History Main / PimpedOutDress

* TheGamingPixie wears one of the SexySantaDress variety in her [[http://www.gamingpixie.com/122/all-videos/gamereviews/holiday-game-review-metroid/ Metroid review]] complete with fur trim, a big, red bow, and a single red rhinestone.

** One of her most famous dresses, depicted in the Rainbow Portrait, is crammed not only with gorgious details but gorgious ''symbolism''. Highlights include both Ancient Greek and Biblical references, as well as a motif of eyes and ears conveying how [[BigBrotherIsWatching no part of the kingdom was hidden from her]].

* In the ''tradition'' of Disney, Don Bluth's movie ''{{Anastasia}}'' includes not one, but ''three'' pimped out dresses - a gorgeous, pale yellow dress with a blue sash and strings of pearls, (and an Imperial Russian tiara, ''bien sur''), which Anya dreams up during "Once Upon a December;" the very simple, dark blue strapless dress that she wears at the Parisien Opera (the train, however, certainly gives this dress its due of sparkles); and the dress that she wears during the celebration her Grandmama holds. The last one doesn't quite count, as it gets torn to tatters in the Final Battle, and the Pimped Out Dress [[SeriousBusiness is NEVER torn to tatters.]]
** Cinderella's first pimped out dress got torn to tatters...

** Making the wearer look good is not always the point, sometimes [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes the dress is pimped out to show the lady has no taste]], or to show she's too unattractive for the dress to help.

** Qilue in ''[[ForgottenRealms Silverfall]]'' by Ed Greenwood came to the masquerade (for some business, ''not'' to show off) in such "[un-]dress" that everyone automatically assumed it's a "''[[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]]''" [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself costume]]:
--->'''Simylra:''' a lady... and not ''quite'' naked. She's wearing some black leather straps--here and there, you know.[[hottip:* :plus buttock-high boots with silver heel spikes and elbow-length gloves of the same material, plus a handful of two of silver and gems hanging from those straps]] They must bear some powerful spells; her disguise is nearly perfect.
-->'''Cathlona''': Her disguise?\\

---> ''There were a lot of them [wizards] in the hall, in all their glory. And there was nothing finer than a wizard dressed up formally, until someone could find a way of inflating a Bird of Paradise, possibly by using an elastic band and some kind of gas.''\\

* Pretty much any clothes female [[EvilIsStylish drow]] wears in those rare moments when they aren't DressedToKill, and every second or third for other elves in any setting where elves are present and any clothes are described at all.
** In ''[[ForgottenRealms Silverfall]]'' Qilue came to the masquerade (just for some business, not specifically to show off) in such "[un-]dress" (half of listed pimp-out mods, but almost without basic clothes) that everyone automatically assumed it's a "''[[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]]''" costume...
-->'''Cathlona''': Her [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself disguise]]?\\
'''Simylra''': A drow princess. Gods, how can anyone compete with ''that''?\\
'''Cathlona''': (now looking with her own eyes) Simmy, either get me a drink--a very ''large'' drink--or let me go home...\\

'''Qilue''': [[FromACertainPointOfView A drow princess? No]]...

* In [=~Kyon: Big Damn Hero~=], Mikuru made a pimped out [[ElegantGothicLolita Gothic Lolita]] dress for Tsuruya to wear in a ''single day''.

* A Reticella collar or lace ruff * Bloomers worn underneath the dress (sometimes visible, sometimes not)

* A bustle

* A Reticella collar or lace ruff (espeically during the Elizabethan era)
* Bloomers worn underneath the dress (sometimes visible, sometimes not)

* [[ASongOfIceAndFire Sansa]]'s wedding outfit. Included, partially quoting the [[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/ Citadel]]: a gown of ivory samite and cloth-of-silver, lined with silvery satin, with long dagged sleeves that were almost touching the ground, the bodice slashed almost to the belly, the deep vee covered over with a panel of ornate Myrish lace in dove-grey, long and full skirts and very tight waist; tight slippers of soft grey doeskin; a costly maiden's cloak, meant for a wedding ceremony, made of velvet heavy with pearls, embroidered in silver, and fastened by a silver chain. IIRC, other dresses didn't get described in this much detail in the series.

** There's also Usagi's GoGoEnslavement gown when Prince Diamond captures her and the dresses all the girls wore in episode 37 for the Princess seminar.

* Gold or Silver Lamé

** [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima%21/284/04/ Asuna's Go Go Enslavement outfit]] in chapter 284.

** Natsuhi in [[http://www.onemanga.com/Umineko_no_Naku_Koro_ni/21/23/ the manga]] also gets a special mention.

So this is a TruthInTelevision trope. What sets it apart from a regular fancy evening dress is the heavy use of one or more of the following materials or decorations (but never will so many be included at once as to look like a RummageSaleReject). And note that since all of these used to be hand made, all of them were expensive:

* Yzma sports villainous versions of this trope in ''TheEmperorsNewGroove''. At one point, the huge ribbed wing/collar... ''thing''.. attached to her current outfit falls off, and she hastily pushes it out of sight.

# To clearly show the wealth/social status of the lady wearing it, or to show that SheCleansUpNicely (especially with PrincessForADay).

* ''ShatteredAngels'' has some very fancy and elaborate dresses, even for servants. School uniforms looks very elegant, especially for the boys, and the student council. Don't even get me started on the Absolute Angels.