History Main / GoneSwimmingClothesStolen

How distressing. After having taken a brief moment to unwind, the hero, his friends, his girlfriend(s) or a combination thereof decide to go skinny dipping. And wouldn't ya know it. Looks like somebody decided to steal their clothes. Various NakedPeopleAreFunny antics ensue as they try to get new clothing before their nakedness is exposed to all the world. Usually results in NakedPeopleTrappedOutside.

Can also be played from an opposite perspective: The main characters can steal other people's clothes in this manner. In any case, the thievery almost always works.

* The ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' novel ''My Enemy My Ally'' by DianeDuane has Kirk motivate Sulu to do some very ''creative'' combat maneuvers by threatening to tell a certain female lieutenant who swiped her clothing from poolside the month before.
* In {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Angua leaves her uniform in an alley while she snoops around in werewolf form. When she returns, she finds it's been stolen. Not the last time she's been caught in that position.

* Brandy does this to martin in an episode of ''Series/{{Benidorm}}''.

* Brandy does this to martin in an episode of ''Benidorm''.

* The JohnCleese film ''Romance With a Double Bass'' is based on this trope.

* A common theme in fairy tales involves a hero witness a group of ducks, swans, or other similar creatures "undress" from their skins and turn into beautiful women bathing in a pond. The hero will steal the skin of one of the women and only agree to give it back should she agree to follow/marry him. Occasionally, the bathers will be women from the start and the hero steals actual clothes rather than skin.
** As mentioned above, ''AyashinoCeres'' is based on the Japanese version of said tales.
* There is a joke about a master thief and his apprentice. As a test of skill the master orders his student to climb a tree and steal some eggs from the nest without disturbing the hen. The guy undresses, and climbs the tree but the hen hears him and takes alarm. The master decides to show top class, undresses, climbs the tree and steals the eggs. When he climbs down, both his student and his clothes are gone.

* In Hindu mythology, [[TricksterArchetype Krishna]], as a teenager, used to steal the clothes of milkmaids while they were bathing.

* One [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] cover involves the titular Captain dressed in a rain barrel yelling and shaking his fist at a punk who's stolen his outfit. See page image.

* In ''ShinMegamiTensei II'', if you avoid the lawful part you have to steal a bathing Fury's robe, since wearing it will mask your alignment and allow you to pass the Cherubs guarding the entrance to Eden. If you later on return it (a lengthy detour at this point), she will be thankful that you "found" her "lost" clothes and raise each of your stats by one.

* This is apparently a frequent problem for Chang on ''{{Community}}''.

* PatrickMcManus, in one of his books, tells a story involving a Boy Scout leader who not only went skinny dipping, but did so in extremely cold water. Predictably, the scouts steal his clothes. Possibly also predictably, he happens upon some ladies whilst in this position, and tries to ask them something, prefacing it with "Pardon my nudity, but..."

* At the end of ''CampNowhere'', Betty cons Walter into giving up his swimming trunks, out of revenge for attacking her with a Super Soaker earlier in the movie.

* In ''TheBurning'', Cropsy steals Karen's clothes while she and Eddy are SkinnyDipping. He scatters them in the woods and then kills her while she is collecting them.

* Semi-example in ''{{Mai-HiME}}'', where the students go swimming, and someone steals the girls' underwear. [[spoiler:Actually, monsters did it.]]

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* In the 1970 Swedish PippiLongstocking movie ''Pippi on the Run,'' Pippi, Tommy and Annika go swimming, and some cows come along and ''eat'' Tommy and Annika's clothes, forcing them to dress in old sacks until they can get new ones. Pippi, however, escapes the trope entirely because she [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} always goes swimming fully-clothed.]]

* One ''EncyclopediaBrown'' story was Brown solving the case of who stole a boy's clothes, leaving him naked in the woods.

* In ''StTrinians'', the other girls steal Annabelle's clothes while she is showering and then stream video of her running naked through the corridors onto the internet.

* In ''Hair'', Claude and Donna's clothes vanish after a swim in the lake. Cue the taxi screeching to a halt to let her in.

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* In ''InuYasha'', Kagome's clothes are stolen by a monkey while she bathes. Technically she isn't naked (she's wearing a swim suit), but [[FullyClothedNudity still acts as if she is]], going so far as to hide in a bush when confronting the owner of the monkey for her clothes back.
** The Sengoku Era doesn't justify it, as pre-WWII Japanese simply took off their kimonos to swim or wash, and nakedness wasn't anything unusual or embarrassing. So the scene emphasises the difference between Kagome's modern and Westernised world and the Sengoku Jidai. She probably comes off as pretty fussy to the locals.
* In ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', Ranma, who is currently stuck as a girl, spies Herb bathing in an onsen. Feeling particularly vindictive (Herb DID humiliate her in battle and locked her as a female), Ranma steals her clothes and taunts her about it. Cue the [[BattleAura ki-bolt]] to the face.
* It is done to Lemnear in the first chapter to the ''{{Legend of Lemnear}}'' 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.
* Semi-example in ''{{Mai-HiME}}'', where the students go swimming, and someone steals the girls' underwear. [[spoiler:Actually, monsters did it.]]
* This happens to Goku in a {{filler}} episode of ''DragonBall''.
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* ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'': There are at least two storylines that begin with the Phantom's clothes being stolen while he's swimming in a river. In both cases, the problem is not naked antics, but rather what the person who stole the clothes [[CostumeCopycat does with them]].

* ''ThePhantom'': There are at least two storylines that begin with the Phantom's clothes being stolen while he's swimming in a river. In both cases, the problem is not naked antics, but rather what the person who stole the clothes [[CostumeCopycat does with them]].

* The ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' novel ''My Enemy My Ally'' by Diane Duane has Kirk motivate Sulu to do some very ''creative'' combat maneuvers by threatening to tell a certain female lieutenant who swiped her clothing from poolside the month before.