History Main / DiamondsInTheBuff

* In the Literature/Lensman novels, Ilona of Lonabar, a very poor girl by her homeworld’s standards, wears only low grade jewelry: [[WorthlessYellowRocks cheap beads in common metal]]. But she wears so much that she’s effectively, if minimally, clothed.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-09-21 Monique, in a parody, wants Slick to paint her wearing only her bling.]]

* ''ComicBook/RulahJungleGooddess'': In "The Pearls of Patmos" (''Zoot Comics'' #14a), Circo, the Queen of Patmos, wears a jeweled bikini that does technically have some fabric underneath it. However, the shrine maidens who guard the pearl temple wear only bikinis and wristbands made entirely out of pearls.

* In ''Rocketship Voyager'', B'Elanna Torres shows Chakotay a [[NationalGeographicNudity pin-up]] from ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' of an Amazon of Venus "bedecked in jewels, a sword harness, and not much else." She then goes on a rant about how diamonds are a scam by Terran traders who are [[WorthlessYellowRocks buying up land on Venus with cheap synthetic diamonds]], while Chakotay quietly thinks that the [[AmazonBrigade Amazons he fought]] were [[FanDisservice covered in blood rather than diamonds]].

* In ''Rocketship Voyager'', B'Elanna Torres shows Chakotay a [[NationalGeographicNudity pin-up]] from ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' of an AmazonGirl of Venus "bedecked in jewels, a sword harness, and not much else." She then goes on a rant about how diamonds are a scam by Terran traders who are [[WorthlessYellowRocks buying up land on Venus with cheap synthetic diamonds]], while Chakotay quietly thinks that the Amazons he fought were [[FanDisservice covered in blood rather than diamonds]].

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* One issue of the German magazine ''Stern'' had on its cover a photograph of model Creator/NaomiCampbell nude except for jewelry.
* [[http://www.plunderguide.com/yamila-diaz-rahi/yamila-diaz-rahi-02/ This outfit]] worn by Yamila Diaz-Rahi in the ''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issue was the inspiration for ''Dead Or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball'''s Venus (see below in Video Games).

* In one ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' pictorial, a model posed wearing a small fortune in diamonds. The magazine hired armed security during the shoot to ensure their safety

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', mariliths (demons with the upper body of a six-armed woman and the [[SnakePeople lower body of a giant snake]]) are often depicted like this, wearing scant or no clothing but a great deal of jewelry. In fact, they frequently dress like this even while [[BlingOfWar commanding]] [[ChainmailBikini demonic armies]]. This is all perfectly justified, since a marilith fits the ObviouslyEvil and EvilIsSexy Tropes ''at the same time'', and as a high-ranking demon has skin far tougher than any physical armor.

* Flurrie in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. Before you can recruit her into your party, you have to find her lost necklace, as she would feel completely scandalized without it.

* [[AnIcePerson Shi]][[MsFanservice va]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' wears an outfit made out of jewelry, which is the most revealing outfit worn by any female character in the game and one of the biggest in all her recurring appearances in the series to date. It was so revealing it was [[{{Bowdlerise}} censored]] in the Chinese version of the game that replaced it with a one-piece suit instead.
* [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/7e/7f/f5/7e7ff51941f1c99990855d1c5d6b099e.jpg Desire demons]] in ''Franchise/DragonAge'' had their upper bodies covered in gold ornaments and nothing else.
* [[https://img.webme.com/pic/g/gamegirlshrine/3426041-2118666960-sylea.jpg Sylea]] in ''VideoGame/ChampionsOfNorrath'' wears a golden necklace-shawl with two large gold medallions that cover up her breasts, along with armbands, earrings, rings, and bracelets. In fact, the only piece of clothing that she is wearing is a loincloth, and even that is adorned with gold.

