This editor had a teacher who was famous in his school for always wearing a bow-tie. Not only that, but he would play up the "outdated" aspect to the absolute maximum: In addition to teaching Latin, he would speak in a very posh, upper-class manner and soliloquise on the many days spent in his manor house. When this editor was finally old enough to get the joke, he suddenly found a whole new respect for that teacher.

This troper's chemistry teacher in high always wore a bow tie. He explained that it wouldn't accidentally fall into the chemicals he was experimenting with.

Bow Ties Are ''Cool''.

This Troper has on his college campus an individual who dresses in traditional Scottish garb including a kilt. According to an individual both he and the Scottish reenactor know, this individual is an expert in medieval weaponry and owns a claymore.

Tropers/{{Zordauch}} got into ska when his marching band-mates were in a band in 1996. He didn't get checkerboard-patterned Vans]] canvas shoes until 2007.

This troper sincerely thinks the world would be a better place if more men wore hats (and proper ones, not baseball caps!). He tends to wear a duster and a fedora at pretty much all times. He has also frequently suggested 1930s as a theme of a party so he could wear a zoot suit (after all we already had one 80s theme party at the university, so it's not like we could dress in anything worse...)

{{Nice Hat}}s are becoming more fashionable around this troper's university, too. Trilbys seem to be the mark of ultimate cool, although anything with a brim will do.

This troper believes that Nice Hats are not only preferable to a bare head in a formal situation (or Lord forbid, a baseball cap) but ought to be mandatory. I'm wearing pantyhose-- you wear a trillby. On average, at the rate we go through our respective items of attire, the cost about evens out.

This Troper wears nice hats on every possible occasion. His favourite is the black trilby, but the pinstripe trilby, black fedora and black flat cap also ge their fair share of use. He's still searching for a bowler....

Marry me.

This troper is still working out his collection, but it begins with a stovepipe and a tricorn. One hopes I can only go up from there...

This troper would wear such hats much more often if there wasn't the hassle of finding a safe place to hang it when he takes it off indoors (like in a big lecture hall). Instead he has to settle for a bucket hat that he can easily stow in a pocket, since he hates baseball caps.

This troper would wear hats, except they aren't allowed at his high school. Come college, though...

This (female) troper can't wear it at ''school'', but owns an awesome trilby. She likes to wear it with her black woolen trenchcoat, sometimes for fancy-type occasions but just as often simply because she thinks they look awesome together. 'Course, this turned out to be a bad idea one time, when it suddenly got windy and blew her hat off. (Thankfully, just into a snowbank rather than, say, onto the road.) Her newsboy cap is much, much better at both clinging to her head and being able to be stuffed into her purse.

This troper adds that although he's at a university with no dress code or even median level of dress, wearing his inherited Harris Tweed driving cap/flat cap tends to get random people calling him "sir", despite the khaki cargoes and (nice, but vaguely t-shirted) and a non-button casual shirt.

This tropette would like to say how sexy 1930's type hats are. They reek of class and style. Mmmm...

This female troper thinks that the world would become a better place if more women would wear dresses. Including big ones with floor-length bell skirts.

Only if men can too. This female troper will happily wear a Disney princess dress if her date is arriving in that froufy pseudo-military uniform a certain Disney prince wears...

Oh yeah, this troper (the topic starter) also likes men in BlingOfWar! It makes any Joe Average a hunk!

This troper would point out that prior to the early 20th century, it was quite common for prepubescent boys to wear dresses, and no one thought of this as abnormal.

Back then, trousers were seen as a rite of passage to mark when a boy becomes a man.

This troper likes ''looking'' at people in dresses (regardless of length or amount of foof), but owns none herself. This is probably because of a combination of feeling awkward when dressed up and a lack of desire to buy expensive clothing that I'd wear once in the proverbial blue moon. (I need that money to buy books! And video games! And more and more T-shirts from Threadless!)

This troper has been told that he looks extremely awkward wearing "modern" clothing, and has been recommended repeatedly to get clothing dating prior to 1850. Don't get me wrong, though, this troper loves the fact that certain pieces of clothing from the time periods he studies will result in an immediate "Badass" label.

This troper went full out 40s style to her senior prom.

This Tropers teacher wore a lab coat (with the Canadian flag sewn onto it) everyday. He wasn't a science teacher.

You are awesome.

In fact when he left another teacher bought him a new lab coat, with a Canadian flag sewn onto it, Awwwww....

This troper dresses like a zionist extra from The Matrix. Longcoat, unusual outfit, and tends to stand out from people around him a great deal.

This troper's mother won't let her wear truly "outdated" clothing (must move out of parents' house!), but troper manages to take current pieces and put them together to make outfits with a nineteenth-century, Old Hollywood, or eighties vibe depending on her mood that day. She does manage to wear some old-fashioned hats, including one from the 1920s.

This troper is basically, stuck in the early 90's; And well, most of comedy writer wannabe's...

This female troper feels extremely awkward in pants and shorts. She only wears them when cosplaying. This has often led to her being hated at first sight or written off as a spineless weakling.

