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| 10 | [[caption-width-right:235:The dress that launched an [[Website/{{Google}} image search engine]].]] |
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| 12 | ->"''You know what's holdin' that dress up, doncha? A city ordinance!''" |
| 13 | -->-- '''Red Skelton''' |
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| 15 | There are low-cut outfits... and then there is the Navel-Deep Neckline. This is when a dress or top is specifically cut to show the entirety of the wearer's cleavage and the top half of her stomach... or the bottom half if they really want to court tabloid immortality. Since it would only take one careless movement to [[WardrobeMalfunction cross the line of decency]], these are bravura costumes; they hold the viewers' attention not only with their daring but the [[TheissTitillationTheory very real possibility of an embarrassing slip-up]]. |
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| 17 | A SpyCatsuit is frequently [[ZipMeUp one zipper away]] from this {{trope}}. Slightly justified in that, if you're dumb enough to wear a tight-fitting catsuit on a spy mission, unzipping the front will give you a lot more mobility in the arms and shoulders. |
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| 19 | There may be a visible bra underneath, and sometimes there is an invisible one,[[note]]There are special bras that create this look without getting in the way: either "plunge bras" where the central wire is bent in a deep "U" shape down to the navel, or ones consisting of adhesive cups with no bands.[[/note]] but [[VaporWear generally there isn't]]. In any kind of real-world or live-action context, the latter case generally requires some form of adhesive to avoid a WardrobeMalfunction. |
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| 21 | A Navel-Deep Neckline can also be the unintentional result of a Wardrobe Malfunction. This can be PlayedForLaughs or for FanService or both, and is quite common in RealLife as well (where it is much appreciated by {{Paparazzi}}). |
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| 23 | Compare {{Sideboob}}, {{Underboobs}}, ImpossiblyLowNeckline, CleavageWindow. Any woman who ends up in an outfit like this is probably MsFanservice. A ''man'' who wears an outfit like this is going for a semi-ShirtlessScene and perhaps showing off his CarpetOfVirility; see also NoShirtLongJacket. |
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| 26 | !!Examples |
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| 32 | %%[[folder:Advertising]] |
| 33 | %%* The female characters in Advertising/{{Orangina}} feature both this and {{Sideboob}}. |
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| 36 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 37 | * ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': The elf queen speaks with the other leaders in Chapter 82 wearing a cape-like dress with the front wide open. Even though it's a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt very serious meeting]], one of the gnomes is seen thinking, "[[LampshadeHanging That's quite an outfit]]." |
| 38 | * ''Manga/GingaTeikokuKouboushi'': ''Volume 2: Foundation'': Commdora Licia wears a body-length black dress that displays a cleavage down to her midsection, with a cut along the side of her left leg that goes up nearly to the same point. The dress, thin body, and pointy shoulder/ear accessories are there to contrast against her fat bald husband, the Commdor. |
| 39 | %%* ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'': Ikaros's default angeloid uniform has this, along with Astraea and [[spoiler: Hiyori Kazane and most of the second generation angeloids]]. |
| 40 | %%* ''Anime/HeroicAge'': Nilval Nephew and Prome O. Prome's outfit is almost certainly reliant on BarbieDollAnatomy to avoid indecency. |
| 41 | %%* Early ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' villain Yura of the Hair makes use of this trope. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has some male examples: |
| 43 | ** Noriaki Kakyoin from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' is seen wearing pajamas in some scenes, and they expose a good portion of his chest. |
| 44 | ** Ringo Roadagain from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' wears an unbuttoned white jacket that causes him to show off a good portion of his chest. |
| 45 | * ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'': A male example: [[DudeLooksLikeALady Brera]] [[ViewerGenderConfusion Sterne]], whose outfit has a ''gaping hole'' from the collarbone to as low beneath the abdomen as one could possibly get without something popping out. |
