Duplicate Image: Impossibly Cool Clothes

Same image as Rummage Sale Reject, and I think it's a much better fit there.

Agreed...and whoever designed that outfit and weapon needs to be beaten severely. The image was decided for Rummage Sale Reject long before it was added to Impossibly Cool Clothes.

edited 21st Aug '14 6:19:14 AM by Willbyr

Supporting removal from here. I did in fact start a topic somewhat earlier but it apparently was a duplicate to this.

How does that cross work?!?◊ Vulcano Rosso◊ Lulu◊ Ky◊ or Sin Kiske◊ Jin Kisaragi with his arm... things◊. Or Bang Shishigami's... everything◊. Really, anything from Blaz Blue would fit...

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edited 21st Aug '14 10:10:57 PM by memers

Way too much bear breast in that one. We try to avoid images on the verge near NSFW territory. That's not gonna fly at all.

None of the suggestions click with me; and that pizza cleaver of a current picture can deliver its ridiculous ass back to the rummage sale.

edited 21st Aug '14 10:13:46 PM by Elbruno

Ok then.

Well lets see then, umm wow this trope is a mess. On one side its clothes simply impossible to wear on the other its realistic clothes that are cut in ways that are extremely revealing and then the examples cover everything from wearing Meido to a a fight or just any unlikely outfit.

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edited 21st Aug '14 10:25:16 PM by memers

What about Hyung Tae Kim's pretty much unwearable costume designs?

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And he's not even the only one prone to do this◊.

edited 21st Aug '14 10:36:40 PM by theAdeptRogue

Not sussed by any of the suggestions in 4 - none of them looks impossible. 8.1 doesn't display properly, 8.2 is somewhat good though. 9.1 as well. The others in 9 look a bit too plausible to me.

Pity so much of Giselle's comics are too risque. There's a lovely example of Impossiblly Coool Clothes in Sandra on the Rocks, — lampshaded even. But way, way too skimpy.

I was around when this was the image (from the discussion page

edited 22nd Aug '14 5:29:42 AM by Ultimatum

My favorite suggestion this far is 8.2. It's relatively simple, but blatantly physics-defying.

8.2 is excellent, unless those buttons holding the cloak in place are actually attached to his chest. (oh, OUCH!)

My issue with finding an example is most of them seem a better fit for Impractically Fancy Outfit or Anti-Gravity Clothing.

edited 22nd Aug '14 5:50:42 AM by Larkmarn

Hmm. Maybe the Sandra On The Rocks one isn't too bad?

[[quote]]My issue with finding an example is most of them seem a better fit for Impractically Fancy Outfit or Anti-Gravity Clothing.[[/quote]]

That is a problem with picturing the trope, unless its too risque to wear in public then it is one of those two tropes, and seemingly this trope covers all of them?

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"Cool" isn't necessarily "risque", or "fancy", and to be Anti-Gravity Clothing, it has to actually be floating with no visible support.

edited 22nd Aug '14 12:16:06 PM by Madrugada

For finding an image. Most of the genuinely Impossibly cool examples I'm finding are impossible because they're either impossibly ornate, would result in immediate wardrobe malfunction (thus being too risque), or are impossible because the Anti-Gravity Clothing, which should go there.

Honestly though, the page needs a lot of cleanup. It's supposed to be "this is clothing that just wouldn't work in real life" but there are plenty of examples that are "damn, that's a cool outfit!"

EDIT: So would inexplicably floating ribbons or whatnot count, or would it be Anti-Gravity Clothing? Basically, I'm asking if free floating clothing that has some connection to the rest of the clothing would be Anti-Gravity Clothing or not.

edited 22nd Aug '14 1:05:55 PM by Larkmarn

Anti-Gravity Clothing is Any part of an outfit that floats independently from the rest of the clothing.

Buttons floating in the air would count. Note that Impractically Fancy Outfit doesn't apply unless the outfit is ill-suited to the context in which it is used - most images here aren't that.

Does the image need to come from fiction? Google "unwearable fashion" and you'll find plenty of ridiculously over the top (yet kind of awesome) runway designs.

edited 27th Aug '14 8:25:41 PM by Embryon

The trope, as I understand it, is 'Literally impossible clothing which may or may not look cool'. Real life examples, then, would by definition not be this trope. That snake dress pic would be a better image than the current for Impractically Fancy Outfit though, in my opinion.

And yeah, there does seem to be a difference in nuance between Anti-Gravity Clothing (individual garments that explicitly hover, independently of the rest of the costume) and the arguably overlapping pictures (costumes that should reasonably fall off or collapse on themselves) suggested here.

Bump. None of the suggestions really convince me, but in the meantime I got rid of the mess that was the other picture. If not for being a bad illustration, for being a duplicate.

I really like the outfits from Tron Legacy, in that they had to tone down◊ some of the concept art◊ for the original costumes and even invent the lightsuits they used, as there wasn't anything already around like them and didn't want to use CGI.

Those don't look impossible at all.