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{{quote|"You don't buy black lingerie unless you want someone to see it."|'''Bianca Stratford''', ''[[
A woman in fiction-land showing black lingerie
The sight of black lingerie is an instant alarm bell for bad news. If a woman is seen wearing it or admits to wearing it, she's [[The Vamp]] for sure; if someone else finds it snooping through her drawer, it's a sure sign she's [[My Girl Is a Slut|loose]]. What other women must wear as a substitute under their black clothing is never explained. Lingerie is [[
Of course in [[Real Life]], it doesn't work that way. Sometimes it can happen, but most of the time, it's because it fits with a woman's black clothes, the same as white lingerie fits with her white clothes, and blue fits with her blue clothes, etc.
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* Spoofed in an early chapter of the ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' manga, where Keroro rushes into the room with a pair of black panties belonging to Natsumi, saying they're far too racy for a teenager to be wearing. Natsumi promptly kicks him across the room.
* Subverted with Fate Testarossa who wears this after she's grown up in the third season of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. Merely a reminder of her [[Dark Magical Girl]] past, she's one of the most motherly characters in the show now.
* Lelouch from ''[[Code Geass]]'', with his obsession for black stuff, wears a black banana hammock underneath his Zero costume as depicted in official linearts. As a result, fan art frequently depicts him wearing Black Bra and Panties on the inevitable [[Gender Bender]] fanarts. It's the [[rule 63]] of the internet.
* In the penultimate volume of ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'', while a nurse is attending Uchiyamada and Onizuka and two of his students are under the bed making bets in which color the nurses panties are, Onizuka is betting purple, one student bets black and the last one bets white, the trope is mentioned. The result {{spoiler|purple with a Garter belt.}}
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' references this trope. Koyomi is designed to fit the calm, shy archetype in Fate's [[Bodyguard Babes|team]]. During her battle with Jack Rakan, using his [[Super Speed]], he tells her after a [[Panty Shot|quick observation]] that black doesn't suit her.
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* In an early chapter of ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Tsubaki's skirt gets pulled up to reveal some lacy black panties. No explanation for why she was wearing these has ever been given.
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* Although the [[Lingerie Scene]] had been around in comics since (at least) the 1930s, black underwear was virtually unseen until the war, and then only in ''certain kinds'' of male publications. All this changed during the late 50s, when the British press decided that nice girls ''could'' wear black after all.
* A prime example of this changing attitude was Pat Tourret's ''Tiffany Jones.'' Essentially a single-girl romance set in Swinging London, the strip featured regular [[Fan Service]] as the title character modelled the latest in sixties underfashions (usually accomplished via a perfectly normal domestic activity, such as ironing a dress in her bra and panties). The ongoing stripteases were vaguely surprising, given that the artist and writer were both female. Maybe it was meant to be a proto-feminist statement on the exploitation of women's bodies. Or maybe the ''Daily Sketch just wanted to sell more papers; who knows?
* Veronica Chase wears this when she "rewards" [[Deadpool]] in ''Merc With A Mouth'' #9.
== Film ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy]]'': Breathless Mahoney wears black underwear to mourn for her ex. And to flirt with Tracy a day later.
* The [[Everybody Remembers the Stripper|infamous striptease]] in ''[[True Lies]]'' involves black underwear after the character had been told to "dress sexy".
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* Picture comes from ''[[Mannequin]]'', where she wears nothing but these under a [[Pretty in Mink|fur coat]].
* In ''[[Love and Death]]'', [[Woody Allen]]'s character hooks up with a gorgeous countess - at a rendezvous, she walks in in very erotic black underthings; Allen deadpans "I...would have preferred something sexy, but..."
* To demoralize a children's book writer in ''[[
* Angela Hayes wears black panties in ''[[American Beauty]]'', probably as part of her effort to seem as sexual and experienced as possible.
* ''[[While You Were Sleeping]]'' has a slight [[Level Breaker]] scene that gets a callback later involving the universal appeal of black underwear. Sandra Bullock's character is feeling vulnerable, and her sleazy Joisey neighbour (who, the script implies, has spent months if not years trying to flirt his way into her pants) shows concern for her. She ends up giving him a hug...to which he says, "Are you wearing a black bra?" She promptly leaves, even as he protests, "I ''love'' black underwears!" Later, a knock at the door, which she assumes is him, drives her to storm towards the door shouting several refutations of his crush on her, including "No, I am ''not'' wearing black underwear!"...and Bill Pullman's character is at the door. He responds to her comments, including noting that he wouldn't mind ''seeing'' her in black underwear, but that he certainly isn't expecting it.
* In Cameron Crowe's ''[[Singles]]'', Kyra Sedgwick's character strips down to these prior to having sex with Campbell Scott's character for the first time.
* In ''[[Black Swan]]'', virginal and repressed Nina wears white underwear, while sensual and free-spirited Lily wears black.
* In ''[[X-Men: First Class|X Men First Class]]'', FBI Agent Moira MacTaggart strips down to reveal her black lingerie in order to go undercover at the Hellfire Club.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Mild subversion in ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' when Sydney comes out seductively in sexy black lingerie and is told by her mark to go back and put on 'the red one'. She doesn't take kindly to this.
* ''[[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark]]'' wears a black bra and panties, complete with [[Of Corsets Sexy|black corset]].
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* In ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', Miranda Lawson shows the first half of this trope off at the end of the [[Optional Sexual Encounter]].
* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' Fem!Shep is shown in these during the romance scenes. It's not just Fem!Shep, either. She, Ashley, and Traynor seem to wear identical sets of lacy black lingerie.
* Shizune Hakamichi from [[Katawa Shoujo]]. Doubled by how her [[Panty Shot]] in Act 1 shows white knickers...
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: The panty-shot scene occurs before Hisao has established any sort of real relationship with her. Her change in lingerie demonstrates that she knows their relationship is developing and shows just how far she wants to take it.
* In ''[[Plumbers Don't Wear Ties]]'', Jane strips herself down to these while wearing black [[Opera Gloves]]. And not only that, but she also takes out her [[Whip It Good|whip]] and [[Handy Cuffs|handcuffs]]!
== Webcomics ==
* In one ''[[Misfile]]'' strip [[Gender Bender|boy-turned-girl]] Ash pairs a black bra with a white t-shirt, her friend Emily (who is a real girl) is quick to point out this trope.
* Jessica is shown to wear them in ''[[Loserz]]''. Subverted when we learn later that she's actually a virgin.
* [[Perky Female Minion|Tsukiko]] of ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' is shown to be wearing these under a transparent black negligee during a few [[Fan Service]]-y strips; the all-black ensemble suits her [[Perky Goth]] style. She's also carrying a [[Big Bad|Xykon]] plushie, which she seems to [[Mad Love|sleep]] [[I Love the Dead|with]].
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