Kamen Rider Fashion Styles

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I call it Rider Makeover.
Let's look at the most distinctive one: Hongo Takeshi.

As the series started he looked like an ace student. Shorter hair than we're used to seeing him with and very formal clothes.
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When he comes back during the 40's he's still using this outfit, although his hairstyle is now much longer and wilder.
When he comes back full-time he starts wearing different outfits, his signature ones seem to be these:

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Awesome. Like the Minami Kotaro case mentioned, he looks like a total badass when fighting, and when doing the Henshin. This is also formal enough that I can picture him giving a lecture about Chemistry.

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Personally, I found this one a bit weird. I do like it, though. It was a bit funny to see it get dirty.

My favorite, one that just screams Badass, and is the one I always picture him with (the Genealogy of Justice videogame agrees with me):
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He wore these during the Gel-Shocker days the most, and well... what can I say? They fit him perfectly. If I ever cosplay as Hongo Takeshi, this is what I would wear.

The greatest thing about all his outfits is that they are clothes a biker would wear. This holds true for many other Riders from the 70's... and the 80's too actually.

 

[Scissors]

Kotaro's look was pretty much "normal" back then.
Fingerless gloves were popular with quite a variety of 80s genres, and were used in not only most tokusatsu shows, but also other shows that were geared towards the japanese youth.
His jacket was also a typical "members only jacket" which were popular pretty much everywhere back then.

I think one of the most distinctive ones was Shigeru (Stronger)
Back then, being a Rider was not exactly something to be happy about. So it was very cool to have Shigeru who took the "I'm a super hero, *****!" to the extreme with his style.
He looked like a badass hero, even when he was not transformed.
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