Victoria's Secret Compartment - Television Tropes & Idioms

This ad shows a woman putting a bottleneck between her breasts in order to pop the top. It turns out she had a bottle opener on a long necklace that hides between the two things that sell the product.
A recent Taco Bell ad showed a variation with a man dressing as a pregnant woman and smuggling Taco Bell's newest nachos into a ballpark inside of his "womb".
- To drive the nonsense home, the "womb" was a plastic bubble that had shelves, upon which each nacho "meal" was displayed, presentation-quality. SO much better than simply sneaking the components in separately.
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Giant Robo's "Ginrei Special" Omake OVAs parodied this by having the Action Girl in question pull a full-sized bazooka from her cleavage while she was wearing a motorcycle suit (as seen above).
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In Code Geass, Kallen keeps the control to her Humongous Mecha in her cleavage.
- This one's actually sort of justified, since the control key looks like a fancy USB memory stick or cigarette lighter, and, at that particular time, Kallen was dressed as a Playboy Bunny, who really do keep lighters in their cleavage; a case of hiding in plain sight.
Takada Kiyomi keeps a page from the Death Note in her bra.
- Similarly, Light (in volume 9) discusses with Ryuk keeping Misa's notebook in case he needs to relinquish ownership of his again so he won't lose his memories by binding it to his chest with a corset.
During one arc of Black Lagoon, Revy ends up hiding the documents they have to deliver in her shirt, only revealing this when they give them to the CIA agents sent for them. The agents then complain that the documents are sweaty.
Tendou Rushuna from Grenadier not only stores extra bullets in her cleavage, but manages to eject them when needed and catch them with her gun.
Angel Links has its main character, Meifon Li, keep her Empathic Weapon in her cleavage◊ for easy access and consultation.
Ranma ½: In an early arc, Shampoo hid an antidote shampoo down her shirt◊ and then dared Ranma to retrieve it. When bartering an antidote or power item with Ranma for a date, she tends to keep them there too, to prevent him from stealing and bailing.
- Similarly, Kodachi has kept items in her bra more than once.
- A mirror-duplicate of female Ranma hid a magic compact in her cleavage once. Naturally, the real Ranma didn't even think twice about stealing it.
The drug dealing girls in Serial Experiments Lain hide their Accela inside their cleavage.
Though she doesn't actually have a cleavage worth mentioning, Pan muscles her way into the first saga of Dragonball GT by dropping the control keys for the spacecraft she has stowed away on down her shirt. Trunk's long hesitation about whether to retrieve them or not was the cause of much (possibly unintentional) UST between the two.
Many suspect that Ururu from Bleach has a hidden compartment...down there◊.
- But... It's bigger than she is!
  - It's probably just an example of Hammerspace
In one episode of Gundam X, Ennil asks the guards preparing to kill her and Dr. Farzenberg for one last intimate moment (pretending that they're lovers). They agree, and she opens her jacket... revealing a set of flash-bang grenades, which she and Farzenberg use to escape.
Kirche von Zerbst uses this to store her wand in Zero No Tsukaima.
Elirin from Variable Geo keeps a lighter in the cleavage of her bunny suit, and uses it for some of her Ki Attacks.
A few ladies in the Lupin III manga hide things (microfilm, diamonds) "down there", and one intro sequence for the TV series shows Fujiko dropping a diamond ring in her bikini top.
- One episode of the anime has Fujiko in disguise, only for Zenigata to see right through it. After revealing her, the first place he looks for a hidden microphone is in her cleavage. And he's right.
Papillon from Buso Renkin somehow manages to hide several things in his underwear. While that's the only thing he's wearing other than his mask. One must question how it's impossible to see these items until he pulls them out again.
- It's likely this character is a Shout Out to the 1960's biographical novel of the same name in which the titular character describes how French criminals smuggled money onto Devil's Island in rather squicky detail.
Mahou Sensei Negima has Asakura holding Sayo in her cleavage.
- Earlier on in chapter 35 she stores Chamo in there. Bet he enjoyed it.
To Love Ru has a chapter where Rito gets shrunk to roughly 4 inches tall. Take a wild guess where Lala keeps him all day. Overlaps with Marshmallow Hell.
