History Main / GracefulLadiesLikePurple

Compare PurpleEyes, PrincessPhase, WinterRoyalLady, ProperLady, PrincessClassic, PurpleIsPowerful (and can overlap with some {{Action Girl}}s).

* Rapuzel of ''{{Tangled}}'' wears a purple and lavender dress.

This is largely because some cultures these days see purple as a feminine color (regardless of what the color used to represent historically in a culture). So this color is fairly common to see on a young girl, elderly matron, SpiritedYoungLady, or princess (even if PrincessesPreferPink).

Now even though this color can be worn by girls of any age, older feminine women are more likely to wear this color long after a girl who wore pink grew out of that color.

A SisterTrope to PinkMeansFeminine (and can overlap with colors like fuchsia).

Compare PurpleEyes, PrincessPhase, WinterRoyalLady, ProperLady, PrincessClassic, PurpleIsPowerful (and can overlap with some {{Action Girl}}s).
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!!Examples:

* Sumire of ''SakuraTaisen'' wears purple as her main color, in both her uniform and regular outfit.

* Rapuzel of ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'' wears a purple dress.

* In a lot of TheMerch, Jasmine from ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' is shown wearing the purple dress she wears towards the end of the movie, rather than her usual blue outfit.

* Disney/TheBlackCauldron's Eilonwy wears dress that is a mixture of purple, pink, and white.

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* ActionGirl Virginia's fuchsia PimpedOutDress in ''{{Wild ARMs 3}}''.

* Morrigan of DragonAgeOrigins is a LadyOfBlackMagic who mostly wears [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple and black]]. Violet is often emphasized with her in official artist's depictions, as well as occasionally being the color of her magic.

* Rarity, the most feminine main character in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', has a violet mane and tail.
* Yue, the princess of the Northern Water Tribe ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', wears purple, when all the other water tribes wear blue (although a play involving her portrays her [[PrincessesPreferPink wearing pink]]).

** In ''MickeysChristmasCarol'', where she played Isabelle, her second outfit (including dress, {{parasol|of prettiness}}, and [[PrettyInMink fur cape]]) were shades of purple.

** The Queen was [[Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire a different princess.]]

** The Queen was a different princess.

This also tends to be a popular color among some {{Mary Sue}}s.

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* The Star Sapphire Corps of GreenLantern is an all-female band of Lanterns who use Love as their defining emotion and violet as their color.
* The Huntress, a part of the {{Batman}} comics' Bat Family, is almost always depicted wearing purple. She's one of the only members of the Bat Family that doesn't wear black, as well as one of the only females.
** Catwoman occasionally wore purple as a part of her SpyCatsuit.
** Talia al Ghul, similar to Catwoman, is an on-again, off-again lover of Batman who is a sometimes a hero and sometimes a villain, and occasionally wears purple as the primary color of her costume.
* Starfire of the TeenTitans wears bejeweled purple leotards and monokinis.
* The XMen's Psylocke, a former supermodel whose motifs are butterflies, and is often depicted as a elegant LadyOfWar, wears a purple leotard.
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* The Huntress, a part of the Batman comics' Bat Family, is almost always depicted wearing purple. She's one of the only members of the Bat Family that doesn't wear black, as well as one of the only females.

* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid II'', Ariel wears a purple dress.
* In a lot of TheMerch, Jasmine from ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' is shown wearing a purple dress she wears towards the end of the movie, rather than her usual blue outfit.

* Morrigan of DragonAgeOrigin is a LadyOfBlackMagic who mostly wears [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple and black]]. Violet is often emphasized with her in official artist's depictions, as well as occasionally being the color of her magic.

* In a lot of TheMerch, Jasmine from ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' is shown wearing a purple dress, rather than her usual green outfit.
* Esmeralda from ''Disney/TheHunchbackofNotreDame'' normally wears a dress composing of a white bodice, a teal corset with vertical gold stripes all over it, a light purple skirt partially covered by a darker purple sash with gold bells dangling from it, a pink ribbon in her hair, a single gold hoop earring on her left ear, mismatched gold bracelets on her wrists, and a single gold anklet on her right foot (the last of which is replaced by shoes in the sequel). Interestingly enough, some of her other outfits include a red dress [[spoiler: and a white dress.]]

* Rarity, the most feminine main character in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', has a violet mane and tail.

* Yue, the princess of the Northern Water Tribe ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', wears purple, when all the other water tribes wear blue (although a play involving her portrays her [[PrincessesPreferPink wearing pink]]).
* Sumire of ''SakuraTaisen'' wears purple as her main color, in both her uniform and regular outfit.
* Angel Salvia in ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' wears purple both in her FairytaleWeddingDress and her MiniDressOfPower.

* This is one of the most common colors worn by Daisy Duck of the ''ClassicDisneyShorts''.
** In ''MickeysChristmasCarol'', where she played Isabelle, her second outfit (including dress, {{parasol|of prettiness}}, and [[PrettyInMink fur cape]]) were shades of purple.
* WWE Diva Ivory's favourite colour was purple and nearly all her outfits were purple. She also had her trademark purple scarf which she carried to the ring with her. She often referred to herself as a lady, calling the rest of the Divas sluts and skanks.

Compare PurpleEyes, PrincessPhase, WinterRoyalLady, ProperLady, PrincessClassic.

* Sumire of ''SakuraTaisen'' wears purple as her main color, in her uniform and regular outfit.

* When Rarity, the most feminine main character in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', has a violet main and tail.

This is largely because some cultures these days see purple as a feminine color (regardless of what the color used to represent historically in a culture). So this color is fairly common to see on a young girl, elderly matron, or princess (even if PrincessesPreferPink).

Basically, this is a lady wearing purple as a sign of her femininity, whether she is girl and sweet, or graceful and mature.

Compare PurpleEyes, PrincessPhase.

Compare (and can overlap if the wearer is an ActionGirl, but still in elegant clothes), PurpleEyes, PrincessPhase.

Compare (and can overlap if the wearer is an ActionGirl, but still in elegant clothes), PurpleEyes, PrincessPhase, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=heg626wwndw96zlmh0xn8352 Purple Is Pink On Steroids]].

[[caption-width-right:260:It's certainly lovely on these {{Princess}}es.]]

** In ''MickeysChristmasCarol'', where she played Isabelle, her second outfit (including dress, {{parasol of prettiness}}, hat, and [[PrettyInMink fur cape]]) were shades of purple.