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Impractically Fancy Outfit
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Basically, this trope is about outfits that are perfectly wearable, but they're just for show, not for practical use. Reasons they are impractical are many. The most common one is the outfit is just too expensive to risk damage from actually wearing it. The outfit could also be heavy and/or hot. Or the fabric and/or trimmings would make it too delicate. Either way, the outfit is best used only when the wearer wants to, well, look his/her best. The line where an outfit becomes impractical can depend on the outfit's purpose. If it's a dress for a black-tie dinner, it could have quite a few trimmings and still work. If it's for construction, the only accessories should be tool belts and safety gear. But let's say the company is shooting an ad, and the agency thinks the normal construction outfit isn't cool enough. So they throw on a few pieces of gear that look as though they fit, at least to those not familiar with construction work. That would be an Impractically Fancy Outfit. There are some jobs where such outfits actually are practical, in the sense that part of the job is showing off the outfit. This includes showgirls and certain modeling jobs. If you see an outfit on a runway that looks as if it's just the designer showing off, it probably is. Impractically fancy outfits can also advertise wealth and status, showing that the wearer doesn't have to do physical work, can afford to risk damaging an expensive outfit, and (in extreme cases) can afford servants to help with dressing and undressing. Is often a feature of the patrons of the Coolest Club Ever. Is practically the uniform for a classical princess. Often overlaps with Gorgeous Period Dress and Impossibly Cool Clothes. But note that those pretty dresses in period pieces are sometimes much more practical than they look due to hidden design features of the dress or the undergarments that went with them. A Sub-Trope of Costume Porn. A Super-Trope to: Bling of War: War uniforms fancied up to be practically useless in all but the most formal warfare. note that something explicitly described as a "dress uniform" in-universe does not count for this trope: as these uniforms are, of course, never used during actual battles. To count as this trope it has to be something the character is either shown fighting in or is implied to use during an actual battle. Battle Ballgown Form-Fitting Wardrobe: If in a setting that logically wouldn't have modern materials like spandex or polyester. Or if it's made of latex, vinyl etc (even in a setting where these materials would logically exist). Also applies to armor if it is worn without any clothing underneath: as that is in fact very dangerous. Going Fur a Swim (as the fur makes it not practical to go swimming, despite the swimsuit) Happy Holidays Dress Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: If the garment in question would in reality limit the wearer's movement, or if the ass-kicking actions would realistically lead to a Wardrobe Malfunction. Pimped-Out Dress: Dresses that are fancied up enough to be impractical for everyday wear, only however if they are shown to be worn for everyday. Dresses that are explicitly labeled as being for a special occasion don't count. Requisite Royal Regalia: if mixed with Royals Who Actually Do Something. Or if it is made with some improbably expensive material: covered in gemstones, for example. Especially in fiction, royals are usually wealthy enough to not worry about damaging clothes made from fine fabrics. Scary Impractical Armor Shoulders of Doom: If they would logically limit the character's vision and/or degree of movement. Sexy Santa Dress: If it's either improbably short, is made of latex, or is worn by a character in an arctic setting as if it was actually a thermally protecting garment. Showgirl Skirt: Only if it's not worn over another garment though. If she's not at risk of showing her privates or underwear, then this design is not actually that impractical. Tutu Fancy: Dancers portrayed in clothes that would actually be unsafe to dance in. Compare Stylish Protection Gear (which is always fancy, but not always impractical), Ermine Cape Effect (the belief that royalty and nobility walk around in these clothes all the time). |
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Watchmen: Poor Dollar Bill. He was hired by a bank as a gimmick, and his employers designed his costume to appeal to the public as much as possible. His pretty cape got stuck in the bank's revolving door while he was trying to stop a heist, and he was shot to death. The first Nite Owl briefly went through a similar phase before he officially started crimefighting. When he realized that he couldn't move around his own house in the caped version of his costume without knocking things over or getting the cape caught on something, he removed it from the costume. Similarly, Nite Owl II had to redesign his outfit after he lost a thug during a chase. Why? Because he had to urinate and removing the lower part of his suit took too long. Also, Hooded Justice who wears a noose around his neck. It looks cool but can easily be used against him, such as in issue #6 of Before Watchmen - Minutemen when Hollis grabs onto it and breaks HJ's neck. It's even lampshaded: A flashback shows that Mothman's wings poke Comedian. Dr. Manhattan was made to wear a jumpsuit but he does not like wearing costumes. He is stark naked in the present day. |
