Basic Trope: A character (usually a girl) who is prim and proper tends to wear tights in an environment full of short skirts.
- Straight: Alice wears a checked skirt and some black leggings as an indication that she's a serious woman.
- Exaggerated: Alice wears the black leggings all the time.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is an agent who wears black leggings for work.
- Alice wears the black leggings at formal times.
- Justified:
- Alice simply wants to keep her legs warm in the wintertime.
- Alice thinks that showing off your panties is improper, so she decides to wear black leggings.
- Alice's native culture has a taboo against bare legs. Ain't No Rule saying how long your skirt has to be though.
- Alice thinks the leggings go well with her skirt.
- Alice wants to look feminine and keep her legs covered, but also needs freedom of movement in a pinch.
- Inverted:
- Alice wears shorts under her skirt.
- Subverted: In one scene when Bob asks Alice that if she is wearing leggings, but she says that she is wearing high socks.
- Double Subverted: ...But when her skirt flies up, it revealed that she was wearing black leggings all this time.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: Alice sometimes wears the black leggings, sometimes she doesn’t.
- Averted: Alice doesn’t wear leggings.
- Enforced: The Moral Guardians demand Alice cover up.
- Lampshaded: “That’s some nice leggings!”
- Invoked:
- Alice buys leggings and wears it.
- Bob is tired of Alice only wearing panties under her skirt, so he forces Alice to wear something modest, like leggings.
- Exploited: To appear proper, Alice wears leggings with a nice skirt.
- Defied: Alice decides to go for Modesty Shorts or a spell to hold up her skirt.
- Discussed:Bob: Hey Alice! You look so good with those leggings on!
Alice: Thanks, Bob! But I need to focus! - Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice’s leggings are transparent enough that they can show her panties.
- Reconstructed: Alice wears shorts over her leggings.
Back to Proper Tights with a Skirt. And try showing some grace as you step out, young lady!
