Clothing can come in many colors, and often have to do with particular characterizations. These are the tropes about that.
Compare Hair Colors, Dress-Coded for Your Convenience, Good Guys Garb, Villainous Fashion Sense.
Tropes
- Blue Is Heroic: Blue is associated with heroes.
- Bring My Red Jacket: When someone clad in red is about to get hurt badly.
- Chromatic Arrangement: A Power Trio Color-Coded for Your Convenience with the additive primary colors (red, blue, green), subtractive primaries (cyan/blue, magenta/red, yellow), or a group of four that combines the two (red, blue, green, and yellow.)
- Color-Coded Characters: Using colors to distinguish characters from one another.
- Color-Coded Patrician: Military leaders, nobility, or royalty wearing certain colors.
- Cowardly Yellow: Yellow is associated with cowardice.
- Ethereal White Dress: A character dressed in pale clothing who's either literally or metaphorically dead.
- Evil Wears Black: Villains wearing black clothes.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: When Character Alignment depends on Color Motif.
- Good Wears White: Heroes in white clothes.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: When a character shows her femininity and/or gracefulness by wearing purple.
- Grayscale of Evil: Grim-looking villains in white, gray, and black.
- Lady in Red: A seductress wearing a red dress.
- Little Black Dress: A simple, short black dress with no decoration or trimming.
- Little Dead Riding Hood: When a girl dressed in red dies or is in danger.
- The Men in Black: A secret government agency in charge of maintaining a Masquerade.
- Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Superheroes wearing black and/or leathery costumes in their films.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Boys wearing blue and girls wearing pink.
- Pink Heroine: The color pink associated with superheroines.
- Pink Is Erotic: The color pink is associated erotic or sexual elements
- Pink Means Feminine: The color pink associated with femininity.
- Primary-Color Champion: Heroes wearing red and blue, and sometimes yellow along with them.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Princesses wearing pink clothing.
- Psycho Pink: Pink associated with violent and/or crazy characters.
- Purple Is Powerful: Purple used to represent or symbolize power.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: The colors black and red used to indicate evil.
- Redhead In Green: A redhead wearing green clothes.
- Red Hot Masculinity: Masculine men wear red.
- Red Is Heroic: Red associated with heroes.
- Red Is Violent: The color red associated with violent, murderous, and blood-hungry characters.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Villains wearing green, orange, and/or purple.
- True Blue Femininity: The color blue associated with femininity.
- Vibrant Orange: Orange represents energy, passion, and joy.
- Villain in a White Suit: When a villain's sophistication and managerial position is emphasized by wearing all-white formal clothing.
- Virgin in a White Dress: Virgins wearing white clothes.
- White and Red and Eerie All Over: White with red accents as a creepy color scheme.
- White Is Pure: When white is associated with cleanliness, innocence, and virtue