Boota of Gurren Lagann has ridden in Yoko's cleavage on multiple occasions, including the first day they met. Kamina and Simon's jealousy is obvious.
- What's even funnier is that after the time skip, when Yoko makes her dramatic entrance, guess where Boota goes.
- She gets even more stuck in her cleavage in The Movie, where she pulls a clip out of her breasts (how it stayed in there, completely hidden, is a mystery) to transform her rifle into a machine gun during the fight with Adiane.
  - There's even an action figure about it◊
Following Boota's example is Touchoumaru, the pet mouse of Shigure from Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple. He's one lucky little rodent.
Godannar takes the Fanservice knob and turns it well past eleven. One of the characters keeps her cellphone in that cleavage (though it's more like a cavern, really. She also keeps it on vibrate, so everyone knows she's getting a call when her boobs start to rumble like the kind of volcano you run away from really fast.
In Detective Conan, Kudou Yukiko carries an unconscious Conan in her cleavage while riding a motorcycle across Japan.
- For those unfamiliar with the series, Conan is actually Shinichi, Yukiko's drug-induced de-aged teenage son. And with her being a Hot Shounen Mom....
Sheryl in Macross Frontier drops Alto's cell phone down her shirt in the 5th episode as "insurance" that he'll keep his word.
Dola the Sky Pirate from Castle In The Sky somehow managed to find the time to fill her cleavage with jewels even as she and her crew were making their last-minute escape from the fall of Laputa.
In One Piece, Kalifa apparently hides her key inside her breasts.
- Nami also stored a Den Den Mushi in her shirt, which was more than pleased.
In Ayashi No Ceres, Aya keeps Tooya's dagger in her bra. It's wonder how she doesn't get cut.
In the manga for the video game Tales Of Symphonia there's an omake that says that Sheena has her exsphere equipped just under her right breast.
In an omake chapter of Fairy Tail , Erza produces a lead pipe... Well, there's a reason it's on this page.
I always thought Blue (Green in the english version) was rather well-endowed for a ten-year-old... Sabrina unfortunately found out why during her battle with her. There was no way anybody saw that coming...
- For those not familiar with the series, that's where she stores her Pokeballs.
Merle from Vision Of Escaflowne apparently has much larger breasts than viewers are led to believe, because in episode 8, she stores two boxes of Pocky, lipstick, a pager, a watch and a discman in her cleavage.
Izumi of Hayate No Gotoku apparently keeps her cell phone here. Revealed when a guy (kitten) steals it, by diving into her shirt.

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In The Spirit, Satin, a thief, hides a stolen medallion down her bosom. Unfortunately for her, the titular character chooses to turn her upside-down and shake it out, rather than reach in.
In an issue of X-Men, Storm and Nightcrawler were enjoying a night out when she—wearing a revealing evening gown and no purse—suddenly pulls out a cell phone. When Kurt asks where she had been hiding that, Ororo responds, "My secret."
Jack of Fables #18, Hillary Page reveals she has the missing piece from the map to Americana. She stuffs it down her shirt for safe keeping.
At the end of Secret Six #7, it's revealed that Scandal has Neron's get out of hell card stuffed down her top.
Ant Man hides in Black Widow's cleavage in an issue of Thunderbolts.
Modesty Blaise once used her bra to smuggle a saw into prison in order to create a rather elaborate escape plan.
Where else would Catwoman hide the things she steals?

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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, one of the weasels reaches down Jessica Rabbit's cleavage in search of Marvin Acme's will, but all he gets is his hand caught in a bear trap. Eddie quips to Jessica, "Nice booby trap."
Willie hides the cure to the poison that infected Indiana Jones there in Temple of Doom. Later, while Indy attempts to retrieve and Willie mewls, "I'm not that kind of girl!", Short Round comments: "Hey, Doctor Jones, no time for love! We got company!"
In Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd Mrs. Lovett hides the purse of Sweeney's first victim, Pirelli, down the front of her bodice.
The Running Man also has the main girl successfully hide a McGuffin in spite of being searched.
- Given the size of the object and the strong implication that it was a strip search the likely hiding place is a squicky one indeed.
In the awful Thunderbirds movie, the Hood's female assistant stuffs some of the stolen jewellery down her cleavage when no one is looking.
