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17	So, you have a female character, and you want her to appear [[ProperLady prim and proper]] and feminine. It wouldn't usually (with few exceptions) give off the vibe you want for her to wear pants, and it would be difficult to have her fit in full dresses when all of your other female characters are wearing mini skirts.
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19	The solution is simple -- have her wear dark, opaque tights with a skirt. It's a great way to communicate her kind of personality.
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21	This style of dress is particularly common in {{Anime}} with the {{Ojou}} and YamatoNadeshiko. Compare with ModestyShorts, which prevents {{Panty Shot}}s for the ActionGirl who wears a microskirt in action scenes. Contrasts with ZettaiRyouiki, which are usually employed to instead enhance the fanservice of the outfit, highlighting budding sexuality.
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23	Note that when it comes to children, and especially school uniforms (except where SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack), this is so standard that no examples need to be given.
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26	!!Examples:
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31	* Tomoe Tachibana from ''Literature/AbsoluteDuo'' wears black tights with her school uniform, making her look more elegant compared to the other girls. Also, she's polite, friendly, and very helpful, especially towards her partner Miyabi.
32	* Yukiko Kanzaki from ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' wears black tights with her school uniform, has the title of class idol, comes from a traditional family, and she is one of the [[NiceGirl nicest]] [[TokenGoodTeammate characters]] of the series.
33	* Sen Yarizui from ''Literature/BenTo'' wears tights with her school uniform. In a setting where she has to fight for the titular object in a supermarket, at least she knows how to be modest.
34	* Balalaika from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' wears black tights with an impeccable red skirt suit at all times. However, given Balalaika's age, occupation, and attitude, "professional" is probably a better description than "proper".
35	* ''Literature/DateALive'': Kurumi has tights with her school uniform, but the properness she presents is only a façade.
36	* Fran of ''Manga/FrankenFran'' wears a knee-length skirt with opaque black tights under her MadScientist white lab coat. This is partly to emphasise her modesty and [[CelibateEccentricGenius lack of sexuality]], while still being feminine.
37	* Belarus from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' wears this whether she's in an ElegantGothicLolita outfit, in [[{{Joshikousei}} uniform garb]] or cosplaying as [[AliceAllusion Alice]] in Manga/{{Hetaween 2011}}.
38	* Utaha Kasumigaoka of ''Literature/HowToRaiseABoringGirlfriend'' wears tights with most of her outfits, is the top student of her class, and doesn't get into trouble.
39	* Henri Wakayama wears this with his [[spoiler:Cure Infini]] costume in ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure''. [[spoiler:He's officially the first Cure to incorporate this into his costume.]]
40	* ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'': The titular protagonist is apparently the only girl in Itan High School who wears tights with her uniform, which fits with her image of being demure and collected. However, it's played with since despite appearances, Komi is actually a NervousWreck underneath who has difficulties to talk to people.
41	* Umi from ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' as she's the {{Ojou}} and comes from a high-class school.
42	* Haruko Amaya from ''Manga/MakenKi'' has this with her school uniform. She's the vice-president of Tenbi Academy's StudentCouncil and is a NiceGirl.
43	* Yui Hirasawa from ''Manga/KOn'' for the most part.
44	* Ochaco Uraraka from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' wears gray tights with her school uniform, representing her properness and how nice she is. There is also practicality involved, as her Quirk of anti-gravity has her floating in mid-air quite often.
45	* Homura Akemi wears this with her outfits, including her MagicalGirl uniform (which, to top it off, adds [[CombatStilettos high-heeled boots]] incorporated into the tights), in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', except in her flashbacks in episode 10. Mami Tomoe also wears this in her normal attire.
46	* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Unlike her sisters who wear socks, Miku wears tights to go with her [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality (yet sweet underneath)]] personality. Averted in one case when she takes them off because it is hot—without a thought of Fuutarou being inches away from her.
47	* In ''Manga/SheBecomesATree'', both the main characters work OfficeLady jobs, and wear pantyhose with their standard office attire- Kisaki wears white while Chishiro wears black. Kisaki's pantyhose also covers up her tree-like legs.
48	* ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'': Oboro wears a white pair of pantyhose beneath a full-length pleated skirt, in order to conceal the fact that he's crossdressing as a girl. It's [[JustFollowingOrders part of his job]] as head of Tokioka Academy's [[MoralGuardians 'Decency Prefects']] and as Anna's bodyguard, because Anna's father groomed him to think and [[ProperLady act as a female.]]
