Magic Skirt - Television Tropes & Idioms

Gravity loses to modesty.

Another picture people thought was sexy... I wanted to draw a pose that showed off her shoes, so it turned out like this. Her skirt is kept in place by magic.
— Ume Aoki, on this picture of Yuno

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The odd local laws of physics which apply to a (super)heroine's impossibly short skirt which cause it to always cover everything regardless of what ridiculous things she may be doing, like falling legs first. Note that the skirt always conceals the girl's modesty from "the camera", i.e. the viewers at home, and thus acts as a form of censorship. This trope's at least plausible if the skirts are quite close-fitting. It applies more to the pleated skirts which are in no way prevented from flapping around — Supergirl, we're looking at you.

Can coincide with Panty Shot if another character is watching from a different position, albeit without the usual Fanservice. (Just like in the pictures for both of these articles). Occasionally this trope gets averted by simply giving the character something extra to wear under said impossibly short flappy skirt — usually something akin to cycling shorts, as worn by Skuld, Setsuna, Cure Black, and Hinagiku.

And one last way to at least try to explain this is if said heroine is actually falling headfirst at the time; then it can be believed that wind resistance plus inertia keeps the skirt pointing back where the character came from.

It's the thing you must wear for convenience sake if you are an Action Girl, otherwise you're going to tear the hem off every dress you wear if you want to be able to move.

For dignity in the face of Transformation Sequence-based Clothing Damage as opposed to Waif Fu, see Magic Pants.

Compare Impossibly Low Neckline.

