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* ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'': Emma is convinced to attend a ball, and is shown to clean up nicely when she wears a ball gown and no glasses in comparison with her usual maid outfit and glasses.
* ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' have [[Fat Girl|Nago]]—not that she had ''done'' that, but a convex mirror shows that she ''will'' look quite cute if she loses some weight.
* Deunan of ''[[Appleseed]]'' stunned everyone when she turned up for Hitomi's birthday party in a stylish dress, specially designed by [http://chloeings.blogspot.com/2007/08/prada-designs-costumes-for-cartoon.html Muiccia Prada]▼
** It was even lampshaded by one of the people present. Not surprising, considering the vast difference from Deunan's usual [[Action Girl|tomboy-ish]] looks.▼
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== Film
* The beginning of the ballroom scene in [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's]] ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''. In a variation, ''both'' Belle and Beast are cleaning up nicely.
** She was beautiful in her plain clothes, and the time spent in the castle shows her in various elegant dresses. This was just taking her beauty [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] has never been bad looking but looks especially dashing in his formal "Prince Ali" attire.
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** ... [[Foreshadowing|well before]] she's literally [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|turned into a swan]].
* Tanya Mousekewitz gets this kind of effect in ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'' after a makeover from Miss Kitty. Even the cats in the saloon take notice.
* A variation in ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]'': Rapunzel's clothing doesn't change, but when Flynn gets four little girls to fix up her hair so it doesn't drag on the ground while they're touring the kingdom, Rapunzel ends up looking even cuter than before. Flynn's face when he sees the final result has the name of this trope written all over it.
* ''[[Over the Hedge (animation)|Over the Hedge]]'' has a little makeover scene for Stella who, with a haircut and comb run through her fur, looks really pretty. For a skunk.
* ''[[Mulan]]'' looks quite nice in her matchmaker ceremony dress.
▲* Deunan of ''[[Appleseed]]'' stunned everyone when she turned up for Hitomi's birthday party in a stylish dress, specially designed by [http://chloeings.blogspot.com/2007/08/prada-designs-costumes-for-cartoon.html Muiccia Prada]
▲** It was even lampshaded by one of the people present. Not surprising, considering the vast difference from Deunan's usual [[Action Girl|tomboy-ish]] looks.
* In the 2008 Japanese film ''[[Zatoichi|Ichi]]'', hapless samurai Toma meets the title character—a blind swordswoman—when she is in a ''goze'''s customary rags. When she's called to play for the local ''yakuza'' boss to celebrate Toma's hiring as a bodyguard, though, he is visibly stunned by how she looks in a ''kimono''.
* ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]''. [[Meganekko|Adrian]] is the [[Trope Codifier]].
* In ''[[Enchanted]]'', the example is recursive. Giselle shows up at the ball (with Edward in tow) in this fashion. Funnily enough, the ball is an "old fashioned fancy dress" kind, involving clothing of the sort Giselle's been wearing for the whole movie—except now she shows up in a fairly simple modern-day dress. Robert still gets distracted away from his date Nancy, who is also dressed up fancily. The reason for Giselle's very striking effect is that she suddenly looks like a grown woman instead of a little girl playing dress-up with the Disney Princess dresses she'd worn until then.
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** According to the extras in the DVD release, that was one of the hardest scenes for [[Daniel Radcliffe]] and [[Rupert Grint]] to get right, because although ''Ron and Harry'' had never seen ''Hermione'' all dolled up before, ''they'' had seen Emma done up to the nines on many occasions.
** [[A Very Potter Musical|"I used to think looks weren't important, but now I think they're more important than anything!"]]
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== Literature ==
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* Gaia Moore in one of the ''[[Fearless (novel)|Fearless]]'' books, although Gaia does not recognize this about herself.
* Male example with Harry Dresden in ''[[The Dresden Files]]: Death Masks''. Harry seems to enjoy the effect he has in his tuxedo when he goes to an art sales event with Susan to investigate Johnnie Marcone.
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