History Main / HatesWearingDresses

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Matsuri is generally ok with living as a girl, but isn't comfortable with any feminine clothing besides the skirt of his school uniform.

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* In ''Manga/DeathNote'' WordOfGod states that Naomi Misora hates wearing dresses and skirts.

* Sailor Uranus from ''Manga/SailorMoon'' has "skirts" listed in her profile under things she dislikes. She does, however, wear a skirt as her MagicalGirl attire and has been shown wearing a skirt as a part of her school uniform (though she's usually depicted in the boy's pants, especially in the '90s anime).

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles: Blood Rites'' Harry's FriendOnTheForce Karrin Murphy turns up to a family reunion wearing a dress, surprising Harry when he arrives to pick her up for an attack on a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Black Court]] stronghold. She explains she hates dresses but she wanted to make her mom happy.

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* Deconstructed with Amy in ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework''. Amy would rather wear a hoodie than a dress, as she doesn’t want to do any [[spoiler:”princess stuff.”]]
* The title character of ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'' hates formal wear at the beginning of the story, but warms up wearing dresses as it goes on.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSb6R4TSIIc "#StreetStyle,"]] it's Picture Day and the punkish tomboy Kara has to wear a pretty '60s-style dress to school. As in, her foster parents had the rest of her clothes sent to the laundromat, ''forcing'' Kara to wear the dress. Kara hates it. She ends up accidentally ruining it while saving people on the way to school, but Kara actually ''likes'' it better that way.

* Pepper Ann's tomboyish sister Moose from ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' is shown to dislike wearing dresses.

* ''Manga/{{Nisekoi}}'' Tsugumi says that she avoids feminine clothes, including skirts and dresses because they are hard to fight in and are embarrassing to wear. [[spoiler: Ironically, she becomes a fashion model in the epilogue.]]
* Sailor Uranus from ''Manga/SailorMoon'' has "skirts" listed in her profile underthings she dislikes. She does, however, wear a skirt as her MagicalGirl attire and has been shown wearing a skirt as a part of her school uniform (though she's usually depicted in the boy's pants, especially in the '90s anime).

* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Tiza makes a fuss whenever her team is hired as sewing dummies, ostensibly because they are mercenaries but also because she's a tomboy. [[spoiler: It's actually rooted in a traumatic {{brainwashing}} incident in her backstory.]]

* ''Manga/{{Nisekoi}}'' Tsugumi says that she avoids feminine clothes, including skirts and dresses because they are hard to fight in and are embarrassing to wear. [[spoiler: Ironically, she becomes a FashionModel in the epilogue.]]

* Takatsuki from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is a complicated example. She's introduced as a boyish child who [[UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} wants to be seen as a boy]]. When she enters middle school and is forced to wear a skirt, she's miserable and embarrassed by it. Partway through middle school she [[spoiler:begins using the male uniform]], however after her trans girlfriend Nitori gets bullied for [[spoiler:going to school in a SailorFuku]] she goes back to the normal attire. Takatsuki signed up for her high school specifically because it was a no-uniform school where she could dress in casual attire. [[spoiler:Eventually Takatsuki becomes an androgynous FashionModel. During this period she begins having insecurities about her gender. By the time she finishes high school, she's gone from hating skirts to liking them and no longer wants to live as a boy, though [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity her actual gender]] is still vague]].

* ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' was a pure tomboy and mainly wore jeans as part of her unorthodox attire. She only wore dresses out of necessity of the situation (in a Halloween episode, she's dressed as a 50s doo-wop girl in a poodle skirt). Her animated counterpart did similar.

In real life, some women don't like dresses or skirts for a variety of reasons. They don't think they look good in them, they don't accentuate their figures the right way, they don't like the image they give off, long skirts and dresses are very impractical for running around (though short skirts can be very practical for active women, with some miniskirts even being explicitly designed for sportswear), they can be harder to sit down in, they're not warm enough for the climate, they're too frilly, they're too girly, the risk of a PantyShot is higher, etc. Sometimes, they just don't like dresses with no specific reason behind it. They're just not their style.

See also OfCorsetHurts (for the common depiction in historical fiction of corsets as instruments of misogynist torture). Compare ForcedIntoTheirSundayBest and EmbarrassinglyDresslikeOufit.

See also OfCorsetHurts (for the common depiction in historical fiction of corsets as instruments of misogynist torture). Compare ForcedIntoTheirSundayBest.

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* The {{Bifauxnen}} Rico from ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' dresses in rather androgynous clothing due to her [[TheHandler handler]]. In order to move unnoticed in an opera house where she's supposed to assassinate her target, Rico has to wear a dress. She complains that a dress is "too loose" for her. {{Justified|trope}} in that she hates the idea of being restrained in any way since she [[spoiler:used to be an IllGirl who was bed-bound her entire life]].