5555: One of these is part of the elaborate machine to indoctrinate and re-shape alien musicians for earthly consumption.
• Mon Colle Knights had one where the heroes would go down a chute, enter a tube and come out the other side in their adventure outfits before setting out.
• In the 2008 series of Yatterman, the Stock Footage sequence of the Yattermen entering Yatter-Jinbee has them falling down chutes where they're first stripped out from their regular clothes, then thrown inside their Yattermen costumes and they end up putting on their boots while landing.

Comic Books

• Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire once used a Mega Suiter while preparing to do EVA in shift space. The robot tailor took his measurements, then told him to "stay right there and don't move". A moment later the two halves of a sphere labeled "Mega Suiter" slam together over him on pistons, then pull back to reveal Buck wearing a still-steaming mega suit.
• In Antarctic Press's first story about Dr. Frankensteam, as part of Steampunk Swimsuit #1 but also in the Dr. Frankensteam #1 collection, Mad Scientist Dr. Frankensteam creates an auto-tailor to help her model change into and out of swimsuits quickly. The device goes berserk and turns into The Nudifier: attacking and stripping members of the audience.

Comic Strips

• One Sunday strip of Calvin and Hobbes has a futuristic version of Calvin's house where Calvin is thrown into a machine to get him ready for school that washes, feeds, and dresses him on an assembly line and spits him out physically ready.

Fan Works

• Re: My Hostage, Not Yours: For a while after Gaz gets stuck with Larb's PAK, she uses a dressing machine provided by Zim to change her clothes until she can get used to working around the large device sticking out of her back.

Films — Animation

• Astro Kid: Early in the movie, Willy wakes up and, still wearing his pyjamas, walks onto a pad that triggers a machine that puts him through his morning routine. At the end, he emerges dressed in his regular outfit.
• The Emperor's New Groove: When Yzma and Kronk ride the cart that takes them to the secret lab, they emerge at the end wearing lab coats and goggles through some unseen mechanism. When Kuzco and Pacha take the same ride later in the movie, they also come out wearing these coats, although theirs don't fit them correctly as the device was tailored to Yzma and Kronk.
• The Incredibles: At the beginning of the movie, Mr. Incredible is shown to have one in his car. When he puts the car on autopilot, it lays him down and two toroidal devices move over his body and convert his clothing into his super suit. Then two small conical machines come down from the roof of the car and form his gloves over his hands.
• The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones: When George is getting ready for work near the start of the movie, he gets into an auto-dresser. He says he needs to "be prepared", and comes out dressed like Rambo, which he decides is "too prepared" and goes back into the auto-dresser to try again. Jane states that if Mr. Spacely saw George in the Rambo outfit, he'd go bananas. George then steps out of the auto-dresser in a gorilla costume.

Films — Live-Action

• In The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader's meditation chamber aboard the Executor includes a mechanism (a little bit like a "claw crane" arcade game) that lowers his helmet onto his head and locks it into place.
• From Looney Tunes: Back in Action, the humorless Kate Houghten inadvertently presses the "Formalwear" button of Damien Drake's Cool Car, causing mechanical arms to emerge from the steering wheel and dashboard. In less than fifteen seconds, Kate and Bugs Bunny are redressed in elegant formalwear while Kate is driving. Bugs remarks, "You clean up nice, kid.".
• Marvel Cinematic Universe: In the first few films, Tony Stark needs a machine of some kind to put his Powered Armor on and take it off. In Iron Man, the machinery is built into the ceiling and floor of his basement workroom; Tony walks in wearing a jumpsuit, which becomes the underlayer of the armor, and mechanical arms and waldos assemble the armor around him. It also removes the armor, although this can be harder if he got shot up while wearing it. In Iron Man 2, he has a new set of mechanical arms that is more efficient at assembling and disassembling the armor, although he still has to stand still while it works. By The Avengers (2012), he has built a machine in Stark Tower that takes his armor off as he walks down from the building's landing pad. Later suits are self-deploying, needing no external machinery.

Literature

• Star Trek: In the novel "Ex Machina" clothing transporters built into sonic showers were included on the refit USS Enterprise. While there were safeguards to keep clothes from being beamed inside of a person, Enterprise crew members didn't care too much for this technological innovation since the transporter beamed clothes on to individuals that precisely fit them when the clothing transporter was used. The inventors of the clothing transporter failed to account for the fact that a humanoid's proportions could change even on an hour-to-hour basis, and that something that fit in the morning could be intolerably tight in the evening of the same day.
• In The Engines Of Dawn, people's clothes are reduced to a puddle of clear goo when not being worn.
• The John Christopher novel Year of the Comet features a booth that people stand in to get wrapped in plastic swimwear.

