Basic Trope: A character wears only one set of clothes.
- Straight: Alice wears the same green top and blue jeans every day.
- Exaggerated:
- Downplayed:
- Alice is always seen wearing jeans and a top, but they're usually different colors/models.
- Alice will always wear her "signature" green shirt and blue jeans on a normal day, but has a yellow sundress that she wears for special occasions.
- Alice has a small set of different clothing that gets reused in different episodes.
- Justified:
- Alice only owns one set of clothes due to being incredibly poor.
- Alice doesn't feel comfortable in any other style of clothes.
- Alice found out she could get her clothes cheaper if she buys in bulk.
- We are seeing Alice a few weeks from the last time we saw her, by which time her favourite clothes have been washed.
- Alice is just so lazy that thinking about what to wear is a pain for her.
- Alice sees to it that all her clothes are the same.
- Alice is from a culture whose standard practice is to change only underwear.
- The show takes place at a school or workplace that has a uniform, and we never see her off duty.
- That clothing style is Alice's favorite, so she wears it the most.
- Part of Alice's physique makes it difficult for her to find clothes that fit so she finds clothes that do, she gets a lot of it.
- Alice is so indecisive that even deciding what to wear is too much for her, so she just eliminates the problem by only giving herself one option.
- Alice just can't take her current set off, period.
- The whole story takes place over a single day at most, so it's not unreasonable for Alice to wear the same set of clothing throughout it.
- Alice spends the entire work as a prison inmate and is stuck in her uniform.
- Inverted: Unlimited Wardrobe.
- Subverted: Alice seems to wear the same clothes every day, but the next day, she shows up in a blue shirt and khaki shorts.
- Double Subverted: But when this is pointed out, she freaks out and quickly changes back to her usual attire.
- Parodied:
- Alice shows us her closet which has a number of identical shirts and pants to choose from, and complains that she just can't decide what to wear.
- Alice's closet has several, varied outfits ... which are all gathering dust, as she wears the same one every day.
- After several appearances wearing her green top and blue jeans, Alice carries a sign reading, "Yes, I'm wearing the same combination of clothes. Get used to it."
- Alice puts on different clothes one day, but they turn into her usual clothes almost immediately.
- Alice has her preferred combination of clothes tattooed onto her body.
- Alice's clothes are stolen or damaged and she spends the rest of the series nude rather than buy other clothes.
- Alice is so broke that she can't afford any clothes or underwear and has to go around in public nude. All her attempts at earning money or wearing, finding or stealing clothes backfire.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice usually wears the same outfit, but on weekends and special occasions, she changes it up. Some weekends and special events, that is- other times, she wears her usual outfit.
- Averted: Alice has several sets of clothes to choose from and changes her outfit every day, but not so much to cross into the Unlimited Wardrobe.
- Enforced:
- "Our animation style doesn't make faces very distinctive, so we'll give them a set clothing style to ensure all viewers recognize them at once."
- The artist is simply lazy.
- In a live-action example, the cast and crew don't want to or simply can't afford to spend extra money on clothes, so each character is given one outfit.
- Lampshaded: "It feels like I've been wearing these clothes forever!"
- Invoked: Alice intentionally wears the same thing every day to make herself stand out.
- Exploited: Bob is looking for Alice, so he looks for her distinctive outfit (and optionally sniffs her out too).
- Defied: Alice burns every outfit after use so she never wears the same thing twice.
- Discussed: "You'll recognize Alice by her green top and blue jeans. Trust me."
- Conversed: "They wear the same clothes every day. How is that sanitary?"
- Implied: Alice is a Posthumous Character, so the only connection the audience has with her is her possessions, and her dress is the only article of clothing that gets any mention.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice has an unhealthy obsession with a particular style of clothes and wears the same outfit every day. The clothes eventually become filthy and unsanitary. Her friends leave her due to the stench and Alice eventually gets sick due to not ever changing her clothes.
- As above, but Hilarity Ensues as Alice's friends do crazy things to wash the clothes without removing them.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice becomes obsessed with a certain style of clothes, so she buys eight identical sets of the same outfit.
- Plot Foundation: This is intended to highlight Alice's position as a constant in the series, as she never changes, even in appearance.
- Played for Laughs: Alice's only outfit is a clown costume.
- Played for Drama: Alice is poor- and hygiene-shamed for being unable to afford new clothes and having to wear the same ones every day.
Go back to Limited Wardrobe, but first, here's twenty bucks. Go buy yourself something nice to wear. It's getting embarrassing.