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Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs wear long-sleeved blazers while running around in high-stress situations in Florida's legendarily sweltering heat. | |
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In The Belgariad, Ce'Nedra commissions a suit of gilded armor which has a ... rather more prominent breastplate than Ce'Nedra actually needs. The blacksmith rebels at the impracticality of the fancy armor and Ce'Nedra's vanity. Subverted because at that point she stands to her full height (she's in her teens, and slight and short even so) and asks what he thinks of her chances in a fight against a trained warrior. She doesn't have any intentions of actually battling in the armor ... she wants to wear it to remind everyone that she's at least nominally the Commander of the Armies of the West. | |
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Discussed, though not actually seen, in Dragon Age: Inquisition during the shindig at the Winter Palace. One of the first optional conversations the Inquisitor can have with Spymaster Leliana concerns a minor Orlesian noblewoman's footwear: gem-encrusted slippers. Leliana lists a whole bunch of reasons why it's just insane to wear something like this to a royal ball. The most important ones are the shoes' weight, their monetary value and the risk of losing them, and since Leliana also happens to know that the noblewoman in question is pretty much broke, she deduces the woman's simply pretending so she can continue to play with the cool kids. In fact, Leliana discussed this very thing in Dragon Age: Origins with a Gray Warden interested in talking to her about it, revealing that apparently Orlais goes through this sorta thing all the time, depending on what specifically is in style at the moment. As an example, Leliana mentions a noblewoman who wore some kind of headdress that contained a cage holding rather nervous birds... |
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Cracked pointed out why superhero costumes are this in real life. | |
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Liberace practically invented wearing completely over-the-top elaborate costumes in the music industry. Outside of the numerous video clips and pictures online, this depiction of him as a showman in Behind the Candelabra is accurate. | |
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Invoked in Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel. Your Reyvateils' outfits are very fancy, but that's because they're constructed out the inert state of fictional physics particles they use for power. The more physical outfit they have to shed to show some more skin mid-battle, the bigger the feedback wave, so the more power they get. | |
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Allure of Relative Heroes wears a multilayered costume that includes a floor-length dress, multiple fluttery sleeves and two cleavage windows for fighting in which should get caught on things and get in her way all the time. | |
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To Bertille in Sasmira, this is what Belle Epoque ladies' wear feels like, though she still enjoys wearing the dresses regardless. | |
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Discussed in a Gen¹³ special, where Freefall grouses about Lynch insisting that she wear her costume (in this case, a spandex one-piece) under civilian clothes in case of danger. | |
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In fact, Leliana discussed this very thing in Dragon Age: Origins with a Gray Warden interested in talking to her about it, revealing that apparently Orlais goes through this sorta thing all the time, depending on what specifically is in style at the moment. As an example, Leliana mentions a noblewoman who wore some kind of headdress that contained a cage holding rather nervous birds... | |
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Schitt's Creek: Moria's everyday clothing consists of wigs, black and white high fashion pieces from designers like Balenciaga, Givenchy and Commes des Garcons, platform shoes and layers of accessories. Her son David mimicks her black and white wardrobe through his own high fashion looks from designers like Rick Owens, often wearing long sleeve sweaters in summer. David reached peak fashion absurdity when he wore a Helmut Lang hoodie and men's skirt while staying with an Amish family. | |
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In A Brother's Price, Jerin and his sisters attend a ball at the palace. Their clothes (paid for by the royal family) are made of fabric that would be ruined if it came in contact with rain. And Jerin has to be sewn into his outfit, as it is too tight to put on the normal way. | |
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Trickster suffered an outfit-related demise in the trainwreck that was Countdown. Odds are decent he would've survived the train-encounter with Deadshot, him and Piper having thrown the assassin off the car, had Deadshot not managed to grab his cape as he fell. James reaction to the realization that he will have such a lame C.O.D. is moderately amusing. | |
