Rule of Glamorous



The limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief for a given element is directly proportional to how pretty or stylish it is.

Basically this is about making things look as appealing as possible in fiction or Real Life. Want a castle made of solid pink diamond for your webcomic? Who cares about the cost, or if it's even possible to make that kind of structure. It looks pretty. Or more realistically, the royal crowns and capes. They are expensive and heavy, but they give the impression of majesty. As long as it looks good, the logistics don't matter.

Works made for young girls can be very prone to this (as seen in the page picture), but it also occurs in works for boys, just that the form is different.

But for this rule, not only does something have to be sufficiently glamorous to work, the viewers actually have to want to watch such things. If not, even realistic examples of such elements can turn them off. So this is an audience specific rule.

Related:
 * Bejeweled Tropes
 * Dresses, Gowns, and Skirts
 * Improbable Appearance Tropes
 * Luxury Tropes
 * Magical Girl Tropes
 * The Makeover
 * Mary Sue Tropes
 * Mink Becomes This Index Most
 * Princess Tropes
 * Rule of Cute
 * Rule of Romantic
 * Rule of Sexy
 * Spectacle

Sub Tropes:

 * Battle Ballgown
 * The Beautiful Elite
 * Beauty Is Never Tarnished
 * Bishie Sparkle
 * Bishonen
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Costume Porn
 * Ermine Cape Effect
 * Everything's Better With Sparkles
 * Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry
 * Gem-Encrusted
 * Fluffy Fashion Feathers
 * Peacock Girl
 * Gaussian Girl
 * Giant Poofy Sleeves
 * Giant Waist Ribbon
 * Gold Makes Everything Shiny
 * Gorgeous Garment Generation
 * Gorgeous Period Dress
 * Historical Beauty Update
 * Impossibly Cool Clothes
 * Impractically Fancy Outfit
 * Kicking Ass in All Her Finery
 * Mini-Dress of Power
 * Opera Gloves
 * Pimped-Out Cape
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Fairytale Wedding Dress
 * "Happy Holidays" Dress
 * Pretty in Mink
 * Requisite Royal Regalia
 * Sharp-Dressed Man
 * She Cleans Up Nicely
 * Smoking Is Glamorous
 * Stylish Protection Gear
 * Unlimited Wardrobe
 * Wakeup Makeup
 * What Beautiful Eyes!
 * World's Most Beautiful Woman

Works that make heavy use of this rule:

 * Fashion Shows, and Fashion Magazines.
 * The Magical Girl genre.
 * Sex and The City
 * Rose of Versailles
 * Most of the works by CLAMP:
 * Miyuki Chan in Wonderland played this tongue-in-cheek.
 * Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
 * XXX Holic
 * Their character designs for Code Geass
 * Glass Fleet
 * My Little Pony
 * Barbie
 * The Disney Princess line.
 * Jem