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[[caption-width-right:250:Her part of the world is known for its [[UsefulNotes/IslamicDress modest clothing]].]]

The ''bedlah'' (which simply means "suit" in Arabic) is an Arabian-influenced belly dancing costume which was actually popularized by English artists in the 19th century, but [[{{Defictionalization}} became so closely associated with belly dancing that it was adopted by real-life dancers]].

Bedlah costumes will vary depending on the work, but there is a general emphasis on showing skin. A [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine bare midriff]] is more or less essential; a low neckline (sometimes [[ImpossiblyLowNeckline impossibly so]]) is optional. Many variations include large amounts of sheer material, generally to display the legs as well. The bottoms might be "harem pants" instead of a skirt or wrap. Sometimes the outfit will be topped off with a [[MysteriousVeil little veil]] that covers the lower half of the face.

Today, the bedlah has become the standard costume for female characters in ArabianNightsDays, from princesses to female genies (witness how many fancy dress companies manufacture costumes of this type with names like "Arabian Nights Woman", or see the results that come up if you do an image search on "Arabian princess"). This is an example of ArtisticLicenseHistory in the name of FanService: even leaving aside the fact that the costume is mostly codified by Western artists, it would logically only be worn by belly dancers and perhaps [[RoyalHarem harem girls]]. Dressing an Arabian princess like this is rather like dressing a European princess as a go-go dancer.

Please note that, if the belly dancing outfit is being worn by a character who ''is actually a belly dancer'', then it's an example of the SultryBellyDancer trope. This trope is primarily for works which portray the bedlah as everyday dress for Arabian women. For the other stereotypical clothing associated with Middle-Eastern women, see HidingInAHijab.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
%%* Princess Zahrah in ''VideoGame/DinosaurKing'' wears this outfit.
* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasDorabianNights'', an ArabianNightsDays episode of the Doraemon movies, had the gang finding themselves in Sinbad's palace and getting new outfits. Shizuka notably gets a bedlah babe dress, which the boys comments "it makes her look like an Arab princess".
* Briar and Libra in ''Manga/FairyTail''.
** Lucy also wore an Arabian Bedlah before her battle with Byro, all thanks to a magical box conveniently filled with common fantasy clothing. Though the outfit she wore during her battle could qualify as a bedlah as well.
** Juvia is shown wearing a bedlah on the cover for chapter 158 in the manga. Although, given the [[GenieInABottle conveniently placed lamp]] right next to her, there may be a little more to her situation.
** Jenny Realight seems to be wearing a dancing costume while pole dancing on the cover for chapter 464 in the manga.
** Levy wears a bedlah on the cover for chapter 487.
* The setting of ''Manga/BlueRamun'' is a fantasy ArabianNightsDays desert empire, but it isn't until the end of the series that readers get to see protagonist Jessie in such a suit. In [[spoiler: Eagle's]] poison-induced fever dream, Jessie appears before him in a beautiful outfit consisting of a short top, a scarf-skirt, a beaded, veiled headdress, and lots of jewelry to [[ThePowerOfBlood heal him with a bloodied kiss]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Vivi and Nami dress like this while laying low in Alabasta. Not that it was their idea; they put [[ChivalrousPervert Sanji]] in charge of finding disguises for the group, and naturally he picked these for the girls. Of course, realism kicks in and the girls wear breathable but full covering outfits to protect them from the heat and sun while crossing the desert.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/AlanFord'', during an Arabian Nights-themed dream induced by the Ring of Inshallah, Alonisius is approached by a buxom belly dancer in a dark bedlah, complete with a face-covering veil, who guides him through the dream to show him the gemstone he can reclaim from a museum with the ring. When you learn that the dream was actually a magically-induced hallucination, you realize this trope was probably Invoked to persuade Alonisius better.
* The outfit worn by Princess Orinjade in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and the Magic Carpet'' is probably meant to invoke this trope, as the comic is based heavily around ArabianNightsDays iconography. However, the story takes place in India, so there is more justification than usual as Indian women do have a history of wearing midriff-baring saris.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Zara evokes the trope for her scam priestess costume, which is essentially a metal bra, harem pants and lots of jewelry.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': ComicBook/{{Artemis}}, who is from Egypt, commonly wears sheer harem pants with a cross wrap halter top and gold jewelry.
