History Main / FromDressToDressing

* ''Series/CSICyber'': In "Red Crone," a boy who cut his hand to offer blood to the Red Crone as part of the treasure hunt uses the bottom of his shirt to bind up his hand.
* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In "Hunting Ground," the BodyOfTheWeek is found [[PinnedToTheWall nailed to a tree]] by an arrow, with a makeshift tourniquet made from his pants leg wrapped around his arm.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Various detectives tear off parts of their shirts to bandage victims from time to time. Also:
** In "What You See Is What You See," Mac uses his jacket to stem the flow of blood from the waitress' gunshot wound.
** In "Charge of This Post," he borrows a ''shoestring'' from a fellow victim to bind a profusely bleeding artery in Flack's gut until the paramedics can arrive. Then he tears strips from his own shirt to stuff in the gaping wound to staunch additional bleeding.
** "Epilogue" has a variation. A perp stabs a security guard, hitting his femoral artery, then tears off one of the man's sleeves to use as a tourniquet ''on his own arm'' (where the guard had shot him earlier), and runs away, leaving the guard to bleed to death.

* Happens in ''[[Film/ShortCircuit Short Circuit 2]]'' when [[spoiler:Johnny is mortally wounded by Oscar and his mooks and rapidly leaking battery acid. [[JerkAss Fred]] tears off part of the very expensive shirt he's taken pride in throughout the movie to bandage Johnny and try and slow his "bleeding".]]

It also can be used to send romantic signals about the characters involved. It is not uncommon for the person ripping the clothes to be a girl and the injured party to be a guy she likes. The fact that it's usually a woman doing this can be seen as a form of mild titillation if played for {{fanservice}}.

* In ''Literature/Outlander'', Claire Randall ends up tearing strips from her nylon dress (which she’d happened to be wearing when she traveled through the stones and ended up in 1743) to bind Jamie Fraser’s wounded shoulder.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11420434/26/Moments-in-Love Moemnts in Love]]'' Harry uses his T-shirt to bind his wounds after four kappa attack him during the Second Task.