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* Ditto for Jack Knight as ComicBook/{{Starman|DCComics}}, whose costume is something he pieced together in a few minutes from things he hadn't sold in his secondhand shop.
* Subverted with ComicBook/{{Manhunter}}, whose costume was assembled from whatever super-weapons she could grab from the evidence room. It looks badass.
* In ''ComicBook/IronMan'', one incident forced Tony Stark to don pieces of costumes from his fellow West Coast Avengers to retrieve one of his missing armors. Hawkeye ended up giving him the joking name "Spare Parts Man". Thankfully, he retired that "armor" pretty quickly.
* In one ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} story, ComicBook/ThePunisher arrived in a BigDamnHeroes moment wearing an outfit consisting of the weapons used by a bunch of different C and D-List villains. It looked ''ridiculous'', but as it was basically made of guns (most of which were of the ShoulderCannon and wrist-blaster variety so he could use them simultaneously), the effect was badass enough that even Deadpool didn't snark about it.
%% * Hay Lin of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}''.
* Delirium from ComicBook/TheSandman1989 comic's patchwork outfits are always an odd mixture of thrift store fixtures.
* In ''ComicBook/ElfQuest: Rogue's Curse'', Rayek assembles a new outfit by raiding boxes of leftover wares. [[http://www.comicvine.com/winnowill/29-1888/all-images/108-212307/winnowill___rayek/105-1226508/http://www.comicvine.com/images/1300-1226508 Some people rather liked the results.]]
* Issue 79 of ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'' features a gag comic showing assistant editor Eliot Brown demonstrating [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YlP_N-gXx-A/Tg92tXYHogI/AAAAAAAAAPk/Spj-wFfa0sc/s1600/Star%2BWars%2BEliot%2BBrown.jpg how to create a Darth Vader costume out of junk.]]
%% * ComicBook/JohnnyTurbo's outfit. Just... the whole thing.
* ComicBook/HarleyQuinn's bizarre and {{Stripperiffic}} New-52 era costume was supposedly created by [[MuggedForDisguise stealing individual pieces]] from different women after escaping from Arkham.
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', the Lost Light members sometimes use holomatter avatars to look like humans. Most of them can pass up as dressing in more on less regular clothing (if we don't count that Cyclonus is an Indian lady in a Victorian dress or Skids and Nightbeat being respectively [[Series/DoctorWho either the Ninth or Eleventh Doctor]] and Series/{{Luther}}), but then you have Rodimus, that is basically [[Film/TheBreakfastClub John Bender]] wearing [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]]'s vest instead of his usual jacket, plus a tribal flame tattoo on his right arm, a bandanna, and Hot Rod/Rodimus's usual flame pattern on the undershirt; and Whirl, whose default design (seen in issues 13 and 47) looks enough like a regular tomboyish little girl except for the eyepatch, but then the redesign seen in issue 30 adds in bandages, spiked elbowpads, [[FashionableAsymmetry kneepad]], choker and ankle bracelets(the latter worn over army boots), fingerless gloves, wristwatches on both arms, bike shorts under the jumper and a pair of AK-47 sheated on her back and chained on the front of the belt. And that's not mentioning her bushy sideburns, V-shaped eyebrows, and lightning-shaped pupil.
* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'': [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]]'s first 'costume' (having started in a bridesmaid dress she performed an ActionDressRip on) is assembled from pieces of costumes and weapons belonging to other heroes she finds in Avengers Mansion. It looks makeshift and leads one of her teammates to dub her 'Hawkingbird' (the primary elements coming from the costumes of ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}). Fortunately, this name does not stick.

** ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}}'s costumes, before she got depowered, were probably inspired by the anime look, but she's the comic-book example that jumps out as having WAY too many accessories. Her most infamous attire is a bright yellow trench coat, huge ''hot pink'' wrap-around glasses, large, round earrings with her name on them, and what looks like giant dishwashing gloves, and this was worn over shorts and a red shirt. Given that she debuted in TheEighties... WordOfGod is that the outfit was deliberately designed to look like a ComicBook/{{Robin}} costume made out of actual clothing. Wonderfully {{Lampshaded}} in the Marvel vs DC {{Crossover}}: ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} appears out of nowhere in front of Jubilee and she just replies (paraphrasing) "Nice outfit." They end up as potential love interests [[spoiler:before battling.]]
** Pre-Shadowcat ComicBook/KittyPryde (then going by the codename "Sprite") went through a couple of attempts at designing her own costume, all of which were intended to look like something a young teenager in TheEighties would think was cool. The most infamous was a ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}-inspired [[https://www.deviantart.com/kevinwada/art/Kitty-Pryde-Series-80s-Edition-4-324277326 gold lamé monstrosity with legwarmers and rollerskates.]]

** For a modest man, James May has a collection of incredibly loud shirts. He especially favors a purple-and-pink striped number. One of them, a white shirt with a blue flower pattern, even has its own fanbase. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the man himself during an episode of ''Series/JamesMaysManLab'', when he presents a rack full of said shirts and then proceeds to pull out the infamous purple-and-pink one...

* Very often, Mikako from ''Manga/GokinjoMonogatari'' ends up with a case of this in her attempts to dress in a way that is absurdly flashy, original, and/or outlandish.

* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' starts out in [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes a filthy, tasteless but cohesive]] disco loungewear outfit, but the player will find other items of clothing as they play, often abandoned in bins or similar, and virtually all horrible, filthy or bizarre. Since each clothing item affects your stats, you will likely be changing your outfit to whatever gives you the most plusses for a check, meaning you may find an optimal outfit for passing (e.g.) an Electrochemistry check will be mustard bell-bottoms, a dragon kimono, filthy HoboGloves, and a pair of too-small plastic sunglasses called by the game "Shades of Self-destruction". (On top of this, the character's Horrific Necktie [[CompanionCube will talk to the player if you have it equipped]] and the game warns you that to ever take it off would be to betray it, encouraging it to be kept on with outfits that would not normally require a tie, such as outfits that do not have a shirt. Your sidekick Kim ignores most of the wardrobe crimes but will ask pointed questions about it if you start incorporating bits of a fascist uniform into your wardrobe.

Some characters wear a realistic outfit, to the point that a cosplay of them might be relatively simple. But this gets kind of boring; it's not a challenge for the cosplayer to put together, and very few people will actually realize that they are in costume. (Which might explain why even mundane series tend to gravitate towards [[{{Joshikousei}} unique school uniforms]] and such).

* Country group The Band Perry has been pretty consistently called "An incredibly talented band in desperate need of a better stylist." Their music has been described as "classic Country with an eclectic infusion of Rock, Gospel, and Soul." A lot of the time, [[http://www4.pictures.stylebistro.com/gi/Kimberly+Perry+Dresses+Skirts+Cocktail+Dress+v6aVbmP29ghl.jpg so is their fashion sense.]]

* A downplayed example happened in the 2016 Academy Awards with ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' [[http://cdn3.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/landscape_928x523/2016/03/jennybeavan.jpg costume designer Jenny Beavan]] - whose subversion of the ceremony's dress code led to [[https://media.giphy.com/media/tNeeQLyWzeT2E/giphy.gif amused looks.]]

* ComicBook/KateBishop's first 'costume' in ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' (having started in a bridesmaid dress she performed an ActionDressRip on) is assembled from pieces of costumes and weapons belonging to other heroes she finds in Avengers Mansion. It looks makeshift and leads one of her teammates to dub her 'Hawkingbird' (the primary elements coming from the costumes of ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}). Fortunately, this name does not stick.