* ''ComicBook/{{Xanadu|VickyWyman}}'' is a Furry comic where one of the female lead characters is Fatima, a [[FoxyVixen lovely vixen]] who resembles nothing so much as Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973's'' Maid Marian in that kind of outfit with a curvier figure.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* [Warning: NSFW] A short doujin titled "Fortune Lovers" features a professional fortune teller who, upon coincidentally finding her old high school love interest, leaves her business card in his mailbox -- and when he arrives looking for some guidance, she greets him dressed in a ''really'' skimpy bedlah and a veil that, at least initially, hides her identity. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It goes as you expect it to]]. It's left unclear whether her outfit, and the accompanying Arabian Nights mystical huggermugger and decorations lying around, are strictly for seducing him, or if it's just the style and ambiance she prefers for her business; that's a ''lot'' of effort just for one guy.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfic ''Fanfic/GazDreamsOfGenie'', the [[OurGeniesAreDifferent genie]] Azie is described as being dressed like this, which she refers to as "a silk two piece and see through pants". Apparently wearing it is a required part of being genie [[spoiler: as when Azie and Gaz [[BecomingTheGenie switch lives]], Gaz is stuck wearing the same outfit]].
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12923668/1/Ah-Ataru-s-Goddess Ah, Ataru's Goddess]]'', [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Belldandy]], [[Manga/UruseiYatsura Shinobu and Lum]] are forced into these when they join Ataru's harem.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Princess Jasmine in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' is possibly the single most famous bedlah-wearer, in the harem pants and the little off-the-shoulder belly top. Jafar dresses her up in an even skimpier red version when he enslaves her. Additionally there are three girls frequently seen from the top of a balcony -- all of whom wear this costume. As well as some harem girls Genie conjures up during the "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali" songs.
* The Chipettes in ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' wear this outfit when meeting with the Prince of an [[ArabianNightsDays imaginary Arabian kingdom]].
* Princess Yum-Yum from ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' manages to make the look even more {{Stripperiffic}} with a sheer veil over her mouth.
* The princess in the feature-length ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' cartoon ''1001 Arabian Nights'' (despite its title, actually a retelling of ''Literature/{{Aladdin}}'') wears much the same top as her Disney counterpart from a few decades later, although her dress is longer and closer to the traditional European-style fairy tale princess.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights'': The harem girls in the Young Caliph's palace are examples of this. They seem to lounge about all day in the palace rather than do any actual dancing.
* Velma dresses up as a harem girl for a costume party in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooPiratesAhoy''.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AnthonyAdverse'', Carlo Cibo has a dancer in Bedlah Babe gear in his mansion for a dinner, despite the fact that 1) it's the first decade of the 19th century and 2) the scene is set in ''Havana''.
* This has appeared in several Franchise/JamesBond movies.
** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}''. Some of Octopussy's female minions dress like this during the infiltration/attack against an enemy stronghold. Somewhat justified in that they're circus performers wearing their costumes, but it doesn't explain why they're dressed that way for a surprise attack on the villain's base, although a few of them use it as a ShowSomeLeg gambit to distract the guards..
** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': The lover of one of Scaramanga's targets, whom Bond tracks down to find Scaramanga. This one is justified, because she ''is'' a belly dancer.
** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. The harem girls who work for Bond's friend Hosein wear this garb.
* Caroline Munro's character in ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' is a justified example, as she is a slave girl.
* Maria Montez's outfit in the 1942 film ''Arabian Nights'' is a relatively tame example.
* The 1938 short "Wee Wee Monsieur" starring Film/TheThreeStooges has the stooges infiltrating an Arabian/Berber palace to rescue an officer, Captain Gorgonzola. Once inside, they encounter several harem girls dressed in belly dance outfits.
* This trope dates at least as far back as ''Film/TwoArabianKnights'' (1927), in which the very white Creator/MaryAstor plays an Arab princess in the stereotypical outfit.