Let's not forget Pirates Of The Caribbean's Elizabeth Swann and the Aztec medallion that — due to a gold chain's magical length-fluxuating ability — would pop down from her cleavage into her corset for a handy spider hole.
- Forget the medallion - what about the firearms? Even Barbossa could not figure out from whence Miss Swann pulled that hefty blunderbuss in POTC 3. His facial expression at that moment, by the way, is the best shot in the movie.
  - Considering Ms. Knightley's ostensible lack of cleavage, who wouldn't be surprised?
  - Except it looked more like she pulled that blunderbuss from her butt, particularly with the way she was flexing...
In The Saint, a female scientist hides the notes to her invention on scraps of paper tucked into her bra. So the titular (sorry, couldn't resist) character seduces her in order to get them.
In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Perry hides a gun down there with a fairly good justification - he knows it's the only place he'll never be searched.
- Another male character uses the same justification in The Long Kiss Goodnight.
The diamond in Snatch winds up in many places, including hidden down Vincent's pants.
In Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Ethel Merman's character (!!!) drops the car keys down her cleavage, prompting the male characters to turn her upside down and shake the keys out. Parodied and subverted in one master stroke.
In Batman Forever, Bruce Wayne asks Sugar (one of Two-Face's babes) how to turn Edward Nygma's machine off. He takes the glowing green battery from her and goes in, and then Sugar produces a second, identical battery from down her cleavage and switches it on again.
- In Batman, Vicky Vale attempts to conceal the film containing a picture of Batman unmasked in roughly that neighborhood, if her dismayed grab at her left breast in one scene is any indication.
In the mostly forgettable Jeff Goldblum/Michelle Pfeiffer vehicle Into The Night the heroine doesn't produce the diamonds she is smuggling until after a very suggestive shower scene about halfway through the movie. hint: they weren't in her cleavage.
Jennifer Connelly in the Remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.
In the film adaptation of the comic book Barb Wire, Barb (played by Pamela Anderson) hides a pair of contact lenses in a little tube down her cleavage. Then it turns out they were fakes and she was wearing the real ones. Still, the compartment stands.
Guess where the Hitchhiker hid the gun she used to kill herself with in 2003's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.
The Spirit: Silken Floss hides the Octopus's still living finger down her blouse. Squick
Adrienne Barbeau tucks her license into her bra in The Cannonball Run as part of her strategy for beguiling cops out of giving her speeding tickets. It works, too...until she's pulled over by a female police officer.
- She also used the Compartment in the first Swamp Thing movie.
Notably averted in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever when Tiffany Case tries to conceal a data cassette in her bikini bottom. Needless to say it's glaringly obvious there, especially since the Big Bad forced her to wear the bikini specifically to prevent her from concealing anything.
- Well, that's the reason he gives, anyway.
In MI:II, Nyah attempts to hide the expensive necklace there. Ethan then forces her to give it back, right in front of the head of security.
The Road to El Dorado. "How did you get those?" "Where was she keeping them?"
- And a rare male example: Miguel somehow manages to fit a large rolled-up map and an apple down his shirt without having weird lumps or stretching out the fabric.
Mad Money where the trio stuffs every single scrap of clothing with money.
There was interesting subversion in one of the early Jet Li's film. In it, Jet Li caught a female reporter recording something sensitive. He goes up and asked her for the tape. The reporter promptly dropped the tape down her blouse, thinking Jet Li won't search her there. He didn't, he just grabbed her legs, turned her upside down and shake, until the tape dropped.
In Bad Boys, Tea Leoni manages to hide a handcuff key in her bra and uses it to escape at the end. The mook guarding her sees her reach for it but doesn't think to check her.
Johnny Dangerously, Lil uses this a couple of times.
True Lies, twice. Juno Skinner keeps her business card in her bra. Likewise Helen hides the transmitter bug between her breasts, however she quickly loses it when her Dress Hits The Floor.
Inkheart, twice. Teresa keeps a portrait of her family hidden in her blouse, while Mortola keeps the prison key tucked between the "mounds" barely constrained by her corset.
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane. Jane threatens Blanche with the note that she wrote for help that she kept tucked away in her blouse.
