Basic Trope: A feminine girl or woman.
- Straight: Alice loves clothes and makeup, takes interest in cooking and sewing, and dreams of being a mother.
- Exaggerated: Alice shuns anything unfeminine, so much as wearing trousers, eating meat, burping, or owning any clothes that aren't pink. She's also a princess.
- Downplayed: Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak
- Justified: Alice just has an affinity for "girly" things.
- Inverted: Tomboy
- Gender Inverted: Manly Man
- Subverted: Alice is a Tomboy with a Girly Streak.
- Double Subverted: Alice is ashamed of her tomboy side and goes to great pains to hide it.
- Parodied: Alice practices Fainting and freaking out over mice just so she'll be as feminine as possible.
- Zig Zagged: Alice's interests alternate between "girly" and "boyish".
- Averted:
- Alice is no more girly than the average girl.
- Alternatively, Alice has a gender-neutral personality.
- Enforced: The author wanted to show girls that it's okay to be "girly."
- Lampshaded: "Alice, you would be right at home in Regency England."
- Invoked: Alice is living in a setting with strict gender roles. She acts as "girly" as possible so she'll be accepted by society.
- Exploited: Tomboy Max comes to Alice when she needs help dressing up for a fancy party.
- Defied: Alice refuses to have "girly" interests.
- Discussed: Alice and Max argue over whether it's true that Real Women Don't Wear Dresses.
- Conversed: While watching an old sitcom from The '50s, Bob and Alice debate whether the heroine is so feminine because she wants to be or because she felt pressured by society.
- Implied: Alice dresses more frilly than the other female characters, but her personality is never quite established.
- Deconstructed: Alice's behavior reinforces the idea that all women want to be pretty and submissive.
- Reconstructed: Alice makes it clear that just because she enjoys being feminine, it doesn't mean all women will feel the same way.
- Played For Laughs: Alice wears a Pimped-Out Dress at all times, even when it's wildly impractical. Hilarity Ensues.
- Played For Drama: Alice's traditional charms enable her to win over Prince Charming.
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