History Main / NoNewFashionsInTheFuture

* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' takes place in the 2030s yet everyone dresses in 2010s clothing and sport 2010s hairstyles. In cases like Hiro's it could be justified because hoodies and t-shirts have been in style for decades and probably will be TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Other characters are less justified.

** Leaked production shots from the sets of the ''The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'' show people in costumes that largely also look like they've come from TheGreatDepression, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII or TheFifties. (The prequel film, despite still being set in the future, has a very retro, Cold War European aspect from what can be seen of the sets, many of which are actually shot in Germany—think East Germany.)

** Leaked production shots from the sets of the ''The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'' show people in costumes that largely also look like they've come from TheGreatDepression, WorldWarII or TheFifties. (The prequel film, despite still being set in the future, has a very retro, Cold War European aspect from what can be seen of the sets, many of which are actually shot in Germany—think East Germany.)

* ''Series/WildPalms'': Going quite the other way, this 1993 miniseries, set a decade into the future, depicted the prevailing fashions as Edwardian.

** The uniforms are somewhat partial aversions but their infantry uniforms are basically the infantry gear being used at the time of production of the series. For example, the UC Earth Federation has the infantry dressed in Vietnam War-era gear, all while their rank is worn exactly the same way Imperial Japan used to do during the SecondWorldWar; the Earth Alliance infantry in SEED in contrast, started to wear body armor. Zeon is basically wearing Third Reich uniforms but with blings on the front to serve as rank insignia. Gundam Wing's Earth Alliance and OZ have frilled 18th-19th century epaulets. G-Gundam is a subversion in uniforms; the suits of mobile suit pilots are reasonably futuristic enough, but the dress uniforms and infantry are still suit and ties and would not be out of place in the present-day; the G-Gundam 2010 manga updated the Neo Japan's infantry to conform with present-day Self-Defense Force gear. Gundam 00's uniforms are a mix of futuristic and present-dayish style; the Human Reform League's uniform for example, is basically the futuristic version of the Chinese Army in the 1960s, while the Union and the AEU still kept suits and ties in their uniforms.

** One of the new clothing option in the third game for when it's on-board Normandy is a casual N7 hoodie which isn't out of place for clothing in real life at the time of the game's release (or even today).

* Largely averted in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'''s overblown and very tongue-in-cheek vision of 2015, but early in the movie Doc Brown gives Marty a set of modern clothing...which looks almost exactly like his regular clothes, except that it's electronic and automatically adjusts its size. One size fits all, indeed! He also mentions that it's become a fad among young people in 2015 to wear their pockets inside-out, and suggests that Marty do so in order to blend in.

* There's a movie version of ''Film/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' that was made in the early 1970's, set in the early 1970's, and which features the title character living agelessly over the span of about 20 years. Somehow the fashions never seem to evolve during that time.

*** The 1940's and 1950's fashions (and certain other aesthetics like cars, radios and cigarette lighters) also seem to coexist with PunkPunk fashions in the V World. Whether this is limited to the V World or not remains to be seen, but flashbacks to life on Caprica from ''Battlestar'' sometimes feature alternative fashions for religious groups and other subcultures. And by BSG's 4th season, the contemporary fashions were giving way to Mad Max-style refugees in the fleet.

** Defied interestingly in 1980's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive "The Leisure Hive"]], which involved a species whose [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is being businessmen. The costume designer talks about this on the DVD, explaining that since they were businessmen they had to be dressed in suits, but virtually any modernist twist on the suit that she came up with for the design ended up looking like a 60s throwback. Eventually she came up with the idea of using open lapels with multicoloured linings clipped in as a kind of tie replacement, which is something not yet mainstream.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': Featured a lot of speculative stories set in the near and distant future. Although they sometimes got creative with the clothing (space jumpsuits, shiny leotards, etc.) the hairstyles were usually mired in the buzzcutted, beehived, wave-permed styles of the 50's and 60's.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' 2020's fashion looks pretty much the same as contemporary 80s fashion.

* Most of the regular citizens in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' wear either SpaceClothes or weird {{punk}}-inspired getup; indeed, Max Normal is seen as odd because he wears an 80s business suit. However, the gangsters in the first few years tended to wear stereotypical 80s gangster gear - pinstripe or corduroy suits, and trilbies.
* {{Exaggerated| trope}} in ''Comicbook/NikolaiDante'': In the second half of the 27th century, people tend to wear Napoleonic-era styles, though women's formal wear hews closer to the [[{{fanservice}} turn of the 21st century]].

* Justified in ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes,'' at least for the inhabitants of the Reich, whose fashions range from the 18th to early 20th Century, as those are mainly [[PuttingOnTheReich ideology-based]]. Those in the Free Planets Alliance, on the other hand, wouldn't look too out of place in modern-day America, while many on Phezzan seem to like TheEighties.

* Most series in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise tend to suffer from this, as the writers are constantly trying to make their respective series be analogue to modern times. Thus, the original series went by 1970s fashions, ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91'' had 1980s wear (ZZ ''[[UpToEleven especially]]''), ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'', ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' and ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'' are all 1990s based, and anything made after the turn of the century follows along with ''that'' decade and beyond. ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin'', despite being made in TheNewTens, follow UC's general late-80s-to-early-90s trend to blend in stylistically.

