History Main / SexySoakedShirt

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Surprise", Buffy ends up soaking wet after her escape from the Judge because it's pouring outside. Her shirt isn't see-through, but the scene ends with Buffy making love with Angel. The soaking aspect is used to underline Buffy's terror and vulnerability.

* ''Boy on a Dolphin'' has this with Creator/SophiaLoren.

** In "What's My Line" Cordelia gets covered in maggots. Xander sprays her with a garden hose to wash them off, [[AllMenArePerverts making a point of aiming at the wrong places]].

* An InvokedTrope in ''Rip Tide'' by D. Cheatham, when a SexySecretary twists the back of her blouse in order to tighten it at the front, hoping her boss will admire the effect of the air conditioning being shut down. Unfortunately he's too stressed out by the approaching hurricane to notice.

* An InvokedTrope in ''Rip Tide'' by D. Cheatham, when a SexySecretary twists the back of her blouse in order to tighten it at the front, hoping her boss will admire the effect of the air conditioning being knocked out. Unfortunately he's too stressed out by the approaching hurricane to notice.

* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' has a moment when the supervillain Glowbug finds out her white costume becomes see-though when wet. She notes that's something she should have tested ''before'' going into battle.

* Someone commented that the first ''{{Film/Spider-Man}}'' movie featured two elements of teenage boy wish fulfillment: A. Being a superhero, and B. Kirsten Dunst being rained on. She gets soaked in the climax of the second movie as well.

With men, it's becoming quite popular to have instead of a WalkingShirtlessScene when being entirely shirtless would be inappropriate. For women, a soaked shirt will often lead to either a LingerieScene or a case of VaporWear, depending on what is or isn't worn underneath it.

With men, it's becoming quite popular to have a soaked WalkingShirtlessScene when being entirely shirtless would be inappropriate. A large scale sub-trope is the "Wet T-Shirt" contest, although it tends to get referred to rather than seen. Another variant involves white swimsuits, in particular white {{school swimsuit}}s. For the {{Bollywood}}-specific SubTrope, see WetSariScene.

* Trisha in ''Varsham''. She has an entire song/dance number in the rain in her [[BareYourMidriff langa voni]]. The end result is a mix of ManicPixieDreamGirl and MsFanservice.

See also CaughtInTheRain, UnderwaterKiss and WaterfallShower.

Very common form of {{fanservice}} when characters' clothes get wet, and often clingy and see-through, too. It can be caused by rain, spilled drinks, playing in pools and so on. Done both with women and men. With men, it's becoming quite popular to have a soaked WalkingShirtlessScene when being shirtless would be inappropriate.

A large scale sub-trope is the "Wet T-Shirt" contest, although it tends to get referred to rather than seen. Another variant involves white swimsuits, in particular white {{school swimsuit}}s. For the {{Bollywood}}-specific SubTrope, see WetSariScene.

See also UnderwaterKiss and WaterfallShower.

** Kate's "Wet T-Shirt Hall of Fame" picture is a NippleAndDimed version of this trope.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], of all things, on ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' when a spy asks a woman he's meeting to take a dunk in the water to prove she doesn't have any concealed weapons. It manages to short out the wire she's wearing as well.

* In the second part of the 'In The Shadow of Two Gunmen' episode of ''TheWestWing'', during a flashback C.J., who has lost both her contact lenses and her glasses, accidentally stumbles into a swimming pool, much to the amusement of Toby, who has witnessed it. While the floral dress is not see-through, she peevishly orders him to turn around so that she can attempt to un-cling it before realizing it's a lost cause.

* In ''CSINewYork'', Lindsay goes for a walk in the rain for some reason. Not see through in this case.
* ''{{NCIS}}'':

** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], of all things, on ''NCIS: Los Angeles'' when a spy asks a woman he's meeting to take a dunk in the water to prove she doesn't have any concealed weapons. It manages to short out the wire she's wearing as well.

* The opening credits of ''{{Friends}}'' had all six characters playing in a Central Park fountain.

Our spy with blonde highlights is chasing someone through a major European city. She's wearing a white blouse, without a jacket. She ends up being knocked into a fairly deep fountain, for some rather contrived reason. She comes out of the water. Her white blouse is now not only rather clingy, it's gone see-through, revealing that, yes, she shops at Victoria's Secret (or, if this is a high-rated movie, that she went [[VaporWear braless]] today). The see-throughness is optional.

