Basic Trope: A character usually wears the same type of outfit.
- Straight: Alice wears different sweaters, jeans, and boots most of the time.
- Exaggerated: Alice wears sweaters, jeans, and boots to every occasion, including her wedding (They don't even change color or fabric).
- Downplayed: Alice wears many different types of outfits, but she wears the sweater-jeans-boots combo slightly more often.
- Justified:
- Alice finds sweaters, jeans, and boots very comfortable.
- By going with sweaters, jeans, and boots most of the time, Alice doesn't have to stress over what to wear in the morning.
- Alice is a Workaholic and she works a job with a distinctive uniform, or at least one that calls for certain kinds of coverage.
- Inverted: Alice wears many types of outfits but rarely wears sweaters, jeans, and boots.
- Subverted:
- Alice switches to wearing tank-tops, shorts, and sneakers.
- One day Alice shows up wearing a Badass Longcoat instead...
- Double Subverted:
- Alice switches back to sweaters, jeans, and boots.
- ...only to reveal a sweater, jeans, and boots underneath.
- Parodied: Alice is a Shameless Fanservice Girl who lives naked. For her, something like restyling her body hair or getting a tattoo constitutes a dramatic shift in her fashion sense.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice goes through phases when she wears the same types of clothing for weeks on end, but changes her style quite dramatically when she does.
- Averted: Alice doesn't favor any particular style.
- Enforced:
- The artists/costume designers want to make sure Alice is distinct to the audience.
- The artists/costume designers tend to put Alice in loose clothing because she has a physical disability, and loose clothing is easier to put on.
- Lampshaded:Alice: Which of my outfits do you think looks the best?Bob: They're all practically the same.
- Invoked: Alice's parents always dressed her in sweaters, jeans, and boots when she was a kid.
- Exploited: Bob hires a hitman to kill Alice and gives a description of what she usually wears so the hitman can identify her.
- Defied: Alice is constantly changing her style because she doesn't want to be predictable.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice is The Ghost but when Bob looks through her closet, all he sees are different sweaters, jeans, and boots.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice worries that she's boring and unfashionable because she always wears similar things.
- Alice has to wear something different for a special occasion and she's clearly uncomfortable in the new outfit.
- Alice's insistence on wearing basically the same thing all the time is a reflection of a serious personality flaw, like being inflexible or close-minded.
- Alice always wears skirts because she believes that her parents wouldn't accept her wearing pants.
- Alice's one-note wardrobe is heavily influenced by a physical disability. After losing a hand in an accident, she has to replace all her bras with sport bras because she now has massive difficulty hooking regular bras by herself, and sport bras can be put on like any other top, which is easier to do with one hand.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob points out to Alice that her sweaters, jeans, and boots all come in a variety of colors, patterns, and cuts, so it's not as though they're all the exact same.
- Alice realizes that she shouldn't have to sacrifice her personal comfort to fit other people's expectations.
- Alice tries to be a better person and undergoes a Significant Wardrobe Shift to reflect that, but hates the new style. She goes back to her usual look when she realizes that she doesn't have to be a completely different person, just a better version of herself.
- Played for Laughs: Bob tells Alice that she needs a whole new wardrobe. Alice agrees with his advice then buys a ton of new sweaters, jeans, and boots, to Bob's exasperation.
- Played for Drama: Bob buys Alice a new outfit as a gift but it doesn't fit her typical clothing style, so she refuses to wear it. Bob tells her she's being childish and ungrateful, while Alice accuses him of not caring enough about her to buy something she'd actually like.
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