History Main / HatesWearingDresses

* Kaoru in ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' is reluctant at first to become a MagicalGirl because she has to wear a skirt. Ironically, Buttercup from the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls original series]] perpetually wore a dress (she obviously didn't mind dresses, just ''overly frilly'' dresses).

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

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* 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.
* ''Series/TheOutpost'': Talon is only persuaded to wear one once, and then never again ([[FemininityFailure it didn't work for her]]).

* Akane from ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'' isn't much of a [[UsedToBeATomboy tomboy anymore]], but in a preschool flashback, Marika's mom mentions how she let her child wear dresses until "he" begins school because Marika hated pants. Akane's mom says her daughter is the opposite-- a girl who won't wear skirts. Akane doesn't appear to be [[{{transgender}} dysphoric]] like Marika though and she eventually outgrew her dislike of skirts.

* Takatsuki from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is a complicated example. She's introduced as a boyish child who [[{{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]].

* ''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. It isn't until adulthood that Kakashi comes around to the idea of ''maybe'' trying dresses.

->''You don't have to wear a dress!''

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* ''ComicStrip/StoneSoup'': Alix refuses to wear dresses unless it's for special occasions, and even then she wears shorts underneath.

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* Peppermint Patty from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' was the first girl in the series to wear shorts. She always wears shorts and is the most tomboyish character. In 1972 her school began using a dress code and she had to wear dresses and shoes (instead of sandals) to school. The first time this occurs, she complains because she never wears dresses and punches a boy for laughing at her in a dress. She ended up going to court to abolish the dress code.
* {{Tomboy}} Alix from ''ComicStrip/StoneSoup'' prefers 'boys clothes' and thinks dresses are gross. If she does have to wear a dress, Alix wears shorts underneath it.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o_bridesmaid_570.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:I'm expected to wear this why exactly?]]

-->--'''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 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

* Asuna Kagurazaka of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' would prefer not to wear anything frilly if she can help it. She will relent if the occasion calls for it though.

* Kaoru in ''Anime/DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ'' is reluctant at first to become a MagicalGirl because she has to wear a skirt. Ironically, Buttercup from the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls original series]] perpetually wore a dress (she obviously didn't mind dresses, just ''overly frilly'' dresses).

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

* 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.

* Wrestling/IveliseeVelez rather vocally. She'll do ''some'' "girly" activities like [[PomPomGirl cheer leading]], or Halloween contests but if a skirt is part of the uniform don't expect her be happy about it, definitely not if she has to wear a gown, strapless dress or anything down to the knees(she also avoids bustier and heels).[[/folder]]

* 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]].

* Peppermint Patty from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' was the first girl in the series to wear shorts. She always wears shorts and is the most tomboyish character. In 1972 her school began using a dress code and she had to wear dresses and shoes (instead of sandals) to school. In the first time this occurs she complains because she never wears dresses and punches a boy for laughing at her in a dress. She ended up going to court to abolish the dress code.

* ''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.
* In ''Fanfic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'', Julia has mentioned on a few occasions that she hates wearing dresses and skirts. Half of it is due to her sensory issues, and the other half of it is out of fear that someone could flip a skirt she's wearing and exposing her underwear, using it as a means to bully her.

* ''Literature/TheWorstThingAboutMySister'': Martina, or "Marty", the main character doesn't like wearing dresses because she thinks she looks silly in them.

* In ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', Caitlin's [[SplitPersonality Killer Frost side]] dislikes wearing girly dresses.

* Peppermint Patty from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' was the first girl in the series to wear shorts. She always wears shorts and is the most tomboyish character. In 1972 her school began using a dress code and she had to wear dresses and shoes (instead of sandals) to school. In the first time this occurs she complains because she never wears dresses and punches a boy for laughing at her in a dress. She ended up going to court to abolish the dress code.

* One of the endings to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' shows that SweetPollyOliver Faris dislikes wearing dresses.

* Jade Chan from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' is a supreme tomboy, who never wears anything feminine except for a few cases. When her uncle Jackie signed her up with some [[ScoutOut girl scout troop]], Jade was of course very dismayed by the uniform she was expected to wear.
* 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.
* 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.

* The tomboyish Kristy from ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'' doesn't like wearing dresses in the film incarnation, unlike her book counterpart who doesn't particularly mind wearing them.