In the 1974 The Four Musketeers, Constance (Raquel Welch) got her hands on a key which she triumphantly dropped into her cleavage - having forgotten that her friends needed that key to unlock the chains and rescue her. And then, it being a very small key, it slipped further down and she couldn't dig it out....
In the 1927 Academy Award winning film Wings; Mary procures the order to cancel leave down the front of her dancer's dress. Given the time period, this trope is now Older Than Television.
A View To A Kill Pola Ivanova smuggles away an incriminating tape down the front of her robe.
Love Wrecked: Jenny smuggles a storebought fish down her top so she can dive underwater, take out the fish and then claim she caught it.
Maggie seems to have learned this at an early age, as witnessed in The Simpsons Movie when grabs Bart's "Babyblaster" game and shoves it down her baby jumper during church.
Sleeper - Woody Allen and Diane Keaton have infiltrated Big Brother HQ to bring down the dictatorship. She produces a gun, he asks "Where were you hiding that? ...don't tell me."
Bratz The over the top Hispanic stereotype takes the chocolate and puts it in her bra.
The beginning of Beowulf shows a girl sneaking a gold coin down her corset.

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Velvet from The Malloreon sometimes keeps a small, virulently poisonous snake there. Her love interest Silk is not amused. For that matter, neither is the snake's owner.
In Robert A Heinlein's Between Planets, Isobel apparently hides a very important ring there. Heinlein was writing for the juvy market, and in The Fifties, so he doesn't connect the dots for the reader.
In "Trill Coster's Burden", one of Manly Wade Wellman's Silver John stories, The Vamp hides a giant ruby in her cleavage, and tells John that if he wants it he'll have to reach in and get it; he declines, and she gets away. (This ends badly for her, since the reason he wanted it in the first place is that it has a curse on it he's trying to break.)
Nanny Ogg keeps all sorts of things in her knickers, including alcohol and cash. But since she's a dumpy old lady, this is hardly a case of fanservice.
- It helps that a witch wears several skirts, several pairs of pants, several stockings, and "knicker pocket" can only be the first layer in their underwear. But that's putting way too much thought into it.
  - Wait.. Fan Wank. Nanny Ogg. Oh ew.
Similar to the Xena example below, Asha Greyjoy keeps a dagger sheathed between her breasts. Being one of the few female ship captains, she's quick to show it off and refers to it as her "suckling babe".
In A&M, this causes a clerk to nearly faint, and just brings his crush on the girl full-circle.
In one of the Indian In The Cupboard novels, Patrick gets sent back in time to the Wild West and is a few inches tall. When he finds a sympathetic lady who wants to carry him around, she considers her shoulder, decides it's too slippery, and goes with her cleavage.
In Tom De Haven's novel It's Superman! Lois hides a metal tag that could be used to incriminate Lex Luthor in her white cotton Gamble's brasserie when questioned by the police.

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Everybody Loves Raymond: Whilst trying to keep the car keys from Frank, Marie drops them down her blouse. Frank: "I'll walk!!"
In a Dream Sequence episode of Sister Sister Lisa hides money in her bra
Subverted on Will And Grace when Grace hides something from Karen here and she goes and seeks it. Grace enjoys this.
- Will And Grace love doing this: Karen hides something from Rosario in her cleavage, and Rosario promptly goes after it. Karen enjoys this, and calls out suggestions as to where Rosario's hands should go. Lorraine Finster also pulls this off later, whilst trying to smuggle some of Karen's jewellery out of her house, though not just in her cleavage... If You Know What I Mean.
Three's Company: After informing Jack and Larry of the possible hiding places for a wad of money she used at first (each mention of a hiding place sends Jack and Larry dashing to tear it inside-out, because the guy who wants the money back is really tall), Chrissy says that she was finally able to think of the safest hiding place — inside her blouse.
A hilarious misunderstanding in Coupling (best not to go into exactly what said misunderstanding was, for fear of text walls) led to a discussion about why men don't smuggle. One given reason was a lack of 'concealment crevices'...
- Captain Jack Harkness would beg to differ, if "Bad Wolf" is anything to go by...
- Parodied earlier in the episode when Gabrielle purchases the dagger and hides it, only to have it fall out the bottom of her dress because she doesn't have the required bustiness (at least in that outfit).
