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[[File:ladyinredsubstitute.jpg|link=Marilyn Monroe|frame|I Dream Of Red!]]
{{quote|''"Were you listening to me, Neo? [[Distracted by the Sexy|Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?]]"''
|'''Morpheus''', ''[[The Matrix]]''}}
If a woman is [[Hello, Nurse!|sexy enough]], there's a good chance that she will wear a slinky red dress at at least one point in time. If she's really, REALLY sexy, and ''especially'' if she's [[The Vamp]] or a [[Femme Fatale]], it may become her default outfit. This trope deals with the latter.
'''Characteristics of the dress will include:'''
* It is [[Captain Obvious|red]], usually {{color|red|scarlet}}. Some variation in color is possible, but a lady in crimson is a borderline
* It is [[Stripperiffic|very... flattering]], or at least [[Fan Service|just flattering enough.]] Particularly if the character has been presented previously in such a way that her physical attributes have not been as much in evidence.
* It is either strapless, sleeveless, [[Sexy Backless Outfit|backless]] or all three, which isn't a problem, given the type of figure most of these women have.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]]
* [[Madlax]] wears a crimson red cocktail dress in the first episodes... [[Impossibly Cool Clothes|into battle]]. And even the man she's about to kill admits she looks gorgeous.
* Kaolinite from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', anyone?
** Interestingly, she changes to a [[Woman in Black]] after her {{spoiler|apparent death and resurrection}}.
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* Madam Red from ''[[Black Butler]]''.
* Yumi Komagata from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''. Notably, she used to be [[High-Class Call Girl|an oiran]] before [[Unholy Matrimony|joining up with Shishio.]]
* [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Panty]] of ''[[Panty & Stocking with
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Played for laughs with Ranma Saotome's [[Gender Bender|girl form]]. He's one of the most (if not ''the'' most) attractive women in the entire series. He knows it and [[Manipulative Bastard|plays it up for all the benefits he can possibly get]], especially in the manga. Ranma's seductive ways are highlighted by his typical red shirt, his red hair in the anime, and, at one point, a red [[Qipao]] dress from some official art. Plus, in general, he's just seen in a lot of red clothing.
* Madame Boss from
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Wildguard]]'' has the enigmatic Woman in Red who stalks Red Rover.
* P'Gell, in ''[[The Spirit]]''. Often, but not always, seen in a slinky red dress. (Starting with her first appearance.)
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* Smurfette wore a red dress in ''[[The Smurfs]]'' comic book story "The Great Smurfette", though it was more the feminine version of Papa Smurf's outfit, and it was mostly to show that she was in charge of the Smurf Village.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Asuka wears a stunning red gown to the school dance in the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion]]'' fic ''[[Once More with Feeling]]''; Kaji even arranges for the DJ to play [[Chris De Burgh]]'s "Lady in Red" for Shinji and Asuka to slow dance to, knowing that Shinji wouldn't understand the English lyrics, but that Asuka ''would''.
==
* Mother Gothel from ''[[Tangled]]'' wears a red dress.
* [[Go-Go Enslavement|Slave]] [[Disney Princess|Jasmine]] from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''.
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* In ''[[The Swan Princess]]'', the imposter Odette's dress was slinky red and black, as opposed to Odette's usual virginal white.
* [[Mulan]]'s wedding dress at the end of ''Mulan II''.
* Belle's [["Happy Holidays" Dress]] at the end of ''[[Beauty and
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* Jessica Rabbit from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''
* ''[[The Matrix
* And ''The Woman In Red'' from the movie of the same name.
* [[Femme Fatale|Violet]] from ''[[Bound]]'' spends a good chunk of the film in a sexy red dress.
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* The Devil (Liz Hurley) in ''[[Bedazzled]]'' starts off in a red dress.
* In ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'', the mother of the dead child at the funeral/wake is wearing a red dress. {{spoiler|She ends up being exposed as the killer.}}
** However, this might just be a more generic instance of [[
* Ginger from ''[[Swordfish]]'' was in a red dress when she made her intro.
* Shoshana in the end of ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'' is a heroic red lady.
