Category:Dresses, Gowns, and Skirts

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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.