Live-Action TV

• Batman (1966): Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson had a device via the Batpoles that put them into their costumes as Batman and Robin.
  • This was occasionally shown to be capable of working in reverse as Batman and Robin are rocketed back up the Batpoles and changed out of their costumes and back into their street clothes.
• J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai: Unlike most other Super Sentai, this team didn't have portable transformation devices. Instead, they'd enter capsules in their airship headquarters, and those would suit them up in their hero uniforms.
• In LazyTown, Robbie Rotten has a machine that can automatically dress him in his disguises when he spins around after pulling a lever.
• There was an episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers where Bulk and Skull get into a fight at a science fair and end up being thrown into a machine that changes your clothes. After a few seconds in the machine, they come out dressed as women and scarper off.
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds reveals that transporters can materialize different costumes for people mid-transport, which helps for blending in on alien worlds.
• In Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, the third episode has a sequence showing Darth Vader being disconnected from the life support equipment in his bacta tank and being encased in his iconic suit.

Music

• In Doctor Steel's video for "Childhood Don't A-Go Go", Steel walks through a large box-like device, which automatically changes his clothing from his Badass Labcoat to his Steampunk attire.

Theme Parks

• In the current incarnation of Epcot's Spaceship Earth, one of the selectable interactive future videos displayed at the ride's end demonstrates such a concept, with the user selecting which clothes they feel like wearing today followed by the instant clothing process.

Video Games

• In Donald Duck: Goin' Qu@ckers, Donald can change his clothes within seconds, thanks to a machine invented by Gyro Gearloose.
• Halo 4 Spartan Ops has a cutscene where the team is suited up by various machinery.
• Minecraft: You can build one of these yourself with a dispenser and pressure plate. Armor that's shot out of a dispenser will automatically be equipped if you're close enough to it and have an empty slot.
• In The Sims 3, whenever Sims change their clothes, round blinds appear from the floor, and mere seconds later the garment is changed.
• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty: The opening cinematic shows a prisoner made to stand on a platform where a bunch of robotic arms start bolting marine Powered Armor onto him.

Western Animation

• The Adventures of T-Rex had one where the dinosaur heroes would swap their regular clothes for their armored superhero suits.
• American Dad!: Rogers offers to show Francine how he ends up creating all the various personas that he lives from day to day. He has his own warehouse full of various costume designs and an automatic dresser that adapts him depending on what he's looking for. He has to be careful with the process though, or else he ends up with...

  Roger: RAIDER DAVE! Oh, overcooked it. Boy, you add one ingredient too many and you get Raider Dave. Every time.

• Back to the Future: Similarily to Doraemon above, some episodes show a camera that, in a flash, dresses its subjects in period-appropriate clothing.
• Beverly Hills Teens: The characters had machines at the Teen Club that dressed them. Also inverted since they likewise have machines that undressed them, especially the females.
• Filmation's Ghostbusters: during the Transformation Sequence, Jake and Eddie go through a machine that puts them into their Ghostbusters clothes.
• I.N.K. Invisible Network of Kids: The opening sequence shows how Newton, after ignoring his alarm clock for too long, is launched out of his bed and lands on a chair, after which a robot puts him into his daytime clothes.
• The Jetsons: Auto-dressing devices are the norm in the show's universe. George Jetson passes through one each morning to be attired in his workday outfit. A catch, though, is that the clothes must be properly placed in the machine for it to work, as George once recalled a Noodle Incident where his shoes ended up on his ears. In one episode, Jane Jetson stands still while a mobile device changes her outfits in a clothing store.
• Peg + Cat: In "The Baby Problem", Baby Fox invents a machine that, among other things, changes his diaper.
• In Phineas and Ferb, one of Doof's device of the episode is a ballgown-inator, which is a laser gun that dresses anyone hit by it in a ball gown.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In the episode "Just Another Manic Mojo", Mojo Jojo has a machine that dresses him in his normal attire as part of his morning routine.
• The Simpsons: In "The Mansion Family", when the Simpsons are watching over Mr. Burn's mansion while he's away, Homer finds such a machine and attempts to use it himself, with disastrous results:
  Homer: (emerges from the machine covered in bruises with his clothes torn and rumpled) Now I'm ready to hit the town.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Cave Dwelling Sponge", SpongeBob gets from his shower outfit to his work uniform by standing still and pressing a button. Mechanical hands take his shower cap and robe off, put his pants and socks on, then a tube drops his work hat on his head.
• Rick and Morty: As seen in "Bethic Twinstinct", one of Rick's numerous gadgets is a wrist-mounted device that can make clothes appear on him instantly.
• Wallace & Gromit: A standard of the series owing to Wallace's inventive tendencies, with different machines for his regular outfit and his work clothes. Particularly featured in The Wrong Trousers, where part of the villain's plot involves subverting the process for his own ends.

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