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"You have a bullet proof fabric and you want to cut a hole in it right over your heart??? Are you insane?"
A cut in a woman's top that shows parts of the top of her breasts. It doesn't matter the shape or the size (of the window or the breasts), as long as the window is completely enclosed. It also doesn't matter about the rest of the outfit, as this can be on a bathing suit, a sweater, a Leotard of Power, a Mini Dress Of Power or a grand Pimped Out Dress.
Obviously a form of Fanservice, and likely Author Appeal.
Compare Most Common Superpower, Absolute Cleavage, Impossibly Low Neckline, Chainmail Bikini, Naked in Mink, Bare Your Midriff.
Examples
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Anime & Manga
- The titular heroine's outfit in Cutey Honey.
- Melissa's clerid dress in Rune Soldier Louie.
- The Dirty Pair had these in some of their appearances, when the character design included collars that buttoned up.
- Tiara of Shamanic Princess.
- Some of the Innovators of Gundam00 have these as part of their choice of dress. With them, it's kind of hard to tell whether any of them are female examples of this or not.
- Arf's outfit in the first season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. There's also Linith, Fate's Parental Substitute before the series started, who wore an outfit that comprised an outer-coat with a Cleavage Window and a dress with another Cleavage Window.
- Ran in One Piece.
- Yin of the Darker than Black franchise might be this. She's far from well-endowed and has yet to suffer the titillating sort of Clothing Damage one would associate with the other females mentioned here, but, well... judge for yourself.◊
- Fittingly, her Expy, Golden Darkness (Yami) of To Love-Ru also has one, though in a diamond pattern and a single piece of cloth.
- Mizuho in Onegai Teacher could, in her alien outfit, open up one of these by will, and did so in her attempt to seduce Kei.
- A great number of Yuuko's costumes in xxxHOLiC.
- Ah! My Goddess Belldandy. Yes, Belldandy.
- Most Arume military uniforms are like this in Blue Drop.
- In the first season of Galaxy Angel, Forte and Ranpha had this. They were covered up in the second season onward for some reason.
- All the adult female characters of Amuri in Star Ocean have this in their uniforms.
- Stella's first dress in Interstella 5555.
- In Red Photon Zillion the Tsundere has one of these - a blouse with a neckline that plunges at least three inches, with a tiny strap for a collar. The result is a teardrop-shaped window that shows a tantalizing amount of cleavage.
- In one instance of Death Note, model/actress Misa Amane attempts to get Matsuda out of a jam with a roomful of shady businessmen by pretending to want to be a model/spokesperson for them. She is seen with a tank top with a heart-shaped cut that revealed her cleavage
- Medaka's student council outfit in Medaka Box has this, as does one of her bikinis.
Comics — Books
- Power Girl, who Depending on the Writer either has the nerve to be upset when people look at it even though she designed the outfit herself, or invokes this for a distraction.
- Invisible Woman of Fantastic Four had one, shaped like the figure 4, in her 1990s outfit.
- Talia from the Batman comics sometimes wears gowns like this.
- In Marvel Comics, Dagger from the team Cloak and Dagger. Her costume has a cleavage window in the shape of a dagger. The "guards" on the dagger serve to expose side boob cleavage as well as belly.
- Rocket's first costume, to Icon's vague disapproval. Her second costume, which Icon designed, eschewed this.
Fan Works
Literature
Live-Action TV
- Star Trek
- From Star Trek: The Next Generation onward, the female Klingons are wearing outfits similar to their male counterparts, except with a cleavage-baring opening on the chest armor. Probably has something to do with the whole Space Viking motif. This is particularly silly, considering that Klingons attack each other with bladed weapons all the time. Even considering that Klingons have not one but two hearts.
- Also Lwaxana Troi, more than once.
- Captain Liberty of the live action The Tick.
- In season 2 of Babylon 5, Delenn experiments by exchanging her usual robes for a slinky black dress with a diamond-shaped opening over her cleavage. Needless to say, everyone who sees her is stunned speechless.
Print Media
Video Games
- Sherufanir in Agarest: Generations of War has a Panty Window.
