History Main / PrimAndProperBun

* Marie from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' usually wears a high bun, to match her calm and quiet reputation. She occasionally [[LettingHerHairDown lets it down]] when she's off duty.

** Captain Janeway had this style for most of the first season as befitting her command style, but then started LettingHerHairDown along with her personality.

** [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Kathryn_Janeway,_2371.jpg Captain Janeway had this style]] for most of the first season.
** The coldly-efficient [[IceQueen Seven of Nine]] used this style for her first 3 seasons on the show. As she was also a MsFanservice, she uses a French pleat that adds to her attractiveness rather than an actual bun, but the principle is the same.

* ''Film/TheWhiteOrchid'': Claire starts out with her hair in a bun, indicating her as a HollywoodNerd (she looks more like your stereotypical librarian-albeit she's pretty young-than a detective at first).

* Ming Lee from ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' wears her hair in a low bun, fitting with her strict, tight-laced attitude towards parenting her daughter Mei.

* ''LightNovel/TheMisfitOfDemonKingAcademy'': Emilia Ludowellstyles her hair in a mixture of a top knot and a ponytail. It both serves to show her status as a prestigious teacher and as a prideful pureblood demon. Her hair being let down from this style following her hybrid reincarnation acts as a sign of her losing both her status and her pride.

%%* In her backstory, Harley Quinn in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' started off with her hair this way when she was a prim and proper doctor at Arkham [[MadLove before the Joker brainwashed her]]. Since then, she typically opts for a pair of GirlishPigtails. Also when she was posing as a lawyer to get Sid the Squid out of jail.

* Standard for women who do ballet, gymnastics, ice skating, or other athletic arts, since loose hair is potentially dangerous in those situations.

** [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Kathryn_Janeway,_2371.jpg Captain Janeway had this style]] for most of the first season, which was known as [[FanNickname The Bun of Steel]].

%%* The Gibson Girl pompadours of TheEdwardianEra and most Victorian styles look like this to modern eyes, though they were the height of fashion in a time when women were expected to wear their hair up from about age 16 onward.

** Elsewhere, when [[AcePilot Olga Romanoff]] ascends to the position of Commanding Officer of the Ankh-Morpork Air Service, she has to juggle this with her social position in the city's [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinian]] community. One Sunday she is recalled to Air Watch duty and attends straight from church; where Lady Olga Romanoff has had to adopt a severe hairstyle we would know on this world from pictures of the Russian Imperial Family circa 1910. Think of [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Kathryn Janeway]]'s Bun of Steel and you get the general idea.

* [[IronLady Francis]] [[LadyOfWar Middleford]] from ''Manga/BlackButler'' is a proper lady who berates anybody she thinks lacks decorum or taste and doesn't think twice about making them fit what she thinks is proper. She wears a neat bun in the back and frequently berates Ciel and his servants for "sporting untidy hairstyles" by letting their bangs fall over their eyes.

* Madame Giry, the strict ballet instructor of the opera house, wears this in ‘’Theatre/ThePhantomoftheOpera’’.

** Wrestling/{{Daffney}} during her gimmick as a fake UsefulNotes/SarahPalin.

%%* Subverted with the GenderFlip version of France from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''. She's more sexy than proper because, well, she's France.

* Meiko from ''Manga/PrisonSchool'' wears a high bun at the rear right corner of her head at all times, including showers, sleeping and exercising. The only time she's shown with her hair down is in flashbacks when she was in elementary school and she was a lot less rigid back then. She's shown to be very strict and formal, and she does not hesitate to use her whip on the boys for any kind of misbehavior.

* Eva Kant from ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'', in spite of her status as [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman one of the most beautiful women in the series]] and [[MsFanservice propensity for fanservice]]. Justified: before marrying, she used to wear a TomboyishPonytail, but adopted this hairstyle on her wedding night to accentuate her resemblance with her mother (who wore her hair in a bun) and screw with her husband lord, Antony Kant, [[{{Squick}} her uncle]], who was responsible for the death of her mother and Eva growing up in an OrphanageOfFear without a family or her real last name (why she had married him in first place: to take back her last name). Upon learning ''who'' he had married, lord Kant ([[EveryoneHasStandards who at least drew the line at incest]]) had a heart attack, and Eva continued wearing her hair this way in celebration ever since.

** Regina wore several different hairstyles during her past as the Evil Queen. One of the more commonly used styles was a rather elaborate bun that she seemed to always wear when performing her most sadistic deeds. In modern day Storybrooke, she starts off with a short bob which gets longer and looser following her eventual HeelFaceTurn.

** [[AnIcePerson The Snow Queen]] wears a bun because it was the hairstyle that she happened to be wearing on the day that she accidentally froze and shattered one of her sisters for her StartOfDarkness. In modern day Storybrooke, she initially wears a looser ponytail when posing as the friendly owner of the local ice cream shop, but immediately switches back to the bun full-time once her cover is blown and the whole town knows her true identity.

** Wrestling/TerriRunnels, as manager Alexandra York in WCW in the early 1990's

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'', Black Mage and Guardian Lulu wears her hair in a braided bun variation with several accessories. While she is shown to have a gentle side, she is initially very stoic, stern and scathing, especially to Wakka who identifies her as having a short fuse.

** Glynda Goodwitch wears a large ballet bun above the neck. Compared to Ozpin's laid-back attitude and amused tolerance for Ruby's ditzy behaviour, she's stern, restrained and seems as frustrated by Ozpin's attitude as by Ruby's. Even her kindness is stern: when she compliments Ruby, her tone of voice is firm and professional and is quickly followed by an admonishment of Ruby's reckless heroics.

* ''Film/MaryPoppins'' of course! Practically perfect in every way!
* Mrs. Danvers in at least the film adaptation of ''Film/{{Rebecca}}''.

* Grandma Duck in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse.