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* ArtEvolution: Earlier renditions of Buster and Tige bore a more or less realistic aesthetic. By the late 1950s, promotional comic books featuring Buster and Tige's adventures has the two drawn in a [[https://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2012/05/number-1152-out-of-this-world-with.html more streamlined style]] typical of the era, and Buster no longer wears bar shoes (which were later named after his sweetheart). The issue "Buster Brown Goes To Mars" has Buster drawn in an even more stylized manner, his proportions leaning more towards a toddler than an eight-to-ten year old. In the 1980s the Brown Shoe Company [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmC8uVhGlHQ updated their logo]] to keep up with the times, with Buster and Tige bearing a more contemporary outfit.

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* ArtEvolution: Earlier renditions of Buster and Tige bore a more or less realistic aesthetic. By the late 1950s, promotional comic books featuring Buster and Tige's adventures has the two drawn in a [[https://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2012/05/number-1152-out-of-this-world-with.html more streamlined style]] typical of the era, and Buster no longer wears bar shoes (which were later named after his sweetheart). The issue [[http://andeverythingelsetoo.blogspot.com/2010/08/buster-brown-goes-to-mars.html "Buster Brown Goes To Mars" Mars"]] has Buster drawn in an even more stylized manner, his proportions leaning more towards a toddler than an eight-to-ten year old. In the 1980s the Brown Shoe Company [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmC8uVhGlHQ updated their logo]] to keep up with the times, with Buster and Tige bearing a more contemporary outfit.
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Mary Jane, Buster's sweetheart, wore the style of shoes that would eventually bear her name.

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Mary Jane, Buster's sweetheart, wore the style of shoes that would eventually bear her name.
name. Besides having become known more as a children's shoe mascot, Buster himself would also lend his name to an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Brown_suit outfit]] worn by young boys during the early 20th century.
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** Given that mother started emulating [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Brown_suit this suit]] it became a bit of a LostInImitation given it was meant to mock[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy#Impact_on_fashion Fauntleroy's own]].

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** Given that mother started emulating [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Brown_suit this suit]] it became a bit of a LostInImitation given it was meant to mock[https://en.mock [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy#Impact_on_fashion Fauntleroy's own]].
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


* ArtEvolution: Earlier renditions of Buster and Tige bore a more or less realistic aesthetic, at times leaning more towards UncannyValley territory. By the late 1950s, promotional comic books featuring Buster and Tige's adventures has the two drawn in a [[https://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2012/05/number-1152-out-of-this-world-with.html more streamlined style]] typical of the era, and Buster no longer wears bar shoes (which were later named after his sweetheart). The issue "Buster Brown Goes To Mars" has Buster drawn in an even more stylized manner, his proportions leaning more towards a toddler than an eight-to-ten year old. In the 1980s the Brown Shoe Company [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmC8uVhGlHQ updated their logo]] to keep up with the times, with Buster and Tige bearing a more contemporary outfit.

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* ArtEvolution: Earlier renditions of Buster and Tige bore a more or less realistic aesthetic, at times leaning more towards UncannyValley territory.aesthetic. By the late 1950s, promotional comic books featuring Buster and Tige's adventures has the two drawn in a [[https://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2012/05/number-1152-out-of-this-world-with.html more streamlined style]] typical of the era, and Buster no longer wears bar shoes (which were later named after his sweetheart). The issue "Buster Brown Goes To Mars" has Buster drawn in an even more stylized manner, his proportions leaning more towards a toddler than an eight-to-ten year old. In the 1980s the Brown Shoe Company [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmC8uVhGlHQ updated their logo]] to keep up with the times, with Buster and Tige bearing a more contemporary outfit.
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: Buster as part of his antics where he would switch clothes with a girl.

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* WholesomeCrossdresser: Buster as part of his antics where he would switch clothes with a girl.girl.
* WholeCostumeReference: To Literature/LittleLordFauntleroy, which was still remembered and even popular at the time and still had mothers dressing up their sons that way.
** Given that mother started emulating [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Brown_suit this suit]] it became a bit of a LostInImitation given it was meant to mock[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy#Impact_on_fashion Fauntleroy's own]].
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Mary Jane was named and inspired by Richard F. Outcault's own daughter.

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