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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 '''Frilly Upgrade'''!
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* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' gave its heroines a Frilly Upgrade in the middle of the first season, ''before'' their power drop in the second.
* 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 stomach—the consensus is that parents had probably complained, as it wasn't until ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' that Dream wore another midriff-baring costume.
** 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! Pretty Cure 5]]'' movie, the team becomes butterfly-winged Super Cures, and true to form, they have too many frills to count. Dream, of course, has her own "special" touches as team leader. And in ''Yes! Precure 5GoGo!'', the wings are gone, but they get jackets instead. Cure Dream's stomach goes the way of Cure Black, but parents probably didn't complain, since Milky Rose fills the niche there instead.
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* ''[[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 ''[[Wedding Peach]]'' are supposed to be angels, and in the second season, their armor sprouts feathers from the shoulders. They can even turn into wings.
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'': Despite the fact that Sakura's battle costumes changed constantly (and were entirely ''mundane'' in origin, being tailored for her by Tomoyo), it still managed to do this by moving the Fly card wings from the staff to Sakura's back during the Sakura Card arc.
* Akazukin from ''[[Fairy Musketeers]]'' has [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess Mode]], which creates cuffs of lace before it creates the sword.
* In the ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' OAV, Pretty Sammy transforms into Hyper Sammy before casting her Pretty Coquettish Bomber.
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* Parodied in ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?]]'', where Ayumu's Masou Shoujo outfit keeps sprouting more ribbons and bows as he (yes, [[Dragged Into Drag|he]]) powers up, eventually prompting Haruna to scream, "Stop! You mustn't get any cuter!"
* The heroine of ''[[Hyper Speed GranDoll]]'' gets the [[Powered Armor]] versions of this trope for her two power-ups.
* 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.
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