History Main / FullyClothedNudity

* People who follow a strict religion can often feel embarrassed wearing what other people would consider normal. For example, a strict Muslim woman might feel exposed not wearing a hijab, or a Morman woman wearing a mini skirt.

* Pretty much every adaptation of ''The Emperor's New Clothes'', including the [[TheMuppetShow Muppet]] version ([[FridgeLogic Does Fozzie even have...]] [[{{Squick}} nevermind]]).

* In RobertAHeinlein's ''Time Enough for Love'', Lazarus Long travels back in time to 1917 USA. He sees a flash of a woman's ankle and makes a note not to be caught staring at it, as that would get him in trouble. Put in to show how he had acclimatized to 1917: in his home time, women would quite often go around completely naked. In one of the sequels it's mentioned that one female character wears a skirt for the ''sole'' purpose of having somewhere to conceal a weapon.

* People who follow a strict religon can often feel embarssed wearing what other people would consider normal. For example, a strict Muslim woman might feel exposed not wearing a hijab, or a Morman woman wearing a mini skirt.

'''Girl 1:''' UNDERWEAR? '''SHRIIEEK!!!''' ''[[UnmentionableBSOD (covers her chest and rushes inside)]]''

* In ''InuYasha'', Kagome freaks out when a monkey steals her clothes as she's bathing... despite the fact that she's wearing a one-piece bathing suit, though it could be argued that she was simply reacting to being robbed since she blatantly told InuYasha that him seeing her in that state wasn't the reason she panicked.
* Gray Fullbuster of ''FairyTail''. Everyone freaks when he goes from fully dressed (only neck up & fingertips to wrist bare) to his boxers. Can't they just be grateful that the shedding of clothing comes to a halt at that point?
** Incidentally -- when "The Full Monty" does occur, Gray is the first to freak.
* Happens to Ichitaka in {{Is}}, when he thinks that Itsuki is posing nude for some art students. Turns out she's wearing a latex bodysuit.

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* ''Vagabond Loafers'', a short by TheThreeStooges (and a remake of ''A Plumbing We Will Go'') has Emil Sitka's character shoved out of the shower trying to hold onto a ModestyTowel. He's still wearing boxer shorts under... which means he was wearing them while showering?

* In RobertAHeinlein's ''Time Enough for Love'', Lazarus Long travels back in time to 1917 USA. He sees a flash of a woman's ankle and makes a note not to be caught staring at it, as that would get him in trouble.
** Put in to show how he had acclimatized to 1917: in his home time, women would quite often go around completely naked. In one of the sequels it's mentioned that one female character wears a skirt for the ''sole'' purpose of having somewhere to conceal a weapon.
* Out of every book that exists, this trope occurs in ''ToKillAMockingbird''. Scout gets shocked when Atticus ''loosens his tie and collar'', because Atticus never loosens his clothing outside of his home.
* At one point in the first {{Mistborn}} book, Vin points out that her normal street clothes are hardly more modest than the undergarments she's currently in, so Spook has no reason to be embarrassed about it. She's promptly told that it's the principle of her being in her underwear that's the embarrassing part.
* Captain Laurence from the {{Temeraire}} series is absolutely mortified to be caught in decent company without his neckcloth and coat. Most of the other aviators couldn't care less, though.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In the ''DoctorWho'' episode "Tooth and Claw", Rose was referred to as "naked" on several occasions; she was dressed for a rock concert in 1979 but they ended up in 1879 so she was dressed very immodestly. But not naked.
** Much to everyone's disappointment.

* ''{{Baywatch}}'': I can't recall the characters, but one woman saw her co-worker in his underwear and was ashamed and embarrased, even after the guy pointed out that it covers as much as his regular working uniform (the only actual difference was the color).
* ''LittleMosqueOnThePrairie'' had a funny scene where Amar walks in on Rayyan (a observing Muslim) without her headscarf.
* ''TheXFiles'': In the critically acclaimed episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," the title character describes a dream in which he is lying in a field naked. When we see the dream, though, he is wearing an undershirt and boxer shorts. Considering that he was played by then-sixty-year-old Peter Boyle, it's probably [[FanDisservice for the best]].
* An episode of OneLifeToLive had a teenaged couple's father (hers) and mother (his) walking in on them making out while standing in the stairway of the house, presumably on their way up to the bedroom. No parent would be pleased at this. However, both parents flew into such a rage, one would think they had caught the teens in the very act of having sex. The father even rants and raves about how the boy was "half-naked", despite the fact that he was STILL WEARING a t-shirt and jeans.

* ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' is often embarrassed to be seen in his white briefs underwear, even though the little suit he wears is exactly the same size as his underwear. Specifically, during the theme song, after the Captain says, "Who lives in a Pineapple under the sea?" And the kids shout, "Spongebob Squarepants!" It shows Spongebob walking out of his pineapple home wearing nothing but underwear. He looks down, shocked, like in a nightmare wear you realize that you're out in public naked, and suddenly the hand of God comes down and slaps a suit on him.

* In one episode of {{King of the Hill}} the extremely modest Hank proclaims "I have to cover up my ''nudity!''" after being stripped to an undershirt and boxers. In early episodes he often says something to the same effect about Luanne's sleepwear.
* The AnimatedAdaptation of ''LuckyLuke'' seemingly gave every male character a tomato-red full body underwear.

* Pretty universal in most high school theater programs, especially the ones with four or five shows a year and a constant stream of other events - the freshmen/rookies are always shocked (''shocked!'') at boys strolling into the girls' dressing room for help with makeup and girls - most of whom are in underwear - not even turning around. By their third show or so, they've gotten over it.

See Also FetishFuel, PleasePutSomeClothesOn. For when [[{{Bowdlerised}} Bowdlerization]] causes this, see DigitalBikini. The opposite of this trope if NationalGeographicNudity, whose characters may possibly not even see themselves as nude or even have the concept of clothes or nudity.

See Also FetishFuel, PleasePutSomeClothesOn. For when [[{{Bowdlerised}} Bowdlerization]] causes this, see DigitalBikini.

* Happens to Ichitaka in Is, when he thinks that Itsuki is posing nude for some art students. Turns out she's wearing a latex bodysuit.

** Which episode am I thinking of where he is stripped ''completely'' nude? His untanned "redneck" rump is exposed, and he lets out a BigNo.

TheGuild: Vork has a freakout when he sees Codex in a slightly low cut blouse, demanding that she cover her shame.

* In one of the MadMagazine's ''Lighter Side of...'' shorts, the following conversation happens at a poolside:
-->'''Girl 1:''' Thanks for letting me borrow this gorgeous bikini! ''(strikes a provocative pose)''\\
'''Girl 2:''' Where did you get that?\\
'''Girl 1:''' In the top drawer, why?\\
'''Girl 2:''' That's no bikini, that's ''underwear''!\\
'''Girl 1:''' '''SHRIIEEK!!!''' ''[[UnmentionableBSOD (covers her chest and rushes inside)]]''

* In the first segment of the "Carousel of Progress" show in the DisneyThemeParks, the daughter is concerned about having visitors over because she's "indecent", wearing early 20th-century undergarments that are more concealing than most modern outerwear.

* ''TheSimpsons'' has an episode spoofing ''HuckleberryFinn'' and a series of pictures of people going over Niagara Falls (ItMakesSenseInContext) and one picture causes the men to exclaim "That woman is flashing her privates!" which turn out to be her ''ankle''. One of the men then takes the "indecent" picture for himself.

'''Girl 1:''' '''SHRIIEEK!!!''' ''(covers her chest and rushes inside)''

* In ''InuYasha'', Kagome freaks out when a monkey steals her clothes as she's bathing... despite the fact that she's wearing a one-piece bathing suit.

** It's apparently the law. In one episode, Sandy is arrested for indecent exposure, even though she is wearing a bikini
* ''FamilyGuy'': "Hi, I'm Al Harrington of Al Harrington's Wacky, Waving, Inflatable, Arm-Flailing, Tube-Man Warehouse and Emporium. As an unwanted result of a recent lawsuit, I am now in possession of hundreds of pallets of crudely painted, not-so-funny, plywood, cutout, folk art and it's just waiting to transform your uncut, trash-strewn lawn into a living canvas that tells passers-by, 'Hey, everyone, a real funny bugger lives here!' Your neighbors will chuckle warmly, and motorists will slow down and applaud, when they cast their eyes on such favorites as Sort-of-Ben-and-Jerry's-Looking Cow, Black Silhouetted Cowboy Leaning on Barn, and everybody's favorite, Fat Woman Bending Over Tending to Her Garden in Big, Polka-Dotted Bloomers." ''(shows a cardboard cutout of a woman bending over, her skirt rising up to reveal baggy underwear down to her knees like a regular pair of short pants, two guys laughing and pointing at the sight)''.
* In one episode of {{King of the Hill}} the extremely modest Hank proclaims "I have to cover up my ''nudity!'' after being stripped to an undershirt and boxers. In early episodes he often says something to the same effect about Luanne's sleepwear.