49	* Akane Shinjo from ''Anime/SSSSGridman'' wears tights with her school uniform. She may be the most popular girl in school, but her niceness is just a façade to hide her sociopathic tendencies.
50	* Subverted in a sense by ''Anime/StrikeWitches'', since none of the girls wears a skirt...or pants, for that matter, but prim and proper Gallian noblewoman Perrine and Orussian moe Sanya wears tights.
51	* Asuna Yuuki from ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' has this with all of her outfits in reality, including her school uniform. Of course, she comes from a traditional family and is a NiceGirl.
52	* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Angelica Rapha Redgrave wears tights in her Holfort Academy uniform (red in the light novel, black in the anime). She is the daughter of a duke, heiress to a noble house only below the royal family itself, thus fits the {{Ojou}} type (when her temper doesn't get the best of her).
53	* Sayumi Takanashi from ''Literature/WhenSupernaturalBattlesBecameCommonplace'' wears tights with her school uniform, was a perfectionist in middle school, and comes from a well-off family.
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57	* ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie Sandsmark wears a skirt and thick tights in ComicBook/DCRebirth, as seen in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'', as a clear departure from the character's {{Tomboy}} roots and a signal of the way her responsibilities have changed her.
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61	* Jenny Foxworth from ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' wears periwinkle tights in her casual outfit. She may be a child, but she knows how to look proper.
62	* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': In the movie, at least, you can see the eponymous princess wearing flesh-colored tights under her outfits if you look closely enough. In any case, Snow White is the only Disney Princess to be depicted wearing this.
63	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei wears purple tights with a blue denim skirt likely chosen by her [[ProperLady mother]] to maintain Mei's image as her perfect daughter.
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67	* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Hermione dresses this way during the two instances in which she appears out of uniform. The first time is when they visit Hagrid's and witnesses Norbert's birth, during which time she's wearing a black skirt with black tights. The second time is during the film's climax, in which she wears a dark skirt with white tights. She never dresses this way again for the rest of the series, perhaps due to her mellowing out. From ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' onwards, she wears trousers when dressed casually.
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71	* Samantha (the Victorian Era... oops, TheEdwardianEra girl) from the Literature/{{American Girl\|s Collection}} franchise wears this. She expresses dislike for it, especially as her grandmother insists on her wearing long underwear underneath them from September to June (in an attempt to prevent tuberculosis).
72	* A newer American Girl character, Courtney (from ''TheEighties'') is introduced wearing hot pink tights under an acid-washed denim skirt.
73	* In the first book of ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'', Mia's grandmother informs her that she's too old to be wearing tights with her school uniform and should be wearing pantyhose instead. Mia still manages to screw this up by wearing the "wrong" kind, so her grandmother reluctantly lets her go back to the tights.
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77	* {{Series/Community}}: This is a common outfit for Annie Edison in the first four seasons of the show, especially in early season 1, fitting her characterization as a prim and proper bookworm and TheIngenue. As she begins to transition into the role of MsFanservice, the tights become less and less common until finally completely disappearing in Season 5 where she undergoes an outfit change, becoming more akin to a LadyInAPowerSuit in an effort to portray herself as more mature.
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81	* Music/LindseyStirling is a devout Mormon, and has said in her autobiography that she has all her stage and video clothes specially designed to be "modest in a specific way". Bare arms are fine (though she rarely bares her shoulders), and even when wearing a short skirt she is almost always wearing something underneath (pantyhose, tights, yoga pants, jeans); there are a few pictures out there of her with bare legs, but not many. About the only time she goes bare-legged is in her "Carol of the Bells" video, where she wears a blue ballerina-ish leotard, and in that one she covers it up with a transparent gauzy skirt. She also never wears anything that reveals any more than the absolute barest hint of cleavage.
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85	* Lilina from ''Videogame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' has a nightgown-like costume, with tights underneath. After all, she's the daughter of a Lord.
86	* In ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'', Karis wears a mini-dress with tights, and for a rare male example (!) Rief wears what are either leggings or tights with his tunic ([[DudeLooksLikeALady which didn't help the gender confusion any]]).
87	* In ''VideoGame/MegaTagmensionBlancPlusNeptuneVsZombies'', Vert wears tights with her school uniform and she's the most outwardly refined character in the game.
88	* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
89	** Yukiko Amagi from ''VideoGame/Persona4'' (pictured above) wears pantyhose with her school uniform. She comes from a very traditional family and tries to carry herself in an elegant manner.
