History Main / PaintedOnPants

* Rebecca Romijn's actual costume as Mystique in ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' (2000) and its sequels.
** "I didn't feel naked." - Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

* In MahouSenseiNegima, [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] occasionally wears stuff like this. Not to mention that she has thigh high stockings literally built into her synthetic skin.

* {{Saiyuki}} Contains a male example.

* Jenny, the Doctor's daughter in the new Series/DoctorWho. Holy moly.
* Kurt Hummel from {{Glee}}. His pants are sometimes so ridiculously tight you have to wonder how he can even walk in them at times.

* Music/DollyParton's Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That with the lyrics Why'd you come in here lookin' like that, in your cowboy boots and your painted on jeans?

* In ''The Rose Tattoo'', Serafina examines her daughter's sailor boyfriend from the front and back and asks him why they make Navy pants so tight. "That's a question you'll have to ask the Navy," he tells her.

* Sieg Warheit ChaosLegion doesn't appear to wear a shirt. Apparently, he's just painted grey from the neck down.

* They have spray-on bikinis on {{Futurama}}.
* A CampLazlo episode had Scoutmaster Lumpus painting clothes on everyone in the camp to avoid laundry expenses. The idea's popularity kept increasing until a rain stopped it all.

* Music example: Of all people, Aretha Franklin. From the song ''Pink Cadillac'':

* Robert Plant of LedZeppelin wore ''very'' tight jeans. Along with his [[WalkingShirtlessScene bare chest]] and blond hair, it became something of an iconic look.

* Jon Bon Jovi

* Jim Morrison

* Dolly Parton's Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That with the lyrics Why'd you come in here lookin' like that, in your cowboy boots and your painted on jeans?

* Quite a few PunkRock and HeavyMetal musicians in TheSeventies and TheEighties, too. Music/{{Megadeth}} [[http://www.megadeth.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1411 in 1988]] [[http://www.megadeth.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=4009 and in 1990, for example.]]

* Funnily enough, despite [[PinkBishoujoGhetto the prominence of females]] in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', the first one to get the skintight leather pants treatment is Tohma, the male protagonist of ''Force'', while he's using the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Black Knight form]]. Females tend to get skintight bodysuits instead.

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* ''WorldofWarcraft'' uses these for most equipment, using different pieces attached to the base model to make it unique. It gets a bit ridiculous for some equipment, for instance skin tight plate mail or skin tight tuxedos.

* Any picture taken of [[{{ACDC}} Bon Scott]] is certain to draw one's gaze to the [[GagPenis "area"]].

* Quite a few PunkRock and HeavyMetal musicians in TheSeventies and TheEighties, too. {{Megadeth}} [[http://www.megadeth.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1411 in 1988]] [[http://www.megadeth.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=4009 and in 1990, for example.]]

* Jenny, the Doctor's daughter in the new DoctorWho. Holy moly.

* Half the cast in [[BlakesSeven Blake's 7]], Avon in particular.

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* Mimi's famous blue "Out Tonight" pants in {{Rent}}. Note that the actress wears them while dancing ''on a railing.'' Not to mention that they - in fact, all of Mimi's original costumes - actually belonged to actress Daphne Rubin-Vega.

* In ''TheRoseTattoo'', Serafina examines her daughter's sailor boyfriend from the front and back and asks him why they make Navy pants so tight. "That's a question you'll have to ask the Navy," he tells her.

* ''CityOfHeroes'', saying as how it's of the superhero genre, has a multitude of ShinyTightPants options, from spandex to leather to metal.

* [[http://img199.imageshack.us/i/w03zwz.jpg/ Amy Adams' pants]] as Amelia Earhardt in ''NightAtTheMuseum 2: BattleOfTheSmithsonian''.

* In fashion fetishism, they have the concept of a SecondSkin, where a fabric usurps the sexual role played by bare skin, see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_skin_(fetishism)]]. This might be one source for a name.

These really became popular in the [[TheSeventies Seventies]] and [[TheEighties Eighties]], and are used much, much more often on females than males. See also HartmanHips and MostCommonSuperpower, as clothes like this are used to emphasize those.

->''She walked by me in painted-on jeans''\\
-- '''Caribbean Queen''' by Billy Ocean

''Unless'' they're spandex, the "fight in" thing doesn't really work. Seriously. Female characters with nice legs and buttocks almost always feature a {{fanservice}}-heavy [[SheFu fighting style]] with [[KickChick lots of high kicks]]. Ask your local tae kwon-do coach to teach you some high kicks. Now put on some skin-tight leather or denim pants. Now do your high kicks. See the problem? That problem arises only if we're assuming our super woman hasn't broken an ankle running about in stiletto heels or thrown herself to the ground from her own [[JigglePhysics jiggle momentum]], of course.

** Forbidden Broadway's ''Rent'' parody included a song called "Ouch, They're Tight!"

** One girl I saw took this BeyondTheImpossible with ''pantyhose'' as pants.

** Oh boy is this right - I've lost count of the number of times I've pulled a muscle trying to get a 6mm suit off. Usually I ask for help from the nearest attractive female diver. Oddly enough, I've never noticed this Real Life bit in film or TV, despite its obvious fanservice potential. Loose suits are, of course, totally useless.

These really became popular in the [[TheSeventies Seventies]] and [[TheEighties Eighties]], and are used much, much more often on females than males. See also HartmanHips and MostCommonSuperpower, as clothes like this are used to emphasize those.