History Main / FullyClothedNudity

* Almost all video games where the player can [[VirtualPaperDoll control what the character wears]] puts the character in underwear when all clothing is removed. This can have the odd effect of characters being more covered up "naked" then when equipped with the more revealing outfits. Games with modding invariably have a nudity mod as one of the first entries because of this trope.

* Discussed in Literature/TheTheodosiaThrockmortonSeries. At the beginning of the second book Theodosia, an 11 years old girl, is invited to a formal party for the first time, and forded into a frilly, uncomfortable PimpedOutDress, as opposed to her typically functional clothing (as functional as society back then allowed for girls, asnyway). She realises why when she arrives to the party, sees all adults in extra fine clothes, as well as the decorated halls, and realises that in her regular dress, she would feel naked.

* Happens twice in the direct-to-video sequel ''WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld''. When Pocahontas first arrives in England, a man is admonished by his wife not to look at Pocahontas as she's "hardly dressed." Later, when Pocahontas is being dressed to meet the king, John Rolfe becomes flustered when she runs in to show him her new outfit, not realizing that what she's wearing is only considered the underwear.

* The Taysans in the ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' books cover up everything except hands, necks and faces, and moreover consider "unbound" hair to be indecent. They're in for a shock when, rarely, they venture to Earther colony worlds and find that even on formal occasions, humans go so far as to exhibit cleavage. When Jay strips to the waist in front of his wife-to-be, it's the first time she has seen a man's arms -- let alone anything else.

* In the 1945 Literature/NancyDrew novel ''The Clue in the Crumbling Wall,'' Nancy's friend George takes a dunk in a pond and hides in an abandoned house in her underwear while waiting for her outer clothes to dry. When a small child steals her clothes, she's trapped inside until her friends can help her get decent.

* The Taysans in the ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' books cover up everything except hands, necks and faces, and moreover consider 'unbound' hair to be indecent. They're in for a shock when, rarely, they venture to Earther colony worlds and find that even on formal occasions, humans go so far as to exhibit cleavage. When Jay strips to the waist in front of his wife-to-be, it’s the first time she has seen a man’s arms--let alone anything else.
* Underwrites the basic dress code in ''{{Literature/Xanth}}'', where a woman in her underwear (particularly her panties) is ''vastly'' more titillating than that same woman in the nude. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]], due to the large number of demihumans, such as centaurs, with no nudity taboo.
* In the final chapter of Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'', Willy Wonka and the Bucket family are invited to a banquet at the White House as a reward for having saved the world from an alien invasion earlier in the book. This is what finally gets Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George, and Grandma Georgina out of bed for the first time in 20 years (except for when they were in outer space just a few hours before and floated out of their beds in zero gravity, and they insist ''that'' doesn't count). But then the three old people realize that they are still wearing their nightgowns (which, incidentally, they presumably ''[[FridgeHorror haven't changed]]'' [[FridgeHorror in 20 years]]) and are mortified that they'll be appearing in front of the President and news reporters from around the world "practically naked." Happily, Charlie saves the day by recommending that the helicopter taking them to the White House stop by a department store first so the three grandparents can buy some new clothes with money provided by Mr. Wonka.
* In ''{{Literature/Remnants}},'' Violet at one points takes off her dress for something that requires swimming; Jobs and Mo'Steel both look away, even though she notes she's still wearing as much as a girl in a bathing suit. (This whole scene is a bit odder since Violet was BornInTheWrongCentury and literally strives for Victorian morals...[[FridgeBrilliance then again]], if she was wearing Victorian-style underwear that might make her point more valid.)

* In one book from ''Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture'' Alice is hitchiking wearing only shorts--which even have a ''pocket''--and is repeatedly referred as naked. Granted she is topless but she is only twelve--and before that she ran though a city in the same clothing, with no comments. Justified since [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the one talking to her is a robot actor programmed to believe he's a 19th century peasant.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Spellfall}},'' a kidnapped Natalie is embarrassed to discover that she's wearing nothing but a thin knee-length shift, and quickly wraps herself in her blankets as though she had been naked. Justified in that 1) she's 12 years old, 2) she's sharing the room with a boy her age who's also embarrassed at her state, and 3) it means that her abductor [[ShamefulStrip had taken everything she was wearing]] [[GoGoEnslavement before re-dressing her.]]

* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', where Anastasia gets all flustered by seeing Christian in "nothing but" a t-shirt and jeans. So...fully clothed, then?
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', Mrs Whitlow makes herself a desert island outfit which is described as more of a "newzealand" than a bikini, since it consists of two large sections seperated by a narrow channel, and then covered even that with a sarong. The wizards' reaction is that "it was as if Mrs Whitlow was wearing a figleaf six feet square. It was still just a figleaf."
* In ''Literature/RainOfTheGhosts,'' Renee has tagged along on a boat trip, but the others are hoping that, since she wasn't told that they'd be scuba diving, she'll have to stay in the boat and thus preserve TheMasquerade. However, an annoyed Renee just starts stripping down to her underwear, even noting to her flustered companions that it's no more revealing than the bikini she wore earlier in the book. It turns out that Ariel brought spare bathing suits anyway.
* In the Creator/RudyardKipling story "In the Rukh,"[[note]]a BroadStrokes sequel to ''Literature/TheJungleBook,'' but apparently written before[[/note]] several characters say that Mowgli is "naked" despite the fact that he wears a {{Loincloth}}. Of course, these characters are from either traditional-minded Muslims or Victorian Englishmen, so ValuesDissonance is in effect. Also, it's worth noting that in ''Literature/TheJungleBook,'' Mowgli ''is'' almost always naked.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw "Tooth and Claw"]], Rose is referred to as "naked" on several occasions; she dressed for a rock concert in 1979 but they ended up in 1879, so she's dressed very immodestly. But not naked.

* ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'': In the episode "My Wild-Eyed Master" when Tony says that astronauts should have perfect vision, Jeannie blinks and gives him X-ray vision, which allows him to see through people's clothes. He sees Alfred Bellows in the nude, meaning a sleeveless shirt and large boxer shorts and even socks. Then, he sees a woman in the nude, meaning a one piece slip that looks like the type of summer dress girls wear these days. In what is probably an editing error, the slip then changes to a two-piece slip that only goes up from the knees to the waist, and the kind of bra that covers the whole ribcage like a tube top. Her belly button is not seen, as that was immoral on sitcoms at the time.

* At the 1990 MTV Music Awards, {{Music/Madonna}} appeared to perform her hit song "Vogue" dressed as Marie Antoinette, and midway through the song hiked up her hoop skirt to flash a pair of French knickers (frilly underpants that come to just above the knee, [[ArtisticLicenseHistory which Marie Antoinette herself would not have worn, since they didn't exist until the 1890s at the very earliest]]), thrusting her hips in and out as she did so. The performance was viewed by many as either titillating or obscene, even though Madonna's underpants covered as least as much skin as a decent pair of shorts.

* ''Series/OneDayAtATime1975'': In the 1977 episode "The Butterfields," Alice sees her husband, Hal, without his suit jacket and says, "You're undressed!" Hal then tries to cover up his nipples with his hands, despite that those nipples are still covered up by a fully-buttoned-up, long-sleeved suit shirt and tie.

* The mini-series of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' features a scene not in the book where Elizabeth accidentally encounters Mr. Darcy returning from swimming. No skin, just underwear/a very big shirt, but both are embarrassed. Their reaction is justified it by it being the 18th century.

* In ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' Season 4, Latrice Royale ends up criticized by one of the judges for letting a bra strap show. Justified as the challenge in question was for ''evening-gown wear'' -- it's one thing for a strap to peek out accidentally in casual attire, it's another to get dressed to the nines and think it's okay to let a strap show on an off-the-shoulder dress.

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* In Literature/TheBible, Michal sees David's rejoicing as the ark is being brought into the city, and when he goes to bless his household, she treats him as though he had exposed himself; at minimum, he was wearing a ''m`iyl'' (stated in 1 Chronicles) and an ''ephod'' (stated both there and in 2 Samuel).[[note]]For the non-Hebrew savvy, one's a robe and the other's a tunic.[[/note]] (Unfortunately, many teachers of these passages would rather believe Michal's version of events.)
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--->'''Girl 1:''' Gee, Virginia, this is a lovely bikini you let me borrow! ''(strikes a provocative pose)''\\

'''Girl 1:''' UNDERWEAR? '''SHRIIEEK!!!''' ''[[NakedFreakOut (covers her chest and rushes inside)]]''
** In an earlier piece (in a panel with no dialogue) a teenage guy waits outside a cabana while his girlfriend changes into a swimsuit. But the door accidentally opens before she is done, and the girl is greatly embarrassed that the guy caught a glimpse of her in underwear and a longer slip. A minute later, the door opens again, but this time she is proudly showing off the (ridiculously) skimpy bikini she's wearing. The boy is clearly puzzled by this.

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* In ''Theatre/{{Fangirls}}'', Brianna reacts like this when she drops her towel in the change room, even though she is wearing a swimsuit underneath it. This is another manifestation of her ACupAngst.

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* This trope is played for laughs in early ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', where Agatha's frequent bouts of sleep-working leave her in nothing but (relatively modest) Victorian-style underwear, but she [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030519 acts like she's been seen in the nude.]] Given the time period, it would be considered indecent by most European standards, so TruthInTelevision. Happens again at Sturmhalten, after she wakes up in a dress more revealing than her underwear—and thus more revealing than anything she's used to wearing—after having been mind-controlled.

