| abstract | - With animal characters in video games and animated movies, shorts, and TV shows, you are bound to find animals with just enough clothing or accessories to make it quirky to that character without covering up the most basic cues like accessory wearing and half-dressed cartoon animals. With Barefoot Cartoon Animals, keeping the feet exposed emphasizes their animal qualities and prevents them from appearing too human. But there are also animal characters who dress in a full outfit and wear shoes. This animal clothing trope is often averted because a full outfit with shoes, especially full-length pants and a long sleeve shirt with shoes, has a high chance of obscuring what species a particular animal character is. But there are a lot of animal characters who are fully clothed by human standards. There are three main situations that would provoke the use of this trope: 1.
* The author wants to hide the character's species. 1.
* The animals are meant to be totally humanized, mostly in a Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My! world. 1.
* The setting and time period are portrayed using the outfits. There are three variants of this trope, characters who are always or almost always fully-dressed, those who are often fully dressed or fully dressed most of the time, and those who are fully dressed only in certain appearances or scenes. Contrast with Barefoot Cartoon Animals, who do not wear shoes but are otherwise fully dressed, and half-dressed and accessory-wearing, but otherwise naked cartoon animals, who only wear partial clothing or accessories. Subtrope of Appropriate Animal Attire. Often, but not always overlaps with The One Who Wears Shoes. Examples:
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