* Yasmin is dressed this way throughout ''Film/TheSonOfTheSheik'', but in fairness, she actually does work as a belly dancer.
* All the dancers that entertain UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan in ''Film/TheConqueror'' are dressed this way, as is his betrothed Bortai when she shucks her wrap and decides to do a dance of her own. A particularly silly instance of this trope, since the film is set in central Asia, which is quite a long way from Arabia.
* The Tibetan HoneyTrap sent to seduce Arslan Taij in ''Film/TsogtTaij'' sheds her outer garments to reveal she is wearing the standard fancy-bra-and-harem-pants ensemble. A pretty surprising moment in the film, considering there was no {{Fanservice}} at all prior to that scene and Arslan's good girl LoveInterest Khulan was fully clothed at all times.
* In ''Film/TheShow'' the actress in a circus drama dresses like this to play Theatre/{{Salome}} in a performance.
* ''{{Film/She|1965}}'': The opening scene finds Leo, Holly, and Job in a Cairo bar taking in some belly dancers.
* Princess Zuleria dresses this way in the 1979 film ''Arabian Adventure.''
* A minor example occurs in ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes''. The blue movie Dr. Longstreet is watching features a young woman dressed as an Arabian who is apparently planning to do something interesting with her FeatherBoaConstrictor.
* In ''Film/UpTheChastityBelt'', the Crusaders Club is filled with them, although many are wearing outfits more suited to a 70s go-go club than the Crusades.
* In ''Film/AgainstAllFlags'', the Princess Patma and her handmaidens are all dressed like this. Never mind that this is nothing like how the daughter of the Mughal Emperor (i.e. an Indian) should be dressed (not to mention that several of her handmaidens are blonde); RuleOfSexy is definitely in play.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The OneGenderRace of Amazons from ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' are all tanned and dark-skinned women and wear revealing outfits inspired by belly dancers (resembling the Gerudo from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' in both regards). Aisha is the most prominent example with her purple bedlah and see-through pants, and she has an Arabic name as a bonus. Ishtar, the goddess who employs (and enslaves) them, is not an Amazon herself but shares their appearance.
* The outfit Ginger is wearing in ''Literature/MovingPictures'' when filming the click ''Sworde of the Dessert'' is apparently this, although we don't get a full description because Victor is too embarassed to look clearly.
-->'''Victor''': You've got a navel in your diamond.\\
'''Ginger''': I've come to terms with that. It's these two saucepan lids that are giving me trouble.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* King Tut, a recurring villain from the ''Series/Batman1966'' 60s television series, had a few female henchmen who dressed like this.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' did an ArabianNightsDays plot and this seems to be the default uniform for genies - as both Phoebe and the one-episode character Ginny wore these. Note that this is only for ''female'' genies. The male genie costume was a lot more modest.
* The "Sleeping Beauty" episode of ''Series/FaerieTaleTheatre'' featured a segment where the prince was seduced by a princess called Debbie - who wore this type of outfit.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': In the {{flashback}} episode "Out of Gas", Inara Serra, a high-class Companion (a mix between a courtesan and a geisha), is shown to be wearing a Middle East style outfit. She mostly wore clothes reminiscent of the Far East on the show.
* ''Series/FullHouse'': In "Luck Be a Lady", the female attendants at the casino/hotel that the gang stays at are dressed in bedlahs.
* The title character in ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' may have played a major role in cementing this trope in North American popular culture. Her [[EvilTwin sister]], Jeannie II, wears a green version of the outfit with a skirt in place of the harem pants. The episode "My Hero" also features a princess wearing this type of outfit - and hers is even more revealing than Jeannie's.
* When Zelda of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' finds a bottle to spend time in and conjures up a bedlah costume to go with the ambience.
-->'''Hilda:''' And ''what'' is with the outfit?
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Played with, and lampshaded, in universe. In “The Feast of Steven,” an episode-long BigLippedAlligatorMoment in the middle of the epic “Daleks Masterplan,” the TARDIS lands on a Hollywood film set in the silent era, where an Arabian Nights style adventure is being filmed. The First Doctor is mistaken for the expert in Arabic culture hired by the production, and a starlet in this costume eagerly introduces herself as playing the “Arab Princess.” The Doctor replies, "Nonsense! You put some more clothes on, child."
