Gorgeous Garment Generation

That's a very ice dress she made herself!

Candace: Oh no! Jeremy's here! How am I going to get ready in three seconds?!
(Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella suddenly get zapped by Doofenshmirtz's Ball-gown-inator ray and are instantly clothed in ballgowns.)
Ferb: ...Apparently, do what we did.

— Phineas and Ferb, "Gaming the System"

This is when you have a magical adventure And Your Reward Is Clothes. Not just any clothes either, Costume Porn clothes that come out of nowhere.

This can happen many ways, from a Transformation Sequence, to waving a Magic Wand, to Applied Phlebotinum making the clothes.

A Sister Trope to Virtual Paper Doll.

Compare Instant Cosplay Surprise, Garden Garment. Contrast The Nudifier. If the new clothes reflect an Evil Makeover, see Paint It Black.

See also Person of Mass Construction. Not to be confused with Gorgeous Period Dress.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Ayakashi Triangle's version of Snegurochka makes her clothing out of ice, and can exactly duplicate a Pimped-Out Dress the instant she sees it in a picture. During a summer festivals she makes a yukata and customizes it with a snowflake motif. It's still ice, though, so it's vulnerable to melting, as shown when a Heat Wave turned her usual jacket into a pile of slush until she makes the effort to keep it cool.
• Vanessa from Black Clover can use her Thread Magic to create clothes and stitch them back up. She uses it to create the Black Bulls' robes.
• In Date A Live the Spirits' Astral Dresses are generated by their powers, not only protecting them but also looking fabulous... except maybe the Yamai twins, or Yoshino. However, since generally that's the only thing they wear, when Shidou seals their powers... further, when the spirits are in their limited form, they can partially conjure their Astral Dresses, which meshes with their current clothing.
• In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, when the elite Upper-4 demon Hantengu separates his body into the four main emotions: Anger, Pleasure, Joy and Sorrow, only Anger repurposes the main body's outfit, the other three are seen conjuring textile out of thin air along with the new flesh and bones for their bodies; when all four fuse back into a new emotion, Hatred, the same magical wardrobe change happens.
• Dragon Ball: A recurring power used throughout the franchise is Magic Materialization, the ability to materialize objects — but most commonly clothing, typically martial arts uniforms, on characters who have suffered Clothing Damage or who may be dressed inappropriately for an occasion. Piccolo is its most common user, but Supreme Kai uses it several times too.
• Fairy Tail: Lucy's celestial spirits provide her and her friends with regal-looking clothes when clothing is necessary.
• In Guilty Crown, Mana is initially unclothed after her resurrection, but takes the time to manifest a ballet dress out of crystals before getting down to the whole eradicating-humanity-business.
• In Kamigami no Asobi, the gods can change into their true forms, and it involves some of this. The ones with more revealing outfits have enough jewelry that it still is this.
• Princess Tutu: Rue gets a beautiful dress this way at the end of the series. Mytho also changes into a gorgeous "prince outfit" (complete with sword) for the final battle.
• One Piece has "Fox Fire" Kin'emon has the power of the Garb-Garb Fruit, which lets him dress people up in whatever clothes or costume he wants. However, these clothes are basically illusions- if you take them off, they vanish completely. Normally, he applies his power by having recipients place an object like a leaf or stone on their heads, but for the raid on Onigashima, he creates a gate that dresses whoever passes through in a Hell-Bent for Leather outfit like the kind Kaido's minions wear.
• Osananajimi wa Onnanoko ni Naare: When Sylphie turns Iori into Shiori, she usually changes their clothes along with it—and sometimes just the clothes afterward. Sylphie can make any clothing in an instant, and spends an early chapter putting Shiori in every ridiculous outfit her classmates requested. Her turning back into Iori reverses the clothes' transformation as well—but normal clothes she put on after transforming won't be effected. Sylphie once withheld that information to leave Iori on the street in girls' clothing, and tries to take advantage of him wanting to change into a girl for once.