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* Valerie from ''[[Red Riding Hood]]'' because she's...well, [[Little Red Riding Hood|Teenaged Red Riding Hood]].
* In ''[[Jezebel]]'', Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) scandalizes polite society when she shows up to her debutante ball wearing a red dress instead of virginal white.
* The woman in the bar who tries (and comically fails) to seduce One in ''[[The City of Lost Children]]''. At the time, he is devastated over the death of Miette, the film's ''real''
== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Robin McKinley]]'s ''Sunshine'', the vampires who kidnapped Sunshine dressed her in a red gown before staking her out before another prisoner vampire.
* In ''[[Declarations of War]]'' by [[Len Deighton]], a woman traveling with the protagonist has two dresses, black and red. She declines to wear the red one in a small Latin American town, as it is pointed out that only one type of woman wears red in those types of towns.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', [[Evil Redhead]] Melisandre of Asshai always appears in a red dress or robes that mark her as a priestess of R'hllor. Thoros of Myr, a follower of the same god, wears much the same thing - except that, by the time of his most recent appearance, [[Real Men Wear Pink|his robes have become very faded]].
* The Whore of Babylon<ref>
* [[X Wing Series|Ysanne Isard]] wears a [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Isard.jpg red version of the white Grand Admiral uniform]. She's not a sexualized villain.
* In ''[[A Prayer for Owen Meany]]'', the narrator's mother only dresses in black and white, except for a single red dress she wears to special, mysterious occasions.
* In ''[[Lord of Light]]'', Kali wears a blood-red sari. (And necklaces of skulls, but that's beside the point.)
* When Rita Skeeter writes stories about Hermione's "taste for famous wizards" in ''[[Harry Potter and
* The Queen of [[The Fair Folk|the Elves]] takes this form in ''[[
* ''[[In Death]]'': a number of female characters put on red outfits in the series. Eve put on a red outfit to seduce Roarke in ''Witness In Death'' and Magdalana wore a red dress early on in ''Innocence In Death''.
* ''[[White as Snow]]'': At the height of her beauty, power, and sexuality, Arpazia is seen wearing a particular red gown.
* Imabelle, the [[Femme Fatale]] in ''A Rage in Harlem'', wears red throughout the story.
* In Edward Arlington Robinson's "Llewellyn and the Tree", the titular character escaped from a miserable marriage and excessive timidity by running off with a "scarlet" woman, who is described in terms of the roses, coral, and the rouge she wears. Since her effect on Llewellyn was positive, the connotations of red shift from the sin that neighbors impute to her to life and vibrancy instead.▼
* Zoey in ''[[Zoey 101]]''.
* ''[[iCarly]]'': Miss Ackerman. Carly calls her hot [[Les Yay|(!)]], Freddie goes "Woah" 5 times (and this is the Season 1 Freddie who hasn't really hit puberty yet).
* Number Six from [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the reimagined ''
* Miss Hartigan in ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s "The Next Doctor".
** Lucy Saxon in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/
** Jilly Kitsinger from ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'', playing the temptress role for a convicted pedophile and murderer, no less.
* The opening theme of ''[[The Nanny]]'' implies this -- "She's the lady in red while everybody else is wearing tan".
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* ''[[The X-Files]]''. Agent Scully wears a red cocktail dress in "Triangle", where she's [[And You Were There|an OSS spy in 1939]]. It's notable that this is the [[Kiss Me, I'm Virtual|first time Mulder kisses Scully]], and quite passionately too (though she still gives him a [[Megaton Punch]] in response).
* ''[[The Mentalist]]'', "Russet Potatoes" features a woman in a red dress.
* ''[[Law
* To show exactly how [[She's All Grown Up|all grown up]] Liberty was by Senior Year, she wore a very nice red dress to prom in ''[[Degrassi]]''. Season 10 has Fiona and Holly J both appear in a red cocktail dress at various points.
