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{{trope}}
[[File:tron_sweater_girl_8274.jpg|link=TronTRON|frame|Just in case her skintight suit in the movie wasn't hot enough...]]
 
{{quote|'''Frank:''' ''I can knit a sweater!''
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Compare [[Fur Bikini]], [["Happy Holidays" Dress]], [[Sexy Santa Dress]], [[Homemade Sweater From Hell]], [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]].
 
 
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== [[Advertising]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.|Are You There God Its Me Margaret]]'', Laura Danker, the most physically mature girl in Margaret's class, wears a sweater and gets harassed. Freddie Barnett a.k.a. the Lobster asks Margaret why ''she'' doesn't look like that in a sweater, which Margaret does not think is funny.
* Neighbor girl Lisa Hoober in ''Then Again, Maybe I Won't'', [[Judy Blume]]'s subsequent novel.
* In [[William Goldman]]'s ''Magic'', the narrator flashbacks about seeing his love interest in a sweater and being aroused for the first time in his life.
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* Christina Hendricks' character Joan Holloway on ''[[Mad Men]]'' deploys sweaters coupled with a variety of form-fitting but tasteful business skirts to [[Ms. Fanservice|devastating effect.]]
** Once she tells a cleavage-flaunting new secretary to button up, saying that less is more if you know what you're doing. Said secretary ends up getting company partner Roger Sterling, Joan's former lover, to leave his wife for her, which says something about Roger's tastes.
* Rachel Berry (played by Lea Michele) tends to wear these a lot on ''[[Glee]]''. The show even [[Lampshadeslampshade]]s it.
{{quote|'''Jacob''': Get those sweater puppies out of their cashmere cage!}}
* The girls of ''[[Charmed]]'' like wearing sweaters.
* Jack was often distracted by sweater girls on ''[[Three's Company]]'', resulting in [[Freudian Slip|Freudian Slips]] on several occasions: "You need to separate the yolk from the sweater." "I just came to button up my coffee."
* ''[[Spooks]]'' "Wear a tight sweater tomorrow."
* In an episode of ''[[Happy Days]]'' Richie, Potsie, and Ralph break into another student's college dorm to get back an incriminating photo he took of Richie; they discover a [[Useful Notes/Nudism|nudist camp]] magazine and get [[Distracted by the Sexy]]. Potsie: "Wow. [[Comically Missing the Point|How'd you like to see a sweater on that!]]"
* Annie in ''[[Community]]'' has a wardrobe that appears to mostly consist of cardigans.
* One episode of ''[[Growing Pains]]'' had teenage [[All Men Are Perverts|horndog]] Ben excited for his class field trip to the planetarium, which he intended to spend "picking fuzzballs off of Sasha Sorecki's sweater."
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Judith Mossman in ''[[Half Life]] 2''. ''[[Concerned]]'' pointed this out a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120512005324/http://hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-11-04 couple] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090916131027/http://www.hlcomic.com/cast.html times].
* [[Tsukihime|Arcuied Brunestud]], showing that vampires don't have to wear leather to be sexy.
** In the pseudo-sequel '''Kagetsu Tohya''', Hisui and Arcueid switch clothes at one point. Hisui fits the part quite well.
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* [[Carry On|Barbara Windsor]] reportedly used to be one long before she got into acting. In interviews she has described breaking up couples as a shoe shop assistant while reaching for high shelves and wearing a tight sweater.
* After Prince William and Kate Middleton finished their wedding, they went to a private party, and Kate changed out of her [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]] to [http://steadfastnicolle.blogspot.com/2011/05/royal-wedding-after-ceremony-fashion.html another white dress with a white angora cardigan].
* Victoria Beckham is apparently portrayed as one in her [https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1311534427/VBvogue-colour.jpg Twitter icon]{{Dead link}}.
 
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