History ReCap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess

* WTHCostumingDepartment: InUniverse examples here:
** Fluttershy's dress has her wearing a ''bird's nest'' on her head.
** Applejack's include a top hat, denim overalls and galoshes.
** Pinkie Pie has a cupcake for a hat and a ruff around her neckline.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: When Rarity forces Fluttershy to tell her what she ''[[MotorMouth really]]'' thinks, specifically on her last seven "Tell me"s.
** Retroactively justified; Rarity's accent is shown to be an affectation later in the series.

* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: The TropeNamer (see above).

* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: The other ponies learn a lesson about doing this.

* IronicEcho: Hoity Toity demanding to know "who is responsible" has an entirely different tone after the second fashion show than the first.

* PimpedOutDress: The dresses Rarity makes, and "The Art of the Dress" is basically "Pimped Out Dress: the song".

* StylisticSuck: The dresses used for the first fashion show.

* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: The episode's {{A|nAesop}}esop.

** Fluttershy's "freaky knowledge" is not just random nonsense but are appropriate terms of art for the fashion industry.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Suited-for-Success_4094.jpg]]

'''Rainbow Dash:''' The shape's fine, just make the whole thing, you know, cooler. ''[pause]'' [[TwentyPercentMoreAwesome It needs to be about 20% cooler.]]\\

!!Tropes present in this episode (YMMV tropes can be found [[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess here]]):

** Later, when contemplating exile, she is stymied over what to pack.

** ''[=FiM=]'' is noteworthy for making an episode about a fashion show into a ''parody'' of the fashion industry (also seen in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor "Green Isn't Your Color"]]), instead of having it look like a bunch of children playing dress-up.

-->'''Hoity Toity:''' Oh, those amateurish designs look like a piled-on mish mash of everything but the kitchen sink!
-->'''Rarity:''' ''[quickly pushes a kitchen sink offstage]''

* OhCrap: Rarity, first after hearing Hoity Toity is looking at her revised dresses, and later when he places an order for six dozen of the originals.

-->'''Twilight:''' Oh dear...

* ShoutOut: Rarity's rant on how her life is ruined includes the lines [[Film/SunsetBoulevard "I used to be]] [[Film/OnTheWaterfront somepony,"]] and [[Film/GrandHotel "I vant to be alone!"]].

--->Making sure it fits forelock and crest\\

Croup, dock, haunch, shoulders, hip.

* TemptingFate:
-->'''Applejack:''' So...all you have to do is make a different, stunning, original, amazing outfit for ''[counts]'' one-two-three-four-five plus yourself...SIX ponies, lickety split?\\
'''Rarity:''' ''[confident laugh]'' Ohohoho Applejack...you make it sound like as if it's going to be hard.
** To her credit, the first five dresses ''weren't'' hard for her. It was when they started making changes to the dresses that everything fell apart.

%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: The episode provides the page image.

-->'''Rarity:''' ''(singing)'' Don't you know the client's always right?

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Hoity Toity is an impression of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld Karl Lagerfeld]], down to Lagerfeld's signature fan as his cutie mark -- but with the voice of [[ProjectRunway Tim Gunn]] and the snarkiness of [[ProjectRunway Michael Kors]].

* GirlyBruiser: This episode highlights this trope. The Mane Cast can defeat Eldritch Abominations, save the world, and still have girly interests like the 'ideal dress'.

* UnsatisfiableCustomer: The other five morph into these over the new dresses.
%%* VisualPun: See KitchenSinkIncluded.

* VisualPun: See KitchenSinkIncluded.

* CallBack: Applejack shows her [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason lack of mathematical skill]] again when she has to count up all the ponies to figure out that six dresses will be needed.
** Rarity originally [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster used dress designs to try to get Twilight Sparkle to take her to the Gala]] before she got enough tickets for all her friends.

** Blink and you'll miss it: the pressing iron has a grille at the bottom, a V-shaped red detail, and a shiny, domed metal top. Now [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic where would we have seen something like this]]?

[[caption-width-right:350:Five reasons we need fashion police.]]

* [[NewspaperComicEffects Plewds]]: Rarity emits these (flying sweat drops from the head) when noticing Opalescence stranded in a tree.

** Of all the ponies, Fluttershy gives the most specific and direct criticisms of her dress, pointing out things like stitching that doesn't meet her approval. This foreshadows her talents for stitching, which helps the ponies finish Rarity's prototype dress late in the episode.

* OrphanedEtymology: Fluttershy's use of the French fashion terms ''prêt-à-porter'' and ''haute couture''.

* OrphanedEtymonogy: Fluttershy's use of the French fashion terms ''prêt-à-porter'' and ''haute couture''.

* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: "Rain''bow'' Dash" and "intimate de''tails''".

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Hoity Toity is an impression of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld Karl Lagerfeld]], down to Lagerfeld's signature fan as his cutie mark -- but with the voice of [[ProjectRunway Tim Gunn]] and the snarkiness of [[ProjectRunway Michael Kors.]]

* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Averted. When Rarity suggests the fashion show, tomboy Rainbow Dash is just as excited about doing it as Twilight and Applejack. Applejack asks for something "not too frou-frou-y" but is just as insistent on her 'ideal dress' as the others.

* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: The episode's {{Aesop}}.

* WorkingTitle: According to one of the animators, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the episode was originally titled "Dress for Failure"]], which was deemed too pessimistic.