| 46 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Yaoyorozu's hero outfit has a plunging neckline that nearly reaches her waist. In this case, it's justified because her power is to generate objects from her skin, and so designed her outfit to reveal as much skin as possible without being completely indecent. Mind you, Momo is currently 16, making this trope uncomfortable for some people. |
| 47 | * In ''Manga/{{NEEDLESS}}'', Riru has absolute cleavage so absolute that there is barely anything covering her boobs at all. |
| 48 | %%* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has Princess Theodora, who somehow manages to have both this ''and'' {{Underboobs}} on the same outfit. |
| 49 | %%* ''Manga/NoGunsLife'': Most of the female cast. |
| 50 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': In Chapter 664, [[spoiler: during his FreakyFridayFlip with Tashigi, Vice Admiral Smoker retains his habit of wearing his shirts open, much to Tashigi's annoyance]]. It has to be seen to be believed. |
| 51 | %% ** Boa Hancock's outfits tend to fit this trope. |
| 52 | * Princess Kraehe of ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has a dance outfit that [[ExaggeratedTrope really takes this to its logical extreme]]. Her bodice is entirely backless and sideless, with two narrow strips of black fabric rising from the waistline to cover her boobs. Now quick, without knowing another thing about her or her design, would you suppose [[SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains she was a villain]]? |
| 53 | %%* Risty from ''Anime/QueensBlade'' gains this after doing an EvilMakeover to the point where the only thing holding it on has to be magic. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': In ''"Nihao My Concubine"'', the girls get kidnapped and taken to the island of Togenkyo. But as Nabiki and Ukyo explain, instead of being treated as hostages, the guards treated them like royalty and even let them choose their own gowns. Nabiki and Ukyo's parted down the middle and had split seams showing plenty of leg. |
| 55 | %%* Adelheid Suzuki from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' has this after activating her Simon Ring. |
| 56 | %%* Pirotess in ''Literature/RecordOfLodossWar''. |
| 57 | * Pretty much all of the female characters in ''Anime/RioRainbowGate'' wear skimpy outfits. However, it is the main villain, Cartia, that walks around with not only the biggest breasts but a dress that showcases most of her cleavage. |
| 58 | %%* Kaolinite from ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' sports one of these. Queen Beryl and Sailor Aluminum Siren as well. |
| 59 | * [[GenderFlip Merlin]] from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' wears a long coat that is completely open and only covers a portion of her topless breasts. |
| 60 | %%* Kyo Komachi of ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'' wears a [[PimpedOutCape lavish]] [[NoShirtLongJacket pirate coat]] as a top with only a belt to keep it closed. |
| 61 | * Kureha from ''Manga/{{Tokko}}''. Her standard outfit is an [[NoShirtLongJacket unzipped leather jacket]] with no shirt or bra underneath. Also counts as the top version of a MagicSkirt, since any forward movement should by rights blow it open. |
| 62 | %%* ''Literature/TrinityBlood'': Sister Monica Argento. Apparently, in the post-apocalyptic vampire world, the dress code for [[NaughtyNun nuns]] has loosened somewhat. |
| 63 | %%* In ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Oyuki usually sports a white Kimono, but for informal events, she'll often take it off revealing an orange Absolute Cleavage swimsuit-type outfit. |
| 64 | * Jura in ''Anime/{{VanDread}}'' wears a slinky black dress that’s open to well below her navel, with the skirt split up to her waist on the left side. |
| 65 | %%* Sprocket from the ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'' anime kept featuring this, despite how often she'd try to zip her suit up. |
| 66 | * Mai from the manga version of ''Manga/YuGiOh'' wears a corset top with a gap in the front held together by laces. In [[Anime/YuGiOh the anime]] it's less revealing, though. |
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| 69 | [[folder:Comics]] |
| 70 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'': |
| 71 | ** ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} frequently wears very low v-necks or catsuits unzipped to her waistline. During her time as the "Kingpin of Gotham" she seemed to wear such outfits almost exclusively. |
| 72 | ** ComicBook/{{Starfire}}. Most versions of her costume are sling swimsuits with boots. |