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', the Lost Light members sometimes use holomatter avatars to look like humans. Most of them can pass up as dressing in more on less regular clothing (if we don't count that Cyclonus is an Indian lady in a Victorian dress or Skids and Nightbeat being respectively [[Series/DoctorWho either the Ninth or Eleventh Doctor]] and Series/{{Luther}}), but then you have Rodimus, that is basically [[Film/TheBreakfastClub John Bender]] wearing [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]]'s vest instead of his usual jacket, plus a tribal flame tattoo on his right arm, a bandanna, and Hot Rod/Rodimus's usual flame pattern on the undershirt; and Whirl, whose default design (seen in issues 13 and 47) looks enough like a regular tomboyish little girl except for the eyepatch, but then the redesign seen in issue 30 adds in bandages, spiked elbowpads, [[FashionableAsymmetry kneepad]], choker and ankle bracelets(the latter worn over army boots), fingerless gloves, wristwatches on both arms, bike shorts under the jumper and a pair of AK-47 sheated on her back and chained on the front of the belt. And that's not mentioning her bushy sideburns, V-shaped eyebrows, and lightning-shaped pupil.

** ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}}'s costumes, before she got depowered, were probably inspired by the anime look, but she's the comic-book example that jumps out as having WAY too many accessories. Her most infamous attire is a bright yellow trench coat, huge ''hot pink'' wrap-around glasses, large, round earrings with her name on them, and what looks like giant dishwashing gloves, and this was worn over shorts and a red shirt. Given that she debuted in TheEighties... WordOfGod is that the outfit was deliberately designed to look like a ComicBook/{{Robin}} costume made out of actual clothing. Wonderfully {{Lampshaded}} in the Marvel vs DC {{Crossover}}: ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} appears out of nowhere in front of Jubilee and she just replies (paraphrasing) "Nice outfit." They end up as potential love interests [[spoiler:before battling.]]

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': Alan Scott got his costume from a theatre's box of spare costume parts.
* Ditto for Jack Knight as ComicBook/{{Starman}}, whose costume is something he pieced together in a few minutes from things he hadn't sold in his secondhand shop.
* ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}}'s costumes, before she got depowered, were probably inspired by the anime look, but she's the comic-book example that jumps out as having WAY too many accessories. Her most infamous attire is a bright yellow trench coat, huge ''hot pink'' wrap-around glasses, large, round earrings with her name on them, and what looks like giant dishwashing gloves, and this was worn over shorts and a red shirt. Given that she debuted in TheEighties... WordOfGod is that the outfit was deliberately designed to look like a ComicBook/{{Robin}} costume made out of actual clothing. Wonderfully {{Lampshaded}} in the Marvel vs DC {{Crossover}}: ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} appears out of nowhere in front of Jubilee and she just replies (paraphrasing) "Nice outfit." They end up as potential love interests [[spoiler:before battling.]]
* Also from the ''ComicBook/XMen'', pre-Shadowcat ComicBook/KittyPryde (then going by the codename "Sprite") went through a couple of attempts at designing her own costume, all of which were intended to look like something a young teenager in TheEighties would think was cool. The most infamous was a Dazzler-inspired [[https://www.deviantart.com/kevinwada/art/Kitty-Pryde-Series-80s-Edition-4-324277326 gold lamé monstrosity with legwarmers and rollerskates.]]

* Most of the cast of ''Film/TheRoom'' are dressed in mismatched clothes that are several sizes too big or small, as the film's budget included almost nothing for costumes, forcing the wardrobe director to shop at thrift stores for whatever she could find.

* Kino, of ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'' is a fairly subtle version of this. She looks to be wearing normal traveling clothing most of the time, but then you realize she's wearing two trench coats of completely different designs, a hunting cap, [[GogglesDoNothing goggles]], a dress shirt, pants, a belt with [[Creator/RobLiefeld a ridiculous number of pouches]], a second belt for her gun, a boatload of weapons, a scarf, and metal wrist guards. As a traveler, clothing is supposed to be practical rather than pretty, but it seems overkill until the later episodes.