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The characters on Noir are always covered by their skirts, even when upside down.
- Especially noticable to Cosplayers, who will attest to the impossibility of replicating Mireille Bouquet's leather miniskirt without occasionally flashing people.
Apparently, the animators learned the lesson and gave Madlax and Nadie hotpants. And Ellis, who wears a loose tunic, is a telekinesis-capable witch, to boot. Evidence indicates that she doesn't wear anything under it, so the Magic Skirt is an absolute necessity.
Mai in (the 2006) Kanon.
Saya, at the end of the third opening of Blood Plus.
Kyou and Tomoyo in Clannad as well, which is quite surprising, considering all the high kicks they do. (Though they aren't shown to the viewer, Kyou's flying high-kick does end up giving Sunohara a fleeting glimpse (light blue) at one point.)
Kagome from Inu Yasha. That might be intentional, as Rumiko Takahashi likewise pushed to the animators of the anime adaptation that habitual skirt-wearer Kagome wasn't to be shown flashing her underwear, and after about 160 episodes of being thrown around never did.
- With Kohaku's acrobatics, he's even more of a Magic Skirt case.
There were some comments about Yuki Nagato's fight against Ryoko Asakura in Suzumiya Haruhi about how her acrobatics never actually led to any panty-flashes.
- Likewise, Haruhi's dropkick of the Computer Club President with nary of glimpse of her panties also fits this trope.
- Because of the nature of both girls (especially Yuki), this is more "Powered by Microsoft SQL" Skirt...
In Futari Wa Pretty Cure, not only there's the Cure Black shorts-under-skirt example above, but also her partner Cure White has a skirt that only ever flies up either to the side or in the direction you're not looking. This is even seen in her civilian form in the second opening, where her skirt actually seems to lengthen for this purpose.
- A similar example happens in Fresh Pretty Cure; their underskirts are so frilly that you can't even see panties. Cure Lemonade used a similar method; her teammates and immediate predecessors follow the Cure Black technique.
Despite having a large Lolicon fanbase (including an adolescent girl who is one in the show itself) Card Captor Sakura never gets a panty shot, even with all the ridiculous costumes made by the aforementioned lolicon fan, and even while cheerleading in a very short skirt.
- Cardcaptor Sakura is a kid show. What does the Periphery Demographic have to do with anything? Also You're not a Lolicon if you are ten years old. If that was true, every character in a Toy Ship would be!
- This is said to have been ordered for Sakura; despite short pleated skirts of both the schoolgirl and cheerleader variety and dozens of fanciful battle costumes, there's not a Panty Shot in the series. Then again, unlike Kagome and the women of Noir, she's ten.
- You do see right up her skirt on at least two or three occasions in the anime (in the Jump and Sleep card episodes for example), however all you see is darkness.
- actually she wore brown shorts in the sleep card episode.
In the same fashion, Juri's skirt in Digimon Tamers flaps around freely when standing but is magnetically attracted to her knees when she sits or kneels (and she spends a long time crouching on the ground towards the end of the series). Ruki's Transformation Sequence (nekkid and glowy) is apparently perfectly OK, however.
In Keroro Gunsou; despite getting attacked and spun around at least once an episode, Natsumi's skirt manages to conceal the goodies. That Vacuum cleaner in the first episode tried it's best, though.
- Not in the manga however. Panty shots (and occasional nudity) abound.
Hinoki of Betterman, despite sporting a pleated skirt that's an inch away from being reclassified as a belt.
Hikari/Dawn in Pokémon. She has had exactly one Panty Shot (black, if you must know), despite having a skirt which looks like it should flash people every time she bends over.
- The black panty upskirt was recently edited out and it's probably impossible to find it in a video but this◊ is not fake, it was taken before the recent editing of the episode "Steamboat Willies".
- DP 122 gives her another, see here◊. Noticeably the shot is right before some QUALITY animation (use that to build whatever theory you will).
- This video, involving a person in a Dawn/Hikari mascot costume, shows just how bad that skirt of hers would really be. Even walking seems to result in exposure.
- There is a fake upskirt of her here◊.
Played straight in Bleach. The only two females to display any acrobatics while wearing a skirt are Rukia and Tatsuki, both in schoolgirl uniforms; Rukia is decidedly the more daring of the two, delivering a blow to a Hollow with her knee. Tatsuki, on the other hand, does not have any qualms about kicking openly lesbian Chizuru in the face, darkness obscuring her unmentionables from view.
- "Hey!! You're flashing the quad!!" When Orihime "smells" Ichigo and nearly jumps out the window trying to find him.
- What about Nemu? With that "skirt" and combat style in the ending, she should be making panty shots just by walking or sitting down.
- Lampshaded once when Rukia steps out of Ichigo's closet onto Kon's face, obscuring his left eye. Then, as if it weren't already obvious to the readers/viewers, a dotted arrow leads from Kon's unobstructed eye to, guess where?
- While the anime likes to hide things like Sexy Back and visible G-strings (Yoruichi and Soi Fon) with undershirts and the like, Tite Kubo apparently had no qualms about them when he drew them in the first place.
- During her fight in episode 124, Lisa Yadomaru was doing all sorts of flips and upside-down spinning handstand kicks and yet her short skirt never revealed anything.
All the characters in the Pretty Sammy series. It looks sort of silly at times, such as when Sammy gets slam dunked into a basketball hoop rear first and her skirt just happens to maintain itself.
- And this is another series where full-frontal toplessness (and backlessnes) was OK. Oh well, we'll just make do...
Chiko from The Daughter of Twenty Faces. Admittedly, her skirt is oftentimes more like a dress in length, but still, considering all the insane acrobatic stunts she does...
- She does show off a lot of leg though, but it somehow gets cut off before it gets too high. That's some magic there.
The entire cast of Lucky Star — especially during the OP animation. With one exception (a high kick).
Shinosuka from Gad Guard. Especially evident since the camera is frequently behind her while she's flying through the sky on the back of her Humongous Mecha and it's still stuck to her legs.
The girls of Manabi Straight, to ridiculous levels.
Most of the girls in Petite Princess Yucie wear magic skirts — which is even more amazing if you consider their shape.
Chen Agi of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack wears a mini skirt as part of her military uniform. Not so bad, until you see the scenes where she's bouncing around IN SPACE and she doesn't flash any of the males in the process!
The girls from Windy Tales manage to never flash their panties even once, despite the shortness of their school uniform's skirts and all the wind that blows around them, often caused by themselves. Sure, their fairly unique character designs might have something to do with it, but still...
The three titular ten-year-olds in Zettai Karen Children have this. Sixteen-year-old Naomi doesn't.