Parodied in Married... With Children when Marcy, notorious for her flat chest, attempts this trick - and the object falls through her shirt and onto the floor.
- Played straight with Peg, though—who should be the posterwoman for this trope.
Firefly"War Stories", Zoe successfully attempts to ransom back her husband Wash and Mal from Niska. After averting Niska's attempt to pull off a Sadistic Choice by picking her husband when Niska says the ransom is not enough for both men, he re-evaluates saying that the ransom was really a little too much and has his Dragon cut off Mal's ear which Niska then hands to Zoe wrapped in a handkerchief. Zoe calmly takes it and carefully tucks it into her bra.
Smallville "Odyssey" Lois concealed a flash drive with incriminating evidence on Lex in this area.
Sara in the Pilot of the Knight Rider Revival.
Apparently, Aunt Vivian from Pushing Daisies keeps money there, as seen in "Circus, Circus".
A character in Days Of Our Lives used her breasts to hide money she used to buy cocaine.
Angel "Reunion" Drusilla in an attempt to update to the 21st Century, she kept a cell phone in this area in , however she forgot about it and thought that she was ringing.
- In the following episode ("Redefinition"), Lilah kept a Hidden Wire between her bosoms in an attempt to frame Lindsay. He had no problem reaching to yank it out.
Dark Skies. The Soviet agent played by Jeri Ryan keeps a silenced pistol in her cleavage as seen in this scene. But then as Voyager fans are well aware, she's got plenty of room.
Doctor Who"New Earth" After taking over Rose Tyler's body in "New Earth", Cassandra keeps her knockout perfume hidden between Rose's bouncy ~~castle~~ breasts.
- And who can forget Captain Jack pulling out a gun after being hit with a de-fabricator, which does exactly what it says on the tin.
DollhouseGrey Hour, bank robber-imprinted Echo loses her memory of what she's doing, so the Dollhouse uploads the same imprint into Sierra in an attempt to walk Echo through the heist. Sierra tells Echo that she has a bottle of resin on her person. When Echo can't find it, Sierra remarks "Bra's a good place". It sure is.
V.I.P. has Pam Anderson hiding everything the propmaster could find, but she's outshone by Leah Lail, who had a ~~laptop~~ toptop computer hidden there.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Who Are You?" Faith (while in Buffy's body) stuffs money in her bra.
Larry's agent Jeff in Curb Your Enthusiasm is accused of having a small penis by an ex-mistress, who works as a maid. Jeff explains that in fact it's the opposite, she has a very large vagina. Larry suspects her of stealing a baseball, and when he loses his cellphone tries calling it. Hilarity ensues.
A skit on Carol Burnett's variety show back in the '70s had her character pull things needed for songwriting out of her cleavage: paper, pencils. When it's pointed out that the pencils aren't sharpened, she sticks one back in - and the grinding sound of an electric pencil sharpener is heard.

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This trope gets mentioned in the 1948 Alan Jay Lerner/Kurt Weill musical Love Life in the song "Economics:"
"Now Edna used to slip her husband’s
Pay down her chest
And just to keep it extra safe
She never undressed!
Now that’s good economics,
That’s good economics,
That’s good economics
But awful bad for love!"
This is Older Than Radio. In Die Fledermaus, Eisenstein has a ladies' watch that he charms pretty girls with. He is disguised as a Marquis at a dinner party, and his wife (unbeknownst to him) is disguised as a Hungarian countess. He tries to seduce her, and three guesses where she stows the watch.

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As the page quote illustrates, Meryl in Metal Gear Solid hides one of the detonation override cards in her bra until she meets up with Snake. She also apparently keeps ammunition in there.
- She's not referring to her bra. In fact, as many observant people have pointed out, Meryl doesn't even wear a bra in either incarnation of Metal Gear Solid. She's referring to something only women have.
  - She hides it in her third pair of shoes?
Granny Crotony from the adventure game Armed and Delirious uses her support bra as her inventory.
In Final Fantasy X, this appears to be where Yuna and Lulu keep potions, judging by the animation when they use one.
