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A Sub-Trope of Stock Costume Traits which applies to ethnic and cultural backgrounds, occurring when works of fiction choose to put characters in the traditional (or stereotypical) costumes of their culture even when it would be rather unusual in Real Life. In some countries, people do indeed wear traditional clothes on a day-to-day basis, and in others, they may wear traditional clothes in certain circumstances, but some characters regularly show up wearing traditional clothes in situations where this is not applicable. Reasons can vary. Sometimes, it's simply that the character in question is unorthodox, and it fits their personality or beliefs to wear it. Other times, it's more likely to be a case of ignorance on the part of the author, or maybe pandering to the Small Reference Pools. It is also a convenient way to invoke stereotypes, especially in days gone past. When you have lots of people from different cultures, it can be a quick way of pointing out that they're a diverse group — for example, Cosmopolitan Council members often dress in their stereotypical regional/national costumes. And sometimes, it's just the Rule of Cool coming into play (see Costume Porn). Note that not all of the costumes featured in this trope are actually traditional costumes of the respective countries/peoples. Many costumes are stereotypical, but not actually traditional. (As noted, there are actually places where traditional clothes are plausible — for example, India and parts of the Middle East. This shouldn't just be a list of characters in traditional costume — just cases where use of the traditional costume is noticeably unusual, whether it's justified or not.) See Analysis.Culture Equals Costume for specific variations. This trope is an important part in the portrayal of most countries featured in the Hollywood Atlas. Compare Overly Stereotypical Disguise. Subtropes include Gratuitous Use of the Tallit, Americans Are Cowboys, and Sombrero Equals Mexican. Examples |
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In Watchmen, the mysterious Hooded Justice is a closeted-gay mass of muscle who openly supports the Klu Klux Klan and the Nazi party and is theorized to be a circus strongman in his "day job" (that last part is never confirmed). His costume a Klan-like hood, tight ropes reminiscent of bondage, and a circus-like cape. | |
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Collar 6 had Sixx tell Laura about the major global powers of their world. Each nation was represented by a woman in a fetishized version of some type of clothing stereotypically seen as characteristic of the region. | |
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Ranma ½ shows that it crops up in Japan as well. The assorted Chinese characters are normally seen wearing some variation of stereotypically Chinese clothing. Ranma him/herself, despite being Japanese, also wears nothing but Chinese clothing (as well as a thin, tightly-braided pigtail) to emphasize the parallel to traditional Wuxia heroes. Some of the Japanese characters get the same treatment. Soun and Genma (when he's human anyway) are normally seen wearing martial arts gi, and Nodoka is normally seen wearing a kimono to show how traditional she is. |
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A token Islamic member of the X-Men, Sooraya Qadir, code name Dust, wore a full-body black abaya with the niqab. Her "burqa" (as it was often incorrectly referred to) was often drawn as very form-fitting, which is not how it's supposed to be worn, and unfortunately her characterization under most writers starts and ends with her religion, though some at least had the sense to have her say that she wore it by choice and not because anyone was forcing her. | |
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In Mahou Shounen Fight!, all of the main character's transformed selves are modeled from their culture's stereotypical associations: Mike the American being a Cowboy, Oliver the Brit being a knight, Yuki the Japanese being a Samurai etc. | |
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The Sheikah in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are explicitly described as all wearing the exact same type of outfit consisting of dark blue undergarments and white coats and pants with red outlines, sometimes with pointed straw hats. This becomes an issue when Pikango is asking around Kakariko Village about the nearby Fairy Fountain and accidentally talks to the same Sheikah twice without initially realizing it was the same person. | |
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An episode of The Simpsons shows a televised national beauty pageant in which all of the girls are costumed in a way that stereotypically references their home state (so that Miss Indiana, for instance, is wearing a Hot Wheels race track as a belt). | |
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Miraculous Ladybug has several examples, primarily with its Chinese or Japanese characters living in France: Sabine, Marinette's mother, is Chinese, and wears a (inaccurately designed) cheongsam over pants, yet despite this she apparently taught her daughter nothing of Chinese culture. Her akumatized form is also based on the Chinese qilin chimera. Both times she gets akumatized, Kagami ends up with a form that references her Japanese heritage — as Riposte, she's dressed in samurai armor and a kabuto helmet, and as Oni-Chan, she's dressed up as...well, an Oni. In addition, as a civilian, she's dressed in a pleated skirt, tie, and blazer, reminiscent of a schoolgirl outfit, with her family crest in place of a school crest. In regards to her mother, Tsurugi Tomoe, her go-to outfit is a kendoka uniform and she uses a kendo sword as a walking cane. |
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Totally Spies! had an auditorium full of Russians in which every single person was wearing the same fur hat. | |
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My Adventures with Superman: Lois Lane wears a jeogori as part of her formal attire in episode four, and according to Word of God this reflects her Korean heritage. | |
