Basic Trope: A lady's poofy dress acts as a parachute.
- Straight: Princess Petticoat was wearing a large ball gown that gently lowered her to the ground.
- Exaggerated: Princess Petticoat is a very thin girl dressed in a giant ball gown so big and so light that a small breeze lifted her up like a kite as she was heading down.
- Downplayed: Petticoat was wearing a modest dress that flutters as she is descending.
- Justified: Petticoat wears all her large dresses because she is afraid to fall and hurt herself.
- Inverted: Petticoat is a large heavy girl in a small thin dress that can't get blown away.
- Subverted: Petticoat wears a weighted dress, so she doesn't get blown away so easily.
- Double Subverted: But she has a function in it that releases the weights allowing her to fly in the breeze.
- Parodied:
- Petticoat's dress smothers her as she is descending.
- Everyone can see up Petticoat's dress.
- Petticoat skydives wearing her ballgown instead of a regular parachute.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:???
- Enforced: The writer thought it'd be funny, cool, or funny AND cool for a woman to be able to use her dress as a parachute.
- Lampshaded: "Why do all there women take forever to land in their fancy dresses?"
- Invoked:
- The skirt was specifically designed to inflate into a parachute when subjected to a strong updraft.
- Part or all of the skirt can separate from the rest of the garment to become a real parachute.
- Exploited: Princess Petticoat uses this for an escape.
- Defied: The skirt was designed so that any updraft that gets into it is vented out through concealed holes, preventing it from inflating.
- Discussed: "Astounding how a big dress can protect a girl from falling."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: "This isn't the first time a princess has been lifted into the air."
- Deconstructed: Petticoat can't go outside because her dresses are always tossing her all over the place.
- Reconstructed: When an attempted kidnapping forces her to go outside, her dress' "loft" allows her to literally fly away with naught but a strong breeze.
- Played for Laughs: This happens by accident and Petticoat gets a little embarrassed that everyone can see up her skirt.
- Played for Drama: ???
- Played for Horror: ???
