Basic Trope: A tourist will wear a garish button-down shirt with large, bright floral prints.
- Straight: Bob visits Hawaii. He wears a shirt with large hibiscus prints all over it and carries a camera around his neck. He also wears a fanny pack, Bermuda shorts, and sandals...with socks underneath.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob wears this outfit even when he's not on vacation.
- Bob wears the outfit on every trip he takes...even business trips.
- Everyone dresses this way, regularly.
- Bob wears this outfit even when on a vacation to somewhere such as the Arctic, where it'd be much too cold for him.
- Downplayed: Bob wears a Hawaiian shirt with a more understated print.
- Justified:
- The outfit is cool and comfortable, and the camera is there for lots of picture-taking.
- The outfit is casual and unfussy, reflecting Bob's laid-back demeanor.
- Bob wants to make sure the locals recognize him as a tourist.
- Inverted:
- Bob wears the flower-print shirt, camera, fanny pack, shorts, and sandals with socks at all times except on his visit to Hawaii.
- Bob lives in Hawaii and, on a trip to the continental United States, puts on the flower-print shirt, camera, fanny pack, shorts, and sandals with socks.
- Subverted:
- Bob wears this outfit, but he is not a tourist.
- Bob wears the outfit, but he otherwise acts polite and respectful.
- Double Subverted: He's a Perpetual Tourist.
- Parodied:
- Bob's request for vacation time at work is granted. As soon as his supervisor notifies him of this, his suit and tie change to an aloha shirt and shorts.
- Bob sleeps in his Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist outfit.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Some tourists dress like this, some don't.
- Bob alternates between wearing this, what he usually wears, and clothing traditional for the location he's visiting.
- Averted:
- Bob wears normal clothes while on vacation.
- Bob doesn't travel in-story.
- Bob is a nudist.
- Enforced:
- "We need to show that Bob is a Fish out of Water."
- "We need to show that Bob is laid-back and carefree."
- Lampshaded: "Can you turn down that shirt? It's a little loud."
- Invoked: Bob is told about Hawaiian shirts...but not told about subtlety in the authentic ones.
- Exploited: The particularly garish ones are marketed towards tourists.
- Defied: Bob doesn't want to stand out, so he wears clothes that more closely matches those of the place he's visiting.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I wonder why tourists are always wearing Hawaiian shirts in fiction."
- Implied:Alice: Did you see Bob's Hawaiian shirt?Mike: No sighted person who was looking in its direction could miss it.
- Played for Laughs: Bob's shirt has a joke written on it in a language he doesn't speak. When he's with people who do speak it, they laugh themselves silly and never explain why to him.
- Played for Drama: Bob learns people who wear such shirts are mocked and he's deeply upset, but he can't understand why.
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