History Main / HatesWearingDresses

In fiction, however, mainly two types of characters hate dresses: {{tomboy}}s or {{Butch Lesbian}}s who dislike "girly" stuff and {{Action Girl}}s who find their looseness too cumbersome (though the latter criticism doesn't apply to [[DangerouslyShortSkirt miniskirts]]). There's often an overlap between them. Sometimes the character's belief that RealWomenDontWearDresses is behind their disdain for dresses and skirts. Other times they're just not used to loose-fitting, frilly garments due to their normal rough-and-tumble attitude

In fiction, however, mainly two types of characters hate dresses: {{tomboy}}s or {{Butch Lesbian}}s who dislike "girly" stuff and {{Action Girl}}s who find their looseness too cumbersome. There's often an overlap between them. Sometimes the character's belief that RealWomenDontWearDresses is behind their disdain for dresses and skirts. Other times they're just not used to loose-fitting, frilly garments due to their normal rough-and-tumble attitude

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 skirts even being explicitly designed for sportswear), they're harder to sit down in, they're not warm enough for the climate, they're too frilly, they're too girly, etc. Sometimes, they just don't like dresses with no specific reason behind it. They're just not their style.

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 athletic skirts are explicitly designed to be practical for active women), they're harder to sit down in, they're not warm enough for the climate, they're too frilly, they're too girly, etc. Sometimes, they just don't like dresses with no specific reason behind it. They're just not their style.

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, they're not practical for running around, they're harder to sit down in, they're not warm enough for the climate, they're too frilly, they're too girly, etc. Sometimes, they just don't like dresses with no specific reason behind it. They're just not their style.

-->--'''Syd''' in their [[WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies promposal song]] to {{butch|lesbian}} girlfriend Elena, ''Series/OneDayAtATime2017''

In fiction, however, mainly two types of characters hate dresses: {{tomboy}}s or {{Butch Lesbian}}s who dislikes "girly" stuff and {{Action Girl}}s who finds their looseness too cumbersome. There's often an overlap between them. Sometimes the character's belief that RealWomenDontWearDresses is behind their disdain for dresses and skirts. Other times they're just not used to loose-fitting, frilly garments due to their normal rough-and-tumble attitude

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* ''Anime/BloodPlus'' Contrasting with her sister Diva, who usually wears a PimpedOutDress, Saya feels very uncomfortable wearing dresses. When she's rescued by Solomon, he [[UndressingTheUnconscious undresses her to bandage her wounds]], and when she wakes up naked, she's shown to be as uncomfortable around him wearing only a ModestyBedsheet as she is wearing the dress he gave her, and puts it on simply because she didn't want to be walking around naked.

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* ''Fanfic/TheWoundsStillBleeding'': In chapter 3, Kushina learns that just because Kakashi is a {{trans|gender}} girl doesn't mean she's a GirlyGirl. She can't stand skirts or dresses. They're too uncomfortable and she also hates that most people don't wear anything underneath them.

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* Played with when it comes to Buttercup from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016''. She is the most tomboyish Powerpuff, but like her sisters, the [[LimitedWardrobe only outfit she wears]] most of the time is a green dress. However, in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8I0zuNhqA extended intro]], Buttercup is annoyed at wearing a frilly "pretty skirt".

* 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.

* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'': Lara steps out of the shower in a [[ModestyTowel towel]] to see her butler Hillary
holding a pair of heels and a dress for her, which she's quick to dismiss.
--->'''Hillary:''' I'm only trying to turn you into a [[ProperLady lady.]]\\

* 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).

* ''Fanfic/TheWoundsStillBleeding'': In chapter 3, Kushina learns that just because Kakashi is a {{trans|gender}} girl doesn't mean she's a GirlyGirl. She can't stand skirts or dresses. They're too uncomfortable and she hates that most don't wear anything underneath them.

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, they're too frilly, they're too girly, etc. Sometimes, they just don't like dresses with no specific reason behind it. They're just not their style.

A girl who doesn't like dresses or skirts will [[UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy inevitably be put into one eventually]]. She will [[SheCleansUpNicely look nice]] in it, however will not enjoy the experience ([[GuiltyPleasures at least not explicitly]]) and will often be [[IAmNotPretty insecure of herself]].

* 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).
* Takatsuki from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is a complicated example. She's introduced as a boyish child who [[{{transgender}} wants to be 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 girl friend 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]].

* Forever from ''ComicBook/{{Lazarus}}'' is a [[HealingFactor nigh unkillable]], [[BioAugmentation superhumanly fast and strong asskicker]] who leads her family's military in battle, where [[PragmaticHero she is willing and able to kill without hesitation or remorse]]. Put her in a dress however, and she instantly turns into a self-conscious and inexperienced young woman. Her father has to talk her out of an attempt to try to ditch the dress in favor of a military uniform, and even then she grumbles about there being no way to to wear her sword with it.

* Played with when it comes to Buttercup from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016''. She is the most tomboyish Powerpuff, but like her sisters, the [[LimitedWardrobe only outfit she wears]] most of the time is a green dress. However in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8I0zuNhqA extended intro]], Buttercup is annoyed at wearing a frilly "pretty skirt".

* Laney Penn from ''WesternAnimation/GrojBand'' hates being girly, which includes wearing dresses. In "Queen Bee", with a pageant contest at stake she has no choice but to enter as a contestant. She makes it clear she dislikes the idea of pageants, being viewed as a sweetheart, and is all too glad when she no longer has to wear the dress.

* {{Tomboy}} Alix from ''ComicStrip/StoneSoup'' prefers 'boys clothes' and thinks dresses are gross.

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

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* ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsOnline'': Naryu Virian is a Dark Elf assassin who teams up with the PlayerCharacter on numerous occasions. During one quest, she goes undercover wearing a very effeminate dress. The player can choose to tell her she looks good in it, which makes Naryu blush and say that though she normally hates this sort of thing, she wouldn't mind wearing something a lot more elegant for you sometimes...only to immediately [[CantBelieveISaidThat backtrack on that]] and insist that you focus on the mission.

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See also OfCorsetHurts, for the common depiction in historical fiction of corsets as instruments of misogynist torture.

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* Laney Penn from ''WesternAnimation/GrojBand'' hates being girly, which includes wearing dresses. In "Queen Bee", with a pageant contest at stake she has no choice but to enter as a contestant. She makes it clear she dislikes the idea of pageants, being viewed as a sweetheart, and is all too glad when she no longer has to wear the dress.

* Played with when it comes to Buttercup from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016''. She is the most tomboyish Powerpuff, but like her sisters, the [[LimitedWardrobe only clothes she wears]] most of the time is a green dress. However in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8I0zuNhqA extended intro]], Buttercup is annoyed at wearing a frilly "pretty skirt".

* Laney Penn from ''WesternAnimation/GrojBand'' hates being girly, which includes wearing dresses. In "Queen Bee", with a pageant contest at stake she has no choice but to enter as a contestant. She makes it clear she dislikes the idea of pageants, being viewed as a sweetheart, and is all to glad when she no longer has to wear the dress.

A girl who doesn't like dresses or skirts will [[UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy inevitably be put into one eventually]]. She will [[SheCleansUpNicely look nice]] in it, however will not enjoy the experience ([[GuiltyPleasures at least not explicitly]]) and will often be [[ImNotPretty insecure of herself]].