Dresses, Gowns, and Skirts



Tropes about dresses (the modern sense, not including robes) and skirts, or having them as an integral part. To costume designers, few things have the potential for Costume Porn than a nice dress or skirt. Of course not all of them have to be fancy. Some can be plain, or even skimpy.

And it's considered one of the most prominent ways to tell men from women, with signs and symbols using a dress or skirt to tell that an abstract figure is male or female. It's also a major reason the trope Real Women Never Wear Dresses has that name.

Also are more likely to be Doomed New Clothes than other kinds of garments.

These tropes will likely fall into Rule of Glamorous or Rule of Sexy.

Related:
 * The Beautiful Tropes
 * Bejeweled Tropes
 * The Caped Index
 * Coats and Jackets
 * Femininity Tropes
 * Luxury Tropes
 * Mink Becomes This Index Most
 * Princess Tropes
 * These Tropes Are Made for Walking
 * Tropes in Pants

Tropes

 * Action Dress Rip
 * Battle Ballgown
 * Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
 * Dangerously-Short Skirt
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita (as it requires a certain kind of dress)
 * Fairytale Wedding Dress
 * French Maid Outfit
 * Giant Poofy Sleeves
 * "Happy Holidays" Dress
 * Lady in Red
 * Little Black Dress
 * Magic Skirt
 * Man in A Kilt (a rare male version of this trope)
 * Mini-Dress of Power
 * Modesty Shorts
 * Parachute Petticoat
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Proper Tights With a Skirt
 * Qipao
 * Sailor Fuku
 * Sexy Santa Dress
 * Showgirl Skirt
 * Skirts and Ladders
 * Skirt Over Slacks
 * Zettai Ryouiki