* In an episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'', Donna is wearing a little red dress at the office because she's about to leave for a date. [[Master of the Mixed Message|Josh]], suffering one of his failure-to-appreciate-Donna attacks, needs her to work late and is insensitive to the point of cruelty about it (saying the date isn't going anywhere anyway because she's a [[Horrible Judge of Character]] with no self-esteem). At the end of the episode, he tells her she looked good in the dress and should keep it instead of returning it after wearing it once, like she planned.
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. In "Restless", Xander dreams about Joyce as a [[Hot Mum]] in a red nightie inviting him into her bed.
** In "Amends", Willow wears a tight red dress to show Oz she's [[Ready for Lovemaking]]. In the same episode, the First is trying to incite Angel into having sex with Buffy so he'll lose his soul; when Angel runs into Buffy in her bedroom wearing a blood-red dress that exposes her neck, he has to jump out the window to stop himself from jumping on her then and there.
* ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'': main protagonist Emma is first seen in a red evening dress and after that, she is rarely shown without her signature red jacket.
* In C-drama ''The Holy Pearl'', Mo Yin wears red throughout her [[Establishing Character Moment]] (sentencing the main character to death), marking her as a more sensual and passionate character than her [[Woman in White]] sister.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* ''[[The Police|Roxxxxxannnnnneeeee! You don't have to wear that dress tonight!]]''
* The [[Chris De Burgh]] song "The Lady in Red" (obviously).
* "The Lady in Red, the fellas are crazy for the Lady in Red..." don't tell me that Mr.
* Morrighan the Temptress from Lord of the Dance embodies this trope.
* Gord Bamford's "Blame It On The Red Dress".
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* [[The Beatles]]' song ''Yes It Is'' is about a man pleading with his lover ''not'' to wear red, because it would bring up painful memories of a lost love for him.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* Mazu, the Chinese goddess of the sea, is represented as a woman clad in red robes.▼
== Play-By-Post Games ==▼
* Kuchisake-Onna, a vain, murderous, and ([[Glasgow Smile|mostly]]) extremely attractive [[Youkai]], has gone in recent years from a red kimono to a slinky red dress, with a surgical mask to hide her mouth. In some modern retellings, she even drives a red sports car.▼
* Mordred from ''[[Fate Nuovo Guerra]]'' was supposed to be a guy in red, but the Holy Grail had [[Gender Bender|other ideas]].▼
▲* In Edward Arlington Robinson's "Llewellyn and the Tree", the titular character escaped from a miserable marriage and excessive timidity by running off with a "scarlet" woman, who is described in terms of the roses, coral, and the rouge she wears. Since her effect on Llewellyn was positive, the connotations of red shift from the sin that neighbors impute to her to life and vibrancy instead.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[Pathfinder/Characters|Imrijka]] manages to combine this, [[Beastess]], and [[Badass Longcoat]].
* [[Meaningful Name|Miss Scarlet]] from the ''[[Clue (game)|Clue]]'' board game.▼
** Though, interestingly, in the movie, Miss Scarlet wears a form-fitting ''blue'' dress. Of course, Lesley Ann Warren was sporting reddish hair...▼
== [[Theatre]] ==▼
▲== Theatre ==
* ''[[Anyone Can Whistle]]'': "Ze Lady from Lourdes" = Nurse Fay Apple + [[Wig, Dress, Accent|red dress + wig + outrageous French accent]].
* Ada Wong from ''[[Resident Evil]]''.
* Bella Goth from ''[[The Sims]]''.
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* Saranda from ''[[Infinite Undiscovery]]''.
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja|Mai Shiranui]] of ''[[Fatal Fury]]'', ''[[King of Fighters]]'', and the ''SNK Vs. Capcom''/''Capcom Vs. SNK'' games.
* ''[[
* Saving these is one of only two ways to restore your health in ''[[Spelunky]]''. {{spoiler|The other way is sacrificing them to Kali.}}
* ''[[Tekken]]'': [[Femme Fatale]] Anna Williams wears a red dress as her default costume.
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* One enemy in ''Hired Guns'' (The 1993 Amiga game) is actually called "Lady in Red", she wears a red cloak over a green bodysuit.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Pibgorn]] Dru, [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2003/08/14/ like here].