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Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose: Tarot's Stripperiffic costume has tall boots with spikes that are about eighteen inches long jutting straight out to the side. You'd think she'd be banging into doorjambs and poking people all the time with those things. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis: In the seventh episode of the original OAV, Double Vision, one has to wonder how many assistants are required to help strap Idol Singer Vision into her stage outfit (or how she keeps from falling right back out of it, for that matter). Might almost qualify as Impossibly Cool Clothes, were it not for the fact that at least in theory someone could probably make this sort of outfit work. | |
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The formal racing outfits in Uma Musume look adorable, but would be impractical (or dangerous) for actual competitive running. The series completely ignores this in favor of Rule of Glamorous, making it possible to run at full speed while wearing high heels, heavy capes, enormous frilly skirts, or other showy articles of clothing that have no business on a race track. | |
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A subtle example in Frozen; Elsa's ice dress is both a literal and figurative example of Impossibly Cool Clothes. However, given the fact that, when running away from people who are trying to kill her, she repeatedly has to lift up the hem of her dress to keep from tripping on it, it's also not particularly practical. Though in her defense, she wasn't exactly planning on running away from any murderous individuals when she made the thing. | |
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Just about every other outfit Barbie has ever worn. In a comic (yes, there are licensed comics about her), Stacie's Play for the Drama Club got selected simply because hers is the only one that didn't require elaborate costumes, making it a bit of a subversion (since her original ideas were all Gorgeous Period Dresses romances) | |
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Batman: In The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne asks Lucius Fox to redesign the Batsuit because the current one doesn't allow him to turn his head. Indeed, that has been a persistent problem for cinematic renditions of the Batsuit ever since the original Keaton film. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks: The "fabulous" dress Rarity shows up in for the pre-selections. It's full of dangling metal shingles that, if they nicely reflect every light, also make the thing so heavy Rarity has trouble just walking in it — and render her vulnerable to magnets, to boot. Trixie's costume for the final concert. It's quite fetching and impressive, as fitting for a true showwoman, but also very impractical to make a sneaky exit or climb a walled fence. Rollercoaster of Friendship: Rarity's "Carousel Dress" that she's seen parading with during the final song has a magnificent design, but it's strictly good for a fashion show and nothing else. Notably, she better be wearing Modesty Shorts underneath because it's perfect for upskirt shots. It's also probably impossible to sit down with it. |
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After creating plenty of those outfits for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Lizzy Gardiner won an Academy Award for Costume Design in a glorious example. | |
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Cardcaptor Sakura: When Sakura goes off capturing Clow Cards, Tomoyo dresses her in such outfits in every chance she gets. Some of them are examples of Stylish Protection Gear, such as a rubber dress worn to help capture a lightning spirit, while others are just thematically appropriate for the Card of the week. What is really impractical about some of them is the way that Tomoyo has these outfits pre-made and on hand whenever Sakura needs to use her powers, even if there was no way she could have known Sakura would need one (or at least that specific one) at that time, such as the time she pulled a cute froggy-themed raincoat out of her bag so Sakura could deal with a Card generating a massive rainstorm, which had turned up on zero notice in the middle of a week-long drought. | |
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A ballet version of A Streetcar Named Desire had the female dancers wearing heavy-looking, full-length dresses. When the production changed hands the dresses were shortened, which original dancer Mia Slavenka scoffed at because it changed Blanche from a woman who is trying to appear better than she is to "just another nymphomaniac". | |
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Scarlet Heart: Zhang Xiao discovers very quickly that Qing Dynasty fashions require more than six layers and are very hot to wear. Downplayed, though, since people used to the clothes don't find them uncomfortable. | |
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Revolutionary Girl Utena: Subverted somewhat with Utena — her impractical "shirt" is actually her jacket and she wears a perfectly reasonable tank top and bicycle shorts underneath. Her shoes also seem more practical than others... | |
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In Kaamelott: Premier Volet, Lancelot's royal outfit is a cross between a gambeson and an armor with the shape of an eagle, apparently made from dragon hide. It is very stiff and the high collar covers his mouth most of the time, but he doesn't seem to mind the impracticality (and ridiculousness) of it all. | |
