Tights Under Shorts/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character (usually a girl) wears shorts over tights.

  • Straight: Alice, who doesn't like showing her legs, wears shorts over her tights.
  • Exaggerated: Every female character wear shorts over their tights as a Clingy Costume.
    • Alice wears shorts over tights with every outfit.
  • Inverted: Proper Tights with a Skirt.
    • Alternatively, the tights, usually fishnets, are worn over the shorts.
  • Subverted: Alice decides to forgo the tights.
  • Double Subverted: Alice takes the tights with her, and during a break, she decides to put them back on.
  • Parodied: Even the males wear tights under shorts.
  • Played for Laughs: Only the characters with the most disgusting legs are shown with shorts over their tights, complete with an Exaggerated play on Gross Up Close-Up. All the ones who have nice legs are shown with modest clothes most of the time.