Hinamori Amu's "Amulet Heart" form from Shugo Chara features a cheerleading skirt, which is usually a magic skirt... except for the third opening, where Heart gets panty-shotted several times in 10 seconds (you should never wear a skirt while using flying roller-skates). Her other two usual transformations don't fall under this, since Spade wears pants and Clover's "skirt" is VERY tight. Diamond, Devil, and Angel haven't been used long enough yet to judge. Some of the Shugo Charas themselves seem to wear Magic Skirts as well, especially Ran, who is the source of Amu's "Amulet Heart" transformation.
- In the manga, there are several upskirt shots of Amulet Heart, in which she is shown with pink, what I assume is, trunks, considering that Ran, the source of the transformation, is shown to be cheerleader-themed. Also, Ran wears really puffy versions of trunks in her non-transformed self.
- Also, several of the girls' chara-transforms are shown to have shorts, such as Utau's charatransform with Dia and Amu's with Yoru, though this was only shown in an omake illustration.
In Record of Lodoss War, Deedlit would sometimes fly around with a lot of dramatic wind. The wind would blow her hair and cape around, but not her skirt.
Ran and Midori from Telepathy Shoujo Ran have these, and they tend to wear rather short skirts throughout the series.
Soul Eater: In the anime version, Maka's skirt might as well be glued on. No amount of tumbling or backflipping will budge it.
- In an early episode however, Maka ended up dangling by one foot, and she had to hold her skirt with her hands.
- Mifune also has a Magic Jacket. Despite keeping both his arms out of the sleeves at all times, it stays perched solidly on his shoulders. While he jumps around in the air and fights with about three dozen swords.
Sailor Moon's manga version, to the point it's just ridiculous. Nicely subverted in Sailor V, when the resident Game Otaku pulls Minako's skirt just to see her panties (or if she's a girl, but it still was one hell of a subversion). Of course, taking in consideration that Sailor Moon and Sailor V were serialized in Nakayoshi (a really strict shoujo manga magazine), Naoko had to take such providences to avoid pantyshots.
In most versions of Cutie Honey, Honey's miniskirt allows for Panty Shots aplenty, but the shoujo Cutie Honey Flash put on a spell on her skirt.
Ogata Rin of Ride Back has this. She has a long dress, but the stunts she pulls should've flashed many people already.
Parodied in the "toxin purging" episode of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei — the theme of the episode was the girls losing the "toxic" parts of their personality that made them THEM after a detoxifying soak in a hot springs... so when chronic Panty Shot character Kaere trips and her bath-towel comes off, she is shown wearing a full-body wetsuit that would, of course, been impossible to hide under that towel. Fujiyoshi even outright states "we were expecting fanservice for the viewers, but they didn't even use a swimsuit!"
Happens to Moka of Rosario To Vampire in the manga version only. The anime Moka is a Panty Fighter. Both love high kicks.
Sandy, the little girl in the children's series The Noozles, has a panty shot in a particular episode where she's underwater (a rear shot as she swims away from the camera). Later in the episode she gets caught in a snare. It can be assumed that her skirt flipped over as she hangs upside down as the view of her is of head and shoulders only. As the snare catches her foot and lifts her up, she remains sideways until she is out of shot.
The example in Hidamari Sketch is already listed in the page quote, so This Troper would stop.
Shampoo's Chinese minidress in Ranma 1/2. Nevermind that it's scandalously skin-tight, it's also unbelievably short. This is even spoofed in her introductory arc, when she hangs upside-down from a tree and she has to tuck the hem of her dress between her thighs.
Similar to the Inuyasha example above, animators for Vision Of Escaflowne were specifically instructed not to let Hitomi's constant leaping or running show her unmentionables. This is quite a feat, as the girl is a top track runner and long jumper and enjoys displaying these skills often.
The lead girls from Dennou Coil never get any panty shots, despite all all the jumping, crouching and climbing they do while wearing short skirts. Kyoko gets one briefly, but even that one is only to show that she's just a little kid.
While not direct magic skirt usage, newer anime averts this realistically by giving the girls a set of shorts to wear under it, ranging from biker shorts to skirt length shorts including Biri Biri from A Certain Magical Index and Alice from Nightmare of Nunnally.
- Something similar was done quite earlier in Urusei Yatsura: When Lum started going to Ataru's school and wearing the uniform one of the female teachers noticed that she flashes anyone who she passes over when flying around, and gives her a pair of gym shorts to wear under it.
With all the jumping, flying, etc., that Lenalee in D.Gray-Man does, and with how goddamn short the skirt is, it's amazing how little — if any — Panty Shots there are of her.There's no wonder as to why Komui's so protective.
Lampshaded in one episode of Nerima Daikon Brothers: with Mako planted headfirst in the dirt by Yukika, Hideki wonders if her skirt will succumb to gravity, giving him a peek at her panties. Ichiro tells him not to get his hopes up about what the animators will show.
Saki has a... weird version of this. Even though the characters wear these short skirts and the series uses angles that should normally give a Panty Shot, no panty shots have ever been shown. There is, however, suspiciously bare flesh in its stead. These has led readers and viewers to wonder if the characters are wearing really small panties, or if they aren't wearing any panties at all.
In Mahou Sensei Negima, Fate's girls get Magic Skirts after losing their panties to Jack Rakan. But even then, they only cover the bare minimum.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, despite leaping and falling a lot.
Oddly missed in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. In one scene, we see straight up her skirt. Turns out she's actually wearing leggings that are extremely close to the color of her skin, making it appear that she has Barbie doll anatomy down there.
- Though of course this is the subject of much debate. Others insist she really does run around pantsless in the toxic jungle despite being completely covered everywhere else, her legs just happen to be slightly yellower than the rest of her skin, and she really does have Barbie anatomy. The same goes for all the men who wear the matching uniform.
Subverted in AirMaster, with all the aerial combat and acrobatics Maki performs, her panties get quite a bit of screen time, but not much attention. Mostly because at the same time she is probably kicking 4 different people in the face.
In Fruits Basket, Tohru wears a very short skirt as her part of her school uniform (apparently one can decide on the length, due to the fact that Uo and Hana's skirts are longer.) Even though it would barely cover her underwear in Real Life, nothing is ever seen, even if she falls down.
Subverted in an episode of Sonic X. Amy, Cosmo, and Cream get hung upside-down by a Metarex, and have to hold their skirts up to keep them from falling.
The two high-kick-to-the-face happy female leads of Angel Densetsu manage not to flash the reader every other panel without any kind of Magic Skirt. It's all done by skillfull camera angles. It's lampshaded a couple of times when someone flashes some other character (luckily not the reader, in one case it would have been a bit squicky )

