History Main / ImpossiblyTackyClothes

** There's also a Jon-and-Liz-on-a-date mini-arc; Jon starts out looking more or less respectable, but then he loses a contact lens and has to put on his sunglasses (with plastic palm trees on either side), then spills soup on his tie and has to change it to his hideous spare. The arc ends with the waiter coming over and asking them to leave as Jon has 'slipped beneath the dress code since you've arrived'.

* In ''Franchise/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', particularly [[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 the live-action adaptation]] and [[Film/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians its sequel]] starring Glenn Close, Cruella's outfits are monstrously over-the-top and shock anyone who sees them -- but nobody is brave enough to confront her about it. Cruella is in search of the "perfect" fur coat and is convinced that it must be made from the skins of the dalmatian puppies.

-->'''Mittens:''' That dress. What was she thinking? It would've been more tasteful if she wore the wedding cake. It's got less flowers on it, and mercifully no Styrofoam birds. Though you’ve gotta admit, it’s better than Penny’s bridesmaid dress. She looks like a banana split, complete with sprinkles.

** Angus Deayton went in for this back when he hosted the show too. Most notorious was his bright brown suit.

** John's Heir of Breath windsock is ''relatively'' subdued for God Tier, until ''Webcomic/Homestuck2'', where he pulls it out of retirement without considering that he hadn't worn it in ten years and it was sized for him as a teenager. Everyone present makes fun of him for the "sun's out tum's out" look.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': In one strip, Betty wants a new dress for a dance -- but her mother refuses to let her wear a rather daring gown. Betty promises to do all sorts of chores if her mom will let her wear it, but her mother refuses; she then says that if Betty will do those chores, her mother will ''make'' the dress. Unfortunately, the mother makes a dress that would have been embarrassingly out-of-date when ''she'' was Betty's age (it has puffed sleeves, which were in vogue in the ''late 1800s'')[[note]]This would have been the case even if you take into account when this comic was originally written. If we assume Betty is 17 in 1941 (the date ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' began), her mother would have been young enough to be aware of such dresses either going out of style, or being unfashionable altogether.[[/note]], and Betty is humiliated. Luckily, a man there likes the dress and takes Betty as his dance partner for the evening.

* In one strip from the ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', Betty wants a new dress for a dance -- but her mother refuses to let her wear a rather daring gown. Betty promises to do all sorts of chores if her mom will let her wear it, but her mother refuses; she then says that if Betty will do those chores, her mother will ''make'' the dress. Unfortunately, the mother makes a dress that would have been embarrassingly out-of-date when ''she'' was Betty's age (it has puffed sleeves, which were in vogue in the ''late 1800s'')[[note]]This would have been the case even if you take into account when this comic was originally written. If we assume Betty is 17 in 1941 (the date ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' began), her mother would have been young enough to be aware of such dresses either going out of style, or being unfashionable altogether.[[/note]], and Betty is humiliated. Luckily, a man there likes the dress and takes Betty as his dance partner for the evening.
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' album ''Obelix and Co.'', the [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed totally-not Jacques Chirac]] Roman economist Preposterus, who is trying to introduce free-market capitalism to the village (hoping to cause their decadence with money), buys lots of Obelix's stock at inflated prices and tells him that he should now put some of the money back in the economy by spending it on expensive clothes more appropriate for a businessman. Obelix is so rich that he buys an entire peddler's stock of fabrics and then pays a lot of money to the village seamstress to make his dream outfit from them. This turns out to be strange-looking purple and blue breeches and a huge yellow bow. Obelix is convinced he is a SharpDressedMan, but everyone else hates it, with only Asterix retaining the good humour to ''laugh at him'' instead of just shooting him waves of contempt. Then he gets everyone else into the menhir craze, and they all start dressing like that, too.
* ComicBook/BlackCanary's '80s costume has received much lampooning since she got rid of it, including one issue of ''Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey'' where she sees action figures of herself in it and immediately buys all of them so no-one will know how ugly it was. Not to mention the one cover that showed her [[http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3332/3620592838_166b9e21be_b.jpg gleefully burning the thing]] when she returned to her classic look.
* Minor Marvel character Captain Ultra is a guy who puts green, red, orange, yellow, blue, and black on the same knockoff-Creator/JackKirby outfit. In his first appearance, he claims to have designed it himself, to which the Trapster only responded [[StealthInsult "I can tell."]]
* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'s first outfit: a black singlet with a big red "D", gloves, and wrestling boots over a canary-yellow jumpsuit. He retired it after only six issues in favor of his classic look, and since then, has endured a fair amount of jokes along the lines of having thought it looked good at the time [[DisabilitySuperpower because he was blind.]] The outfit would go on to inspire that of the loveably incompetent D-Man, whose look is basically the same but with Wolverine's mask worn over it.
* [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]'s gotten some flack over the years for several of his costuming choices, mostly his "Discowing" suit and the fact that he decided to run about Gotham in a leotard with a t-shirt over it as Robin. He generally puts up a token defense of these choices when others bring them up but seems to understand why people found them tacky. His fondness for bright colors and shining accents (presumably a vestige of his CircusBrat days) has found its way into his civilian attire as well but his undisputed status as the most successful MrFanservice in comics indicates he can pull it off.
* ''ComicBook/ForgottenRealms'': In one issue, Foxy Cardluck takes it upon himself to make a new outfit for Priam Agrivar after the latter's clothes get destroyed in battle. The result is a [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/6/61750/1307456-priam_004.jpg garish ensemble]] consisting of a purple cape and hat, a red tabard and boots, a pink scarf, a gold belt and gloves, and green-and-pink striped undershirt and pantaloons. Vartan bursts out laughing at the sight of it, the other members of the crew struggle to find anything kind to say about it, and Agrivar is left covering his face in embarrassment.
* One of ComicBook/KittyPryde's [[https://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2-uxm149.jpg outfits]], which was ''very'' short-lived and lampooned whenever she wore it. Meant to be a combination of things a 14-year-old girl in the early 80s would think was cool, it has (among other things) leg warmers and roller skates.
* ComicBook/LukeCage used to wear an open-chest yellow silk shirt with a high collar and a tiara. In ''Comicbook/ThePulse'', [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet Van Dyne]] is trying to design Luke's new outfit, and most of them make his old outfit look like an Armani suit. When ComicBook/SpiderMan mocks him for the old ensemble, Cage's response is "It was the '70s!"