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[[folder:Pinballs]]
* The player's ''jinn'' and the princess in ''Pinball/TalesOfTheArabianNights''.
* The HotGypsyWoman {{Astrologer}} in Creator/SternElectronics' ''Pinball/StarGazer'' wears a variation that includes long flowing rainbow sleeves and only one pant leg.
* Anita and Bonita from ''VideoGame/JinniZeala''.
* Played with in ''Pinball/HumptyDumpty''; the women of the King's RoyalHarem are wearing two-piece swimsuits with translucent skirts.
* The genie and the wizard's apprentice in ''Pinball/{{Genie}}''
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[[folder:Print Media]]
* Daphne dresses up as a harem girl in a [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/14/3a/45/143a457bfd9edaa54f118bf5b1385426.jpg "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You" coloring book by Whitman from 1973.]]
* Each harem girl is featured in the "Look and Find" book based on Disney's ''Aladdin''
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* [[Wrestling/BellaTwins Brie Bella]] wore this type of outfit for Halloween at the 2008 Cyber Sunday PPV - when she dressed as Cleopatra.
* Wrestling/{{Aliyah}} (not [[{{Music/Aaliyah}} that one]]) originally used a look that was inspired by this costume on TV - ring gear with coins dangling from the hem and a bejewelled headband. She is of Arab descent and used 'Jasmin' as her ring name on the indies.
* At ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} Clash of the Champions XVII'' on November 19, 1991, Wrestling/{{Madusa}} dressed like this to distract [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-us-h.html WCW United States Heavyweight Champion]]Wrestling/{{Sting}} so that [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html WCW World Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/LexLuger could attack Sting's famously injured knee. This set up [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul E. Dangerously]]'s BastardlySpeech, leading to Wrestling/RickRude defeating Sting for the title. Madusa was Wrestling/TheDangerousAlliance's Director of Covert Operations.
* Wrestling/WOWWomenOfWrestling's Farah The [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Persian]] Princess dressed this way.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''''s [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Julandri Courtesans]] are often depicted wearing the bedlah in the games art if they aren't wearing saris.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* The ChorusGirls in ''Film/SecondhandLions: The Musical'' wear a ShowgirlSkirt version of this outfit.
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[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* Princess Amoura wears this sort of outfit in ''Theatre/TheEighthVoyageOfSindbad'' show at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Ramaya, one of the four heroines of the Middle-Eastern themed arcade brawler ''VideoGame/ArabianFight'', is an asskicking Bedlah babe.
* The female characters wear these when in the Spell Fencer [[JobSystem Job]] in ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault''.
* Penelo wears this in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIIRevenantWings''. Amusingly enough she ''was'' a dancer in the first game, where she didn't wear this costume.
* Esther from ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'' also dresses this way (minus the curly shoes), since she's from the desert kingdom of [[ArabianNightsDays Al Mamoon]].
** A couple of [=NPCs=] from Al Mamoon sell 'blanaba' splits while dressed as this.
* One of the [=NPCs=] in the River King Casino stage from ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' has this sort of costume.
* The [[OneGenderRace Gerudo]] typically dress like this in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''. While they were shown wearing the traditional silk fabrics in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', they also have metal armor in the same pattern in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''.
* In ''VideoGame/AlQadimTheGeniesCurse'', this is about half the female characters in the game (with the other half wearing things which are less revealing). Since the setting's ArabianNightsDays theme doesn't extend to its religion, the rules of UsefulNotes/IslamicDress presumably aren't applied.
* The Shieldbreaker in ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' wears a bedlah with a few scraps of armour while ''DungeonCrawling''. In her backstory, she ''used'' to be a belly dancer, but escaped in a coach accident and became an adventurer instead, relying on agility and her shield rather than heavy armour to survive (explaining why she's still wearing a modified bedlah, and why her HP isn't very good).
* In ''Videogame/TheSims3'', female [[GenieInABottle Genies]] [=NPCs=] are dressed like this. It's also the default outfit of player controlled ones during character creation.