Comic Books

• The Dark Phoenix Saga: Phoenix (Jean Grey) frequently uses her highly advanced telekinesis to molecularly transform her outfits (including changing her street clothes into a combat uniform and the uniform into a bathing suit).
• Silk can use her webbing to weave clothes in seconds.
• Wonder Woman (1942): Paula's Space Transformer was used to generate Gorgeous Period Dresses and other quick outfit changes on occasion in the Golden Age of Comics.

Films — Animation

• Barbie: This happens in a fair number of films:
  • Barbie in the Nutcracker: Clara's nightgown turns into a pink and white tutu (complete with Regal Ringlets and a tiara) when she is revealed to be the Sugarplum Princess.
  • Barbie as Rapunzel: Rapunzel uses her magic paintbrush to turn her dress into several different gowns, eventually settling on a glittery pink and purple number.
  • Barbie of Swan Lake: Odette's dress is transformed twice, once into a pink gown for her evening with Daniel and again into a sparkly swan feathered gown.
  • Barbie & The Diamond Castle: Four times over (six if you count the dogs getting all sparkly).
• Disney Animated Canon: Honestly something of a defining feature:
  • Aladdin: In the role of a snarky tailor, Genie transforms Aladdin's ratty street clothes into princely robes.
  • Cinderella: Has such a scene to fit the fairytale. Legend has it that this Transformation Sequence was Walt Disney's favorite piece of animation done by his animation shop.
  • Frozen:
    • In the first movie, Elsa's snow queen dress is woven from ice and snow during the "Let it Go" sequence. She can also make ice skates.
    • Frozen II gives her an all-white dress, cape, and sandals after she finds her mother's spirit at Ahtohallan.
  • The Little Mermaid (1989): At the end, Triton makes Ariel human but gives her a dress, to contrast Ursula not giving her extra clothes. The dress itself is an extremely sparkly silver slip dress.
  • The Princess and the Frog: The Fairytale Wedding Dress and princely clothes at the end appear when Tiana and Naveen are turned back into humans.
• Trolls World Tour: The "Just Sing" sequence has a new rainbow colored outfit and dye job appear on Poppy, seemingly at the behest of the audience of all the troll tribes acknowledging her.
• Wreck-It Ralph: Vanellope gets a Pimped-Out Dress in every shade of pink after her game resets, revealing her to be the princess of Sugar Rush. Too bad she hates the dress.

Films — Live-Action

• Barbarella: Steps into a chamber on her spaceship and emerges seconds later fully dressed. Not that she feels any particular need to be.
• Beauty and the Beast (2017): The Wardrobe (Madame de Garderobe) doesn't just contain some dresses for heroine Belle to wear in the castle — she's able to create outfits in seconds. At first, the results are Rummage Sale Reject, but she gets much better at it, culminating in Belle's signature golden ballgown. When the castle comes under attack by Gaston and his mob, she even weaponizes this ability and dresses some attackers in such garish/mismatched outfits that they flee in shock.
• Casper Meets Wendy: All the witches use magic to transform their outfits, but perhaps the closest example to this trope is when Casper asks Wendy to dance, and she changes her scarlet sweater and black pants into bright red slip dress.
• Cinderella (2015): As in the original animated version, a ballgown comes courtesy of the Fairy Godmother. It involves butterflies and a lot of sparkles.
• Into the Woods: Cinderella's gown, accessories and shoes appear on her as she spins under her willow tree.
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie: As the Temple opens and bestows its power on the rangers, their temporary "ninja" uniforms are turned back into their battle-ready power suits, which had been absent since the loss of all their powers earlier in the film.
• Nanny McPhee: As Evangeline walks down the aisle, the titular Nanny uses the falling snow to transform Evangeline's dress into wedding gown, complete with tiara, veil, and a long train.
• Thor: Love and Thunder: Thor is constantly making new outfits for himself using Mjolnir/Stormbreaker, especially the first time he runs into Jane using Mjolnir and immediately makes himself a more elaborate costume.

