Alternate Costumes/Street Fighter IV series

Snapshot 20141218 231053 — Original costume (left) vs. Alternate costume 1 (right) for Ryu

Street Fighter IV, like many 3D fighting games, features alternate costumes for the playable characters. The game also continues the tradition of using alternate colors for these characters, allowing the player to select a color for both original and alternate costumes.

All characters in Street Fighter IV and its updates have 6 or 7 costumes with 10 colors each (plus two "stylized" versions of color 1). Costumes from the Vacation, Wild, and Horror packs have 20 colors each.^[1]

Releases

Street Fighter IV Costumes

Each character has one alternate costume in the original Street Fighter IV.

Super Street Fighter IV Costumes

In Super Street Fighter IV, the returning characters have three costumes, and the characters introduced in Super and Arcade Edition have two.

Ultra Street Fighter IV Costumes

In addition to every previously released costume, the new characters were given two costumes each. They have their Alternate 1 costumes locked. The player must have save data from Street Fighter X Tekken to use them.^[1] Their Alternate 2 is either available by pre-ordering the game or as DLC. Three new sets for every character were also introduced as DLC: Vacation, Wild, and Horror.

Alternate 3 -- him wearing a formal suit and a fedora, which is reminiscent of Cracker Jack.

Alternate 2 -- A variation of M. Bison's uniform, being a clone of him.

Chun-Li

Alternate 3 -- Her tracksuit from Street Fighter Alpha.

Alternate 6 (Horror) -- A skeleton outfit, similar to Skullomania, except that his face isn't completely covered.

Elena

Evil Ryu

Alternate 6 (Horror) -- Resemble Raijin, the gods of wind in the Shinto religion.

Alternate 1 -- Charlie Nash's outfit from the Street Fighter Alpha.
Alternate 3 -- A formal military uniform, seen in his Capcom Fighting Evolution ending.
Alternate 4 (Vacation) -- Resembles Doctrine Dark.

Alternate 1 -- From King Cobra, a character design that was scrapped in favor of Rufus.
Alternate 3 -- His training gear seen in his Street Fighter Alpha 2 ending.