#one of my Most Important Headcanons is doc packing up all marty's clothes from '55 and storing them for thirty years

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One of my favorite subtle trends in the BttF trilogy is Marty landing in a new time period, ill-equipped and ill-dressed, and Doc Brown in one way or another providing him with a suitable wardrobe.

Marty navigates 1955 in his "life preserver" for his whole first day, until he reaches Doc and has somewhere to literally and figuratively take off his coat; for the rest of the movie, after that, he's dressed in a series of new '55-appropriate outfits, implying they must have gone shopping on his second or third day.

(And he definitely has more clothes than he needs, by the way; including a pair of Chuck Taylors that were not appropriate streetwear in the '50s but he wears anyway. So I do assume Marty was actively involved in the shopping.)

In 2015, of course, Doc throws the appropriate hat/jacket/sneakers at him so he'll blend in.

In addition, once they land in 1955 again (and Marty's spent half the movie in just a t-shirt, because there was nowhere to stop and adjust in Biff's World), Doc gives him some cash and tells him to use it for clothes.

(No, Marty's choices are not the most practical. That's okay. The boy deserved something fun at that point. But it's also still a huge improvement over walking around in November in just a t-shirt.)

When Marty's in 1955 in the third movie, after that stormy night, you can see after the first scene that he's changed back into '55 clothes from the first movie, as well as a jacket that he must have borrowed from Doc.

'55 Doc provides him with the Hollywood Cowboy outfit before he leaves for 1885; when he gets there, '85 Doc takes one look at him and gets him a full change of more practical clothes.

Anyway, I really like the attention to detail, and I also love what a good concrete representation this is of Doc's role in Marty's adventures. He's the point of stability, the prepared one, the one who's always ready to supply what Marty doesn't have. This is why, when Marty's alone in time, his first objective is always "make contact with Doc"—because Doc will provide him with refuge and resources.

#one of my Most Important Headcanons is doc packing up all marty's clothes from '55 and storing them for thirty years #mainly because i want marty to get his vintage chucks back #and the leather jacket of course #i think he should get to find all his stuff in a box in doc's garage