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Marty's Clothes make no sense

posted a year ago by avortac4 (3742)
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Marty wakes up, sees his whole family changed. His whole life is different now, except they still live in the same house for some reason. Now, think about it - EVERYONE wears completely different clothes, except Marty.

Everyone around him wear 'Altered Timeline Clothes' (ATC from now on), only Marty wears 'Original Timeline Clothes' (OTC).

So, why isn't everyone freaking out?

I mean, if your family lives a certain lifestyle, the clothes are going to be a certain type, and you get used to whatever your family members usually wear.

Suddenly one of the family members wear completely different, and probably a LOT cheaper outfit that you have NEVER seen them wear before! Where did Marty get the OTC? Why isn't the family shocked that he suddenly has full set of clothes no one has ever seen before?

Remember that these clothes came from the destroyed timeline, so they basically don't even exist in this timeline, at least in Marty's wardrobe. Marty should have a completely different clothing style, because he has lived a completely different life, with parents that were changed quite a bit in substancial ways. Look at EVERYONE else, and how differently they dress.

The new timeline Marty would be one of family, whose clothes changed, and he would be dressing very differently (in ATC) than the Marty that lived the 'crappier life' with alcoholic mom, wimpy dad and loser bro and sister.

This means, the cheaper clothes that 'our Marty' wears should be shocking the family, at least a little bit. Dave should NOT say anything about Marty sleeping in his clothes again (this habit should also have probably changed anyway), but rather remark how WEIRD and unseen-before his suddenly CHEAP clothes look like! Dave should be AT LEAST AS SHOCKED at Marty's cheap clothes as Marty is shocked at Dave's expensive clothes (though why Dave still even lives there is a mystery)!

Why isn't he? Why isn't anyone?

If your son suddenly comes out of his room wearing much cheaper and weird-looking outfit you have never seen him wear or even own before, with no explanation as to how he got it, since last night he went to sleep in a COMPLETELY different outfit, wouldn't you react and be at least a little bit shocked about it?

It makes NO SENSE.

[–] millsey72 (10244) a year ago

No one knows

[–] moviechatterer (15583) a year ago

The real mystery is why Martys wearing a bright orange life preserver in the first place .
That crap was never in fashion in the 80s , not for normal people.

[–] Ziggy (1799) a year ago

That was very popular in the 80s.

[–] PaladinNJ (21509) a year ago

That was a jacket with the sleeves unzipped off of it. Quite common.

[–] mikethemartian (6708) 5 months ago

It was a mountaineering vest made by a company called Class 5.

[–] Ziggy (1799) a year ago

I think you’re forgetting that Marty’s clothes did not originally fit with his family. The clothes he wore at the beginning were definitely more expensive and more “in” than the clothes his parents and siblings wore. If anything, the clothes his family were wearing at the end, was more in line with the clothes Marty wore throughout the movie.

[–] blindfolded (1618) a year ago

Stupid.

Marty himself is from the old timeline, including the clothes he already had on. Dave's clothed changed because he's a professional with a different job. Marty is still a high school kid in any timeline🤦‍♂️

[–] hurricane (1959) a year ago

We get it. You don't like Back To The Future.

Do you have to bombard this forum with threads; "Waaaah! This makes no sense" at every tiny little thig?

He wore the clothes because he liked them. There you go, I've explained it to you.

[–] Enigmaticocean77 (2411) a year ago

An entire thread about the effects that an altered time line has on clothing. You need a better hobby.

[–] liscarkat (18367) 4 months ago

When I was Marty's age, if I had walked in wearing a different type of clothing from what my family was used to seeing me in, they might have said "where'd you get those clothes?", or maybe even laughed, but they wouldn't have "freaked out" or been "shocked".