* While ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', alas, switched to B&W early on, there's [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/get_to_work! this] (of course, Layla is a vamp... of the [[Our Vampires Are Different|literal variety]], at least):
{{quote|'''Layla''': (holding a dress) Do you have this in red? ''Blood'' red? }}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://gaius0artemis.deviantart.com/gallery/36333221#/d4tugyq Catacombs of New York Chapter 11]
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* Halfway subverted with the aforementioned Lady in Pink in the first two-parter of ''[[The Backyardigans]]'', "International Super Spy". Yes, she was evil and had a similar name to this trope's, but she wore ''[[Captain Obvious|pink]]'' and her outfit wasn't slinky enough. Well, at least [[Vapor Wear|she didn't have any undies on]], and that's [[Fan Service|just flattering enough]].
* [[Betty Boop]], while she use to wear a black dress, mainly because she was around before the invention of colour, switched to a skimpy red dress.
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* [[The Faceless|Sarah Bellum]] from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''.
== [[Other Media]] ==
▲* Mordred from the play-by-post game ''[[Fate Nuovo Guerra]]'' was supposed to be a guy in red, but the Holy Grail had [[Gender Bender|other ideas]].
==
▲* [[Meaningful Name|Miss Scarlet]] from the ''[[Clue (game)|Clue]]'' board game.
▲** Though, interestingly, in the movie, Miss Scarlet wears a form-fitting ''blue'' dress. Of course, Lesley Ann Warren was sporting reddish hair...
▲* Mazu, the Chinese goddess of the sea, is represented as a woman clad in red robes.
▲* Madame Boss from Pokemon...does she count? It's not a dress, but, to make up for that, even her shoes are red.
▲* Kuchisake-Onna, a vain, murderous, and ([[Glasgow Smile|mostly]]) extremely attractive [[Youkai]], has gone in recent years from a red kimono to a slinky red dress, with a surgical mask to hide her mouth. In some modern retellings, she even drives a red sports car.
* According to legend, John Dillinger was betrayed to the FBI by a woman in red. In actuality, she (Anna Sage, a Romanian immigrant who was trying to get a visa by handing over Dillinger) was wearing orange, which she did to signal the FBI she was with Dillinger, but the light made it look red.
* The late, great baseball personality Buck O'Neill had a stated fondness for women in red dresses; he once told his biographer, "Son, in this life, you never walk by a red dress." At his funeral, all the women wore red.
* Just go to a social function at the University of Utah.
* Red is the traditional color of wedding dresses in China and India.
* [[wikipedia:Elena Udrea|Elena Udrea]], Romanian MP and Minister of Tourism. She wears [https://web.archive.org/web/20121114022225/http://simioncristian.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/elenaudrea.jpg rather flashy red outfits] sometimes, including at the [http://storage0.dms.mpinteractiv.ro/media/401/781/10376/5195608/1/base-juramant.jpg second inauguration of President Traian Basescu], although the yellow light made it appear orange on TV. And she doesn't shun [http://simioncristian.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/elena-udrea.jpg pink]{{Dead link}}, either.
* Scarlet red in [[Kimono|Kimonese]] stands for sexuality and vigour of youth, being a suitable background colour for a young girl's ''furisode'' or the wedding costume's overcoat ''uchikake'', as well as
* If you didn't happen to catch ''[[Winter's Bone]]'', then you certainly knew who Jennifer Lawrence was after she appeared at the 2011 Oscars in a form-fitting red gown.
* Wearing red dresses to funerals is the ultimate insult to the deceased and means the lady in red is happy the deceased has died... It is akin to saying out loud "good riddance, schmuck!"
** Referenced in the movie ''[[Moonstruck]]'' where Cher's character threatens to wear such a dress to Johnny (the man who jilted her)'s funeral once he dies.
* According to Gypsy culture, women are actually not allowed to wear red in public, since Gypsies find the color red unlucky. Especially if said Gypsy woman is a pole dancer...
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Characteristic Clothing Colors]]
[[Category:Mysterious Woman]]
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[[Category:Fanservice Costumes]]
[[Category:Costume Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Lady in Red]]
[[Category:Color-Coded for Your Convenience]]
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