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Though not everything is Chinese-influenced. As an alternative, Majin Buu's character was inspired by Middle Eastern jinn and Arabian Nights, and was given clothes with a more vaguely Arabic aesthetic. The same applies to fusion characters (Gotenks and Gogeta) who have matching Arabic-styled outfits. The Destroyer Dieties even invoke the popular look of ancient Egyptian monarchs, which coincidentally fits twins Beerus and Champa, being actual cat gods. | |
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The first Austin Powers movie has a similar UN scene, which includes a delegate from Spain dressed as a bullfighter. | |
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Played with in a King of the Hill where Hank has to entertain a prospective propane client from Boston. The client expects Hank to look more like a stereotypical cowboy and has it in his head that all "real" Texans dress like that all the time, so Hank has to wear cowboy boots and a hat, much to his chagrin and extreme discomfort, as he has chubby toes that make wearing boots rather painful. In the end, Hank had enough, since the client doesn't even care about the deal. | |
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Discworld parodies this trope: In Jingo, a group of ambassadors to Ankh-Morpork are described thusly: In Pyramids, a group of diplomats from Tsort attempt to wear "traditional" Djelibeybian attire. The problem is that Djelibeybian tradition goes back millennia: In Hogfather, the Hogswatch display at Crumley's department store includes clockwork Dolls of All Nations. Specific mention is made of a Klatchian boy with a ceremonial spear and a Llamadosian in druidic robes. |
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In Hayate the Combat Butler, Isumi wears a kimono, even disdaining the school uniform to do so, depicting her use of 'hand soap'. In one chapter, she even tells another character she needs to go home and change (into another kimono) before meeting the new kitten. The depiction tosses a lampshade on such an event. | |
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Work It Out Wombats!: The maroon shirt Amado's wearing is called a Barong Tagalog, which clues in viewers to his Filipino heritage. | |
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In The Twilight Zone episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" one of the people trapped in the featureless prison is a Scotsman in full tartan regalia and carrying a bagpipe. Justified in that all the characters are dolls, and that's probably how he would have been represented in the early 60s. | |
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A Dog of Flanders (1975) has an amusing example: Alois is Belgian, but because the showrunners got Netherlands and Belgium confused, the traditional clothes she wears (her white sling and apron) are Dutch. The anime itself insists it takes place in Antwerp, Belgium in spite of the windmills and tulips. Nello also wears clogs. | |
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In Jingo, a group of ambassadors to Ankh-Morpork are described thusly: | |
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W.I.T.C.H.: In the comic and its animated adaptation Yan Lin commonly wears the hanfu. Justified because she's an old lady (in her fifties in the animated adaptation, unspecified but older in the comic books) and noted to be quite eccentric, and she likely does it to stand out among the other inhabitants of Heatherfield's Chinatown (who wear western clothing). Done subtly at Yan Lin's funeral: as the defunct and most of the attendants are Chinese, they wear white clothes (as white is the color associated with death in Chinese and many other East Asian cultures). Even Hay Lin's friends, who are not of Chinese descent, are seen wearing white out of respect. Both of Hay Lin's Guardian outfits and the one worn by Yan Lin are based on Chinese clothing: the traditional Qipao for Hay Lin (with the second being as close as possible to one while still making it a two-piece) and the tangzhuang for her grandmother (who was actually born in China and lived there for a while). |
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Spoofed in a MAD Magazine installment of "100 Worst Things About...", with this one being "100 Worst Things About Sports." They complain about how stereotypical regional mascots can be, usually to the point of depicting some unusual native animal that wouldn't ever be seen otherwise, and joke that if Paraguay ever hosted the Olympics, they'd probably have a character named "Sammy the Sloth" in the international parade. | |
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In the Harry Potter films: Kingsley Shacklebolt, who wears robes patterns after the traditional West African Dashiki, which makes him stand out considerably from the other adult characters dressed in Victorian-esque fashion. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Parvati and Padma wear Lehenga cholis to the Yule Ball. Also, Cho Chang wore a silver formal qipao to the Yule Ball. This and the above example are justified in that they were dressing for the Ball. Though in the book they just wore regular dresses. The male students from Durmstrang wore thick fur coats and capes. Karkaroff and Viktor Krum even wore ushanka fur hats (though the latter are technically not Bulgarian. Also, Bulgaria is quite hot in comparison to Russia). |
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Aliyah initially wore a belly dancer inspired attire with a bejewelled headband and coins dangling from her belt, but later switched to more standard wrestling gear. | |
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Both times she gets akumatized, Kagami ends up with a form that references her Japanese heritage — as Riposte, she's dressed in samurai armor and a kabuto helmet, and as Oni-Chan, she's dressed up as...well, an Oni. In addition, as a civilian, she's dressed in a pleated skirt, tie, and blazer, reminiscent of a schoolgirl outfit, with her family crest in place of a school crest. In regards to her mother, Tsurugi Tomoe, her go-to outfit is a kendoka uniform and she uses a kendo sword as a walking cane. |
