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Basic Trope: A female character drops her dress.

  • Straight: Alice drops her dress to reveal her underwear to Bob.
  • Exaggerated:
    • Alice is going commando under her dress.
    • Alice drops her dress in public.
  • Downplayed:
    • Alice is wearing another, smaller dress underneath her dress.
    • Alice is wearing shorts under her dress.
  • Justified: Alice is trying to seduce Bob.
  • Gender-Inverted:
    • Bob drops his pants.
    • Bob, a crossdresser, drops his dress.
  • Inverted: Alice dresses up by pulling her dress up from the floor.
  • Subverted: Alice removes her dress, but in a manner that doesn't allow it to fall to the floor.
  • Double Subverted: Partly through removing her dress, she decides to drop her dress on the floor.
  • Parodied: Alice drops her dress in public to seduce Bob before remembering she's in public, having a Naked Freakout and putting the dress back on.
  • Zig Zagged:
  • Averted: Alice doesn't wear a dress.
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  • Invoked:
  • Exploited: Alice and Carol are assassins attempting to kill David, who is in a public banquet. Carol convinces Alice (eagerly or reluctantly) to “accidentally” drop her dress as a distraction. While everyone is distracted by Alice nude or in her underwear, Carol poisons David's drink.
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