- With some exceptions, almost every "Harness"-type body armor in Final Fantasy XI will have one of these for both females and males. The defensive value of a Cleavage Window is hotly contested.
- Fina's dress in Skies Of Arcadia, although it's a Downplayed example. It also has the distinction of a purpose outside of fanservice. The exposed skin is where Fina's shard of the Silver Moon Crystal appears.
- Cassandra's default costume in Soul Calibur 4. And some of the outfits worn by Ivy, Seung-Mina, or Sophitia.
- Most of Sharla's outfits in Xenoblade Chronicles give a nice view of her Cleavage Canyon.
- Hsien-Ko from Darkstalkers. Bonus points for being blue.
- Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury.
- Norma in Tales Of Legendia wears a shirt cut like this. She's also the least-endowed of the Legendia girls.
- Leslie's top in Arc Rise Fantasia.
- For some odd reason, Rouge wears a bodysuit with one of these in Sonic Heroes. (The outfit never appears in any other games, though.)
- One of the default NPC outfits◊ in Mass Effect.
- Orlha in Chrono Cross had one of these going on.
- Rose's first alternate outfit in Street Fighter 4 has one of these, coupled with Bare Your Midriff and see-through pants.
- In the first Master Of Orion game, the Mrrshan ambassador has an outfit that does little to hide her... vast tracts of land, including one of these.
- A mesh-front is popular amongst Orlesian noblewomen in Dragon Age.
- In Conduit 2, Andromeda's full-body armor covers everything except her face and the tops of her breasts.
- Valvatorez in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten. Being male does not protect you from fanservice and stripperificness in the Netherworld.
- In Ōkami, the first form/clothing set of Wood Sprite Sakuya, who is a peach tree spirit, has two Cleavage Windows. The second ones bares her buttocks, to go even further then the first one in using her figure to remind a viewer of her connection to peaches.
- Saber's dress in Fate/stay night, though strictly speaking there's not really any cleavage to emphasize.
- Inphyy's armor in Ninety Nine Nights has one of these.
- Guild Wars shows◊ us◊ how◊ it's◊ done◊.
Web Comics
- The Jane Gang from Everyday Heroes.
- Crossroads from Antihero For Hire had one of these in her early appearances. Luckily, she realized how ridiculous that costume looked, so she changed it.
- Spinnerette
- Lampshaded when discussing the design of Spinnerette's new suit, here.
Spinnerette: [...] If you could just give it a lower neckline with some cleavage[...] Sahira: What? Spinnerette: Y'know. To distract the bad guys. Sahira: You have a bullet-proof fabric, and you want to cut a hole in it right over your heart?! Are you insane?
- Super MILF apparently justifies this in that her "venusian bust" generates so much heat that she requires air venting. At least, that's what she says.
- Ms. Apple from Whats Shakin has an aptly cut shape.
- Ferretina's, the Weasel Queen's outfit from this non-canon Girl Genius comic.
- Discussed but Averted in Dumbing Of Age with self-appointed superheroine Amazi-Girl. To Daisy's displeasure.
- Misfile's Emily shows this off about every third outfit.
Web Original
- Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall isn't too fond of these, at least when it's clear that it's just about objectifying women. Then he calls these "Boob windows."
- Crimson, who is at the Superhero School Whateley Academy in the Whateley Universe. She has a diamond shaped window larg enough that Phase thinks she's risking a wardrobe malfunction.
Western Animation
- Galatea from the DC Animated Universe has one; granted she's supposed to be an Expy of Power Girl.
- The Futurama DVD commentaries mention that the animators liked putting Leela and Amy in dresses with these whenever the plot required them to dress up. Lampshaded in one episode that had random time skips during a basketball game. Amy, wearing such an outfit, immediately brings attention to it as a possibly explanation.
- In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ahsoka's new outfit in the third season has this. It used to be an outright Age Inappropriate Dress, though.
- Izzy from Total Drama has one in her signature outfit. In the second aftermath of Action, she uses hers to hold grapes, cheese and crackers, as well as the crumbs she spit out after realizing she was on the green room's TV.
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