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

** It's apparently the law. In one episode, Sandy is arrested for indecent exposure, even though she is wearing a bikini.
*** Which is odd, as we've seen many fish wearing only bikinis in public. Maybe they're just prejudiced against land creatures. Then again, she isn't otherwise seen as as nude with her fur (she has been seen without her suit outside of her treedome before), so it could be her fur was seen as clothing, thus, without it she was seen as nude.
*** The storyboards for the episode actually had Sandy get naked, [[DigitalBikini but censorship issues resulted in having her wear a bikini in the final episode]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In the short "Hare Tonic" Elmer strips down to take a shower, but [[NonNudeBathing is still wearing his underwear]].

* Discussed in a story from an ''ComicBook/{{Archie Comic|s}}''. Betty enters her living room in nothing but a towel and panics when she finds Archie there. When she comes back wearing a bathrobe and still stressed out, Archie points out that the robe she is wearing is the exact same material as the towel, covers even ''less'', and she is fine being seen in it.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'', Hilda and Zelda are subject to a FreakyFridayFlip. ''Both'' of them immediately look at their outfits, yelp, and cover themselves up as though they're naked. To be fair, Hilda's outfit is a bit more {{Stripperiffic}} than what Zelda typically wears (but is completely tame nonetheless), while Hilda-in-Zelda's-body irefuses to be seen in Zelda's less-fashionable clothing.

* One ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Family Album'' comic involves the unveiling of a statue of the founder of Duckburg. When the statue is revealed to show the founder as he was the day he founded Duckburg - in his undershirt and long trousers - everyone is as shocked as they would be if the statue showed the founder's genitalia. By contrast, the later reveal that the founder was actually wearing swimming tucks is met with no disgust at all.

* ''If These Walls Could Talk'' - Demi Moore's character, Claire, is a woman living in 1952, who wears a super thick robe that covers her from her jawline to her toes, with sleeves that reach her fingertips. At one point, Claire calls another character into her house because Claire cannot go outside because she's "not dressed." Later, Claire, wearing the same robe, is forced to chase another character outside of the front door, and is obviously embarrassed at being outside in her robe, looking around in paranoid fashion, and clutching the robe at the neckline so that only her hands and face show. However, Claire doesn't mind wearing a sexy nurse's outfit to work that shows her arms, legs, and collarbone.

* ''Film/EnemyOfTheState'' - A man strips down to his socks, boxer shorts, and tanktop-style undershirt, and considers this nude enough after finding numerous other tracking devices in his other clothing.

* The 1955 Creator/MarilynMonroe comedy ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'' has a plot point that can strike modern-day viewers this way due to ValuesDissonance. "The Girl" mentions to Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) that she recently appeared in a photo shoot for the ''U.S. Camera'' magazine called "Textures." Sherman gets out his family's copy of that issue and they look at the article together (which the audience is not allowed to see just yet), and the Girl remarks that the police had to be on hand during the photo session (which was on a public beach) because there was danger of a riot breaking out. From this context, we guess that the Girl must have been posing nude. Later on, however, when Sherman [[ItMakesSenseInContext goes to see his psychiatrist]], he brings along the magazine and shows it to the doctor - and, finally, to us. We learn that the crowd on the beach nearly rioted because the Girl was wearing...a white-and-red polka-dotted bikini swimsuit! [[note]] The bikini was actually ''demanded'' by the Catholic Legion of Decency, who were already threatening to slap a "C" ("condemned") rating on the film for its adultery innuendoes (meaning that all Catholic moviegoers would be committing a mortal sin by going to see it) and did not want audiences even ''thinking'' the Girl was nude. Of course, since the filmmakers ''knew'' they'd never get away with showing full nudity, [[FridgeBrilliance one has to wonder if]] [[CensorDecoy the bikini was their plan all along]]. [[/note]]

* ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce''--At one point the narrator meets a large retinue of Bright Ones (redeemed souls) and angels that he can't tell are nude or clothed because their auras are so bright that it's impossible to say whether they're nude and "clothed" with divine glory or clothed but their natural brightness shines through anyway.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' - In the episode "Junior Agent", Frasier and Kenny go to a steam room, wearing giant, blanket-like towels from slightly below the chest to slightly above the ankle. Junior Agent Portia storms in on them, and Kenny hides, exclaiming several times that he's naked.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls -'' Season 4, episode "Little Sister". Rose catches her visiting sister Holly being sexual with Blanche's boyfriend Gary and tries to tell Blanche and Dorothy, who've been charmed by Holly and refuse to believe Rose. Later, Blanche and Dorothy catch Holly and Gary together being sexual, and Gary is nude. Rose walks in. Gary hides his nudity, though he's wearing a long-sleeved, button-up white shirt and tie, like the kind that business people wear with their suits. Only no pants, just giant blue boxer shorts that go almost to his knees, and no one can even see a bulge, just a big expanse of thick, starched fabric. But he stands behind a tall chair to cover his crotch, though no bulge is visible, and the only skin that can be seen is his knees, hands, and head. But the scene is played as if he was completely nude. Holly was in a robe, and not considered nude by the others.

* ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' - In the episode "My Wild-Eyed Master" when Tony says that astronauts should have perfect vision, Jeannie blinks and gives him X-ray vision, which allows him to see through people's clothes. He sees Alfred Bellows in the nude, meaning a sleeveless shirt and large boxer shorts and even socks. Then, he sees a woman in the nude, meaning a one piece slip that looks like the type of summer dress girls wear these days. In what is probably an editing error, the slip then changes to a two-piece slip that only goes up from the knees to the waist, and the kind of bra that covers the whole ribcage like a tube top. Her belly button is not seen, as that was immoral on sitcoms at the time.

* ''Series/OneDayAtATime1975'' - In the 1977 episode "The Butterfields," Alice sees her husband, Hal, without his suit jacket and says, "You're undressed!" Hal then tries to cover up his nipples with his hands, despite that those nipples are still covered up by a fully-buttoned-up, long-sleeved suit shirt and tie.

* In the Creator/RudyardKipling story "In the Rukh"[[note]]a BroadStrokes sequel to ''Literature/TheJungleBook,'' but apparently written before[[/note]], several characters say that Mowgli is "naked" despite the fact that he wears a {{Loincloth}}. Of course, these characters are from either traditional-minded Muslims or Victorian Englishmen, so ValuesDissonance is in effect. Also, it's worth noting that in ''Literature/TheJungleBook,'' Mowgli ''is'' almost always naked.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' #24 makes a big deal about the fact that Jake sees Cassie in a bathing suit, which he's apparently never done before. Ignoring the apparent SeriesContinuityError[[note]]they went to a pool party together in the first ''Megamorphs'' book[[/note]], fans have noted that this is kind of silly when they regularly see each other in their [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper morphing outfits]], which consist of skintight clothes like leotards and bike shorts.

* This trope is played for laughs in early ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', where Agatha's frequent bouts of sleep-working leave her in nothing but (relatively modest) Victorian-style underwear, but she [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030519 acts like she's been seen in the nude]]. Given the time period, it would be considered indecent by most European standards, so TruthInTelevision. Happens again at Sturmhalten, after she wakes up in a dress more revealing than her underwear—and thus more revealing than anything she's used to wearing—after having been mind-controlled.
* In ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', Erica is working on her computer in underwear (a result of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Largo]] [[https://megatokyo.com/strip/918 explaining]] to Erica that you can't wear clothing when using high-end computer equipment, due to static discharge); when Kimiko hears that Piro is coming around she insists that Erika [[https://megatokyo.com/strip/916 change into a swimsuit]], which turns out to cover even less... ''and'' not be static-safe, as Largo points out as soon as he sees her.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive NP'''s ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' parody, Susan is baffled to realise that while ''she'' sees herself wearing underclothes, everyone else either [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/parable-113 doesn't see them]], or [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/parable-114 considers that to be naked anyway, because video game logic]].

** Marge's mother was once arrested for indecent exposure for wearing pants that showed her calves and ankles at the beach when she was younger.

* Happens twice in the direct-to-video sequel ''WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld''. When Pocahontas first arrives in England, a man is admonished by his wife not to look at Pocahontas as she's "hardly dressed." Later, when Pocahontas is being dressed to meet the king, John Rolfe becomes flustered when she, not realizing that the whole-body-concealing clothing she has on is only underwear, runs in to show him her outfit.

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/UnstoppableWasp'', Jarvis is shocked when Nadia opens the door to him dressed only in a large Pym Labs T-shirt, even though it hangs down well below her hips to minidress length and shows nothing.

* In the Creator/RudyardKiping story "In the Rukh"[[note]]a BroadStrokes sequel to ''Literature/TheJungleBook,'' but apparently written before[[/note]], several characters say that Mowgli is "naked" despite the fact that he wears a {{Loincloth}}. Of course, these characters are from either Muslims or Victorian Englishmen, so ValueDissonance is in effect. Also, it's worth noting that in ''Literature/TheJungleBook,'' Mowgli ''is'' almost always naked.

* In the first segment of the ''Ride/CarouselOfProgress'' show in the Ride/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. Certainly played for laughs.