History Main / SexySweaterGirl

* As Corey in ''EmpireRecords'', Liv Tyler wears a tight blue cropped sweater, which is featured [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Empire_Records_poster.jpg prominently]] on the poster.

* There is a famous quote attributed to Marilyn Monroe (on a USO-type visit). She was asked, "What do you think of sweater girls?" Her reply: "Not much, I mean take away their sweaters and what have they got?" The troops went so wild she couldn't get off the stage.
** And the actresses she was dissing, Lana Turner and Jane Russell? Half of their careers were built on fuzzy wool.
** Perhaps ironically, Monroe did get cast in this role occasionally (mostly early on), including the 1952 film ''Monkey Business''.

--> '''FEZ: Oh, good God, man, what a marvelous set of kittens. Remember that sweater?'''
--> KELSO: '''Oh. Remember the other sweater?'''
ERIC: '''Yeah. Remember that time she ran up to us in a sweater?'''
HYDE: '''Remember the week she took up jump rope? In a sweater?'''
This is followed by a montage of said sweaters.

* Midge Pinciotti of ''ThatSeventiesShow'' is introduced to us through the [[MaleGaze eyes of Erik]] clad in a sweater and quite...[[{{gainaxing}} jiggly]].
** When Midge left, the boys talked about how much they missed her sweaters, followed by a montage of said sweaters. Including when she jumped rope in a sweater.

* Motoko from ''{{Change 123}}''. Once it got her into trouble when she (as her {{Bokukko}} SplitPersonality Hibiki) got it's thread hooked up on a fence when [[OutsideRide jumping onto the top of a truck]]. The consequence was that all her sweater got torn away, which was only one in the series of {{clothing damage}}s she had in that chapter.

* Ed Wood, in his film ''GlenOrGlenda'' and cheerfully reprised by Johnny Depp in the BioPic ''EdWood''

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* Ed Wood's girlfriend. Wood doesn't count, given this trope is not "Sweater boy".
** [[WholesomeCrossdresser He tried, through.]]
* Annette Funicello. She promised Walt Disney not to wear a bikini, but for sweater fans, this was [[FetishFuel just as good]].
* There is a famous quote attributed to Marilyn Monroe (on a USO-type visit). She was asked, "What do you think of sweater girls?" Her reply: "Not much, I mean take away their sweaters and what have they got?" The troops went so wild she couldn't get off the stage.
** And the actresses she was dissing, Lana Turner and Jane Russell? Half of their careers were built on fuzzy wool.
** Perhaps ironically, Monroe did get cast in this role occasionally (mostly early on), including the 1952 film ''Monkey Business''.
* SonjaHenie was one of the earliest.
* YokoOno liked to wear sweaters, especially combined with big sunglasses.
* [[CarryOn Barbara Windsor]] reportedly used to be one long before she got into acting. In interviews she has described breaking up couples as a shoe shop assistant while reaching for high shelves and wearing a tight sweater.

In the days of the Hayes Code, once those sweaters caught on, they were almost up there with the heart-shaped neckline as a way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar. Actresses who embraced this look were known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweater_girl sweater girls]].

* ''Pleasantville'' wouldn't be the last time Reese Witherspoon showed how good she looked in a tight sweater -- she did it again as Tracy Flick in ''{{Election}}''.

* ''Pleasantville'' wouldn't be the last time Reese Witherspoon showed how good she looked in a tight sweater -- she did it again as Tracy Flick in ''{{Election}}''

* Kristen Bell's character in ''Fan Boys'' refers to her breasts as "Sweater yams".

* In ''{{Walk The Line}}'', ''{{Johnny Cash}}'' is quickly seduced backstage by a SweaterGirl Groupie.

* Jennifer of ''{{Pleasantville}}'' once she gets TrappedInTVLand as "Mary Sue". She even comments on the effect of one such sweater in one scene.

* In ''[[{{ptitlebhnq63j8}} Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret]]'', Laura Danker, the most physically mature girl in Margaret's class, wears a sweater and gets harassed. Freddie Barnett a.k.a. the Lobster asks Margaret why ''she'' doesn't look like that in a sweater, which Margaret does not think is funny.

-->"It must be remembered that the well-bred girl is always fully clothed in the office. The broken shoulder strap, the deeply split skirt, and the bare midriff are ''de trop'' in most businesses. The bright girl soon learns that these devices are not only in bad taste, but are not necessary.

* Christina Hendricks' character Joan Holloway on ''MadMen'' deploys sweaters coupled with a variety of form-fitting but tasteful business skirts to devastating effect.

* ''{{The Onion}}'' had a headline in its faux-historical archive ''Our Dumb Century'' about the "Growing Bombshell gap between the US and Russia." The picture was Jayne Mansfield in a tight sweater.

If a sweater has more than a background use, it's either a HomemadeSweaterFromHell or this trope. Tight sweaters tend to wrap quite well around a lady's figure. You don't even need the MostCommonSuperPower to fit in them. Yet they ''just'' [[FormFittingWardrobe outline the figure]] (there's a reason [[BuxomIsBetter shapely breasts]] are called "sweater puppies") while barely actually showing anything. That makes wearing a tight sweater some of the most tasteful FetishFuel around (not to mention one of the few actually acknowledged in mainstream fiction).

* In ''Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret'', Laura Danker, the most physically mature girl in Margaret's class, wears a sweater and gets harassed. Freddie Barnett a.k.a. the Lobster asks Margaret why ''she'' doesn't look like that in a sweater, which Margaret does not think is funny.

* The girls of {{Kanon}}, frequently, due to it [{{ItsAlwaysSpring}} being set during winter.]]

* Mora from Laslindas [[http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=106 pulls this off occasionally.]]

* LanaTurner in a bunch of movies starting with ''They Won't Forget''. She was even ''called'' the SweaterGirl, which makes her the TropeNamer.