Literature

• In A Christmas Dream by Louisa May Alcott, rich girl Effie dreams she is poor and out on the street. An angel appears and turns the snow falling on her into a white fur cape and hood.
• Cinderella: The original Fairy Tale has the Fairy Godmother make a dress for the title heroine.
• The Dresden Files: Harry and Susan get one in Changes, courtesy of Lea (who is, yes, Harry's fairy godmother, and she revels in this opportunity). It also serves as heavy-duty magical gear. However, while Susan's new gear gets her checked out by everyone, Harry's gets him laughs. He describes it as the Games Workshop imagining of a Jedi Knight. Fitting, because he's a game-breakingly badass magician, in a world of Eldritch Abominations, and is now the Winter Knight.
• Journey to Chaos: Annala is dungeon-diving in the Organic Research Repository when this happens to her. She steps on a floor tile that transforms her light armor into a wedding gown complete with evening gloves and a veil. This is more than middle embarrassing for her, as her boyfriend happened to be with her at the time. Then, his reaction to it (or rather, his lack of reaction), leads her to saying something she immediately regrets.
• Magic, Inc.: Jedson is seen working with a young witch whose specialty is creating unique garments out of thin air. Unfortunately, she's been having some problems and produces dresses that are copies of existing designs on one try, and several hundred left shoes on another.
• October Daye has formal wear forced upon her by various fairies. She finds it annoying.
• Uprooted: One of the first spells seen is "vanastalem", which the Dragon uses on Agnieszka daily because her messy, homespun appearance offends his sensibilities. She later uses it herself to block an Attempted Rape, and eventually learns that deliberately fudging it will give her a normal dress.

• Young Wizards: Dairine resorts to this in Wizards at War after finding she has nothing in her closet suitable for meeting alien royalty. Unfortunately, she doesn't consider that reconfiguring her clothes on a molecular level will leave her momentarily nude, and she isn't alone at the time.

Live-Action TV

• Doctor Who: In the Christmas Special "The Husbands of River Song", River carries a spray can, rather like a perfume spray, which changes her outfit into something appropriate.
• Wonder Woman (1975): Wonder Woman's iconic transformation brings her gorgeous outfit from nowhere. She also uses it to change back, although this is never shown on-camera. Rather, we get a reaction shot of Drusilla in "Wonder Woman in Hollywood".
• The Goodies troop through a cabinet that Graham invented that instantly creates the required clothing for them so they can Do Anything, Anytime.

Music

• Lindsey Stirling gets one of these in the music video for the orchestral version of her original track "Transcendence". She begins in an old abandoned theatre wearing dull raggedy clothes, but during her first twirl playing the violin she finds, her outfit becomes bright blue with gold decorations. She then helps other people transform in the same way.
• Queen's It's a Kind of Magic shows an old theater come to life when Freddie Mercury (dressed as a magician) enters. He and the other musicians who were dressed in rags transform into the gear that they usually wear on stage.
• Joe Scruggs' "Late Last Night" video has two of the kids dream about spring-loaded boots materializing onto their feet, allowing the kids to bounce into space.

Tabletop Games

• In Anima: Beyond Fantasy the spell Wardrobe makes this, giving the caster impressive (magical) clothes that never get damaged or dirty and that at higher levels can change at will as well as protecting the wearer as if they were armor.
• Changeling: The Lost has "hedge-spun" garments. They're invariably beautiful and feel wonderful to the touch, but if they so much as brush against Cold Iron you're left in your underwear. One rare, valued token is the Hedgespun Wardrobe, which creates hedge-spun clothing on demand (with the caveat that they evaporate at the next dawn).
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • One of the joke items featured in an April issue of Dragon Magazine is the "Snazzy Ring", a magical ring that would make the wearer's armour take on the appearance of an elegant gown or suit, while still providing the same level of protection. Unless it went wrong, in which case it left you genuinely naked and destroyed your outfit, making it The Nudifier as well if you roll a 1.
  • In 1st through 3rd Edition (at least) the Rod of Splendor could garb the wielder in magical noble's clothing — the finest fabrics, plus adornments of furs and jewels, worth 7,000-10,000 gold pieces.

Video Games

• In Devil May Cry 5, Lady and Trish are both rescued in the buff from the bowels of some demons. Trish uses magic to respawn her usual outfit, while Lady has to make do with some of Nico's threads.
• In King's Quest VI, this happens to Beauty, who leaves Alexander her old clothes.
• In No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, completing the Game Within a Game Bizarre Jelly 5 unlocks the opening of its Show Within a Show adaptation, which takes this trope to the next level: The resident Magical Girls have their clothes blown off by an attack, then instantly sprout new, frillier ones.
• Persona 5: Awakening to your Persona abilities also grants you a stylish, customized thief outfit in a blaze of magical blue flames.
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: During a quest in Velen, Geralt finds Sorceress Keira Metz bathing in her private magical cave in Velen. After she flaunts her naked body to him via a Sexy Surfacing Shot she magically generates some glamorous clothes for her.
• Right before the final world of Super Mario Odyssey, Cappy will summon a tuxedo for Mario if you didn't use amiibo to get it early.
• In the prologue to Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, the Monokubs, upon seeing how generically all the characters are dressed, decide to give everyone a fancy makeover. A fancy Magical Girl-style Transformation Sequence follows where the main character, Kaede, has her new clothes appear on her piece by piece.
• One of the bosses in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is the blood-controlling vampire Bloodless. She is first seen having a Blood Bath, before getting up, at the same conjuring her dress using the blood in the tub.
• During the first summer event of Fate/Grand Order, Scathach's first priority after being stranded on a tropical island is using her rune magic to give all your female Servants class-changing swimsuits. At the end of the event, she forgets the counterspell, so they're all stuck like that. In later summer events, swimsuit-variant Servants just go shopping offscreen.

Web Comics

• This happens in Chapter 3 of Cucumber Quest - Carrot spends much of the story being a Failure Knight, struggling to do the right thing yet always failing due to his crippling cowardice. But after getting Princess Parfait's Love Letter that she wrote to him, the love mutually shared through their lockets transforms his patchwork clothes into a shining, heart-themed suit of armor. It lets him magically create any weapon he wants from the heart-shaped gem on his chest, including bows and swords. It also symbolizes his character development; after he transforms, he stops being cowardly and fights like a real Knight in Shining Armor.
• In Girl Genius Queen Albia of England can change her clothes and other elements of her appearance instantaneously using some form of advanced applied science that even other sparks think looks a lot like magic and transforms her initial outfit (a relatively practical gardening ensemble) into several pretty new ones while talking to Zeetha and Agatha.
• In The Witch's Throne. the Witches get a full witch costume after their Transformation Sequence.
• In Yokoka's Quest, Copycat is able to shapeshift into different outfits, and Yfa also does this when he shapeshifts into a human. It is implied that this is a spirit bird ability; other characters shapeshift into the clothes they were wearing when they were last in that form.

Web Original

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged Piccolo has named his canonical power to do this the 'Clothes Beam'. At one point, Nail and Kami ( after they fuse with him) try to convince him to use it to start his own fashion line, and suggest the name "Big Green Threads".

Western Animation

• Futurama: Not quite like most of these examples, but apparently this world has literal painted-on bikinis that come from a spray can.
• In the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special, Skeletor uses his staff to create parkas on the kids he kidnapped, to show the spirit of Christmas was getting to him.
• Magic Adventures of Mumfie did this in Scarecrowella, giving Scarecrow a tuxedo and tails with a top hat.
• In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Rarity usually makes dresses the hard way — on a sewing machine, with a bit of unicorn telekinesis to make up for her lack of fingers. When her talent is challenged by Trixie in "Boast Busters", though, she transforms a curtain into a quite impressive dress in a matter of seconds.
• One of the many bizarre inventions of Dr. Doofenschmirtz from Phineas and Ferb is a "Ball-gown-inator" from the episode "Gaming the System" that, well, puts a formal dress on anyone zapped by it. The idea was to use it on every male in the Tri-State Area so he would be comparatively more manly. There's a Freudian Excuse involved.
• This happens to Jack in the seventh episode of the fifth season of Samurai Jack. After coming to terms with the rage and frustration that has plagued him for decades in a spiritual journey, Jack is finally deemed worthy by the gods who originally forged the sword for his father. They then blast him with Eye Beams that immediately restore his original appearance, right down to the top knot.
• The Winx Club character Stella can create dresses with her fairy magic. When she's depowered in a later season, she briefly forgets she can't do so anymore and grumbles as she fetches them by hand.

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