Basic Trope: A female character who dislikes wearing dresses.
- Straight: Alice dislikes wearing a dress for whatever reason.
- Exaggerated:
- Not only does Alice hate wearing dresses, but she hates every woman who wears dresses.
- Alice systematically destroys every dress she comes across.
- Alice, being a Shameless Fanservice Girl, hates wearing any kind of clothing.
- Downplayed:
- Alice doesn't hate dresses; she just prefers other options.
- Alice dislikes dresses because her impressive height means that most of them don't fit her.
- Justified:
- Alice just doesn't like wearing a dress.
- Alice's mother hated dresses and taught her to do so too.
- Alice believes that Real Women Don't Wear Dresses.
- Alice has social anxiety and dislikes the attention dresses bring to her.
- Alice finds dresses impractical for her typical activities, such as finding that they easily get stuck on things.
- Alice is transgender and can't find any dresses that don't give her dysphoria.
- Inverted:
- Alice hates pants but loves wearing dresses. Her wardrobe is almost entirely full of dresses.
- Alan prefers wearing dresses and skirts.
- Subverted: Alice starts out not liking wearing dresses but grows to like it.
- Double Subverted: Alice only pretended to start liking dresses; she still doesn't like them.
- Parodied: Alice starts planning dress-burning events and wishes to wipe all dresses from the face of the earth.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Alice's view on dresses changes on her mood.
- Alice happily wears dresses to formal events, but dislikes doing so at anywhere else.
- Averted: Alice has nothing against wearing dresses.
- Enforced:
- The author wants to avoid stereotyping and makes one of the female characters dislike wearing dresses.
- The author believes that Real Women Don't Wear Dresses.
- Lampshaded: "Huh, what does it take to get Alice into a dress?"
- Invoked: Bob gives Alice an unflattering, uncomfortable dress. She hates the experience and swears off ever again wearing dresses.
- Exploited: A stalker recognizes Alice because she's the only woman not wearing a dress at a formal event.
- Defied: Even though she thinks she'll hate it, Alice makes herself wear a dress, and later decides it didn't feel as bad as she feared.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "So, Alice, I've never seen you in a dress, but I know you own one. Is there a reason for that?"
- Implied:
- Alice gets a dress as a birthday gift, and she's shown putting it in a box and shoving that box into a dark corner in her closet.
- Even at her own wedding, Alice is shown wearing a suit.
- Deconstructed: Alice's refusal to wear a dress causes a rift between her and her conservative parents.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice deepens her relationship with her more progressive Family of Choice or even her extended family, which makes up for her falling out with her parents.
- Alice's parents realize her fashion sense doesn't do them or her any harm, so they back off.
- Played for Laughs: Alice goes into Comical Overreacting mode whenever she has to wear a dress.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice used to like dresses, until one day at work her boss took notice of her miniskirt and sexually assaulted her.
- Alice once enjoyed dresses, but ended up getting seriously injured after tripping on a part of her dress and falling down the stairs, and now wearing dresses is a Trauma Button for her.
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