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.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded:
- 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.
- Defied:
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Implied:
- Played For Laughs:
- Played For Drama:
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