Basic Trope: A (usually female) character gets more attractive over the run of a show.
- Straight: When the show started out, Alice was a demure, if not unattractive, lady. Later into the show's run, she started dressing less conservatively and showing more skin.
- Exaggerated:
- When the show started, Alice was not that attractive-looking and never wore anything more revealing than a parka. Later, she's absolutely gorgeous and wears a bikini and Daisy Dukes as her default outfit.
- Alice started the show as a badass Lady in a Power Suit. She ends up becoming a nude Shameless Fanservice Girl (or a nude Reluctant Fanservice Girl), but she keeps her badassery and she's also revealed to have been built like an Amazonian Beauty the entire time.
- Downplayed: While Alice dresses no less conservatively, she does choose more flattering styles and colors and gets an updated hairstyle.
- Justified:
- Either the actress playing Alice grew more attractive, or the writers decided to take her character in a new direction.
- An in-show justification is usually that Alice decided to become more assertive.
- Alice's body slowly changes to her will. Over time Alice is just choosing to look hot and only slowly getting around to it because of the limits of the power.
- Alice went through puberty and the result was kind to her.
- The show started in the winter, so everyone was wearing more clothing. Once the in-show season changes, Alice wears skimpier clothes.
- Alice gradually starts developing unrequited feelings for male lead Bob, and deliberately starts dressing differently so as to get his attention.
- Art Evolution results in Alice getting cuter/more attractive.
- Inverted:
- Alice starts out flaunting her body at every available opportunity. Later, she starts dressing more conservatively.
- Alice starts out dressing provocatively. However, due to getting disfigured early on, she switches to dressing in more concealing and less flashy outfits to cover herself up.
- Subverted: Alice spends a couple of episodes wearing more revealing clothing, but starts to find it uncomfortable and goes back to her old fashion choices.
- Double Subverted: ...until Bob points out how attractive he found her when she showed some skin.
- Parodied:
- Alice dresses as conservatively as humanly possible. When asked to show some skin, she takes off one layer of clothing.
- Advertising for the show specifically mentions that Alice "loses another layer every season". Soon enough this includes her skin.
- Alice is a Reluctant Fanservice Girl who complains about her skimpy uniform to the players and other characters.
- Zig-Zagged: How much skin Alice is showing depends on the episode.
- Averted: Alice more or less remains the same in terms of fashion sense and attractiveness throughout the entire run of the series.
- Lampshaded: "Is it just me, or is Alice showing a lot more skin lately?"
- Invoked: The writers realize that Alice has a lot of male fans who find the actress attractive...
- Exploited: Alice realizes that more opportunities are open to her now that she's more attractive.
- Defied:
- The writers refuse to sex up Alice because they have other plans for the character.
- Alice's actress Carol refuses to change her character's uniform to something skimpy, even threatening to quit and tell her loving fans exactly why she did so when pressured.
- Discussed: "Whoa, I remember the last time we went to the beach, Alice wore a one-piece and was afraid to get in the water. Now she's wearing a bikini, if you could call it that, even out of the water at that..."
- Conversed: "That show has gone downhill, but at least Alice is showing some skin..."
- Deconstructed: Alice's increasingly liberal dress is an indicator of how unhappy she really is. She's not happy having to wear skimpy clothing to get the guys' attention.
- Reconstructed: However, she starts to realize that she enjoyed showing skin, so she ends up enjoying it.
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