Dresses the Same/Playing With

Basic Trope: Two women wear the same dress, causing embarrassment for both of them.

• Straight: Alice goes to a dance and sees Betty wearing the same dress as her. Alice is humiliated.
• Exaggerated: Alice sees Betty wearing the same dress as her. Alice flies into an insane rage and needs to be restrained.
• Justified: Alice's dress was a gift from her husband, who told her he had it custom-made just for her. By seeing Betty in the same dress, she found out he was lying.
• Inverted: Alice is upset when she sees Betty wearing a different dress than her, because they agreed to dress alike.
• Subverted: Alice sees Betty wearing the same dress, but doesn't mind.
• Double Subverted: But when she sees that Betty has the same earrings as her, she's pissed.
• Parodied: Adam can't find a suit to wear to the dance, so he wears one of his sister's dresses. At the dance, he sees Bob wearing an identical dress, and is humiliated.
• Deconstructed: When they see each other wearing identical dresses, Alice and Betty begin arguing, dredging up every petty difference they've ever had, and eventually breaking apart their friendship.
• Reconstructed: Alice's and Betty's husbands, Chuck and Dave, end up buying the same truck as each other and have a similar fight. When the women see how silly the men are acting, they come to their senses and settle their differences.
• Zig Zagged:
• Averted: Alice and Betty wear two totally different dresses.
• Enforced:
• Lampshaded:
• Invoked: Alice is mad at Betty for some reason, so to get even, she deliberately wears the same dress as Betty in order to humiliate her.
• Defied:
• Discussed:
• Conversed:

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