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The "United World" council in the original Batman: The Movie (1966) is a bit more subtle with this trope than you'd expect, but even if the delegates didn't talk (all in their native languages, too, which makes it impossible for them to understand one another!), you could still tell who was who in a few cases: the Englishman wears a bow tie and has a handlebar moustache, the Russian is in a Red Army uniform, and the delegate from Nigeria is wearing a dashiki. (The American, meanwhile, wears Nerd Glasses and talks like a character from an old B-movie.) | |
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Team America: World Police has national costumes for one delegate of each country to the Peace Conference. | |
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Armageddon (1998) had the Russian astronaut wear an ushanka hat and Born in USSR t-shirt. On a space station. To be honest, he was called a little weird. | |
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Exploited by the Scottish regiment in McAuslan, on the grounds that it makes the Arabs sit up and pay attention. Truth in Television, actually. | |
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A strange subversion was Mr. Fuji, who during his managing days dressed like a stereotypical Englishman (probably as a nod to Oddjob). However, he reverted to playing this trope straight towards the end of his career, when he managed Yokozuna. | |
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In Hogfather, the Hogswatch display at Crumley's department store includes clockwork Dolls of All Nations. Specific mention is made of a Klatchian boy with a ceremonial spear and a Llamadosian in druidic robes. | |
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Lupin III: Goemon is immediately identifiable as Japanese based on his unusual and old-fashioned Japanese clothing. | |
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Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi: Angela Takatsukasa wears a qipao constantly, contrasted by Tsubasa, who just wants to be normal and refuses to wear anything that doesn't let her pretend to be so. Yoichi wears something other than his samurai uniform for all of one chapter while on a 'practice date' where they get him a normal set of clothes. He switches back to his uniform afterwords. |
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Tintin: Thompson and Thomson's idea of "incognito" is the traditional costume of wherever they go. Which looks ridiculous in day-to-day life. They sometimes don't even get the country right: they show up in Syldavia (a Central European country) in traditional Greek clothes. Into a space base no less. An earlier comic showed them in Shanghai wearing traditional Chinese costume, with a crowd of local citizens following them laughing. |
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In Pyramids, a group of diplomats from Tsort attempt to wear "traditional" Djelibeybian attire. The problem is that Djelibeybian tradition goes back millennia: | |
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Parvati and Padma wear Lehenga cholis to the Yule Ball. | |
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In Hetalia: Axis Powers, most of the countries wear a standard military uniform that reflects their background, such as America wearing a bomber jacket, Russia with a long tan overcoat (based off an Imperial Army overcoat) or Japan in a Japanese Navy uniform. | |
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Daimos: Fictional example: Almost all the Baam wear Roman-style clothing and headpieces that have pointed objects in their center. Erika keeps hers on even as she's performing medical operations. | |
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Lady!!: The sequel manga introduces Sheikh Sharif. Since he is from Dubai, wears a white cloth (kaffiyah) over his head and traditional Middle Eastern clothing. And as per the stereotype of Arabs, he is very rich and loves horses. | |
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In the Czech movie Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet, a loving parody of early 20th-century pulp detective fiction, American detective Nick Carter is called to solve a case in Prague in the first decade of the 20th century. For this, he puts on a traditional Bohemian peasant's costume patterned after the color plate in an encyclopedia. This of course makes him look comically out of place in what was a very modern European metropolis at the time. | |
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The main character of Katri, Girl of the Meadows is a Farmer's Daughter from the rural village of Palki, so she wears traditional Finnish garb, compared to the richer characters that dress more stylishly. | |
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Persia, the Magic Fairy: Whatever African "culture" Persia grew up in involves her dressing like a caveman, with tattered yellow loincloths that barely cover her form. It's stated that the main reason she's so rowdy is because said African culture involved being very hands-off with their parenting. | |
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Played with in the Doctor Who story "Terror of the Zygons", when the only people who dress in stereotypically Scottish clothing to fit in are the Doctor and the Brigadier. The Brigadier has some Scottish blood ("I am Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart! Of the clan 'Stewart'!") but is very much not Scottish otherwise, and the Doctor is... the Doctor. | |
