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A woman in fiction-land showing black lingerie in fiction is doing it for a reason. She's doing it because she wants to show it off. Because she wants to give someone else a thrill. These are the underwear she wears for someone else. It can be sexual, it can be sensual, but it's not something she wants to keep hidden.
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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* 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.
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