| 73 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'': Donna Troy's v-necked black ensemble is often drawn with an incredibly low cleavage-revealing neckline, though it was originally much more modest like the v-neck of her red jumpsuit. This is probably the reason her outfit was changed to a sleeveless turtleneck instead. |
| 74 | ** ''ComicBook/{{The Warlord|DCComics}}'': Jennifer Morgan's sorceress outfit has a neckline that plunges to her navel and a skirt that is slit to her hip. |
| 75 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 76 | *** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]]: The second ComicBook/{{Cheetah}}, Deborah Domaine, wore a cheetah print bodysuit with a v-neck that terminated at her navel. |
| 77 | *** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': One of Circe's favorite outfits is [[https://dccontinuityproject.weebly.com/uploads/5/4/5/1/54516433/428724504_orig.jpg a slinky green dress with a v neck the lowest point of which is level with her hips and is slung with thin gold chains across the opening]]. |
| 78 | ** The more TotallyRadical versions of ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'s costume include a v-neck that ends at his sternum or below to show off his pecs. |
| 79 | ** ComicBook/{{Vixen}} from the ''ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}''. Vixen’s costume has changed with the times but her most famous outfit is a yellow/orange body suit with long cleavage. |
| 80 | ** The memorably skimpy costume of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] heroine Comicbook/PhantomLady includes an opening down the middle of the flimsy top that shows off her cleavage and stomach, with the two sides only coming together at her belt. |
| 81 | ** ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': |
| 82 | *** Dawnstar usually wears a yellow bodysuit that shows much cleavage by way of a neckline that plunges below her breasts. |
| 83 | *** Mike Grell's design for ComicBook/CosmicBoy's outfit is essentially two very wide pieces of black tape that start at his nipples and go down to his matching UnderwearOfPower, leaving the center strip down his torso bare to his hips. |
| 84 | %%*** Princess Projectra and Phantom Girl, with the latter also offering up a CleavageWindow. |
| 85 | ** Livewire's usual design from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' has her wearing a leotard with a deep plunging neckline in the shape of a lightning bolt. |
| 86 | %%** ComicBook/PlasticMan and ComicBook/{{Vibe}} are among the few male examples. |
| 87 | %%* ''ComicBook/LongAgoAndFarAway'': The evil Witch-Queen Nexis' outfit leaves little to the imagination. |
| 88 | * Franchise/MarvelUniverse: |
| 89 | ** ComicBook/BlackCat. After years of poorly defined powers she, like most comic book Heroines/Villainesses, acquired the MostCommonSuperPower. Naturally, this renders her [[SpyCatsuit Cat-Suit]] [[ZipMeUp unzippable]] above the navel (that is, when she's drawn by Terry Dodson). When Tommy Ohtsuka drew her in the Manga/MarvelMangaverse, the zipper (if there even was one) rests eight centimeters ''below'' the belly button. |
| 90 | ** Dagger of the duo Comicbook/CloakAndDagger has a CleavageWindow in the shape of a dagger, the "blade" of which extends down to just past her belly button. |
| 91 | %%** Aleta from the ''Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' wore a similar outfit throughout most of the run of the series. |
| 92 | ** When ComicBook/EmmaFrost first joined the Comicbook/XMen, her costume was an unholy mix of cleavage and ImpossiblyLowNeckline reaching down to her navel, due to being a few strategically-placed scraps of clothing that formed a reverse "X" with her exposed skin. |
| 93 | ** Lampshaded when Firestar joined Comicbook/TheAvengers. [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/11352/1198583-4_20_2010_6_45_44_pm.jpg She was utterly mortified]] upon seeing the [[ImpossiblyLowNeckline revealing new costume]] Comicbook/TheWasp designed for her, and stated that she could barely fit into it. |
| 94 | *** This lampshading was a wink and a nod to fan reaction to some preview art that first showed the costume. Fans immediately thought the costume was uncharacteristic for Firestar, who had always been shown as modest and a bit self-conscious about her appearance. Subsequently the gag panel linked was added to the story, and Firestar modified the costume by wearing a red turtleneck underneath. |
