History Main / TheissTitillationTheory

* Liru's [[MagicSkirt magic]] "top" in ''MagicalPokaan'' looks like it would be hard to keep in place even without [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes suspenders pulling down on it]].

* In ''MacrossFrontier'', [[IdolSinger Sheryl]]'s stage outfits fit the trope enough. However, this is only an illusion, as most of the time she's actually wearing a holographic body suit.

* LadyGaga usually wears skin-tight clothing, bypassing this trope; but in the video for ''Poker Face'', one of her outfits is a criss-crossing number obviously inspired by the Franchise/StarTrek TropeCodifier.

* With the amount of bouncing and jumping around Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark does, it's a wonder her boobs never fell out of her dress. That's because she's a [[IncrediblyLamePun master (mistress?) of suspense]].

Though Theiss was a costume designer, according to ''Inside Star Trek: The Real Story,'' by Herb Solow and Robert Justman, most of the costumes following this theory were actually somewhat more modest before being "[[ClothingDamage improved]]" by GeneRoddenberry. According to the "Art of Star Trek" book, Theiss preferred to design costumes that only ''appeared'' to be in danger of slipping or coming off, through the use of strategically-placed sheer or skintone fabric. He was further able (forced?) to enhance the effect by the censorship rules of the time regarding what parts of the body could or could not be shown (the navel being the most well-known restriction). He found he could get surprising amounts of appeal from the carefully-arranged display of skin not generally considered erogenous.

* HammerHorror movies in particular lived on this trope. Women in form-fitting see-through nightwear that could slip off their smooth shoulders at any moment.

** The award goes to resident FetishFuel {{Stripperiffic}} MsFanservice, Ivy Valentine, who, with the exception of ''V'', loses more and more of her already amazingly revealing default costume. By the time ''[[{{Pun}} IV]]'' rolled around, her dominatrix outfit has been diminished into ''strips'' of leather held together by ''strings''. (She was covered move in ''V''; the developers likely realized by then that if they made her outfit any ''more'' revealing, they'd probably have to change the game's ESRB rating.)

* ''CowboyBebop'''s Faye Valentine. Particularly in the movie, which has a scene with strong rape-y overtones, wherein the one button that appears to be her top's only fixture is sliced away by the BigBad. Given her figure, this should have resulted in her clothing flying open rather spectacularly. Since it didn't, we must conclude that her breasts are coated with an adhesive; it's the only way that scene makes any sartorial sense. Of course, since it's implied Faye dresses like that to distract people, she may need a certain amount of help keeping it on.

* A rare male example with {{Wuffle}}.

** [[ChristmasCake Ruby]] is wearing what appears to be a strategically-tied ''bedsheet'' with [[VaporWear no bra]]. The jury's out on whether it's being held up by her rack or by the sheer force of her hotness.

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Sleeper" JamesMarsters is shown in bed with the sheet loosely bunched around his waist, just barely above the groin.

* ''FinalFantasyVII'': Tifa Lockhart runs around kicking ass in a white tank top, leather mini-skirt, and combat boots. Then there are her [[MostCommonSuperpower assets.]]

* Dear God, Emma Frost. As a member of the Hellfire Club, her outfit, while skimpy, was believable. (It was white lingerie that looked like anyone could buy at Victoria's Secrets, combined with knee-high boots and a cape.) However, after her HeelFaceTurn, her outfits got more daring and of more improbable design. One good example was when she first joined the {{XMen}} where the outfit combined AbsoluteCleavage and ImpossiblyLowNeckline, using a few strategically-placed scraps of clothing to form a reverse "X" with her exposed skin. (Of course, the lingerie was a dress code for the Hellfire Club, but being the [[AttentionWhore type of person she is]], quitting the Club actually gave her a chance to be ''more'' daring.)

* KillLaKill has this in spades. There is eventually introduced an entire organization whose members are only not technically "naked" because they have tactical belts with low hanging pockets.

* In the D&D 3.5 edition Player's Handbook, all of the female examples shown in the races chapter have clothing that looks almost exactly like the example pictured at the top of the page. Not to mention the Nymph in the Monster Manual, the Elemental Savant in Complete Arcane, for that matter just about any female character pictured in any D&D book.

** One of the best examples of it at work is Theiss' own creation in the ''Star Trek'' episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" In that episode, a female android named [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/ST_-_What_Are_Little_Girls_Made_Of.jpg Andrea]] has a costume with an upper portion that's merely two crossed strips of material. Off the set, models wearing this costume ''never'' failed to get a dramatically appreciative reception from at least the men.

** In William Shatner's ''Get A Life'', he tells a story about how Gene Roddenberry talked that same outfit into a fashion show at a Sci-Fi con. According to one of the people there, the model apparently had to spend the evening [[ThatCameOutWrong "beating men off with a stick"]]. Notable is the fact that Star Trek ''hadn't even aired yet''.
** According to Herb Solow and Robert Justman's book on ''Star Trek,'' William Shatner couldn't stop hitting on Sherry Jackson, the actress playing Andrea, once he saw her in the outfit. Further, the first public modeled display of the costume was in Desilu Studios' lunch room, where Ms. Jackson entered in said outfit -- according to Herb, forks stopped midway to people's mouths.

* The strangest invocation of this trope has to be in the gag manga ''[[Manga/KidouSenshiGundamSan Kidou Senshi Gundam-San''. [[MobileSuitGundam Char Aznable]] says this is [[http://manga.animea.net/kidou-senshi-gundam-san-chapter-0.1-page-12.html why he wears his iconic mask]].

* Dear God, Emma Frost.

* All of Pamela Anderson's scenes in ''Film/BarbWire''. [[SiskelAndEbert Gene Siskel]] outright invoked the trope, stating that the entire film was about whether or not[[MsFanservice Anderson's breasts would pop out of her outfits.]]

* HammerHorror movies in particular lived with this trope. Women in form-fitting see-through nightwear that could slip off their smooth shoulders at any moment.

* All of Pamela Anderson's scenes in ''Film/BarbWire''. [[SiskelAndEbert Gene Siskel]] outright invoked the trope, stating that the entire film was about whether [[MsFanservice Anderon's breasts would pop out of her outfits or not.]]

* In the BBC's impressive library of music films, there is a late 1970's performance of Meatloaf and Karla de Vita performing ''Paradise by the Dashboard Light'' sometime around 1979, from the music show ''TheOldGreyWhistleTest.'' This is an enegetically acted song. What makes this clip especially mesmerising is that Karla is performing in a filmy black top slashed to below the navel in front and open at both sides. She gets within millimetres of inadvertent exposure several times, but perhaps due to strategic tape never quite gets there.

* Halibel in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' wears a tight top exposing gratuitous underboob. Her pants, which barely consist of enough material to cover her inner thigh until just above the knee, are also held up only by a '''sash'''. Lilinette's vest also looks pretty malfunction-prone.

** This is played surprisingly in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', considering how {{Stripperific}} many of the women's outfits can be. The female characters, despite fighting fairly often, suffer nowhere near as much ClothingDamage as male characters. You might be able to argue that this is because the women don't wear enough clothes to damage.