90	** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has a twofer with Makoto Niijima and Haru Okumura. Makoto wears black leggings and is Shujin High's stern student council president, while Haru wears white, star-patterned tights in winter and is the refined heiress to one of Japan's biggest corporations.
91	** The OriginalGeneration character Hikari from ''VideoGame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'' wears this in-game.
92	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
93	** Erika's Holiday 2020 outfit incorporates black tights, while she wears white tights with her Sygna Suit.
94	** Roxanne's default outfit incorporates pink tights regardless of the generation.
95	** Due to the various items of clothing available in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' - and later ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' (the [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Generation 7]] [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon games]] didn’t include tights) - you can dress your character this way if you so desire, if you’re playing as the female trainer.
96	* Yurika Kirishima, the resident {{Ojou}} of ''[[VideoGame/RivalSchools Project Justice]]'', wears white pantyhose with her dress.
97	** The Pacific High School female uniform, which rich heiress Tiffany Lords wears as her alternate costume in ''Rival Schools: United By Fate'', has dark hose with a miniskirt.
98	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'': Ada's outfit is a cocktail dress with black pantyhose, giving her a mature and elegant look that shows she cares about her appearance, even in a ZombieApocalypse.
99	* Ikaruga, a third-year student at Hanzo National Academy who is the class president, from ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' wears tights in her ninja outfit.
100	* Priestess Eris Anthule, the representative of the Havencraft faction in ''VideoGame/{{Shadowverse}},'' wears a long one-piece dress slit all the way up to her thighs on both sides with opaque tights or leggings underneath to preserve her modesty.
101	* Maria Traydor, the leader of [[LaResistance Quark]] in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'', wears dark skin-tight leggings in her main outfit.
102	* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'': Princess Natalia Luzu-Kimalsca Lanvaldear wears white tights under her short aquamarine dress when you first meet her.
103	* Elly Van Houten from ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' wears brown tights under her Gebler uniform. She's a NiceGirl, in contrast with the other Gebler members.
104	* Shion Uzuki from ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' wears brown tights under her Vector Industries uniform. This goes to show you that she's an AllLovingHero and a NiceGirl to boot. Her friend, MOMO, also qualifies with her main outfit in Episode III, and like Shion, she's a NiceGirl.
105	* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Tsarevna Alena is a nice, perky princess clad in dark-grey tights and a yellow tunic.
106	* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', the artwork for [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 Mythra]]'s Spirit added black tights to her bare legs in order to meet Japan's CERO rating for the game, since her dress was dangerously short. This bit of censorship ended up actually liked enough - even called an improvement for some people - that the version of her outfit with the tights was added to her game. Likewise, she keeps them on as a playable character.
107	* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'': Princess Peach wore white tights under her trademark pink dress during the N64 era. Of course, it was only visible to the naked eye during her twirl animation under most circumstances--the best place to spot it in real time would be during the intro cutscene in ''1''. Her appearance in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series has Peach wearing white tights all the time, which can only be seen through certain animations or looking at a sprite sheet.
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111	* In ''Webcomic/{{Rain\|2010}}'', the title character favors this while wearing her school uniform even though the other girls don't. This is partially due to her naturally shy personality and partially due to the fact that she's a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} girl who wants to draw as little attention to what's under her skirt as possible. Also the author [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/TV-Tropes-Meme-259878935 knows]] that this trope applies to her.
112	* The magical girl webcomic ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'' combines and contrasts this trope with ZettaiRyouiki to signal the five main characters' defining personality traits. CoolBigSis Sylvia, {{Tsundere}} Sally and {{Ojou}} Tessa wear ZettaiRyouiki grades A, B, and C respectively while {{Tomboy}} Gwen wears 3/4 height gym socks. Team peacemaker and ShrinkingViolet Undine, on the other hand, is always depicted wearing Proper Tights With A Skirt, be it with her school uniform, her civilian clothes, or at [[spoiler:Sylvia, Sally, and Gwen's funeral.]]
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116	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Asami Sato's standard non-combat outfit both pre- and post-TimeSkip features a skirt with opaque tights -- she's the resident nice dark-haired girl.
117	* Daphne Blake's regular outfit from the various incarnations of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' is a purple mini-dress with pink tights. She comes from a very rich family.
118	* Star's main outfit in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' consists of a green dress with orange and purple tights.
119	* Claire Nunez in ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' wears purple tights in her main outfit. This goes to show you that she's a NiceGirl, despite surrounding herself with a SkeletonMotif.
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