Basic Trope: Members of the royal family dress in everyday, functional clothing.
- Straight: Crown Prince Bob, heir to the Kingdom of Tropevania, wears plain shirts and otherwise normal clothing most of the time, and will change into formal garb only under duress.
- Exaggerated: The entire royal family dresses in casual clothes, even in formal events. Not only that, their abode looks more like a normal upper-class housing rather than a castle.
- Downplayed: Prince Bob is a Sharp-Dressed Man with a modern but subtle fashion sense, in a work where all other royals go for Impractically Fancy Outfits.
- Justified:
- The attitude in the kingdom is against grand display, and Bob dresses down to sway with this notion.
- Prince Bob played with some commoner children as a kid, which influenced his less than regal behavior.
- On a similar note, his father married a commoner, damaging part of her behavior.
- Prince Bob is heir to a barbarian kingdom where very fancy clothing simply isn't available.
- Prince Bob's regalia is considered sacred and has to be kept utterly spotless. It cannot be used except during the most ostentatious of ceremonies. On other occasions he wears ordinary clothes.
- Prince Bob is home in his palace and the only one's around are the royal family and Old Retainers who have known him to long to be impressed whatever he does. It would be absurd to put on airs.
- Prince Bob's family were commoners until very recently.
- Tropevania is broke, and Prince Bob doesn't want to saddle it with the expense of a royal wardrobe.
- Prince Bob is a royal who actually does something, and formal clothes would only get in the way.
- The royal garb is actually quite uncomfortable when worn, it’s itchy, difficult to move in, and stuffy. So the prince simply prefers not to.
- Inverted:
- Bob wears his Requisite Royal Regalia on all occasions, even barbecues, sporting events, and pool parties.
- Bob is an ordinary guy who likes to dress like royalty.
- Subverted:
- Bob appears to wear very simple clothing, but it's made of silks and velvet and is probably more expensive and lush than jewels and fur capes.
- Alternatively, Bob wears a mere loincloth — his body is what he's showing off.
- Prince Bob dresses in such a bizarrely spartan fashion that it is itself a form of showing off. No real beggar would ever wear anything like that.
- The simple clothes that Prince Bob wears are luxurious in his homeland.
- Double Subverted:
- He was kidding when he said that.
- That body being, of course, a state-of-the-art Mobile-Suit Human, which is designed to look ordinary, so people can judge him based on his actions.
- Beggars copy Prince Bob's style.
- Parodied:
- Bob looks like a monk.
- Bob goes nude everywhere.
- Zig-Zagged: Some royals wear ornate clothes, others dress more casually. Bob's mother, Queen Alice, is likewise sensible with her outfit but his sister, Princess Adelaide, wears too much jewelry to move, while his father, King Robert, wears dull-looking but burdensome armour all the time.
- Averted: Bob dresses about how you would expect a prince to look.
- Enforced: It's a stage or dance production where Requisite Royal Regalia is too expensive and/or cumbersome for the character — they dress Prince Bob plainly and use minimal costuming and dialogue cues to show who is the ruler.
- Lampshaded: "I'm surprised anyone takes Bob seriously as a ruler, given the gym shorts and baseball cap he's always wearing."
- Invoked: Bob dresses in simple clothing to show that he is a selfless leader who won't spend extravagant sums on himself.
- Exploited: The royal family can send Bob as a Prince Incognito to gather information from commoners who might not trust him if they knew he was the Crown Prince.
- Defied: "By my crown, I will not be mistaken for some lowborn peasant!!"
- Discussed: "That's the Prince? I thought he was the gardener!"
- Conversed: "So, which one is the King again?"
- Deconstructed: Bob dresses plainly because not even he takes his title seriously. The monarchy is a complete joke and the ruler is just a figurehead. Consequently, when he is called upon to lead in a crisis, no one will listen to him.
- Reconstructed: Bob dresses plainly because he is not only a pretty face but a competent leader, and he doesn't need showy clothes to command respect.
- Implied: Someone is made to stand at attention for Prince Bob, who is said to be passing through. However, everybody who goes through is attired like any number of commoners we've met.
Back to Modest Royalty, Your Highness, but please...do something about that...tee shirt, was it? What would your mother, the Queen, bless her soul, think?!
