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{{quote|''Oh, should've known, the way you guys are blending in with the local colour. I mean, Flag Girl was bad enough, but '''U-Boat Captain'''?''
|'''Captain Jack Harkness''' speaking in [[World War II]] London, ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E09 The Empty Child|The Empty Child]]"}}
When people are engaged in [[Time Travel]], they will very frequently be wearing clothing that is inappropriate or out of fashion for the time period. After the obligatory initial comments about the time traveler being dressed "very strangely", the locals will all, in effect, [[Weirdness Censor|shrug and move on]], and however bizarre or inappropriate the clothing may be by their standards, they will rarely mention it again. An [[Improbable Hairstyle]] doesn't faze the peasants, either. Occasionally caused by [[Limited Wardrobe]]. Of course, in some cases, it's not a problem because [[Fashions Never Change]].
Necessarily averted if you [[Can't Take Anything
(Note: For those of us [[Separated
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kagome from ''[[Inuyasha]]'' wears an extremely short skirt in feudal Japan. Near the beginning, a man comments that "Her kimono is shorter than mine" while fingering her skirt. After this, though, aside from a rare passing comment about "strange clothes", no one she meets is ever really surprised by her modern clothes and hair.
** Considering how much school she misses because of [[San Dimas Time]], [[Fridge Logic|one wonders exactly why she wouldn't bother with a more practical outfit whenever spending extended time in feudal Japan]], [[Rule of Cool|aside from]] [[Fetish Fuel|the obvious]].
*** It's less that than it is an ingrained cultural habit. After elementary school, Japanese schoolchildren are conditioned to wear their school uniforms on school days, period, no
** Given that Kagome is possibly the most powerful miko alive and she's traveling with a powerful half-demon at her side... yeah, the skirt is possibly the ''least'' unusual thing about her.
* Hitomi in ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' goes gallivanting through the fantasy world with knights, princesses and giant magical robots, wearing her school sailor uniform. She gets some comments about strange clothes in the early episodes, though. In their defense, they ''did'' try to get her into a more... appropriate dress, but then she had to run down Van and a big, billowy dress really gets in the way of a good runner.
* Averted strongly in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', where nearly every stop (longer than a day or so, anyway), involves the main characters acquiring clothing that would be appropriate in the local culture. More often then not, they are skipping [[The Multiverse|dimensions]], not [[Time Travel|time traveling]], but the concept still applies, since the worlds they visit have a great diversity of historical settings, magical abilities, technology, urban vs rural, or even non-human inhabitants. Fai's fur coat would be out of place anywhere, so he seldom wears it. If they ''are'' wearing their own clothing, someone is likely to comment on how strange it appears. Basically, this gave CLAMP an excuse for [[Costume Porn|endless costume changes]].
** CLAMP seems to love changing costumes every episode. They came up with an [[Justified Trope|excuse]] in [[
* ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka
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* On the rare time-travels of Milligan's ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'', it was easily [[Handwaved]] by Shade only appearing to personalities known to stay under the influence of substances, sometimes including hallucinogens. In one unique aversion, all of Hotel Shade and everything inside reverted gradually to earlier analogues and fashions, until they finally arrived in colonial Salem. Constantine mused on the fit of various underwear through history.
* A comic special (Mandy?) featured a girl who sat in an a coach in a museum being transported back to the same coach in the Victorian Era. Once she explained that it was normal to wear mini skirts back home everyone accepted hers. Also pointing out that back home many secretaries were women was sufficient to get her the job.
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* Averted in the first ''[[Back to The Future]]'', with people remarking on Marty's hazmat suit and vest throughout the film. ''[[Back to The Future]] Part III'' also subverts this: Marty's cowboy outfit (assembled by 1950s Doc Brown, who assures Marty that it is, in fact, "authentic") is horrendously out-of-place in 1885 Hill Valley.
** In the latter film, we get this memorable exchange after Marty meets up with Doc Brown in 1885:
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'''Marty''': You did. }}
** Also averted (in another fashion) in the second film, where Doc gives Marty local clothing so he can disguise himself as his own son. However, he doesn't have to change out of his T-shirt or blue jeans (other than turning out the pockets, since in 2015 people wear their pants inside-out).
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* ''[[The Time Machine]]'' (2002). After the first time jump, the main character is given directions by a friendly woman on a bicycle. Both clearly think the others' mode of dress is unusual, but are too polite to say so.
** Of course, thanks to the movie, this bicycle outfit inspired a [[Real Life]] version.
* Averted in ''[[
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* ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'' book series completely avoids this - probably two-thirds of an Acolyte's job is making sure that period and world-appropriate clothing is available to the main characters. Of course, in this case it's more dimensional travel than time-travel, but the spirit is the same (not to mention that two of the "Territories" are a past and future version of Earth, respectively).