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The Golden Age and Silver Age Catwoman expressed this trope when she used to run around Gotham City in a slit-sided skirt.
Similarly, in a Fantastic Four story where Annihilus breaks out of the negative zone and attacks FF headquarters (around issue 250). He attacks frequent love interest Alicia Masters and hangs her by her heels from the ceiling. When discovered, she is suffering from what one reader called "the world's worst case of static cling" as her knee-length skirt sticks to her legs.
In the 1940s back-up comic Ginger Maguire, Sky Girl, the title character was prone to showing her panties and being seen in them frequently. In a splash page of a story, her male pal is holding her upside down by one foot over the side of a plane engine so she can do some sky-writing (with a can of spray paint against a cloud), and Ginger's skirt remains properly placed.
Elektra of Daredevil comics fame.
Supergirl is an interesting case: for most of her career, she had a Magic Skirt when she wasn't wearing short-shorts in The Seventies. Then the most recent version started wearing a microskirt with Panty Shots galore, even though the skirt looked so short that underwear wouldn't fit underneath. Then a new artist started drawing her with shorts underneath, and fanboys complained. Turns out Supergirl is more "girl" than "super".
Watchmen. Two examples: the second Silk Spectre (but not the first one; her skirt is too short to even qualify) and The Comedian with his dressing gown, which appears to have these abilities even when he's being tossed out a window. Ozymandias and his toga might've qualified if he had an actual fight scene.
- Given Dr. Manhattan's lack of clothing throughout most of the book as well as various other explicit scenes, I think you can chalk this one up to artistic flair rather than censorship
An issue of Trina Robbins' Go Girl has the title character holding her skirt in as she is held upside down by her feet.
Hypolyte's skirt in Wonder Woman #145.

