In the trailer for “A Quiet Place Part II,” which is now slated to hit theaters next April, the knits remain intact (if in need of a good wash) but the T-shirt Cillian Murphy’s character wears is sufficiently sliced. In the South Korean zombie-apocalypse film “Peninsula,” which came out in America this August, the characters battle the undead in threadbare sweaters, coats and shirts. “It almost makes you laugh,” said Nancy Deihl, director of the Costume Studies program at New York University’s Steinhardt School, of the tattered-knit trope. Though the pandemic has delayed many movies’ release dates, distressed clothes continue to punctuate the apocalyptic epics that have reached cinemas or are on deck. But in nearly every catastrophic film of the past few decades-from 1997’s corny clunker “The Postman” to 1999’s hallowed chronicle “The Matrix,” to the sorta-schmaltzy, sorta-stirring “Hunger Games” trilogy (2012-2015)-hole-ridden, wholly beaten-up sweaters have served as the foundation for the character’s costumes. Mad Max Fury Road Stylish Biker Faux Mel Gibson Leather Jacket Mad Max Costume Mad Max Rockatansky Movie Biker Leather Mad Max Fury Road Tom Hardy Leather. Most apocalyptic movies play out like this: First humanity falls, then the sweaters get torn.