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-->Her sculpted face is pale, the Florida tan gone, her eyes black-rimmed. Her almost-black hair is short on the sides and brushy on top, her nape hair falling in two thin braids down her back. Chrome steel earrings brush her shoulders. Firebud has broadened her already-broad shoulders and pared down the width of her pelvis; her face is sharp and pointed beneath a widow’s peak, looking like a succession of arrowheads, the shaped-charge that Cunningham demands. She wears black dancing slippers laced over the ankles and dark purple stretch overalls with suspenders that frame her breasts, stretching the fabric over the nipples that Firebud has made more prominent. Her shirt is gauze spangled with silver; her neck scarf, black silk.

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** The page picture comes from this show, wherein women all across our futuristic Federation wear gogo boots, mini-skirts, and beehives that could trap small children ''as their work clothes.'' Ironically, the hairstyles were intended to be timeless, although they turned out to be anything but. As we get further and further away from TheEighties, there's no doubt that ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'''s outfits will eventually look just as awful.
** They look awful now. Those shoulder pads - ''yeck!''

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* You can always tell when a ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comic was produced by the characters' outfits and especially by their hairstyles. Despite being SpaceClothes, you'd never mistake a 50's-60's LSH outfit for one from a 70's story, an 80's story, or an early 90's story. Interestingly, despite happening in the middle of UsefulNotes/TheIronAgeOfComicbooks, the mid-90's reboot somewhat averts this by making everybody so clean-cut that it was [[FanNickname nicknamed]] [[ArchieComics the Archie Legion.]] When Creator/AlanMoore and Curt Swan did the [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Superman]] story "ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow," they needed the early version of the Legion when Supergirl was very young, so both the time-travelling Legionnaires and their enemies the Legion of Super-Villains appear in their original outfits and hairdos. It's most notable with Lightning Lord, whose close-cropped hair and little moustache couldn't possibly look any more 1950's.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'': Featured a lot of speculative stories set in the near and distant future. Although they sometimes got creative with the clothing (space jumpsuits, shiny leotards, etc.) the hairstyles were usually mired in the buzzcutted, beehived, wave-permed styles of the 50's and 60's.

* By 2030, kids will wear clothing styles [[TurnOfTheMillennium resembling of the mid-2000s]], sitting on a contemporary-looking living room, patiently listening to their father as he [[ArcFatigue briefly narrates the story]] of [[Series/HowIMetYourMother how he met their mother]].
** By the finale, the father and his friends would still wear [[TheNewTens early-2010s]] clothing during the rest of the 2010s and much of the 2020s.

* You can always tell when a ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comic was produced by the characters' outfits and especially by their hairstyles. Despite being SpaceClothes, you'd never mistake a 50's-60's LSH outfit for one from a 70's story, an 80's story, or an early 90's story. Interestingly, despite happening in the middle of UsefulNotes/TheIronAgeOfComicbooks, the mid-90's reboot somewhat averts this by making everybody so clean-cut that it was [[FanNickname nicknamed]] [[ArchieComics the Archie Legion.]]
** When Creator/AlanMoore and Curt Swan did the [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Superman]] story "ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow," they needed the early version of the Legion when Supergirl was very young, so both the time-travelling Legionnaires and their enemies the Legion of Super-Villains appear in their original outfits and hairdos. It's most notable with Lightning Lord, whose close-cropped hair and little moustache couldn't possibly look any more 1950's.

** This is shown on some planets. While many people wear robes or bulky SpaceClothes, there are many that wear something that resembles our clothing. Dexter Jettster, the diner owner in Episode II, wears something you'd expect a diner owner today to wear, albeit with an extra pair of sleeves. Otherwise, ''StarWars'' is pretty good about averting this trope with clothes, although the characters' hair is incredibly 70s/80s in the Original Trilogy.

* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Lister's outfit is very much that of a working-class punk of the '80s, making it a little dated even for the show's starting date in 1988, much less 300 years (or 3 ''Million'' years) in the future. In "Timeslides" we meet his teenaged self who was in a band, and his outfit is very seventies, as you would expect from someone Craig Charle's age in 1989 (adult Lister says it was called "sham glam", implying a deliberate recreation of glam rock). The same applies to the outfits Cat and Kochanski wear when their timelines get regressed in "Pete".

* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Lister's outfit is very much that of a working-class punk of the '80s, making it a little dated even for the show's starting date in 1988, much less 300 years (or 3 ''Million'' years) in the future.

* Walter Jon Williams' [[TheEighties 1986]] {{cyberpunk}} novel ''Literature/Hardwired'':

* Walter Jon Williams' [[TheEighties 1986]] {{cyberpunk}} novel ''Hardwired'':

** ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' had [[http://www.halopedia.org/File:Civilian_concept.png some pretty cool designs for civilian fashion]] during pre-production. But [[http://www.halopedia.org/File:Fc2vert.jpg this is what they look like]] in the final game.