* The Caster of the Nightless City in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is dressed this manner which is fitting when you consider that her true identity is [[spoiler:Scheherazade from the ''Arabian Nights'']].
* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': The titular character wears a red colored bedlah as her normal outfit.
* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': The Siamese Cat guards from the chapter "40 Thieves" wear cyan bedlahs as part of their outfit.
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadiaLegends'': In Nasr, a country based on the Ottoman Empire, the crew meets a woman called Bellena ([[spoiler:actually Admiral Belleza in disguise]]) dressed in such an outfit. It was so revealing that it had to be toned down for a western release.
* ''VideoGame/Splatoon3''[='s=] Frye has a slight bedlah motif to her design, with a bare midriff and poofy harem pants. It ties into her nature as a {{snake charmer}} (well, eel charmer).
* ''VideoGame/SuperiorSoldiers'', a fighting game revolving around warriors from different time periods fighting each other, have an asskicking bedlah chick named Arabian Moon as one of the playable characters.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDarkWitch'', both [[BigBad Riva]] and [[PhysicalGod Zizou]] respectively wear red and purple bedlah outfits as disguises (Riva due to her going KingIncognito in her plan to steal the Old Islands' [[GreenRocks Syega]], and Zizou due to her copying the former's disguise out of the mistaken assumption that that was what everyone wore there).
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Ariel Val'Shargress and various other members of the cast happen to don these outfits fairly frequently in the Webcomic/{{Drowtales}} side comic known as "Slavemaster" in the Daydream Archive. Fair Warning though, said comic is definitely not safe for work. [[spoiler:In fact the entire Slavemaster Storyline is about the efforts made by one yellow-eyed demon in building a {{Harem}} out of the cast of the main Drowtales Storyline.]]
** Certain female {{Naga}} have been known to wear these outfits as well, even in the main archive which is generally work friendly.
** And then of course there is Asira'malika Val'Jaal'darya. She is one of the Ill'haresses (Queens) of Chel'el'sussoloth (the Capital of the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Drow]] Empire). Her entire wardrobe consists of nothing but different renditions of this outfit. She is the single most {{Fanservice}} oriented character in the main archive. And that's saying something. Especially since her eyes are quite the {{fandisservice}}
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', whenever anyone transforms into a female genie form they end up in [[https://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/2006-02-17 this]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/2018-017 type]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/2018-05-23 of outfit]]. This applies even if they are transformed into a part animal form at the same time such as [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/2018-02-12 elephant]].
* Jeanie's signature costume in ''Webcomic/{{I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle}}'' is quintessential bedlah attire. It's essentially a less complex version of Creator/BarbaraEden's costume in ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' (InUniverse, this is because Jeanie's ShapeshifterDefaultForm is inspired by what she expects genies to look like. Since she's a fan of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', her concept of what genies look like is very much inspired by Jeannie). Araceli wears a similar costume.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresFromTheBookOfVirtues'': The Djinn from the segment "How the Camel Got His Hump" in the episode "Work". (There's also a couple in the same segment, fanning the Man who the Horse, the Dog, and the Ox encountered.)
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': In addition to the aforementioned Jasmine, the female genie Eden also wears an outfit like this.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow'': In the episode "Veronica's Veil", Veronica disguises herself as a "Niluvian" transfer student due to Archie and Reggie paying more attention to Betty.
* In part 2 of the 3-parter ''WesternAnimation/BrunoTheKid'' episode called "Bye Bye Jarly", when Bruno and Harris are in a cafe trying to find Couscous, they meet a harem girl known as Popic, and Bruno asks her where he is.
* ''WesternAnimation/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKids'': Double Trouble
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': The ghost genie Desiree is a very good example of a Bedlah Babe. Before her death, she was one of the most beautiful girls inside a sultan's harem and was promised her own kingdom until the Sultan's jealous wife banished her. Even after her death, she still retains the same costume, albeit with a teal coloring instead of her previous purple color scheme.
* The Andrews Sisters who were with Charlie [=McCarthy=] in the ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' short called "The Autograph Hound".