What we have here is very common form of {{fanservice}}.

Naturally, it can be done with men too. In fact, it's becoming quite popular when you have a WalkingShirtlessScene when actually being shirtless would be inappropriate.

See also UnderwaterKiss.

A large scale sub-trope is the "Wet T-Shirt" contest, although it tends to get referred to rather than seen. Another variant involves white swimsuits, in particular white {{school swimsuit}}s. For {{Bollywood}} specific SubTrope, see WetSariScene.

Our spy with blonde highlights is chasing someone through a major European city. She's wearing a white blouse, without a jacket. She ends up being knocked into a fairly deep fountain, for some rather contrived reason.

She comes out of the water. Her white blouse is now not only rather clingy, it's gone see-through, revealing that, yes, she shops at Victoria's Secret (or, if this is a high-rated movie, that she went [[VaporWear braless]] today). The see-throughness is optional.

What we have here is very common form of {{Fanservice}}.

A large scale sub-trope is of course, the "Wet T-Shirt" contest, although this tends to get referred to rather than seen. Another variant involves white swimsuits, in particular white {{school swimsuit}}s. For {{Bollywood}} specific version, see WetSariScene.

* Although its not seen, a similar example happens early in ''{{Negima}}'' while walking through a body of water. Makie suddenly complains that [[InnocentFanserviceGirl her panties are soaked]].
** In ''Jikanme 2'' for the {{PS2}}, there's an option to see any of the girls in their sports wear while soaked.

* Another Colin Firth example involves his character in ''StTrinians''.

* This happens twice in to KeiraKnightley in ''{{Atonement}}'' in the same manner over a span of about twenty minutes. Since the film is an example of TheRashomon, it's not entirely out of place.
* In ''DirtyDancing'', we have the 'lift' scene.

* Katie Holmes' shirt at the end of ''Film/BatmanBegins''.

* In ''CoyoteUgly'', the showy bar-dancers pour water over their fronts and over the main character's head as part of their act.
* ''TheQuietMan'' has JohnWayne getting soaked in the rain while wearing a silk shirt.

* This also occurs in ''LoveActually'', when Colin Firth's papers end up in the pond. His Portuguese housekeeper jumps in to save them, and he soon follows.

* In the 1997 ''{{Lolita}}'', Humbert falls in lust at first sight with underage Dolores Haze after seeing her lying in the garden on a hot day with the lawn sprinklers playing over her dress.

* And to give an actual and particularly obviously gratuitous example from Bollywood, one song from ''Kabhie Khushi Kabhi Gham'' features both the hero and the heroine dancing in the surf - which they've been conveniently transported to after dancing in front of the pyramids of Gizeh just seconds before.
* In ''Mujhse Dosti Karoge!'' -- Everyone at first goes "oh crap it's raining!" and heads back inside, but the [[JerkAss hero]] decides to pull the heroine out into the yard and sing a soaked, steaming, sexually-charged ballad in front of everyone including HIS fiancee and HER soon-to-be-fiance. It's awkward for all of ten seconds and then everyone's like "YAY! RAIN!" and they all dance together like nothing happened.
* Another Bollywood example comes from ''Main Hoon Na''. ShahrukhKhan and Sushmita Sen spend the last half of one of the songs dripping wet. SRK's shirts are so hilariously see-through that they were obviously sheer even before they got wet.
* ShahrukhKhan is quite the man when it comes to those scenes, considering that he also ends up drenched by torrential rains in ''Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'', ''Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna'', ''Veer-Zaara'' and ''Asoka'', among others.
* ''Bollywood/OmShantiOm'':
** ShahrukhKhan's character emerges from a pool which seems set in LSD-Land and jumps around in slow motion while the camera focuses on water dribbling down his back. Then he opens his arms and someone off screen throws a bucket of water at his chest.
** Dil Se and the leading lady end up drenched in the opening scene. He is in another song with the other love interest where they dance in a river and get very wet.
** ''Fanaa'' features a scene where the blind heroine writhes in the rain with the [[spoiler:soon-to-be-terrorist]] hero.

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