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Pretty much every single character in Eternal Fighter Zero.
- Although you can burn their clothes off with any fiery attack.
Occasionally crops up in fighting games. Disregarding the question of why you're in a fighting tournament wearing a long slit skirt and high heels, Anna Williams in the Tekken games doesn't have any wardrobe failures if, say, turned upside down for a friendly Tombstone piledriver. Then again, in the same game, Ling Xiaoyu's skirt (if in a pleated schoolgirl one) may or may not follow this, depending on the mood of the game engine.
The Artificial Girl series of Hentai games suffers from this phenomenon, though more for technical reasons than any attempt at modesty (obviously). In fact, even the characters' hair fails to obey the law of gravity.
In a commercial for Guitar Hero: World Tour, supermodel Heidi Klum recreates the iconic "Old Time Rock And Roll" scene from Risky Business, but the shirt she wears stays firmly at waist-level, not even revealing whether or not she's wearing the requisite boxers. The trope is immediately subverted in a sequel commercial where Klum ditches the shirt altogether and cavorts in her underwear.
In the Super Smash Bros series, Peach and Zelda must buy their magic dresses from the same place. Maybe Zelda uses her own magic on hers, but it still doesn't make much sense. Slightly averted, as pausing and rotating the camera at the right time show that under those dresses, Peach wears panties and Zelda wears... boy shorts? On a more disturbing note, Young Link's tunic. *twitch*
- Boy shorts in preparation for Sheik-mode? Or maybe she used to have panties and had one too many "accidents" while leaping.
On that note, Link in Twilight Princess. He spend a fair portion of the game walking on the ceiling (magnetic walls + iron boots), yet the skirty portion of his tunic stays firmly in place, gravity be damned. His hat, however...
Ilyana, a playable mage in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (and later, the sequel, Radiant Dawn), has a ridiculously short skirt. While she has plenty of panty shots in the first game (almost every attack!), the only thing that results in one in the 2nd game is attacking through a barrier (barriers you can attack through are only in a handful of levels).
Freya of the Valkyrie Profile series has a skirt that's about as short as can be without showing anything in a normal pose. Everthing somehow remains hidden as she flies around the battlefield, while the camera draws attention to her hips.
Male example: In Castlevania: Bloodlines, Eric "Spear Dude" Lecarde's short tunic stays in place even when completely upside-down AND flying feet-first.
In the Ash the Archknight sidegame of Dragon Fable, the first story has a bit where a princess in a long dress, with a slit up the side no less, is being held upside down by a monster. Her dress is, presumably, held up by magic.
Averted in Persona 4. That One Company ruined 70+ hours of constant Panty Shots by giving Chie bike shorts. Played straight with Yukiko's summer outfit, which uses the "lots of shadow" varrient.
- Also played straight in Persona 3 for Yukari and Mitsuru. Also played straight with the PSP verisons female MC.
In Arcana Heart and Arcana Heart Full, none of the all female cast will have a panty shot, no matter what the circumstances are.
- Except with Petra in Arcana Heart 2, where one of her supers causes one.

