French Maid Outfit: Difference between revisions

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The [[Meido]] variant, while still very much a form of fanservice, tends to be more conservatively cut than the Western costume it was based on. The fantasy comes from the subservience and [[Moe]]-ness of the wearer rather than more blatant sexuality.

For the characters, rather than the costumes, see [[French Maid]] and [[Meido]].

 

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== Advertisement ==

* One Bud Light commercial had a woman phone her husband at work, "Guess who's going to be wearing a French maid outfit after work?" Cut to outside their apartment, where they ''both'' have the outfit on.

* Another commercial for Dannon ''La Creme'' brand yogurt has a man and a French maid; then their kids come in and we discover they were role-playing. The kids were [[Squicked]].

* A Verizon commercial for its NHL streaming services has a wife dressed up as a French maid preparing for a fantastic night with her husband. When her husband comes bursting into the bedroom in hockey gear, his excuse is, "[[Literal Genie|You said 'fantasy'!]]"

 

== Anime and Manga ==

** One April Fools' 2011 sketch shows Japan wearing one of these too. And managing to look [[Ninja Maid|completely badass]] while doing so.

* Mine in ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' wears one (made by Ayame presumably) as her uniform for working in the shop...but she wears it when she's not working too

* The ''[[Negima Second Season|Negima!?]]'' second anime has Chachamaru often appearing in a maid outfit most of the time she is on screen, except during school hours.

* Himeko wears a maid outfit during the school festival in ''[[Sket Dance]]'', since her class is doing, unsurprisingly, a [[Maid Cafe]]. The costume makes a reappearance in a later chapter, in which Himeko agrees to do anything Bossun says as an apology for breaking his hand. This includes dressing up as a maid, calling him 'master' and hand feeding him. Of course, [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** Especially their infamous first live performance. Azusa hates the part of herself that's started to think of it as normal.

** Ritsu thought they should do a [[Maid Cafe]] for their first year festival, as Mio is really suited to the look. "The adorable power of cute compels you!"

 

 

* In an old ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comic, Hellfire Club waitresses wore French Maid outfits.

* According to at least one [[Silver Age]] ''[[Superman]]'' story, the Daily Planet requires its top female reporters to dress like this and act as waitresses at staff parties.

* Mentioned as a gag during a ''[[Spider-Man]]'' arc. Peter's looking for the kids from ''Sins Past'' in France. His thought process is basically, "This table is spotless" → "I've got to get one of those French maids...or maybe just Mary Jane in a French maid outfit. Why is that outfit so popular with guys? Must be the feather duster."

* There is a picture by J. Scott Campbell featuring Caitlin Fairchild of ''[[Gen 13]]'' in a French maid uniform, feather duster and all.

== Film ==

* [[The Paid for Harem|Magenta]] wears one of these in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''.

* In ''[[Air Doll]]'', the title character, upon acquiring sentience, looks around in her owner's flat for clothes to put on. All the female outfits she finds are fetish-oriented, and she settles on a maid uniform as the most wearable one for going out.

 

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Definite [[Parent Service|Dad Service]] in the British Saturday morning kids' show ''[[Ministry Of Mayhem]]'', with Holly Willoughby, a maid's outfit, and cream cakes being splattered about.

* For a school event, the students in the Japanese version of ''[[Hana Kimi]]'' decide to have a [[Maid Cafe]]. With all the guys dressing up in maid costumes to gain more female customers.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. In "Dead Things" [[Big Bad|Warren]] uses a [[Mind Control]] device on his ex-girlfriend, making her wait on them while wearing a sex-shop French maid outfit.

* David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'' has many of these; in every case a Chinese maid to one of the T'ang lords or the princes.

* In Sarah Caudwell's ''[[Hilary Tamar|The Shortest Way to Hades]]'', Selena and Julia are invited to a party by a grateful client, who has utterly misunderstood the nature of their relationship - as has his, uh, friend, who answers the door in "a black dress, black stockings and a little white pinafore."

"Your 'in brief' is appropriate; your 'old-fashioned' less so. When I say that she wore stockings rather than tights, I do not speak from surmise." }}

 

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

 

 

** In the original ''The Sims'', there were third-party mods where you could create NPC's with French-maid costumes of varying degrees of risqueness.

* Every maid in the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' module ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]''. Then again, the entire world is perverted (including giant demonic dogs that want to have sex with human women, and completely ordinary dogs that want to have sex with human women), so it is sort of justified.

* A French maid costume is [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|unlockable]] for female characters in ''[[Guitar Hero]]: World Tour''.

* ''[[Persona 3]]'':

** The Main Character's ever-original classmates decide to do a [[Maid Cafe]] for their [[School Festival]]. [[The Chick|Yukari]] dreads it from the depths of her spirit because [[All Men Are Perverts|it means wearing a maid uniform]]; [[Idiot Hero|Junpei]] and the rest of the male schoolmates look forward to this cherished event. Alas, a typhoon rips through Iwatodai and the [[School Festival]] is canceled, to the endless grief of said schoolmates (and the Main Character is also asked if he mourns the loss.) In the ''[[Updated Rerelease|Persona 3 FES]]'' release, the surveillance camera skits show Yukari in her dorm room; she had indeed [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|procured an authentic maid uniform]], not a costume, and gripes loudly about how everyone wanted to see her in it. {{spoiler|Eventually, she gives in to curiosity and wears it, and pantomimes serving a costumer. When [[Shrinking Violet|Fuuka]] catches her, Yukari cheerfully ropes her into the game and dresses her in a spare uniform.}}

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Zoe wore one in her introduction arc to impress the guys. Unfortunately, it turned out Torg was wearing the same costume, prompting him to sulkingly change clothes.

* In ''[[Out There]]'', Miriam decides the costume is ideal for cleaning {{spoiler|Ari's condominium, and for seducing her}}.

 

== Web Original ==

* In the [[Whateley Universe]], when Phase is hosting a party for the campus rich kids, he gets some of the sexiest girls on campus to play maid, and he buys them tailored French maid costumes complete with short skirts and high heels. There's even [[Fan Art]] of it now.

* ''[[Web Original/CHAINSAWMAID|CHAINSAWMAID]]'', animated by Takena Nagao, is a [[Stop Motion]] short featuring an attractive maid saving her family from horrible zombies. One part [[Fetish Fuel]], one part [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]], but 100% awesome.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

 

== Real Life ==

 

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