Basic Trope: In works set in old-fashioned times, visible ankles will usually be considered much more risque than they are today.
- Straight: In the 1800s, Alice wears an outfit that shows her ankles, and everyone finds it shocking and offensive.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone reacts as if Alice were completely naked.
- The furniture of Alice's home is tablecloths and covers that reach the floor.
- Downplayed: Alice gets some weird looks for having her ankles visible, but that's about it.
- Justified: Alice is a Fish out of Temporal Water who didn't realize that 1800s' nudity taboo is more extreme.
- Inverted:
- Alice travels to the future, and for some reason they find it weird that Alice's ankles aren't visible.
- Alice travels to the future where everyone walks around naked and find it weird that she is clothed.
- Subverted: Alice wears an outfit that shows her ankles, and everybody is shocked and offended when they see her... because her shoes are so garish and ugly.
- Double Subverted: After Alice changes into more fashionable shoes, everyone is still shocked because of the exposed ankles.
- Parodied: A Victorian-era person has a Porn Stash that consists entirely of pictures of peoples' ankles.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No references are made to visible ankles being considered dirty in old-fashioned times.
- Enforced: All of the women's costumes are designed to go to the floor.
- Lampshaded: "You wear ONE outfit with a hemline that's a little too high, and everyone loses their minds!"
- Invoked: Alice is deciding what to wear to a dinner party. She sees one that shows her ankles, but shakes her head and puts it back, saying "Definitely not!"
- Exploited: Alice needs to seduce a man to get information. She does this by showing him her ankles.
- Defied: Alice time travels to the 1800s-early 1900s, and explicitly decides not to wear anything that leaves ankles visible.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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