This troper really likes the look of a white button-down shirt with an old-fashioned vest thing, especially a black one (with optional tie), but owns no tops more formal than a couple of designless long-sleeved T-shirts. (This has occasionally bitten her in the ass, when she's been called upon to go to fancy restaurants.)

Old fashioned vest things are called Waistcoats <3

This troper's signature style at college consists of, no matter what, a fedora and suspenders. For some reason, just about anything looks classier to her with those two accessories.

Just about every male professor in this troper's department at college wears a nice hat of some kind when showing up at the building. No two have the same style of hat either.

This troper resembles nothing so much as a college girl circa 1969.

And this troper a British university student of 1969, male. That or one of the various Doctors.

This Troper had a Religions of the world teacher who obviously hadn't bought any new clothes since 1979.

Tropers/TParadox is quite fond of fedoras, and recently acquired one of his own. However, he finds few opportunities to actually wear it. So far, it's basically his directing hat, which is not what he had in mind.

He also wants a trenchcoat to go with it...

In the summer, this troper will occasionally go out in 1980s clothes. Headband, jelly bracelets, neon colors, everything but leg warmers (since she can't find any). And even takes her cassette tape player with her instead of her iPod. Why? Because that's just the sort of person she is.

If you're looking for leg warmers I'd suggest your local punk/raver store, arm socks are available in many blindingly bright colours and serve pretty well if you get the big ones and fold them over once.

This troper own two trilbys (one black felt and slightly oversized, the other black-and-white striped and a better fit) and a flat cap. He also wears suspenders on occasion and a navy blue duster.

This troper and her boyfriend are known as "the cool hat couple" for obvious reasons and frequently walk around town in full period gear (anything from 1700's to 1940's).

This troper's ex had a couple of tie-dyed t-shirts that he wore until they fell apart, and didn't like to cut his hair, resulting in a very impressive white boy 'fro.

This Troper's is not as outdated as others, but due to him being in his teenage years believes it counts, he likes to wear a denim jacket and aviator glasses, and listens to 60's brit rock like TheBeatles and TheWho.

On "decade day" during spirit week in high school (in 2008) people were guessing my look to be somewhere between the 60s to the 90s... I wasn't even dressed up. My dad says I look like the guys he went to school with in the 70s. Except for the newer band shirts (like Disturbed and Dethklok) I look like someone who was my age 20 years before I was born.

This troper favours a white shirt, neat trousers, a waistcoat and pocket watch on most days. Occasionally mixing it up with a highwayman style long jacket. I would be far happier if people in the world still wore cloaks. They were badass and you know it.

Are you me? You're me, right?

This troper pretty much wore outdated clothes most of her life. In kindergarten she wore overalls and jumpers. Now she shops with her dad instead of her mom to get clothes more out of the norm. She now owns an army jacket, a trench coat, some jeans from the seventies, suspenders, jeans that button up past her belly-button. (GASP) Some John Lennon glasses, some striped hoodies,bellbottoms, and a fedora hat.

This troper is kinda guilty of this trope. He has a tendency to come into school in a 3 peice suite (waist coats etc) and has a strange love of trenchcoats and other more unusual forms of coats... He does it so much that the term Victorian Gentleman has been used to describe him on more than one occasion and he is seriously considering buying a tophat.

Just remember the simple rule: only wear a top hat with a long coat, at least long in the tails. With a shorter jacket, wear a shorter hat!

Also, this troper swears that she's been to some small rural Midwestern towns where everyone's fashions are firmly stuck in the 1980's, ala ''NapoleonDynamite''.

This troper would like to complain about how hard it is to do this trope in real life, especially for teenage girls (who seem to have an abnormally fast rate of style-change). Mostly because stores simply stop selling the stuff that's outdated. Frankly, this troper prefers older styles and most of what is "in" at a given time just looks plain silly, but it's incredibly hard to wear what she likes because it's all been replaced by said silly outfits.

Goodwill becomes a valid alternative for women with this complaint and anyone trying for a "retro" look.

Don't forget the thrift store/resale shop, which became a haven for hipsters shooting for irony (e.g. "LOL, I'm middle-class and highly educated, but just ''look'' at this cheesy and outdated t-shirt and hat combo I'm wearing! Isn't it just so unexpected for ''someone like me?''").

Best thing about shopping at charity stores, you're doing something that's ethically good and saving money at the same time.

This (male) troper spent much of the time in his teenage years when he was coaxed into a clothes shop searching for jeans that a) Weren't torn, b) Were neither baggy nor tight, c) Weren't covered in labels, and most importantly d) Uses a ''zip'' for the fly.

Fedora hats has always been close to This Troper's blackened heart.

This troper has a particular affinity for fashion of bygone eras, with 40s/50s style being my favorite. An A-line dress that doesn't have a ridiculously low neckline, and is pretty but still functional? Yes please. I've actually made (with the help of my grandmother who lived in the 50s) several dresses, and adore wearing them with pantyhose, heels and pearls. I get strange looks for being, as one friend described me, "lost in time," which only adds to the appeal for me. And it's not just women's fashion. Give me a man in a suit (preferably three-piece) and fedora, and I'm smitten. There's just a classic charm that can't be captured any other way.