* ''Walt Disney's Disneyland'': A scene in the episode called "The Adventure Story" where Uncle Joe while walking encounters a harem girl. (Only their legs and feet are shown)
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' called "Night of the Living Dougs" featured Patti dressed in a bedlah babe outfit similar to that worn by Creator/BarbaraEden's Jeannie.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'': Queen Tyr'ahnee, by a ''long'' shot. [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/looneytunes/images/4/41/Queen_Tyr%27ahnee.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130501154334 Her normal attire]] could easily mistake for a court dancer of her ''own'' empire.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Some are shown in "Sphinx for the Memories" and "Masters of the Djinni"
* The ''Fairy Idol'' special from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' featured two genie girls in bedlahs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'':
** In "Royal Rubble", Barney is mistaken for the long-lost prince of Rockarabia. As he slowly gets accustomed to his new lifestyle, he is then told that he must pick eligible women for his harem, and gets easily intimidated when hundreds of harem girls rush to him to be picked.
** In "How to Pick a Fight with your Wife without Really Trying", Wilma's dream involves herself being a harem wife for Fred, and she gets rejected for other harem girls.
* Goldie Gold dresses up as one in the ''WesternAnimation/GoldieGoldAndActionJack'' episode called "The Return of the Man Beast"
* Goofy dreams about having a harem of girls in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}'' short called "How to Be a Sailor".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatGrapeApe'': In the episode "Ali Beagle and the Forty Thieves", a harem girl is shown at Ali Ben Ali's Rent-A-Carpet.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'' episode called "Harem Cat", Cleo is dressed up as one.
* Hanna Barbera's ''WesternAnimation/{{Jeannie}}'':
** The titular character.
** In the episode called "The Commercial", Miss Twisty Taffy (Lauri Lolly) dresses up as a harem girl.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''
** The Genie from "I Dream of Johnny"
** Some featured in an episode called "The Prince and the Pinhead".
** Others featured in an episode called "Hail to the Chump".
* In a ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' episode called "Nightmares of Steel", Johnny and the gang are in a tent filled with sheiks and harem girls.
* The [[AnimatedAdaptation animated version]] of ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' naturally featured this kind of outfit in "Meanie Genie."
* The mouse princess in a ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' cartoon called "Aladdin's Lamp".
* Olive dressed as such in the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon called "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp"
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' called "When You Witch Upon a Star", Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, and Scrappy dressed themselves up as harem girls.
** In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' called "Mummy Scares Best", a waitress is shown walking dressed like that as Mademoiselle Chantal is presenting Daphne and Velma as belly dancers.
*** In another episode called "E-Scream", somewhere you can see a woman dressed like that.
* ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'': Snafu stumbles on to a harem full of these in "Booby Traps". Of course, the whole thing turns out to be one giant booby trap.
* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'':
** In "Molar Molar", one of the beachgoers is a female genie with this type of outfit.
** Sabrina dresses up as one in the ''Sabrina's Secret Life'' episode "J'Achoo".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' episode, "Jack and the Warrior Woman" a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe pink skinned alien belly dancer]] is presented before Jack, as well as a male alien belly dancer for Ikra.
* Vana Glama dresses up as one in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' episode "The Show Must Go On".
* ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber'': The titular characters meet Sheherazade in the episode "Eenie Genie Minie Mo".
* Shown at the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' episode "The Star of Bombay".
* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'': A harem girl is shown at the end of the episode "For Whom the Bell Klangs (Part Two)".
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryKids'': Princess Scheherazade from "Tres Sheik Poodles".
* ''WesternAnimation/PrincessScheherazade'': French animated television series with the titular character being Princess Scheherazade.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "Aliens", the girls dressed themselves in Arab outfits.
** Also in "Queen for a Day", where Clover was in disguise as the queen, and Sam and Alex were dressed as servants.
* Julie in the "desert" episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheTwinsOfDestiny'' (Les Jumeaux du Bout du Monde) such as "Danger in the Desert" and "Desert Adventure".
* Miss X from the ''Creator/WalterLantz'' cartoon called "Abou Ben Boogie" and/or "The Greatest Man in Siam".
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