History Main / FurIsClothing

* This trope goes way back. Many mythical "animal brides" like {{selkies|AndWereseals}} and {{swan|sASwimming}}-maidens shed their hides or feathers to reveal a gorgeous woman underneath. Unscrupulous human men often force these women into marriage by [[ShapeshifterModeLock stealing and hiding the animal skins to keep their brides from returning to the wild]].

** In the short "WesternAnimation/QuietPlease", Spike the bulldog rolls up his arm fur like a sleeve, revealing an anchor tattoo, before running after Tom to pummel him.

** Later in the movie, Elmyra visits the ACME Wild Safari Zoo, where she sneaks out of her parents' car and grabs a cheetah by his tail. The cheetah tries to run away from her, but loses his fur in the process. Elmyra wears his fur, and in a later scene, the furless cheetah is wearing a censor bar over his groin.

** When Tom runs over Mama Duck with a lawnmower in "Little Quacker", exposing her turquoise bra and bloomers, which she quickly covers with her now robe-like feathers.

* This also happens to Lady Kluck from Walt Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'', as a result of her being grabbed by the rear while charging at some rhino guards; thus exposing some pale purple and pale lilac polka dot printed bloomers, which shows that her feathers are her clothes.

* An odd case in the ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy'' episode "Hot Dog" has Kitty Katswell cooling herself down by taking off all her clothes and shaving her fur into a onesie.

* Wigs may technically count as RealLife example. Even the idea of putting your own natural fur back on can be TruthInTelevision if you make a wig out of your own cut hair, like Creator/KarenGillan did after [[DyeingForYourArt shaving her head]] to play ComicBook/{{Nebula|MarvelComics}} in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

** In ''Jerky Turkey'', a turkey removes his feathers by unzipping them like a full-body costume.

There is a variant of this trope in which an animal character has pockets as part of their actual physiology. Those pockets are most commonly located on the thighs. Another variant involves animal lifting the fur or skin on his or her leg to [[ShowSomeLeg reveal a sexy woman's leg]].

Both variants can also work with feathers, or, more rarely, scales and skin. Not to be confused with PrettyInMink or FurAndLoathing, though any of those might be referenced for the [[RuleOfFunny sake of humor]].

* Inverted in the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' series films, what appears to be Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, and the aliens' clothing '''is actually their "skin"'''! (Nothing has been confirmed for the other toys, however).

* Inverted in WebAnimation/HomestarRunner, with human characters with "clothes" that seem to be part of their body. Is the green part of Coach Z's body supposed to be his skin or some sort of jumpsuit? Also, Homestar Runner's [[LongPants "pants"]], Strong Bad's "mask" and "boxing gloves", Marzipan's "dress", and so on, so forth.

* Inverted with the lawn ornaments' "hats" and "clothing" from ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet''. This is most noticable during the scene where Tybalt smashes Benny's hat off his head.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.
** An inversion occurs in "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic", [=SpongeBob=] idolizes a sea cucumber named Kevin who is the leader of a jellyfishing club. In the end, the jellyfishers remove the hat from his head and places it on [=SpongeBob=], although the hat turns out to not be a hat at all. They just ripped off the top of his head.
** In "Someone's In the Kitchen With Sandy", Sandy takes off her fur to shower. Plankton, who was stowed into her treedome, steals the fur and uses it to masquerade as her in order to steal the secret Krabby Patty formula, leaving with Sandy with the embarassing experience of being furless in public.

* [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Merfolk]] in the ''Emily Windsnap'' series have pockets in their fish tails.

Compare RemovableShell for the shelled animal variant, and ClothingAppendage for when the "garments" aren't removable. Subtrope of AppropriateAnimalAttire. See also ExposedExtraterrestrials and FurIsSkin.

* In ''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies'', Pussywhisker has the fur covering his lower half pulled down like pants when he prepares for the operation to remove his testicles after being convinced he has testicular cancer.

** A 1981 strip had Garfield rip his "cat suit" when he tried to pick up a chocolate covered peanut. He then said he needed a bigger one.

** The title panel of the August 1, 1993 strip shows Garfield's fur put on a coat-hanger as if it were a suit.

** The August 10, 1985 striphad Garfield take off his fur like a suit before stepping onto a scale.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1981&addr=810212 ripped his "cat suit"]] when he tried to pick up a chocolate covered peanut. He then said he needed a bigger one.

** Played straight in another strip, where Lanolin takes off her wool to relax in a pond. Roy comes along and [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen takes her wool]], but gets his comeuppance when Lanolin retaliates by taking Roy's feathers.

** Parodied in one strip where Lanolin and Roy roll back their sleeves, before realizing that they don't have sleeves and they just stripped the wool and feathers from their arms, painfully.
** Played straight in another strip, where Lanolin takes off her wool to relax in a pond. Roy comes along and takes her wool, but gets his comeuppance when Lanolin retaliates by taking Roy's feathers.