Line #70 Main/RuleOfGlamorous


1	[[quoteright:330:[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ariel_undersea_dress_5690.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:330:How can a [[PimpedOutDress fancy dress]] work underwater?[softreturn]Um... well...[softreturn]It's pretty! ''That's'' how!]]
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4	''The limit of the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief for a given element is directly proportional to how pretty or stylish it is.''
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6	Basically this is about making things look as appealing as poss... no, as appealing as you feel like, no matter how impossible.
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8	Want a castle made of solid pink diamond for your webcomic? Who cares about the cost, or if it's even possible to make that kind of structure. It looks pretty. Or more realistically, the royal crowns and capes are expensive and too heavy to wear all day, but they give the impression of majesty. Or do you want a female leader to walk around all day in four-inch high heels? It's impractical, but as long as it looks good, the practicalities don't matter.
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10	Works made for young girls can be very prone to this (as seen in the page picture), but it also occurs in works for boys, just that the form is different.
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12	But for this rule, not only does something have to be sufficiently glamorous to work, the viewers actually have to want to watch such things. If not, even realistic examples of such elements can turn them off. So this is an audience specific rule.
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14	Note that tropes that are about glamour but are perfectly reasonable are already listed on TheBeautifulTropes.
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16	!!A SuperTrope to:
17	[floatboxright:
18	Related:
19	+ TheBeautifulTropes
20	+ BejeweledTropes
21	+ DressesGownsAndSkirts
22	+ FemininityTropes
23	+ ImprobableAppearanceTropes
24	+ LuxuryTropes
25	+ MagicalGirlTropes
26	+ TheMakeover
27	+ MarySueTropes
28	+ MinkBecomesThisIndexMost
29	+ OpulentOutfits
30	+ PrincessTropes
31	+ RuleOfCute
32	+ RuleOfRomantic
33	+ RuleOfSexy
34	+ {{Spectacle}}
35	]
36	[[index]]
37	%%
38	%%Tropes listed should have a reason for why they wouldn't work, but being pretty makes them work.
39	%%
40	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Characters that objectively look different in adaptations.
41	* BattleBallgown: An armored dress would rarely work well as armor or a dress.
42	* TheBeautifulElite: Unattractive people somehow don't exist, or are extremely rare.
43	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: No matter how much someone should be covered with dirt and bruises, it doesn't happen.
44	* BishieSparkle: Sparkles don't just appear around attractive people, or people (usually) don't just see sparkles around people they think are attractive.
45	* {{Camp}}: Glamour taken to an absurd extreme
46	* ErmineCapeEffect: [[RequisiteRoyalRegalia Royal]] [[CoolCrown crowns]], [[PimpedOutCape robes]], and [[PrettyInMink ermine]] are not practical to wear all the time.
47	* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: For the instances where things sparkle for no clear reason.
48	* FrillsOfJustice: Not that magical girls are realistic in the first place, but their outfits are almost never plain.
49	* FrillyUpgrade: A MagicalGirl [[MiniDressOfPower outfit]] somehow gets more fancy as the girl gets more power.
50	* GaussianGirl: People don't have a filter over them to hide skin blemishes.
51	* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: So far, RealLife doesn't have things that make pretty clothes appear out of nowhere.
52	* GorgeousPeriodDress: Clothing in history is portrayed as almost all grand, no matter the situation or station of the people.
53	* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: People that objectively looked different than how they are portrayed in works.
54	* HighHeelPower
55	* HollywoodCostuming: The clothes aren't realistic, but have ArtisticLicense as an excuse.
56	* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Clothing that stands up to anything.
57	* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Clothes too fancy to be useful.
58	* InhumanlyBeautifulRace: That a species evolved to fit many human standards of beauty.
59	* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Even if the clothes don't get in the way of fighting, they still avoid damage and tearing.
60	* PeacockGirl: For the instances of someone just having a peacock tail.
61	* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: Kicking ass, but being a princess, doesn't mean she still can't be beautiful and fashionable.
62	* ProgressivelyPrettier: An in-universe reason is almost never given for why some characters look more attractive over time.
63	* TutuFancy: Ballet outfits have to make sure the trimmings won't get in the way of the dancing.
64	* WakeupMakeup: People don't wake up looking like they groomed themselves.
65	[[/index]]
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67	!!Works that make heavy use of this rule:
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69	* {{Fashion Show}}s, and {{Fashion Magazine}}s.
70	* The MagicalGirl genre.
71	* ''Series/SexAndTheCity''
72	* ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles''
73	* Most of the works by Creator/{{CLAMP}}:
74	** ''Manga/MiyukiChanInWonderland'' played this tongue-in-cheek.
75	** ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''
76	** ''Manga/XxxHolic''
77	** Their character designs for ''Anime/CodeGeass''
78	* ''{{Music/Tsukiuta}}'', taking plenty of cues from CLAMP and the magical girl genre.
79	* ''Anime/GlassFleet''
80	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''
81	* ''{{Franchise/Barbie}}''
82	* The Franchise/DisneyPrincess line.
83	* WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} ("Glamour and glitter, fashion and fame...")
84	* Any Creator/TakarazukaRevue production.
85	* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''
86	* The works of director Creator/{{Josef von Sternberg}}, known for his films with Creator/MarleneDietrich.
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