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The Powerpuff Girls
- Somewhat odd, considering that at least one episode shows them in their underwear about to get into a bath.
  - And later topless in the bath itself. They're so young (and their cartoonish design is so simple that they're not even drawn with fingers, let alone nipples) I'm guessing it's not supposed to cause any horrified reactions in those instances, but I'm guessing if they repeatedly had their skirts go flying up in battle to reveal their underwear it would get really creepy really fast.
Kim Possible has the good sense to not go looking for a fight in a skirt, but trouble occasionally finds her while in an evening gown, or a cheerleading outfit. When she does get physical in one, this trope applies in all cases but two: a first-season incident that somehow got into the Title Montage for the first three seasons and a somewhat less subtle incident from the fourth season.
- In the Grand Finale, Warhok grabbed Kim Possible by the leg while she's wearing her graduation gown◊. She's hanging upside-down, her her dress isn't down around her shoulders. That's because Warhok's got a bit of the fabric in his hand.
She-Ra — despite having a skirt shorter than most tennis players and her main offensive move being a roundhouse kick.
In the Superman the Animated Series, Lois Lane's short skirt has to be some kind of Kryptonian Imported Alien Phlebotinum or some such. Realistically, the entire cast would be familiar with Lois' unmentionables by the end of any episode, especially when you consider how often Lois is seen falling from high places. Doesn't matter if it's straight down legs-first, or end over end, or how she lands when it comes to falls that don't require superheroic intervention, Lois's Super-Skirt will remain glued tightly to her legs.
Sprite the fairy from the old The Legend of Zelda cartoon, who should rightfully have flashed Link every other time she moved. Some game versions of Link himself fall into this. A Link to the Past's Link is portrayed in official art to be less Hero of Time and more Peter Pantsless.
Sari from Transformers Animated. In "Sari, No-one's Home", she's actually hanging upside-down at one point.
- Before that she is seen sitting on the ground and one of her legs appears to be going through a hole in the top of her skirt◊.
In the original Doom Patrol's appearance in Teen Titans, Elastigirl's power, despite her name, is actually to grow and shrink. (This is consistent with comics, though the comics version can expand or shrink individual limbs.) She also wears a very short skirt. How does a giantess with a short skirt never flash anyone down below, including the viewer? Gotta be magic.
- However, her appearance in Secret Six had a character deliberately looking up her skirt and remarking on the view.
- The same goes for Giganta in Justice League. Probably why she switched to catsuits in the comics. This was averted in the television show, where Shade makes a remark on how the job just keeps getting better when Giganta grows.
- Both Sean Baby and Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law have pointed out this exact problem with Apache Chief.
- Speaking of Teen Titans, a fanfic of the animated series pointed out how everybody in the show has probably seen Starfire's panties. Not the best choice of costume for a Flying Brick... Her skirt even stays straight in on episode where she's pushing a spaceship downwards.
Gwen of Ben 10 Alien Force is capable of executing karate kicks, flipping, getting caught in a tornado and whisked into the air, sliding down an ice slide to escape from said tornado, and sitting cross-legged in a miniskirt without trouble. Granted, she wears some sort of pantyhose under it, but...
In the 1951 Mighty Mouse cartoon Sunny Italy, Pearl Pureheart is seen dangling upside down by one foot and wearing a very short, loose blue dress. But only the hem of the skirt flips over. Similarly that same year, a human Pearl Pureheart-type girl in a cartoon called Better Late Than Never is wearing the same type of dress and plummets from a building feet first. Her skirt flies all the way up, showing her matching lacy panties.
Despite having four characters with skirts of some sort, the main heroines of WITCH always have Magic Skirts, even to the point where one episode has a monster holding a transformed Hay Lin (who has the worst of the designed skirts) upside down, yet the skirt is still up right! So, for Disney, revealing transformations is okay, but not panty shots?
- Consider that Disney wouldn't let Annette Funicello show her navel in her surfing movies but in their 1961 edition of The Parent Trap, Hayley Mills' panties are exposed: the dance party scene where her twin cuts an opening in the back of her dress.
Crysta in Fern Gully. Same problem as Tinker Bell, only even curvier, with a shorter skirt, and dancing with jazz spins.
An episode of What's New Scooby Doo has Velma and Dpahne get caught in a chain in midair with the others. Their skirts stay hanging upward.
Aelita from Code Lyoko gains a Magic Skirt as a her standard outfit once she's materialized on Earth. This is somewhat strange considering the show's reputation.
ON the PBS show Cyberchase, the character Jackie wears a short blue skirt — and no matter what she does her panties are never seen, just the back of her skirt only. It's pretty much an action show, so doing front flips, spreading her legs open or even strong winds do nothing — and she doesn't even hold her skirt down. 87 episodes and still nothing.
In one episode of Kids Next Door, Numbuh 3 was in a wedding dress, tied at the ankles, with her dress staying firmly in place. Because they couldn't have her dress tied as well, thus holding it up. No, they had to make it obvious and fake.
In the Batman & Robin episode "Love Is A Croc", Killer Croc grabs Baby Dahl's foot and holds her upside down long ways up from a HVAC fan. Baby Dahl's skirt stays firmly in place, only giving a shot of her panties from an aerial view as we see the giant fan below.
Often Subverted in Betty Boop cartoons, where the animators would repeat a motion over and over using the skirt, only to have it fail ever so often. Also in the Cartoon Betty in Blunderland, the lack of a Magic Skirt means Betty has to hold it down while falling down the rabbit hole, until she passes a clothesline and grabs a pin to keep it in place.
In the animated Batman movie Sub-Zero, Barbara Gordon (a.k.a. Batgirl) is wearing the same early 60s' loose dress through the episode. In a chase scene through Mr. Freeze's lair, we see a ground shot of her leaping up to grab an overhead pipe and swing over. The drawing where we should have and could have seen something was deliberately left out. Later, Barbara rides a pully down a wire and her skirt goes only as far as her thighs.
Futurama: Zap Brannigan, fortunately.
In The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest, Jeremiah Surd's female Dragon Julia regularly wore an extreeeemely short skirt, and fought with a high-kicking kung-fu style. There was never an upskirt shot, ever.
Katana in Batman The Brave And The Bold.