10 Movie Costume Fails That'll Make You Cringe

Costumes play a huge role in movies, they make the whole story more authentic. However, if costume fails sneak in, it's super cringe!

In "Dirty Dancing", Baby often wears jeans shorts, an invention and trend of the 80s.
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Movies often become iconic when they manage to transport us into a different time, show us a different perspective, and manage to involve us emotionally. When this fails, it's often due to wardrobe malfunctions and costumes that don't belong to the time the movie is set in. So cringe!

Here, we've collected the most embarrassing movie costume fails for you:

#1 Dirty Dancing

In "Dirty Dancing", Baby, played by the young Jennifer Grey, often wears relaxed jeans shorts. Do you know what's wrong about this? The movie is set in the 1960s, however, jeans shorts only became a fashion trend in the 80s. Whoops!

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