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* Cheradinine Zakalwe in [[Iain M Banks]]' ''[[The Culture/Use of Weapons|Use of Weapons]]'': one of his assignments by the Culture is to turn around a war for one side. His coming has been prophesied, but he's not there just to be feted, so he rejects the ornate garments they offer him for military uniform.
* In one version of the ''King Midas'' story his princess daughter went to school with the other children, dressing and acting like a fairly ordinary (if wealthy) schoolgirl, despite all the extravagant luxury she had back home.
* [[Tamora Pierce]] tends to give the more sympathetic royal characters in her books this trait. In the first book in the ''[[Tortall Universe|Immortals]]'' series, when Daine first meets Queen Thayet, she's surprised to learn that Thayet is, well, the Queen, because she's dressed very plainly. In fact, one could go far as to say if a character likes dressing up really fancy all the time, they're probably evil. Examples include {{spoiler|Roger from the Song of the Lioness Quartet, Ozorne in the Immortals Quartet, Joren, and to a lesser extent, Blayce in the Protector of the Small Quartet, Imajane and Rubinyan in the Tricksters books,}} and any noble antagonist in any of the ''[[Circle of Magic]]'' books. Good characters like dressing up sometimes, but only in very simple and understated fancy outfits. The more jewelry and makeup a character wears on a regular basis, the more evil they are {{spoiler|with the exception of Dove in Trickster's Queen because she's embracing her "native" side by wearing multiple rings}}. And if a character does dress to the nines at every occasion and isn't evil, they are at least dismissed as very flippant or silly or petty and mean.
** Ironically, TP is so into [[Costume Porn|long, loving descriptions]] of what ''all'' of her characters are wearing that the effect of any contrast is sort of lost on the reader. She can spend just as much time telling you someone's not dressed up as that they are.
** One notorious subversion was a story told to Daine, in which Thayet had been dressed up in a ''very'' expensive dress for a court function, but was called to fight bandits in her capacity as [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|Commander of the Queen's Riders]]. The bandits were defeated, but the dress most emphatically did not survive.
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