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[[File:moonwings_02.jpg|link=Sailor Moon|frame|For girls who know fashion is as important as -- and may be the power behind -- function!]]
You're a [[Magical Girl Warrior]] or two or five, huh? And you've made it to a second season and [[So Last Season|powered up accordingly]]? You've got to show it. But your old costume is too useful, [[Clothes Make the Legend|too iconic]] and just [[Impossibly Cool Clothes|too cute]] to get rid of. Get a
Magical girls' [[Power Makeover|powerup outfits]] are easy to tell from their originals, because the original always looks plainer. The more seasons that the show goes on, the more [[Everything's Sparkly
Probably stems from the target audience's idealization of [[Everything's Better
Contrast their [[Evil Counterpart]], [[Evil Costume Switch]], which changes frills out for leather or [[Spikes of Villainy]]. Goes quite well with a [[Power Crystal]] accessory. Compare [[Shonen Upgrade]], the male version; and [[Mecha Expansion Pack]], the [[Humongous Mecha]] equivalent.
Compare [[Pimped-Out Dress]]. [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Frills of Justice]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', as mentioned above.
** The Super forms added heart buttons, wingy skirt details, gauzy shoulder pads and humongous back bows for all, as well as extra skirt colours, brooch details and hair accessories for the lead. Eternal Sailor Moon
** In addition to giving [[The Messiah]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|the power to save the world from evil]], the [[MacGuffin|Holy Grail]] causes new hairclips to appear in Sailor Chibi Moon's hair upon its first use by Sailor Moon. Only in the Anime though, she had those clips since her first appearance in the manga.
** In a twist, everyone on the team (except Moon and Chibi Moon) gets more and more uniform as time goes by. Their super form takes away their (semi) unique chokers, brooches, and sleeves. Their manga-only third form (Which goes un-named in the manga) finishes the job by getting rid of their unique earrings and shoes, and makes their back bows all a lighter shade of their primary colors. Although each solider still has her own color scheme, their uniforms in the Stars manga are otherwise identical.
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** There ''does'' appear to be an upper limit, however, as Sailor Moon's final power-up illustrates; in the finale her costume crosses something akin to the [[Bishounen Line]] and she spends the episode [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|naked]] save for [[Perpetual Molt|great feathered wings]] and the Ginzuishou over her heart.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' : Variation due to target audience: The upgrades showcase additional metal pieces on the uniform and occasional sharp additions of fabric trim, and after the timeskip, shorter skirts. Though Fate Testarossa's initial upgrades add frills to her outfit as well, her last-resort Sonic Form reverses it, leaving her with nothing but skin-tight clothing "to make her faster".
* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' gave its heroines a
* In the first ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' movie, Cure Black gets a golden color outfit; and her earrings and the heart decorations on her clothes change into diamonds.
** ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]] Max Heart'' gave them more frills, and also covered up Black's
** An odd twist occurred in ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star]]''. The powerup happens as normal to Cures Bloom and Egret as they become Bright and Windy. However, when they relinquish the new powers to their original owners, ''their'' Bright and Windy costumes are rather plain. This brings up the horrifying notion of what adequately detailed costumes would have done.
* In the ''[[Yes!
** In ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure]]'', the girls' outfits are frilly before they even ''get'' a power-up. In fact, they are so frilly they could be compared to ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'''s up there. In fact, once Cure Peach gains her power-up during [[The Movie]], her outfit will end up as a mess of frills and angel wings, reminding one of [[Yes! Pretty Cure 5|Shining Dream]]'s.
* ''[[
* ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'' avoids this late in its run by giving them all-new costume themes instead of adding on to the accessories.