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Brave includes Merida's turquoise dress that she is forced into, which would be lovely if it weren't highly uncomfortable for her. She has to partially rip the back by flexing her muscles just to properly shoot her bow. In the ending, she wears a practical and elegant dress. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, the nobles of Slaver's Bay wear garments called tokars, long, shapeless fabric sheets that are wound around the body. When wearing a tokar, the wearer has to hold it in place with their left hand and walk very carefully and slowly to avoid tripping on it. It is made this way deliberately, to show that the wearer is rich enough that they have no need to labor like a commoner. When Daenerys sacks Astapor, many of the fleeing slavemasters trip over their tokars while trying to escape, making them easy prey for her soldiers. | |
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Almost any garment from the brakes-screeching Technicolor fashion show from The Women. | |
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Giselle's wedding dress in Enchanted. Amy Adams said it was really hard to move wearing so much fabric (especially since the skirt shape was from loads of petticoats instead of a hoopskirt). | |
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The Reynard Cycle: Reynard orders Rukenaw to wear the Chainmail Bikini version of this in Defender of the Crown, in order to win over the... hearts of the male population of Calyx. She's relieved that the breastplate doesn't have actual nipples on it. | |
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In Kappa Mikey, Mikey and Lily go overboard with all kinds of crazy clothing designs when trying to get their ideas bought by a well-known clothing designer. This included a cement dress and clothing made of garbage and food. | |
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In Delusions of Grandeur, fitting for the time period (17th century), the noblewomen from the court of Spain are wearing fancy dresses which are ridiculously wide at the hips (but not in the back and front). The movie milks some humor from it at two points: When Blaze frantically runs in the throne room toward a window to kick out the bomb, he bumps into the sides of the dresses of a few women, making them spin on themselves like tops. Salluste Disguised in Drag subverts a bit the impractical aspect when moving around in a tavern between tables, by having the dress pivots 90° on its axle (with a gear-like sound) so that he could fit in narrower spaces. And then he pivots it back in the proper position with the same sound. |
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The Judgement of the World (5Ds): Aki's usual Victorian-inspired attire from canon, particularly its short dress and heels, is often noted to be ill-suited for the adventures she finds herself on. | |
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Rainbow Rocks: The "fabulous" dress Rarity shows up in for the pre-selections. It's full of dangling metal shingles that, if they nicely reflect every light, also make the thing so heavy Rarity has trouble just walking in it — and render her vulnerable to magnets, to boot. Trixie's costume for the final concert. It's quite fetching and impressive, as fitting for a true showwoman, but also very impractical to make a sneaky exit or climb a walled fence. |
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Defied in The Incredibles, which features a costume designer to the superheroes who refuses to include capes in her costumes. Edna Mode points out the danger and inconvenience of a cape, including anecdotes about superheroes who got sucked into jet turbines and such. Later demonstrated using the villain. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Discussed in "Honest Apple": Rarity is organizing a fashion show and asks Applejack to be one of the judges, citing her eye for practicality. Applejack ends up criticizing every little thing that strikes her as less than practical, complaining that all of the entries are Impractically Fancy. She either doesn't know or doesn't care that those outfits aren't supposed to be practical for everyday wear, existing only to exhibit the designer's skills. | |
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The Time Lord robes from Doctor Who are reasonable, save that it makes it impossible to turn your head. The giant collars are only worn for ceremonial occasions, and that Gallifrey is at a Crystal Spires and Togas level of advancement so they don't really need to do anything that their robes would interfere with. Oddly, at least one novel informs the reader that that getup started out as Bling of War. | |
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Blake's 7: Servelan, dominating the galaxy while looking fabulous in dazzling fashion statements. The wardrobe room on the Liberator is full of fancy impractical clothes. Behold Jenna and Cally saving the day in long skirts and six inch heels. | |
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Hercule Poirot's perfectly neat suit is not excessively fancy, and as long as he's in what he considers civilization it's not impractical, but when walking through muddy fields in "The Apples of the Hesperides", he is forced to consider that perhaps there are footwear options other than patent leather shoes. | |
