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** [[InsistentTerminology It's]] '''[[InsistentTerminology plum]]'''.
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* In ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadday'', A mix-up at the tuxedo rental place causes Anthony's tux to be given to someone else. The only tux they have left in his size is a hideous powder blue one with a frilly shirt and a huge bow tie. He ends up wearing this to the prom.

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* In ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadday'', A ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'', a mix-up at the tuxedo rental place causes Anthony's tux to be given to someone else. The only tux they have left in his size is a hideous powder blue one with a frilly shirt and a huge bow tie. He ends up wearing this to the prom.
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* In ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadday'', A mix-up at the tuxedo rental place causes Anthony's tux to be given to someone else. The only tux they have left in his size is a hideous powder blue one with a frilly shirt and a huge bow tie. He ends up wearing this to the prom.

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Related to ImpossiblyTackyClothes. Contrast SharpDressedMan, in which formal wear makes a good impression.

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Related to ImpossiblyTackyClothes. A SubTrope of ImpossiblyTackyClothes.

Contrast SharpDressedMan, in which formal wear makes a good impression.
SharpDressedMan (where the tux and the guy look good).
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* In ''MyCousinVinny'', Vinny shows up to court wearing a particularly hideous tux he had obtained at the last minute from the thrift store. Not like he had much of a choice; the judge had ordered him to wear a suit, and the local department store was closed due to a flu outbreak, so it was either that or his leather jacket, which he already knew that the judge disapproved of.

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* In ''MyCousinVinny'', Vinny shows up to court wearing a particularly hideous tux he had obtained at the last minute from the thrift store. Not like he had much of a choice; the judge had ordered him to wear a suit, and the local department store was dry cleaners were closed due to a flu outbreak, so it was either that or his leather jacket, which he already knew that the judge disapproved of.
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Contrast SharpDressedMan, in which formal wear makes a good impression.

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Related to ImpossiblyTackyClothes. Contrast SharpDressedMan, in which formal wear makes a good impression.
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A frilled shirt, a bowtie, a cummerbund and a tuxedo in baby blue.\\

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A frilled shirt, a bowtie, a cummerbund and a tuxedo in baby blue.\\blue.
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* In the remake of ''Film/FatherOfTheBride'', Creator/SteveMartin's character pulls one of these out of mothballs in the attic, to the amusement of his wife and daughter. Then, for the actual wedding, he dons a knockoff Armani tux which (as he discovers when it's pointed out by other characters) is actually navy blue.
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* ''DumbAndDumber'': Lloyd and Harry

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* ''DumbAndDumber'': Lloyd and HarryHarry's orange and blue tuxedos are practically the {{Trope Codifier}}s.
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* TomHanks' character in ''Film/{{Big}}'' has one of these (sequins galore!) in the party scene. He makes quite an entrance.

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* TomHanks' Creator/TomHanks' character in ''Film/{{Big}}'' has one of these (sequins galore!) in the party scene. He makes quite an entrance.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': Kin Kujira

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* In Issue #12 of ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', which is set in Equestria's version of TheEighties, Shining Armor's high school dance tuxedo is the epitome of this trope.
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* Barry Fife (Bill Hunter) wears something very like this in ''StrictlyBallroom''.

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* Barry Fife (Bill Hunter) wears something very like this in ''StrictlyBallroom''.''Film/StrictlyBallroom''.
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* Harry Dresden incorporates one of these into his vampire costume from ''Literature/GravePeril'', as he intends to snub his nose at the ''actual'' vampires at a costume party by dressing as a cheesy version.
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* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', poor Ron Weasley gets stuck wearing an old-fashioned maroon dress robe to the [[HighSchoolDance Yule Ball]]. It clashes horribly with his date's hot pink dress.

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* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', poor Ron Weasley gets stuck wearing an old-fashioned maroon dress robe to the [[HighSchoolDance Yule Ball]]. It clashes horribly with his date's hot pink dress.
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* Film/TheMask's banana yellow zoot suit, which became his MemeticOutfit.

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* Film/TheMask's banana yellow zoot suit, which became his MemeticOutfit.
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* In ''{{Fringe}}'', Walter has one of these.
--> '''Walter''': Purple never goes out of style!
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* Film/TheMask's banana yellow zoot suit, which became his MemeticOutfit.
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* A three-piece suit version of this appears in ''Rocket Boys'' when Homer runs into his oddball friend O'Dell while shopping. They both find something that they think is ''great'' and is eye-catching enough to get him noticed by a campaigning ''John F. Kennedy''. It's only after that when Homer reveals that the suit is bright orange. (His friend Emily Sue forces him to swap it for a normal blue one.)
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It's Prom Night! Or it's a wedding! It could be Shlomo's bar mitzvah, but no matter what kind of an event, Weirdo [=McGeek=] is invited as well. And what kind of garment did he choose to show up wearing?\\

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* In ''MyCousinVinny'', Vinny shows up to court wearing a particularly hideous tux he had obtained at the last minute from the thrift store. Not like he had much of a choice; the judge had ordered him to wear a suit, and the local department store was closed due to a flu outbreak, so it was either that or his leather jacket, which he already knew that the judge disapproved of.
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* ''AmericanDad'': Steve's friend Snot

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* ''AmericanDad'': ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Steve's friend Snot



* ''BatmanBeyond'': Willie Watt wears an orange version to the spring dance in the episode "Golem". Made worse by the fact that other episodes show that future formal fashions are even more streamlined than those of today, meaning it was really, ''really'' out of date ''and'' it wasn't actually a formal occasion (the only guys are wearing pretty casual clothes).

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* ''BatmanBeyond'': ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Willie Watt wears an orange version to the spring dance in the episode "Golem". Made worse by the fact that other episodes show that future formal fashions are even more streamlined than those of today, meaning it was really, ''really'' out of date ''and'' it wasn't actually a formal occasion (the only guys are wearing pretty casual clothes).



* ''TheSimpsons'': Homer

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* On ''BoyMeetsWorld'', a nerdy guy who mistakenly thinks Topanga agreed to go to the prom with him shows up at her door wearing one of these.

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* The title character in ''{{Angus}}'' wears a particularly hideous puce-colored one.

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* The title character in ''{{Angus}}'' wears a particularly hideous puce-colored one.purple-colored one.
** [[InsistentTerminology It's]] '''[[InsistentTerminology plum]]'''.
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* ''{{Zits}}'': In an attempt to persuade sara to go to the prom with him, Jeremy borrows a tuxedo that used to belong to Hector's grandfather. Only when Hector gives it to him does he discover that Hector's grandfather had been in a mariachi band.

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* ''{{Zits}}'': In an attempt to persuade sara Sara to go to the prom with him, Jeremy borrows a tuxedo that used to belong to Hector's grandfather. Only when Hector gives it to him does he discover that Hector's grandfather had been in a mariachi band.

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