* ComicBook/LukeCage used to wear an open-chest yellow silk shirt with a high collar and a tiara. In ''Comicbook/ThePulse'', [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet Van Dyne]] is trying to design Luke's new outfit, and most of them make his old outfit look like an Armani suit. When Franchise/SpiderMan mocks him for the old ensemble, Cage's response is "It was the '70s!"

** The outfit worn by the [[Characters/DoctorWhoSixthDoctor Sixth Doctor]] was, according to Creator/ColinBaker, included by producer Creator/JohnNathanTurner to be deliberately terrible to show how over-the-top the new Doctor could be. Baker himself was rather unhappy with the result, which he described as "an explosion in a rainbow factory", and would later state on record that he had actually wished for his Doctor to wear a more subdued black velvet suit to reflect the character's new, slightly darker nature (compared to the gentler and more human Fifth Doctor's prominently beige and white costume), but that Nathan-Turner had vetoed the idea and gone ahead with the deliberately tasteless design. It actually got an InUniverse nod in AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho story ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho027TheOneDoctor The One Doctor]]'', when Banto points out how ridiculous the Doctor looks in it.

* A staple of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfiction is having Albus Dumbledore wear impossibly tacky robes to reflect his slight CloudCuckooLander tendencies.

** [[ExploitedTrope It's even a plot point]] in the AudioPlay{{Big Finish|DoctorWho}} story ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho037TheSandman The Sandman]]'', where the Doctor uses the optical overload of his coat to turn himself into the Galyari's chief terror. Their eyes are extremely sensitive to colors due to their chameleonic background and they literally can't look at him.

** Nathan-Turner himself later admitted the outfit had been a mistake-- since it was so bright and colourful, the sets had to be designed in a similar range of colour and brightness, due to the cameras' limited range of brightness values. He's reported as saying that if the design or lighting people had told him this was an issue, he would have dumped the thing.

** It's even a plot point in Big Finish story ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho037TheSandman The Sandman]]'', where the Doctor uses the optical overload of his coat to turn himself into the Galyari's chief terror. Their eyes are extremely sensitive to colors due to their chameleonic background and they literally can't look at him.

** The outfit worn by the Sixth Doctor was, according to Creator/ColinBaker, included by producer Creator/JohnNathanTurner to be deliberately terrible to show how over-the-top the new Doctor could be. Baker himself was rather unhappy with the result, which he described as "an explosion in a rainbow factory", and would later state on record that he had actually wished for his Doctor to wear a more subdued black velvet suit to reflect the character's new, slightly darker nature (compared to the gentler and more human Fifth Doctor's prominently beige and white costume), but that Nathan-Turner had vetoed the idea and gone ahead with the deliberately tasteless design. It actually got an InUniverse nod in AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho story ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho027TheOneDoctor The One Doctor]]'', when Banto points out how ridiculous the Doctor looks in it.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' did an episode that touched on these bridesmaid dresses. When Rachel agrees to be Maid of Honor at Barry and Mindy's wedding she's forced to wear a neon-pink, taffeta dress with GiantPoofySleeves and a wide-brimmed hat. Rachel claims she looks like something you drink when you're nauseous while Chandler calls her "Princess Bubble Yum" and compares her to Little Bo Peep.

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' album ''Obelix and Co.'', the [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed totally-no Jacques Chirac]] Roman economist Preposterus, who is trying to introduce free-market capitalism to the village (hoping to cause their decadence with money), buys lots of Obelix's stock at inflated prices and tells him that he should now put some of the money back in the economy by spending it on expensive clothes more appropriate for a businessman. Obelix is so rich that he buys an entire peddler's stock of fabrics and then pays a lot of money to the village seamstress to make his dream outfit from them. This turns out to be strange-looking purple and blue breeches and a huge yellow bow. Obelix is convinced he is a SharpDressedMan, but everyone else hates it, with only Asterix retaining the good humour to ''laugh at him'' instead of just shooting him waves of contempt. Then he gets everyone else into the menhir craze, and they all start dressing like that, too.

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', the outfit the PlayerCharacter starts the game wearing is very much this. How else would you describe an ensemble that includes a forest-green blazer, a wide collar satin shirt, mustard-yellow bell-bottom pants, high-heeled green snakeskin loafers, and a paisley necktie, which consists of no less than five different patterns, and the game openly admits is "Horrific". Along the way, you get the chance to pick up even more tacky clothing articles such as a heavy metal BarbarianHero T-shirt covered in flames, NerdGlasses and sunglasses you can barely even see through, and an ultra-trendy jockey tracksuit that you are way too old to wear. In the {{denouement}} of the game, Jean will comment on the outfit being worn at the time (including if you're still wearing your default outfit) and none of his comments are complementary.

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