* In the Pratchett book ''[[Johnny and The Bomb]]'', the kids decide to get disguises before going back to the [[WW 2]]-era version of their hometown again (the first trip being accidental). The skinhead Bigmac's idea to scrounge up a military uniform would have been better if it hadn't been a ''German'' uniform. Kristy was the picture of 1940s glamour...and, being 13, looked to 1941 eyes like a little girl playing dress-up. Johnny managed to scrounge up clothes that were reasonably authentic to what a kid his age might've had- [[Butt Monkey|and Kristy criticized him for it]].
* ''The Devils of Langenhagen'', a short story by Australian sci-fi author Sean McMullen. The protagonist, a German pilot in an Me262 squadron in the last days of [[WW 2]], realises there's something odd about the two pilots (and their wives) who've turned up with their unusually advanced aircraft (a [
* ''Foop!''. The character's somewhat naive thoughts on how millenium-turn era citizens dress (obscene t-shirts) ends up not mattering because they had to go to Mardi Gras.
* In [[Alice, Girl
* The hero of [[L. Sprague
* Discussed and averted in the ''[[
* The ''[[Time Machine Series|Time Machine]]'' [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] books may or may not pay attention to this. In ''Quest for King Arthur'', for instance, when you time-travel to a modern-day museum, the tour guide will sarcastically comment on your Medieval costume. On the other hand, in ''The Mystery of Atlantis'' you're wearing nothing but a Greek chiton and yet can time-travel to locations such as nineteenth-century Great Britain or pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and nobody ever notices anything amiss!
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
** The title of this entry comes from "[[Doctor Who
** The quote comes from "The Empty Child", where Rose is wearing jeans and a [[Wearing a Flag
** Amy Pond is the absolute champion of this trope. She's managed to wear a mini-skirt pretty much ''everywhere''.
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'''Amy:''' I dressed for '''RIO!''' }}
** Another example is from the end of ''[[Doctor Who
** One aversion of the trope is from ''[[Doctor Who
** In "[[Doctor Who
** Possibly the most extreme example of someone noticing the incongruous clothes is in the [[Spin-Off]] novel ''The Many Hands'', where a soldier in 18th century Edinburgh comments on Martha's "pantaloons", and she sarcastically asks if it's against the law. It is.
** In ''[[Doctor Who
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the 2008 series, where Donna asks whether her clothing (jeans, tunic top) won't be a little conspicuous in a Roman city in AD 79. The Doctor's answer: "Nah, ancient Rome? It's like Soho. [[City of Weirdos|Anything goes]]." Sadly, it turns out the TARDIS landed in Pompeii instead. Later in the same episode, Donna, trying to fit in, is shown wearing a stola instead.
** The Doctor himself, in the original run, compensated by dressing so outlandishly he was simply never in fashion: the fourth Doctor's scarf and bohemian coat, the Sixth's multicoloured coat, and so on.
** Sarah Jane just happens to dress up in (2nd Doctor companion) Victoria's outfit before the events of ''Pyramids of Mars''.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in "The Shakespeare Code", when the Doctor tells Martha to just walk about like she owns the
* In ''[[
** She, hilariously, assumes at first all the strange looks she's getting are due to her race, when she's really getting the looks due to her clothes, and probably only getting away with it because she looks foreign.
** In the same episode, knowing that she's going back in time, Sarah Jane dresses appropriately for the time period. Apparently "the 50s came back in the 70s". Luke is suitably embarassed.
* Repeatedly in ''[[Star Trek:
** "Tomorrow is Yesterday": Captain Kirk beams down to a 1960s U.S. Air Force base while wearing his Star Fleet uniform.
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'''Kirk:''' This little thing? Something I slipped on. }}
** "City on the Edge of Forever": Kirk and Spock are in 1920s New York wearing their Star Fleet uniforms.
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** Averted in "Assignment Earth": When Kirk and Spock beam down to the 1960s United States, they wear appropriate clothing.
** "All Our Yesterdays": Kirk, Spock and McCoy accidentally end up in the past of an alien planet while wearing their Star Fleet uniforms.
** ''[[Star Trek IV:
*** Except maybe Spock's head-to-toe white robe and headband. Of course, they are in [[San Francisco]].
**** This is justified, actually. Before filming Paramount had non-Trek actors walk around San Francisco in costumes. Nobody noticed.
***** Well, with the rank insignia and more obvious military trappings removed, the late 23rd century Starfleet uniforms really aren't all that abnormal-looking...and remember, only ''Kirk and Uhura'' were even '''in''' uniform. Everyone else was wearing the same civilian clothing they wore when they stole the ''Enterprise'' in the previous film, and their civvies are pretty much identical to late 20th century attire.
** Humorously averted on ''[[Star Trek
** Parodied in "Almost...But Not Quite" by Dayton Ward (''Star Trek: Strange New Worlds II'') where two Temporal Investigations agents (based on a report of Kirk's visit to 20th Century San Francisco) disguise themselves as punk rockers...when visiting Griffith Observatory. Needless to say, they stick out a bit.
** Also, on one episode of ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', several characters found themselves in the Original Series, and changed their jumpers to fit the Star Fleet uniform of the period.
** It formed something of a running gag in ''The Next Generation''. Whether on the Holodeck or traveling into the past, people would assume that the characters' uniforms were pajamas (Or in one case, a bellhop's uniform). Can't really blame them.