* ComicBook/{{Purgatori}}'s original costume after being turned into a vampire was nothing [[https://culturaltrash.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/purgatorisrevenge.jpg but gold ornaments and pasties]]. Her modern costumes are relatively more modest.
* ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}'': As first seen in ''Oasis'', and later explored in much greater depth in ''Carrie's Oasis Diary'', the King of Oasis kidnaps women for his harem and [[GoGoEnslavement dresses them]] in {{Stripperific}} outfits; sometimes consisting of just gold chains hanging from their nipples and belly buttons.

* In ''Film/{{Femme Fatale|2002}}'' the jewel is the {{MacGuffin}}.
* ''Film/AFineMess''. Claudia is seen wearing earrings while [[BathtubScene taking a bubble bath and talking with Spence on the phone]], and arrives at Spence's apartment wearing earrings, a necklace and even rings on her fingers. The earrings and necklace are visible when she is on top of him in bed.
* Then there's the scene in which Diabolik puts large emeralds on nude Eva's body in ''Film/DangerDiabolik''.
* ''Film/ThreeHundred'': Some of the girls in [[EvilOverlord Xerxes']] RoyalHarem had little but gold chains and pasties covering their lady bits.
* In the 1944 adaptation of ''[[Film/Kismet1944 Kismet]]'', Jamilla (played by Creator/MarleneDietrich) dances in one iconic scene with an elaborate jewelry and gold chest ornament.
* At the end of ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', Jinx is covered in nothing but diamonds as she and Bond consummate their relationship in a South Korean Buddhist temple located in a valley.

* This is standard attire (male and female) in the ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' novels.
** Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' refers frequently to ''John Carter of Mars'', and at one point the female main characters invoke this trope.
* An occasional threat against a [[GoGoEnslavement slave girl]] on ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' is that she will be sent out in public naked but adorned with jewelry, to prove that her master can afford to clothe her but has consciously decided against it.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/PetSematary'', when Louis buys his wife, Rachel, a sapphire necklace, she says that she will "take everything off except this."

* A male example in ''Literature/EmeraldPrince''--the palace musician Florin regularly dresses like this. Standard attire in Thyreia, regardless of gender, is also probably closer to this than it is to what you might consider fully dressed.

** The evil Queen Nakari in the Literature/SolomonKane story ''The Moon Of Skulls'' is naked save for a skirt of ostrich feathers, rich golden bracelets and anklets and a plumed helmet. Which for a modern reader would simply convey a barbarian Queen of the DarkestAfrica, but which was also typical for [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HuqphNzdF2s/TVzRzHC9TDI/AAAAAAAACZ4/0lyKn7KLZKg/s1600/Liliyn+Tashman+Ziegfeld+girl.jpg the attire of cabaret dancers and strippers of the 1930s]], when the story was published. [[InJoke A period reader]] [[PoorMansPorn would understand the titillating allusion]] much better.
* In the ShowWithinAShow play in ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'', Severian, Dorcas and Jolenta play what appears to be their culture's versions of [[Literature/TheBible Adam, Eve and Lilith]]. (OK, Lilith [[WordOfDante was never mentioned in the Bible]], but you get the idea.) All three are naked, but Jolenta (who plays the Lilith equivalent) is wearing jewels.

* In [[Literature/TheBible the book of Esther]], Queen Vashti is holding a banquet for the noblewomen of Persia, while her husband, King Xerxes, holds another banquet for his buddies to celebrate his recent victory. He drunkenly asks her to make an appearance before his guests wearing her crown. According to some scholars, she was to wear ''only'' her crown. [[spoiler:Vashti refused, naturally, and Xerxes deposed her as queen and banished her on his buddies' advice.]]
* Done with flowers in the first book of ''Literature/TheDarkswordTrilogy''

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Arianne Martell shows up at her secret rendezvous with Arys Oakheart wearing a golden snake bracelet on her arm and naught else. Arys was planning to end their SecretRelationship until he catches sight of her, whereupon CoitusEnsues.
* In ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', Hank Rearden gives Dagny a ruby necklace that she doesn't think will look good on her... until he explains that she's supposed to wear it without any other clothing.

