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Pauper Patches
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What's one of the easiest ways to show that a character doesn't have much money? Have their clothing, often grey or especially brown in color (though not always), worn out to the point where patches, often rags, needed to be sewn-on. The patches are usually placed on the sections of clothing that face the most friction, such as the elbow area for shirts and knee area for pants. The patches are almost always square in shape, but they don't need to be, and they usually don't match the color of the clothing. Some examples have the clothes entirely be covered in patched rags. You can mostly find characters such as hobos, orphaned children, Street Urchins, peasants, and literal examples of Rags to Royalty dressed like this. Note that for this trope to apply, the character must be in poverty; if they're wearing patched-up clothes only because they like that style, that's Not an Example. Often combined with the related tropes Barefoot Poverty and/or Hobo Gloves to complete the Stock Costume Traits of a poor character. Commonly found on a Tiny Tim Template. Compare Bankruptcy Barrel. |
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Story of Seasons (2014) has the poorer farmer, Fritz, have patches on his jacket and pants as well as Hobo Gloves. It's stated in the game he repairs them himself—he's a skilled sewer. And thanks to a Limited Wardrobe, even if you choose to marry him and elevate him, he'll still have patchy clothes and no money—it's implied that, despite your being hitched, he wants to stand on his own two feet and maintain his own farm still. | |
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In a version of The Prince and the Pauper starring Mickey Mouse, Pauper!Mickey wore this. | |
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Freddi Fish: Laren the shy jug musician from Freddi Fish 5 wears an orange patched sleeveless shirt exposing his tummy. | |
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The Belgariad. Belgarath the Sorcerer has an outfit that is more patches than not, as part of his vagabond image. Later in the series he admits he had it specially made, and it's lasted him a good five hundred years. | |
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The the two orphan characters on The Simpsons show up from time to time in these. One of them is even named Patches, while the other has the Incurable Cough of Death. | |
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Humorous take on this in Kevin & Kell, contrasting upgrading Microtalon (Microsoft) and Carrot (Apple) computers. | |
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In Pinocchio, Jiminy starts dressed this way before the Blue Fairy declares him Pinocchio's conscience and gives him a clothing upgrade. | |
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Lovely People: The setting has a social credit system. Low scores tend to come with limits to what a person is allowed to buy. A woman whose score is so low she's considered an Un-person and can't buy necessities has patches on her clothing. | |
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Loskutik's dress in Loskutik And The Cloud is nothing but patches sewn together, and she gets her name from it (loskut meaning patch in Russian). She is an orphan with no roof over her head. | |
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In "A Symposium on Popular Songs", Ludwig Von Drake describes how his clothes were in rags at the turn of the century. As he speaks, his tuxedo briefly changes into a tattered one with patches. | |
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: In the illustrations, poor commoners, including Myne herself, often have patches on their clothes. The patches are also frequently mentionned in the text. | |
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In The Great Ace Attorney, Roly Beate, a London policeman or "bobby" and his young wife Patricia have patches on their clothes, since they are not well off. As a result, Patricia can only afford to buy Roly a single rose as a "bouquet" and wrap it in newspaper. | |
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El Chavo del ocho uses them, as he's supposed to be an orphan homeless child. | |
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The very first page of Girl Genius has a group of barefoot kids in a poor part of Beetlesburg standing around in torn and patched clothes listening to the storyteller. | |
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In The Wheel of Time series, a cloak with many-colored patches is the signifying mark of a Gleeman, a profession of wandering minstrels and storytellers. Although Gleemen tend to be paid quite well for their performances, because they lead a necessarily nomadic lifestyle they tend to have few possessions nonetheless. | |
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Dynomutt, Dog Wonder: After Blue Falcon and Dynomutt are fired for losing to Superthug, those patches and other damages to their superhero outfits gradually become evident. It turns out they're just pretending to be unemployed as part of a plan to locate Superthug's hideout and, once the plan works, they reveal non-ragged outfits underneath the ragged ones. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, after the rich girl, Mila, ends up poor because of her father losing all his money, she is shown from then on wearing a patched-up and ugly dress Maggie on the other hand has the reverse happen to her. She's poor at first, wearing a patched dress, but becomes rich and switches to a Pimped-Out Dress. | |
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In a flashback in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "Friend or Foe?", it is revealed that when Mr. Krabs was a kid, he and his Mom were going through some rough financial times, so Mama Krabs had to fashion Mr. Krabs' clothes from rags. | |
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The hobos in Realm of Owls, being hobos, wear patched clothing. | |
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Blake's 7. For the first couple of episodes Villa wore patches. He was from the Delta Grades of his society, indicated to be of lesser social standing than other characters. Note though that his manner of dress also reflected his role of the "Fool" of the group. | |
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In The Thief and the Cobbler, the struggling cobbler Tack's clothes have many patches. | |
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Aladdin. The title character has a patch on his pants. The Genie points out this trope when he's turning him into Prince Ali. | |
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In Pokémon Sun and Moon, Trial Captain Acerola wears a dress that is almost entirely made of patches. Something that fits her status as a homeless child and also the fact that she is a Ghost-type Pokémon user. | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: The inhabitants of Twilight Town (not that one) all sport raggedy, patched-up clothes to go with their "impoverished Eastern European villager" look and the general Ãœberwald atmosphere of the chapter they appear on. | |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: While his clothes aren't patched, Lupin's introduction notes that his suitcase has been repeatedly repaired, as proof he can't afford a new one. (Two books later, we learn Umbridge made it near-impossible for werewolves to get jobs.) | |
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Most residents of the orphanage in The Adventures of Puss in Boots have them on their clothing. | |
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