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A common pose for young ladies to show they are interested in someone, but in a subtle way rather than being overtly seductive. This is Truth in Television, which makes it a good characterization visual in fiction.
The common form is to hold her arms behind her back (which by itself is a common pose for shy girls, and it's the key here to making her not look too forthcoming) and tilt her head coyly, while either leaning forward or walking towards the person she's interested in. Bonus points if she is standing just a bit off angle.
She could be doing this to get a guy to sleep with her, but just as often she wants a date, or just likes a guy doting on her (without having to resort to attention whoring).
It should also be noted that what the girl is wearing doesn't matter. It's how she carries herself. She could wear dominatrix gear and still pull off this trope. However, something demure and/or elegant is the most common thing the poser tends to wear.
This can exploit the notion that Women Are Delicate when a girl uses it to help get a guy comfortable with her.
A Sub-Trope of Delicate Is Beautiful. Often used as a Modeling Pose.
Compare Ready for Lovemaking (the very up-front Sister Trope), Pec Flex (a more direct male version), Boobs-and-Butt Pose, Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date, Rebel Relaxation, and The Teapot Pose. Often used in tandem with Eyelash Fluttering.
Contrast All Women Are Prudes, The Ingenue, The Vamp.
Compare and contrast Cute Indignant Girl Stance, Reverse Arm-Fold, Head-and-Hip Pose.
Examples:
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Advertising
- Smurfette does this in a poster for the live-action Smurfs film.
Anime & Manga
- Hayate the Combat Butler: Hinagiku Katsura does this pose quite a bit in the manga up to and after she is aware of her feelings for Hayate, somewhat notable in that she does little variations sometimes such as adding a spin when she's in a good mood.
- The iDOLM@STER: Miki pulls this on the Producer from time to time.
- The Irregular at Magic High School: School student council president Saegusa, in the anime first opening, prances about a bit and assumes a flirt pose looking at the camera when a shot of student council occurs. Her sharpness, sociability, moments of teasing and cheerfulness are shown in story events.
- K: Male example - Shiro, particularly when his gorgeous ponytail samurai "wife" Kuroh is around.
- Naruto: Sakura tries this on Sasuke to get his attention.
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Chisame in episode 11 (fast-forward to around five minutes, then onwards). Bonus points for acting as an internet personality (Chiu Chiu), dressing up like something out The Wizard of Oz, and changing her voice.
- Sekainohate de Aimashou: the newly gender-bent Ryouma unintentionally does this to his younger brother and almost melts his brain.
- Wedding Peach: The girls occasionally do this when flirting with Yanagiba.
Comic Books
- In Identity Crisis, during a flashback of Ralph Dibny meeting his future wife Sue for the first time, Sue does this pose while talking to him for the first time.
Films — Animation
- In The Book of Life, La Muerte does this when she wants Xibalba to do something for her.
Literature
- Adrian Mole: In Wilderness Years, Bianca hangs about after she has fixed Adrian's shower, and lies on his bed in what an old-fashioned man might call a provocative pose. Adrian has no idea how to proceed, and Bianca falls into a very deep sleep, leaving Adrian in an awkward position.
- Warbreaker: Siri tries to pull this off on at least one occasion, but she can't keep a straight face and ends up bursting into giggles.
- Journey to Chaos: Tasio does this to tease with Eric when disguised as a beautiful human girl. Kallen, Tasio's favorite follower, also uses this pose to appear more girly to Eric when off-duty.
Live-Action TV
- Miranda Cosgrove when she was younger had photoshoots include this pose, and her iCarly character often uses it when trying to flirt with a guy she likes.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Vampire girl Darla does this in "Angel" in line with her schoolgirl image; subverted in that she's in Game Face at the time and using the pose to hide two pistols behind her back.
- Cluedo: In series 2, Marie-Anne Cray lies seductively on the billiard table when she sees Reverend Green, recounting her "sexy romps with randy Rev".
- Annie Walker does this constantly in Covert Affairs.
- How I Met Your Mother, "Swarley": Robin is upset when Ted reveals that his bashful, head-down, flirty-eyes look is a deliberate move he uses when asking a girl out. He counters that Robin often uses her own "innocent" look, and he bluntly tells her so: "Oh, and you biting your lower lip, shyly looking away and thrusting your chest is natural?" Robin admits it's not and lets the issue go.