In an otherwise short-and-forgettable flash game, Bush Royal Rampage, while being guarded by George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II has her tiara shot off, which only serves to anger her. She then pulls out a piece of plastic no bigger than a poker chip from her cleavage... which EXPANDS INTO AN UZI!!11!!1!
In Silent Hill 2, Maria keeps the three keys to a triple-locked door tucked into her short skirt, in her boots, and in her cleavage, in that order. While she's opening the door, James attempts to sneak a peek to no avail.
The Guild Wars female assassin underwear has a dagger between the breasts.
In Sengoku Basara Nohime apparently keeps a massive arsenal under her kimono, including a rifle, a Two-Barreled Gatling Gun and a Rocket Launcher.
In Mad World, the three geisha you save in the Asian Town level appear during the final boss battle, pulling health-restoring items from their cleavage and tossing them off to you if you're running low. Oddly, the announcers make no comment on this.
Dominic jokes about all the things that have gotten lost in Lara Croft's clevage.
In Wild Arms 3, Maya Shroedinger has an attack called 'Calamity Jane' where she shakes her skirt and a gatling gun falls out. Yikes.

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Spoofed in this Ask Altair comic - the method makes no sense in the character's case.
A The Devil's Panties strip shows Jen and one of her friends getting ready for a night on the town. Club clothes for women often have no pockets and they were wearing corsets, so...
- Jen and a group of corseted women also used this trick during a Medieval Re-enactment weekend, storing assorted melee weapons. When the ladies are attacked by bandits thinking them unarmed, Hilarity Ensues.
Parodied with a rare female "down there" version in Last Resort, where Jigsaw hides her Hammerspace inside her... wait for it... marsupial pouch. SwissMoments ensue when she reaches in to get anything.
Sammie and Maureen of The Zombie Hunters make use of these to smuggle in contraband items from their government-sponsored looting adventures. Or as Sammie puts it, "That's what boobs are for."
- Not all.
PMJ the Hamster's personal assistant Helga provides her boss with transportation this way in Sequential Art. One could say it's the "breast seat in the house."
Tootsie and Alejandra of Las Lindas demonstrate.

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Khanzarina Misha from Open Blue hides a handgun in her cleavage. Rumor has it that she keeps her saber in there too.
From Cute Overload, we have the Cats 'n Racks category (which includes other animals too). Provisionally NSFW if your boss is uptight enough.

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The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XII features a HAL-9000 Captain Ersatz who is given to Patty and Selma. Selma has the self-destruct switch down her shirt, leading to the comment "No, don't put it there."
Futurama: Corporate tycoon "Mom" hides the controlling device of the world's robots in her bra. At the end of the episode it's also shown that Professor Farnsworth keeps the controls of his giant albino shouting mutant gorillas in his pants.
Family Guy: Chris' substitute teacher hid everything in her boobs, including a whole class' worth of tests. She even had a sword in there.
- As did the teacher from an early episode of Animaniacs. Yakko commented "What else you got in there?"
  - And then referenced again a few seconds later via Animaniacs near professional habit of getting crap past the radar.
Justice League Unlimited: "Dark Heart" featured a sequence where Wonder Woman carried the Atom in her cleavage. Good thing she didn't inhale...
- Huntress also pays keep away with the Question's disk by slipping in her underoos in "Question Authority".
Ruby Rocket keeps her cigarettes in this particular area.
Granny hides the hotel key here in the now famous Tex Avery cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood.
The Venture Brothers: When the Monarch proposes to Dr. Girlfriend, they're about to have sex and she's completely naked. He's therefore understandibly baffled when she pulls of list of concessions he needs to make out of nowhere, though his reference to how it's "undoubtedly moist" shows that the Monarch has his theories.
Sit Down Shut Up: Miracle Grohe keeps a list of all the students who are on the starvation drive in her blouse.
GI Joe's The Baroness in this piece of fan art
Cliche from Stripperella
Aeon Flux "Utopia or Deuteranopia?" Aeon hides the key in the top portion of her costume, only to depose of her top a few seconds later. She later retrieves the key from her Thong Of Shielding, bordering on a case of Trouser Space.