* ''Literature/BooksOfTheRaksura'': Raksura Queens usually wear plenty of jewelry and absolutely nothing else. {{Justified|Trope}} since Raksura are {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers with no nudity taboo, since their clothes vanish when they shift from human to draconic form.
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' a minor character is framed for the theft of jewelry from [[AmazonBrigade the Maidens of the Spear]]. As a punishment the Maidens force her to serve them wearing nothing but the bracelets she (supposedly) stole from them.
* Downplayed, and combined with FanDisservice in the fourth ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' novel, ''Empire of Ivory''. At a fundraiser party for the Aerial Corps, Temeraire compliments an aging noblewoman in a low-cut dress in the style of her youth on her vulgar, gaudy emerald necklace, which happens to be the only thing covering her bosom.
* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' some [[NoNudityTaboo Tuerasian]] women drop the clothes altogether, aside from elaborate costumes composed entirely of jewelry that leave the important bits uncovered. [[RapeAsDrama Unfortunately]] for the [[{{Ephebophile}} young women]] of [[TheEmpire the Dawn Empire]], this little bit of ForeignFanservice gave [[EvilOverlord Emperor]] [[SerialRapist Dayless]] some [[GoGoEnslavement dark ideas]].

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The fantasy-barbarian-queen parody in ''Discworld/TheColourOfMagic'' is adorned like this, managing to impress both Hrun the Barbarian's libido ''and'' mercenary sensibilities at the same time.

* ''Literature/TheReluctantKing'': It's mentioned that a wizardess in a costume competition put a jewel in her navel to qualify as her "costume", nearly winning it.

* The Ancient Indian dancers - the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsara Apsaras]].

* A variant in ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'' [[MagnificentBitch Melisande]] contracts Phèdre (a courtesan) to accompany her as a "pet" to a court function wearing a very see-through gauze gown studded with diamonds, and a collar with a magnificent diamond (and ring for a leash). Phèdre-1an experienced courtesan at this point--is still both amazed at the opulence of the outfit, and more than a little mortified at being ''that'' exposed in front of every high-ranking noble of the realm.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Arianne Martell shows up at her secret rendezvous with Arys Oakheart wearing a golden snake bracelet on her arm and naught else. CoitusEnsues.

* ComicBook/{{Purgatori}}'s original costume after being turned into a vampire was nothing, [[https://culturaltrash.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/purgatorisrevenge.jpg but gold ornaments and pasties]]. Her modern costumes are relatively more modest.

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'': The Penguin once directed a movie starring Batman and Marsha, Queen of Diamonds (ItMakesSenseInContext). Penguin seems to have had this trope in mind for a scene where Marsha takes a milk bath, wearing nothing but her diamonds. Aunt Harriet's Gotham City Film Decency League put a stop to it before it happened, though.

* At the end of ''Film/DieAnotherDie'', Jinx is covered in nothing but diamonds as she and Bond consummate their relationship in a South Korean Buddhist temple located in a valley.

* In the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series, the ladies in the [[HotCoffeeMinigame sex mini-games]] tend to be (un)dressed this way. In the [[VideoGame/GodOfWar1 first game]], the [[TwinThreesomeFantasy twin sisters]] are adorned in a very conspicuous gold ornaments, while in the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarII second game]], one of the [[BathingBeauty bathing beauties]] in Rhodes wears jewelry on her shoulders.

* In the ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'', the ladies in the [[HotCoffeeMinigame sex mini-games]] tend to be (un)dressed this way. In the [[VideoGame/GodOfWar first game]], the [[TwinThreesomeFantasy twin sisters]] are adorned in a very conspicuous gold ornaments, while in the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarII second game]], one of the [[BathingBeauty bathing beauties]] in Rhodes wears jewelry on her shoulders.

* An issue of ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' had a picture of a belt with huge gemstone beads and a quote from its creator, stating that he "imagined a woman emerging from the ocean wearing this belt and nothing else".

* On October 1, 2014, German model Micaela Schaefer showed up for star photographer Oliver Rath's book release party ''completely naked'', wearing only shoes and jewelry and [[HandOrObjectUnderwear using her purse to cover her crotch.]]