- Lieutenant Gruber from 'Allo 'Allo! is a Rare Male Example. What should be a standard soldier's "at ease" pose frequently morphs into this, cementing the 30-odd-year-old Wehrmacht officer's unlikely status as The Cutie.
Video Games
- Dead Estate: Cordelia does this in her balcony shop.
- Final Fantasy:
- Aerith does this several times in Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core, and Kingdom Hearts, usually with Cloud and usually for flirting purposes. The remake even adds new scenes where she does this. Looking at old recordings of her birth mother Ifalna indicates that she used to do the pose as well.
- Tifa Lockhart is frequently shown in this pose during the early chapters of Final Fantasy VII Remake.
- This is one of Rinoa's stock motions in Final Fantasy VIII. She mostly uses it when Squall is being standoffish, which is often.
- Rikku in Final Fantasy X-2.
- Aerith does this several times in Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core, and Kingdom Hearts, usually with Cloud and usually for flirting purposes. The remake even adds new scenes where she does this. Looking at old recordings of her birth mother Ifalna indicates that she used to do the pose as well.
- Fire Emblem:
- In Fire Emblem: Awakening, the CG for Cynthia's Love Confession to the Male Avatar has her adopting this pose.
- Charlotte pulls this as her victory pose in Fire Emblem Fates as part of her The Fake Cutie act.
- The dancer at the beginning of "Firework" in Just Dance 2.
- Kairi does this in Kingdom Hearts, and although it's not for sexual reasons, it still shows she's not a shy or demure girl.
- The Last Story:
- Lowell hits on a castle maid, and she does this pose, showing she's flirting back.
- Calista does this to Zael while she's sitting on a bed. The morning after their wedding day.
- MadWorld The Black Baron's eyecandy strikes one of these every time she launches him into one of the deathtraps he was explaining.
- This is Peach's down taunt in Super Smash Bros.. It's fitting for a princess.
- The King of Fighters XIII gender-flips this when a girly-looking guy named Ash adopts the pose... after he's at the end of a Grand Theft Me from his just as girly looking male ancestor Saiki. It is the opposite of the usual reasons.
- Another male example in Fate/Grand Order, where Astolfo adopts this as his idle pose.
- Ibuki from Street Fighter does this pose
in a non sexual way as her win pose in Street Fighter X Tekken after she and her partner defeat her enemies.
- Karin also does this in Ibuki's story mode after Ibuki defeats her in battle in a non sexual way.
- Karin also does this in Ibuki's story mode after Ibuki defeats her in battle in a non sexual way.
- Kokoro from Dead or Alive does this when she wins a tag match alongside her big sister Helena as part of their win pose.
Visual Novels
- Maya Fey poses this way in one of her sprites in the Ace Attorney series.
- Hikari Hinomoto of Tokimeki Memorial 2 does this as her standard Tokimeki Status sprite pose.
- Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club! does this rather frequently, as seen in the image above.
- Yuri does it sometimes as well, although it's rarely flirtatious. Usually it's when she's happy or psychotic.
Webcomics
- Girl Genius:
- Saana ends up doing this for Moloch, to the latter's considerable surprise.
- A woman in Mechanicsburg was standing with her feet pointing inward with a coy smile while flirting with a lady in a very nice hat when time stopped in Mechanicsburg. (spoilers at link)
- Saana ends up doing this for Moloch,
- Faye would sometimes do this early on in Questionable Content, though she'd also strike a very similar pose while being snarky/sassy.
- In El Goonish Shive, Elliot strikes this pose in apology after accidentally pissing off a Bloodgrem by flinging the box it was in when it startled him.
Western Animation
- Lois Griffin does this pose in Family Guy when she does sexual roleplay and dresses as a Catholic schoolgirl.
- Heloise tries this on Jimmy on Jimmy Two-Shoes on a fairly regular basis, especially in later episodes when Flanderization exaggerates her crush on him. Since Jimmy is Oblivious to Love, this never works.
- Isabella in Phineas and Ferb, especially when she says "Whatcha doooooin'?" Other ladies in the show do this as well, even the girls in Sexy Santa Dresses during Doofensmirtz's song about not hating Christmas.
- The Powerpuff Girls do this to disarm the Rowdyruff Boys so they can destroy them by kissing them.
- In South Park, Natalie Portman does this when she gently refuses to open her wormhole.
- Zoey of Total Drama does this on occasion, particularly in one scene where Manitoba is hitting on her. She's trying to turn him down despite being attracted to him (because, technically, he's not her boyfriend.)