** Avoided by Spock in the ''[[Star Trek:
** Averted in ''[[Star Trek
** Another running gag in ''Time's Arrow''
** Averted in "Accession" where a time-displaced Bajoran emerges from the wormhole and his 22nd Century clothing looks exactly the same as that of the 24th Century.
* ''[[
** One of the leads actively averted it in the first episode, but never got that chance afterwards.
* ''[[It's
* Averted in the ''[[Lost in
* Played with in ''[[Lost in Austen]]'', where Mr Darcy and Miss Price are able to wander around modern London in outfits from the early 19th century without anyone commenting. Whether this is because nobody thinks it's that weird in a city that diverse, or the British are just too polite and reserved to comment, is uncertain. On the other hand, when Miss Price first arrives in ''Pride and Prejudice'' land she has to excuse her leather jacket and jeans as otter-hunting clothes. The degree of cleavage she's showing causes Mr Bingley some discomfort, as well.
** From the cleavage-revealing clothes often used in historical dramas, that shouldn't have been a problem. Or is that just a [[Fan Service]] version of history?
*** Generally the cleavage-exposing dresses were considered acceptable as evening wear but not during the day.
* In an episode of ''[[
* In ''[[Stargate SG
* On ''[[Voyagers]]'', the costume of the travelers almost always got
== Real Life ==
* This trope is the entire point of Pretend To Be A Time Traveller Day, started by the webcomic ''[[Dresden Codak]]''. (See below.)
* During filming for ''[[Star Trek IV:
** It wasn't even during filming, it was prior to filming, and it was non-actors in the full Starfleet "Red Jacket" uniforms.
*** Of course they '''weren't''' strange uniforms. They were probably recognized as being Star Trek uniforms and then not given a second glance.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In the time-travelling RPG ''[[Continuum]]'', spanners are cautioned to be careful of this once they learn to travel more than a few years in a single span. One of the flavor-text stories in the sourcebook has a mentor living in [[The Sixties|the early sixties]] call out one of her charges for wearing a peace sign, even though it's only a few years before it would become popular.
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* Skillfully averted in ''[[The Journeyman Project]]'' series. In the first game, the character, in a form fitting biosuit, is '''expressly forbidden''' from coming into contact with any intellegent being originating from the time he is traveling to. In the second game, the new Jumpsuit technology, features a cloaking device that can conceal the character by bending light around him. In the last game, talking to the locals is necessary, so the new suit can copy the external appearance of any individual of the time period, including attire, facial features, etc. It even allows for the generation of a fake cane and removable top hat in the game's ending.
** Agent 5 gets seen several times by medieval knights in the second game. Fortunately, his metallic suit is mistaken for armour, and most of the witnesses die immediatelly afterward. Attempting to wear the suit into the public in BC Mayan times results in him being immediatelly assumed to be a god, resulting in [[Have a Nice Death]] by screwing up history.
* ''[[
** Degrees of lampshades are hung on the subject. The Cavemen will make weird comments on your shiny stones and such, however a medieval guard has no problem talking to a robot from 2000 some odd years into the future.
* [[Star Ocean]]: Needed for the human to enter the first town
** And then totally ignored for the subsequent games, which while not involving time travel, are functionally equivalent in having space travelers visiting primitive planets.
* The ''[[Orion Agenda]]'', an [[IF Comp]] text-adventure, requires players to adopt the appearance of the natives. You also need to use the [[Universal Translator]] in order to avoid being detected as well.
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', the trope is averted in some worlds such as Halloween Town, Timeless River and Space Paranoids where the main characters change their clothes to fit the world they're in. In Atlantica and the Pride Lands they even change their bodies into animal bodies. On the other worlds they don't change their clothes, but nobody seems to take notice. It might not count as time travel, but most worlds are set in different time periods.
== Webcomics ==
* Subverted in ''[[Dresden Codak]]'', where the time travelers [https://web.archive.org/web/20130726093753/http://www.dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_035.htm try to blend in], but fail, and [[Genre Savvy|are identified as time travelers on sight by Alina]], who compares them to historical reenactors:
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"You think so?"
"If the future did a documentary of the last fifty years, this is how badly the reenactors would dress." }}
* ''[[Scary Go Round]]'', while avoiding this trope, gave a good demonstration of why it can be necessary to move a story along. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110624033428/http://www.scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20040929 Amy]: "If one more person shouts 'Whore' at me, I'm going to kill them."
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** Although by the year 3000, Fry's red jacket and blue jeans combo is deemed snicker-worthy.
* [[Kim Possible|Team Possible]] found themselves wrongly dressed when they entered the [[Bad Future]] in ''[[The Movie|A Sitch in Time]]'' because, according to little more than mere fashion rules, everyone should be wearing [[Evil Overlord|Shego's]] uniform.
* Subverted in a ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode where Danny's time travel to the 1980's reveals that his black jumpsuit is actually ''fitting'' for that time period.
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* In the ''[[Men in Black (
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