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Dragon Ball: The setting doesn't exactly correspond to any real-world country or culture, but with so many elements lifted from the Chinese story Journey to the West, many of the mainstay characters dress with a decidedly Chinese "feel": Tien, Gohan, Goten, Mercenary Tao, King Kai, Krillin, and Yamcha all sport different variations of changshan (in Tao and Kai's case, all the time), Mai and Oolong don Mao suits, and Chi Chi has an entire assortment of qipao. Prior to Z, most background characters also dressed in similar fashion. Though not everything is Chinese-influenced. As an alternative, Majin Buu's character was inspired by Middle Eastern jinn and Arabian Nights, and was given clothes with a more vaguely Arabic aesthetic. The same applies to fusion characters (Gotenks and Gogeta) who have matching Arabic-styled outfits. The Destroyer Dieties even invoke the popular look of ancient Egyptian monarchs, which coincidentally fits twins Beerus and Champa, being actual cat gods. |
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Tyr in Andromeda regularly wears a chainmail tank-top, presumably to announce that he is a Nietzschean. Nietzschean dress in general tends towards militaristic and minimal, though few take in quite to Tyr's extremes. | |
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Of special note, the third season adds the English Innes Bridges (a mixed-parentage young lady who also goes by her Chinese Name Qiao Yi Ming as recording artiste), who started out in a very generic Morris-dancer-ish dress, which in later eps has been replaced with a dress straight out of the Prince William wedding. Complete with funny little hat. There's a Call-Back later on as Innes mentions that England is so old that they have no record of their own Independence Day, and they wind up treating major events such as the Charles and Diana wedding or — you guessed it — the William and Kate wedding with the same magnitude as a national event. | |
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Costumes play a big part of The Amazing Race; locals hired to run tasks and pit stop greeters will usually be in traditional costumes, and often racers will be put in costume as part of a task. Averted for everyone else the racers encounter. | |
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The setting doesn't exactly correspond to any real-world country or culture, but with so many elements lifted from the Chinese story Journey to the West, many of the mainstay characters dress with a decidedly Chinese "feel": Tien, Gohan, Goten, Mercenary Tao, King Kai, Krillin, and Yamcha all sport different variations of changshan (in Tao and Kai's case, all the time), Mai and Oolong don Mao suits, and Chi Chi has an entire assortment of qipao. Prior to Z, most background characters also dressed in similar fashion. | |
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Averted with Rolf from Ed, Edd n Eddy, who only wears traditional costumes when some festival or ritual demands it. Of course, this is Rolf, so "Once per Episode" isn't that much of an exaggeration. | |
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The retired Astro City hero El Hombre wore a costume modeled after a very streamlined matador. | |
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In Sunnyville Stories, the Tanuki family, operators of the town's restaurant, is Japanese; the mother and daughter both wear kimonos while the father wears a happi coat. | |
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Helga's nanny Inga on Hey Arnold! had a Scandinavian traditional-looking costume the entire time and even made Helga wear it. | |
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In Saints Row IV, one of the Boss' new allies is Asha Odekar, a snarky MI6 agent of Indian descent. As part of the game, you can carry out a loyalty mission for Asha, which, if completed, sees you unlock superpowers for her in the computer simulation that most of the game takes place in. Once Asha gains superpowers, she also replaces her MI6 jumpsuit with a nice purple midriff-baring sari. | |
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Turned up to ridiculous levels on Kick Buttowski with Gunther's family and his home-country, considering they're Vikings. When we finally do see his home-country in a half-hour episode, every single person is dressed in a Viking get-up, which proves that Gunther's parents weren't just doing it for the theme of their restaurant (even though they have been seen with normal get-ups outside of work). | |
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Hello! Sandybell: The one note character of the Arab painting buyer◊ dresses in stereotypical Middle Eastern sun-resistant clothes and wears a keffiieyh held together with a red cord. He also has dark skin and a thick beard. | |
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Charmed (1998) has a variant. Phoebe moves to Hong Kong with her boyfriend in Season 6, and the first episode with her visiting home shows her wearing a qipao. | |
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Irene in the Belisarius Series attended an Indian monarch's court as ambassador dressed in the absurdly hot robes of a Byzantine noblewoman. Her reasoning is that making a good diplomatic impression is worth a little sweat. | |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Mr Pool shows up for school one day dressed in a kilt because it's 'Scottish Pride Day', and he then performs the Highland Fling for his biology class. | |
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On a similar note, in Ms. Marvel (2014), Kamala's friend Nakia chooses to observe hijab of her own free will, despite her Turkish family being relatively liberal with regards to customs. Similarly, Kamala's brother Aamir almost always dresses in traditional apparel due to being very devout of his faith - the only time he wears something else is for a job interview when he puts on a three-piece suit. Kamala herself is more liberal with her choice of clothing, such as keeping her head uncovered most of the time (she does wear headscarves when required, such as at the mosque) and wearing urban styles, but she does observe hijab in that she dresses modestly, even as a superheroine. Of course, one of the ideas of the comic is that there are all kinds of walks of life within Islam, and some are more observant than others, in such a way that the point isn't as on-the-nose as one would expect. | |
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