Basic Trope: Wearing a pretty outfit that's not practical for dancing.
- Straight: Alice wears a ballet dress with a big bow attached to the back.
- Exaggerated: Alice wears a ballet dress with lots of elaborate decorations.
- Downplayed:
- Alice wears a ballet dress with the skirt being a little more frillier than usual.
- Alice wears a ballet dress for a break dancing competition.
- Justified: Alice isn't supposed to be dancing. In her job, she has to pose and showcase the dress.
- Inverted: Alice wears a ballet dress that's less elaborate than called for.
- Subverted:
- Alice arrives at the ballet recital with her frilly tutu... then changes into a normal tutu that lets her dance freely.
- While the fancy tutu is ill-suited for general dancing, it does not hamper (and even enhances) the moves required for this particular ballet performance.
- Double Subverted: But that was just for her warm-up, she then changes into an even frillier tutu for the show.
- Parodied: Alice wears a pretty pink dress with unnecessary ribbon decorations. She then has an extreme dance-off with a street gang.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice wears a proper ballerina outfit.
- Enforced: Alice was supposed to be drawn as a gorgeous dancer.
- Lampshaded: "Geez, Alice, that outfit may look good, but it isn't very good for actual dancing."
- Invoked: Betty suggests to Alice wearing a particular outfit.
- Exploited: Betty makes a simple sabotage by snagging one of Alice's ribbons, wanting to get her into trouble.
- Defied: Alice seeks consultation to make sure her dress won't snag her during her performance.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice, the dancer, was never shown, but there was a discussion on her complicated dress.
- Deconstructed: During a performance, the ribbon catches onto something and causes Alice to fall.
- Reconstructed: Alice actually plans everything ahead to make sure her ribbons won't catch onto something.
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