* ''[[Winx Club]]'' added brooches and purses to the fairy outfits for their first power up (Charmix). In season 3, however, they [[So Last Season|completely abandoned the Charmix]] and gave the girls totally new Enchantix outfits and powers, which meant a fresh start for the uniform. And in season 4, they once again abandon the Enchantix, replacing it with the Believix. There are also 2 sub-transformations, Sophix and Lovix, and no doubt seasons 5 and 6 will bring their own outfits.▼
* In ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', Utena goes through a transformation sequence prior to each of the many duels after her first, and it gets pretty damn elaborate later on; however, the only visible change in her outfit is the addition of a frilly trim and epaulets.
* ''[[Shinzo]]'': A rare ''male'' example is Mushra. His most powerful form is, in fact, his regular orange armour with pink frills added.
* The heroes of ''[[
* ''[[
* Akazukin from ''[[Fairy Musketeers]]'' has [[Everything's Better
* In the ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' OAV, Pretty Sammy transforms into Hyper Sammy before casting her Pretty Coquettish Bomber.
* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'': Another unusual ''male'' example: Seiya. At first, Bronze Cloths were fairly utilitarian pieces of armor: a chestplate here, shoulderguards there, shinguards over there, maybe asymmetrical gauntlets for style or protection. But as the Cloths were consecutively damaged, destroyed, repaired, and revived, they steadily became flashier and prettier. Most full-head helmets became tiaras, for instance. It all culminated in their transformation into "[[A God Am I|Divine Cloths]]" that came with wings, intricate (and pointless) decorative engravings on continuous surfaces, and curvy loops at the end of what used to be spikes or sharp edges.
* Parodied in ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu
* The heroine of ''[[Hyper Speed
* Subverted in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. While the girls' armor improves and grows to protect more of their bodies, it does so more or less continuously and never gets fancier or frillier -- just more covering.
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[
▲* ''[[WITCH (Comic Book)|WITCH]]'': When the title girls get new powers in the erm... 'New Powers' arc of the show, they get new outfits, with neat gloves, their own personal symbols on the costumes, bigger wings and [[Rapunzel Hair]]. As a bonus feature the new uniforms can actually defend the girls from attack by moving their many [[Combat Tentacles|strips of cloth]]. Heck, they even accessorize with new weapons later on.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'':
** Often occurs, though the most common example is when the red ranger of the season, and sometimes one or two extra rangers of the team, receives the "battlizer", which is a set of extra armor which they wear over their regular costume.
** The most "extra frills"-esque example is the Red Mystic Ranger in ''Mystic Force''. When he becomes the Red Dragon Fire Ranger, much of his new form is simply extra frills.
* ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'' applies a couple rather low-key uniform upgrades to Usagi/Sailor Moon late in the show.
** Sailor Mercury's corruption int [[Fan Nickname|"Darkury"]] involved a wholesale change into a darker color scheme and the addition of bursts of black tulle beneath the bows on her chest and waist. It counts as an "upgrade" because her power level -- or at least her confidence and ability to use her power -- increased notably at the same time.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'', with its ridiculously extensive costume creator, encourages this. As you level up, you unlock additional alternate
▲* ''[[City of Heroes]]'', with its ridiculously extensive costume creator, encourages this. As you level up, you unlock additional alternate costumes and extra costume pieces.
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'':
** The Ribbon in the series is traditionally the best armor against [[Standard Status Effects]]. If it will protect against poison, blindness, confusion, paralysis, and unconsciousness; even the most [[Badass]], scarred, fully armored [[Blood Knight]] will wear a Ribbon ''and like it''. Proof: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDfpdeQGs0 I pity the foo' who don't think I'm pretty]
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* In ''[[Twinkle Star Sprites]]'', Load Ran transforms after stage 6 and looks considerably more developed in Sprites form.
== Western
▲* ''[[Winx Club]]'' added brooches and purses to the fairy outfits for their first power up (Charmix). In season 3, however, they [[So Last Season|completely abandoned the Charmix]] and gave the girls totally new Enchantix outfits and powers, which meant a fresh start for the uniform. And in season 4, they once again abandon the Enchantix, replacing it with the Believix. There are also 2 sub-transformations, Sophix and Lovix, and no doubt seasons 5 and 6 will bring their own outfits.
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