Near the end of one Pepe Le Pew cartoon, Pepe is looking for her, thinking she has maybe returned to the perfume shop. Penelope, who finds a blue Pepe to be extremely hot, comes in behind him, closes the door, and drops the key down the front of her coat. Now, a wet cat (she fell in a rain barrel) of the Near-Mute Animal variety isn't exactly hot (outside certain... interests), but you know what it's referencing. You at 8... probably didn't.
- And the whole thing makes 'no sense because she's a naked not-very-anthropomorphised cat.

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There have been bras designed with a pocket between the cups to hold money.
There have also been bras designed with a holster between the cups. There just aren't many good places for a woman to carry concealed, y'know.
Those frilly gowns with corsets worn by ladies of the pre-industrial age did not have any pockets. Where did the ladies keep love letters? In the Victoria's Secret Compartment!
Efforts to avert this trope in real life are one of the big reasons that premodern police forces kept a few "matrons" on staff- female police officers who wouldn't cause quite as much hilarity to ensue in a search.
In Massachusetts there was recently an infamous case where a state senator was caught stuffing bribery money into her bra. You can read about it here.
"Is that one of those Ovaltine bras I've heard so much about?" (5.08)
Not entirely sure if it belongs here because it wasn't intentional, but http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/7496923.stm.
I wish this particular example was a little more secret: http://failblog.org/2008/12/25/cup-holder-fail/
Quite a few girls who go to parties in an outfit designed without pockets will keep their phone in there.
Wedding dresses don't have any pockets, and neither will the bridesmaids; a few strategically placed tissues can be quite handy if anyone's a little tearful after the big moment.
In the 1950s, the "Miami Brassiere Brigade" stole hundreds of thousands of dollars of coins from phone boxes (it went to the company where they worked) by putting it in their bra. The things you learn from QI...
There is a knitting pattern for a bra with a pocket. While not in the cleavage, it claims to be able to hold condoms, change, and other small items. Don't believe me? http://www.knitacondomamulet.com/bra-breast-pouch-condom-a.html
Hurricane Katrina Rescues, an Animal Rescue programme, mentioned that just prior to Hurricane Katrina when people where evacuated to Texas from Louisiana via coaches people were smuggling their pets on board with them when there was a no pet policy. According to the Houston SPCA, one such animal smuggling lady managed to hide a cockatiel in her bra.
- I could make a very dirty comment but I won't.
An anecdote from the filming of the original Doctor Who: apparently during the filming of the 1987 episode "Time And The Rani", the actress who played the female villain, Kate O'Mara, held up recording because her stick-on beauty spot had vanished from her face while on location, which meant they couldn't film her as it would have caused a continuity issue. It turned up an hour or so later.... down her cleavage.
Jamie Lee Curtis demonstrated on The Late Late Show that she kept a Palm Pilot (hmm) and other items in her bra. May have been a call back to True Lies.
When S. Epatha Markerson won a Golden Globe in 2006 for her performance in Lackawanna Blues, she had her acceptance speech concealed in her cleavage.
In a marching band with woodwind instruments, this is actually quite reasonable. Marching band uniforms don't always have pockets, and woodwind players always need a spare reed on hand.
- Got Wood? Sorry couldn't resist.
There have been quite a few espionage cases through history (I recall a notable one in WWII Dutchland), where women smuggled messages and devices past checkpoints to various resistance cells in their vaginas
- There were some similar, recent cases of women doing this in Brazilian prisons, during intimate visits, as well. With cellphones. Sometimes, More than one at a time.
On a sad side to this, gassed corpses of inmates during the Holocaust we're forced to be torn apart by other inmates to look for gold and other precious metals/jewelery/wedding rings. It apparently was very profitable.
A subversion - in prison, the way how males commonly sneak weapons, drugs, and other banned stuff (like handcuff keys or tattooing needles) into the prison and around checkpoints is stuffing said items into their rectum. And this happens far more often than you think.
This troper knows a woman who keeps bats, and will capture and keep any bats that might be infesting your home that you don't want. She found a family of very young bats in our house when we were having the roof repaired, and placed several of the smaller baby bats in her bra. As she explained, "It's warm, it's dark, the baby bats are safe there, and their claws and teeth are not developed enough to make it dangerous for me".
Many female shop lifters will attempt this. You'd think women would keep stolen goods away from where most men are looking.

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