History Main / GoneSwimmingClothesStolen

* In ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'', one of the twins does this to the other.

* This also happened in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' episode "Friar Tum", to a trio of monks that were taking a little swim in a nearby lake. The troll trio that the Gummis had outsmarted several times in the past were the ones who stole the monks' robes to disguise themselves.

* In ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', the seven spider ladies are bathing in a hot spring. Sun Wukong in the guise of a falcon steals their clothes, so they are forced to stay in the water until Zhu Bajie attacks them.

* A variation happens in ''Anime/MaicchinguMachikoSensei'' in a number of episodes. The title character goes swimming or skinny dipping and gets her suit and/or clothes stolen by her students... sometimes while she is still wearing them.
* Semi-example in ''Anime/MaiHime'', where the students go swimming, and someone steals the girls' underwear. [[spoiler:Actually, monsters did it.]]

* ''Fanfic/BackToTheFrollo'': While going for a swim, Frollo gets all his clothes (and his horse) stolen by a group of children led by an ex-lieutenant who wanted to get back at Frollo for firing him. [[DownplayedTrope Frollo's cape is spared, however.]]

* ''Fanfic/BackToTheFrollo'': While going for a swim, Frollo gets all his clothes (and his horse) stolen by a group of children led by an ex-lieutenant who wanted to get back at Frollo for firing him. Frollo's cape is spared, however.

* Thieves were a big problem at the Roman baths for exactly this reason. [[ValuesDissonance Not because the Romans were as paranoid about nudity as we are]], but because clothes were a ''lot more expensive'' back then. Even a simple laborer's tunic cost a decent amount, and the gods help any Roman who hadn't been able to ditch his toga at home before heading to the baths.[[note]]A toga was a semicircle of wool about 4-6 meters in diameter, so the garment was overall somewhere between 6 and 10 square meters of wool. A modern three-piece suit uses only about 4 square meters of wool. While much of the price of a suit is in the design and workmanship of designing a well-fitting suit, while a toga was pretty simple from a design perspective, the wool itself was a ''lot'' more expensive back then. Also, much as a modern suit is worn over a basic button-down shirt (which if bought from a fashionable supplier can easily cost ten times as much as a mass-market shirt of similar overall design), the toga was worn over a tunic (which if well-made would cost significantly more than a laborer's).[[/note]] At least many baths offered to sell cheap robes (at ridiculously inflated prices) to bathers whose clothes were stolen. (And perhaps not surprisingly, many of those baths also had thieves on their payroll....)

* Thieves were a big problem at the Roman baths for exactly this reason. [[ValuesDissonance Not because the Romans were as paranoid about nudity as we are]], but because clothes were a ''lot more expensive'' back then. Even a simple laborer's tunic cost a decent amount, and the gods help any Roman who hadn't been able to ditch his toga at home before heading to the baths.[[note]]A toga was a semicircle of wool about 4-6 meters in diameter, so the garment was overall somewhere between 6 and 10 square meters of wool. A modern three-piece suit uses only about 4 square meters of wool. While much of the price of a suit is in the design and workmanship of designing a well-fitting suit, while a toga was pretty simple from a design perspective, the wool itself was a ''lot'' more expensive back then.[[/note]] At least many baths offered to sell cheap robes (at ridiculously inflated prices) to bathers whose clothes were stolen. (And perhaps not surprisingly, many of those baths also had thieves on their payroll....)

* Thieves were a big problem at the Roman baths for exactly this reason. [[ValuesDissonance Not because the Romans were as paranoid about nudity as we are,]] but because clothes were a ''lot more expensive'' back then. At least many baths offered to sell cheap robes (at ridiculously inflated prices) to bathers whose clothes were stolen. (And perhaps not surprisingly, many of those baths also had thieves on their payroll....)

** Forget the barrel, aren't his clothes the result of his magic power? What would happen if he switched back to Batson and then back to Marvel?
** In the story he has to buy a suit. Not sure why he had to take off his clothes though. Couldn't he just dry them by flying really fast?
** And why are his clothes waving 'goodbye' on the cover?

* Roy once took Lanolin's [[FurIsClothing wool]] when she relaxed in the water in one ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' strip. To get back at him, she then took his feathers.

* Roy once did took Lanolin's [[FurIsClothing wool]] when she relaxed in the water in one ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' strip. To get back at him, she then took his feathers.

* Roy once did this to Lanolin in [[http://garfield.com/us-acres/2015-05-01 this]] ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' comic (rather than clothes, he took her wool fur). To get back at him, she then took his feathers.

In ''ComicBook/RawhideKid'' #49, [[MasterOfDisguise the Masquerader]] spies ComicBook/KidColt cleaning himself in a river and takes the opportunity to steal the outlaw's clothes to use as another disguise. When he gets to Willow Flats he dresses up as Colt, robs the payroll express and shoots the town's sheriff, Joseph Clay, the Rawhide Kid's brother.

* A variation in ''The Legacy of Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': [[https://www.dominic-deegan.com/comic/may-27-2020/ Snout visits a Mongreltown public shower]] to wash up after getting covered in garbage, but after finishing he finds his (admittedly patchwork and valueless) clothes aren't at the pickup. As Mongreltown has shades of being a WretchedHive, the apathetic staff take no responsibility for the missing clothing and won't even leave him the dignity of his ModestyTowel, forcing him to walk the streets with only [[HandOrObjectUnderwear his diary for cover]] for a bit.

* A variation in ''The Legacy of Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': [[https://www.dominic-deegan.com/comic/may-27-2020/ Snout visits a Mongreltown public shower]] to wash up after getting covered in garbage, but after finishing he finds his (admittedly patchwork and valueless) clothes aren't at the pickup. As Mongreltown has shades of being a WretchedHive, the apathetic staff take no responsibility for the missing clothing and won't even leave him the dignity of his ModestyTowel, forcing him to walk the streets with only [[HandOrObjectUnderwear his journal for cover]] for a bit.

* ''Series/TheFosters'': In the SeriesFinale "Where The Heart Is", Stef and Lena [[SkinnyDipping skinny dip]] and make out in the ocean next to a beachside resort at night. Unfortunately, their robes get picked up by a resort worker while they're ''busy'', so naturally ... it's NakedPeopleTrappedOutside.

* ''Manga/AyashiNoCeres'' has this as the whole backstory - Goddess wants revenge because a guy stole her celestial clothes while she wasn't watching. Granted, her rage is understandable since she's stuck on Earth until she gets it back. [[spoiler: The actual truth is an aversion, though ultimately tragic for both the goddess and the guy]].