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Finnish shock rockers Lordi dress up as monsters for all public appearances, including interviews. This is possibly part of the reason why they've never toured to Australia, despite having a large and vocal fanbase there. | |
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The Creeper, being loopy, sports a completely reasonable superhero suit of boots, gloves and speedos... and incredibly floofy, mane-like red fluff around his shoulders. He also wears a green wig and yellow body paint, and those "completely reasonable" boots and gloves are trimmed with fake fur. His origin story explains the costume: he's an Accidental Hero, and it was a spur of the moment thing based on what he could find handy to conceal his real identity. The loopy bit is an act, because it tends to scare the hell out of bad guys. You know more or less where you stand with Batman, but somebody who dresses like the Creeper and laughs all the time might do anything. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210: Donna wore a dress to the prom that was so big, she could barely get through doors. In another episode she wore a mermaid costume for Halloween that was so tight, she could barely move at all. | |
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Ted Lasso: When AFC Richmond attends a charity gala, Jamie decides to make a fashion statement by going shirtless under his suit jacket. He proceeds to accidentally scald his nipple with hot soup at the dinner. | |
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Ezio from Assassin's Creed II has a garb so fancy, it stretches one's Willing Suspension of Disbelief if he could actually be inconspicuous in such a thing. And that's not getting into Altaïr's armor, which really doesn't look like something Altaïr would've worn. | |
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Also, Hooded Justice who wears a noose around his neck. It looks cool but can easily be used against him, such as in issue #6 of Before Watchmen - Minutemen when Hollis grabs onto it and breaks HJ's neck. It's even lampshaded: | |
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Slayers in Xendra never think to wear casual rugged clothing while patrolling. Buffy in particular refuses to patrol in anything but designer clothes and shoes while having a fresh manicure; she then complains about her clothing getting damaged and/or stained from fighting demons. When she complains about chipping a nail, Xendra suggests she wear protective gloves, but Buffy refuses because they aren't stylish. Contrast Xander/Xendra, who always wears durable clothes he can afford to lose and either cheap tennis shoes or work boots while patrolling. | |
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Many of the later Harvest Moon games had clothing for the protagonist that is rather impracticable for a farmer, and overly fancy considering how they should get dirty and broken often. | |
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Firefly: Mal tries to use this to convince Kaylee that the fancy dress she wants in "Shindig" would be completely useless to her. His comments just piss everyone off, but the plot does contrive to get her the dress later. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: Shishio Makoto's mistress Komagata Yumi, a former courtesan, wears a very low-cut kimono that is drawn as if it's almost always about to fall off her shoulders. Nobuhiro Watsuki mentions in her profile in the tankoubon that cosplayers typically have to tape the top on to avoid a Wardrobe Malfunction. | |
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Rollercoaster of Friendship: Rarity's "Carousel Dress" that she's seen parading with during the final song has a magnificent design, but it's strictly good for a fashion show and nothing else. Notably, she better be wearing Modesty Shorts underneath because it's perfect for upskirt shots. It's also probably impossible to sit down with it. | |
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In Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome recalls a boating trip with two decorative young women wearing dresses that would be utterly ruined if they got the least bit wet or dirty. | |
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Kingdom Hearts' protagonists regularly wear clothing which would require a Hollywood costuming team to put on in the morning. Admittedly, they're generally teenagers, but it still seems odd for people who engage in melee combat to have all sorts of buckles and belts and straps to get caught on things. And on that note, Final Fantasy has become famous for the excessively ornate and often silly outfits many characters wear, leaving the player wondering either how characters can move around freely in them or wondering how they even stay on. | |
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The Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers Alternate Universe Fic The Rod Squad takes the fashion of The '70s to extremes. When Gadget dresses up, she needs a crane to get into her platform shoes. Chip's extremely wide necktie is somewhat more practical: it doubles as a surfboard. |
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