Skirt Over Slacks/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character (usually a girl) wears pants under skirt.

  • Straight: Alice wears pants under her dress/skirt.
  • Exaggerated: Alice wears pants on every skirt.
  • Downplayed: Alice wears short shorts under her dress/skirt.
  • Justified: She does not want her underwear to be shown whenever the wind blows and flips her skirt up.
  • Inverted: Alice wears a skirt underneath her pants. It results in odd bunching and as she admits "isn't very comfortable".
  • Subverted: Alice decided not to use this new style.
  • Double-Subverted: ......until she remembers Bob having a bad habit of flipping them over.
  • Deconstructed:
  • Reconstructed:
  • Paodied:
  • Averted: Alice wears only her dress/skirt, without any pants underneath.
  • Invoked: Alice always remembers to put on her pants first before wearing her skirt over.
  • Exploited:
  • Defied: Bob pulled down Alice's pants.