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Characters that stuck to a fashion when the rest of the world moved on
Not a snappy title but you get the idea. You can see how it happens -you start your new show or comic or what have you. How to make it look current? To lend a touch of verisimilitude, you have your charcters sporting some of the fashions of the day. Most of the time as the decades come and go, characters get with the times and update their look accordingly.
But sometimes they dont, making them little islands in a fashion stream until they reach the point where they get defined by their now retro fashion. Jughead from the Archie comic is a nice example - that beanie hat was once quite popular but now he must be the last kid on earth rocking this look. From a UK example, Mickey Pierce from the TV show Only Fools And Horses was an occasional character who was plainly a big fan of the then current Ska trend with bands like The Specials and Madness. To this end he sported a pork pie hat like many other youths did. But he kept this going for a good twenty years. Long after those bands gave them up and indeed disbanded and reformed. Anyway, drop off any other examples you can think of. I refuse to think these are the only two still roaming the land. |
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