Basic Trope: A character wears an outfit based on another famous outfit.
- Straight: Alice wears a pink Chanel suit a la the one Jackie Kennedy wore the day her husband was assassinated, and no one ever really points it out.
- Exaggerated:
- Bumbling Dad Bob wears a white shirt and blue pants, Apron Matron Claire wears a strapless green dress and red pearlsnote , Bratty Half-Pint Danny wears an orange shirt, blue pants, and a lucky red hat, braniac Evelyn wears a strapless red dress and a white pearl necklacenote , and baby Frances wears a little blue onesie and always has a red pacifier in her mouthnote , but no one ever really notices.
- Alice only wears iconic outfits worn by famous first ladies.
- Downplayed: Alice wears an outfit famously worn by Jackie Kennedy, but not one so recognizable, bordering on Genius Bonus.
- Justified:
- Alice admires Jackie Kennedy very much.
- Alice is a former mayor's wife, and her image consultant wants to make sure people get that she was once a powerful and respected woman.
- Justified/Exaggerated: Bob, Claire and their family were from a late-50s-to-early-60s sitcom that Matt Groening used to watch.
- Inverted: Batman wears Bob's least popular outfit.
- Subverted: Claire wears a strapless green dress with white pearls.
- Double Subverted: In some episodes. In others she's in full on Marge Simpson gettup.
- Parodied: Alice admits she stole the actual outfit from Jackie Kennedy.
- Zig Zagged: In some episodes, Alice's friends jokingly call her "Jackie", other times it's never brought up.
- Averted: All characters have their own iconic outfits.
- Enforced: "Alice needs to look powerful, but feminine. How about a Jackie Kennedy look?"
- Lampshaded:Alice: "My outfit really looks like Jackie's, doesn't it?"
Gretchen: "Yeah, it really does." - Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:Alice: "Think I should wear this pink Chanel suit? Nah."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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