| 95 | ** Offset of the Shi'ar death commandoes from Comicbook/XMen has metal armor (if it could be called that) that is made of plates of metal that only barely covers just the nipples and a thin strip beneath them, joining just a few inches above her...well, her hoo-ha. The rest of her torso and back is bare and it forms a thong...of metal...ouch (but her arms and legs are strangely covered) so this could also count as a boob plate and is just a few pieces of metal away from being a ChainmailBikini. |
| 96 | %%** Lady Lotus from the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII book ''ComicBook/{{The Invaders|MarvelComics}}''. |
| 97 | %%** The attire of Bêlit, the she-pirate that accompanies Conan in several stories from Marvel's ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian''. |
| 98 | %%** When she still had Red She-Hulk power, Betty Ross from ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' wore a black leather suit that exposes her cleavage. |
| 99 | %%** The ComicBook/BlackWidow was often drawn as having this in the early 2010s. It's been toned down since. |
| 100 | %%* The [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] -- later revived by Eclipse Comics -- series ''ComicBook/{{Airboy}}'' included former villainess Valkyrie. |
| 101 | * ''Comicbook/TheBoys'': After discovering that the Seven are super-pricks, their newest member Starlight is told that their corporate sponsors are redesigning her much-less-revealing outfit into this while Homelander ''draws the new neckline on her current costume'' with a Sharpie. ''While she's wearing it.'' Doubly creepy because the Homelander, among others, had recruited her via the CastingCouch. |
| 102 | * ''ComicBook/SatansHollow'': The Devil's Queen is mostly covered by exoskeleton-type armor, except for her front, which has most of her body exposed from her clavicle down to her pelvis. |
| 103 | * In ''ComicBook/LadyRawhide: Other People's Blood'', PirateGirl Scarlet Fever wears a yellow silk shirt that is open all the way down the front and knotted at her navel. |
| 104 | * ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': Especially in the later strips, Modesty frequently wears dresses with cleavage down to her navel, or has unbuttoned or unzipped her top down to her waist, sometimes with her trademark black bra underneath but usually (at least in the cases where the look is deliberate) without a bra. |
| 105 | * [=JumpStart=] in ''ComicBook/{{Wildstar}}'' wears an outfit that's open all the way down to her crotch. |
| 106 | [[/folder]] |
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| 108 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 109 | * ''Fanfic/DuranAndKiyohimesOmakeTheater'': Shizuru, quite deliberately, in Chapter 120. She's attempting to invoke IntimacyViaHorror to cuddle Natsuki in her "skimpiest nightgown". |
| 110 | --> ''It was, admittedly, difficult to watch the television when her face was covered with her girlfriend's bosom, which was both significant and underdressed.'' |
| 111 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4753440/12/Harry-Potter-and-the-Four-Founders Harry Potter and the Four Founders]]'': |
| 112 | -->'''Neville''': I noticed Lavender's dress too.\ |
| 113 | '''Ron''': Yeah, that was a nice dress.\ |
| 114 | '''Neville''': Didn't know they made dresses with bodice lines that low.\ |
| 115 | '''Ron''': Almost see her navel, I could. |
| 116 | * ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': Maia's outfit from the original version is [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to be identical to that of ''Kuroinu'' canon, being a red tunic cut to show her cleavage and her stomach. |
| 117 | * ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls'': New Jersey's default outfit is a dress with a neckline plunging to her waist. |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
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| 120 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 121 | * At one point in ''Film/AprilFoolsDay'', Nikki leans out of her window wearing nothing but panties and a shirt that is completely unbuttoned. |
| 122 | * ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. The dresses that Valenka, the DarkMistress of the BigBad, wears are so skimpy that her nipples are the only thing not showing. |
| 123 | * ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': That one gown Lisle wears, the one held together by one sole button in front of her crotch. And this is just about the largest and least revealing piece of clothing she is seen in throughout the movie. |
| 124 | * In the 1972 version of ''Film/TheGetaway'', Ali [=MacGraw=] wears a blouse cut down right to the navel - it doesn't even have any buttons - when she goes to see the SleazyPolitician. [[LampshadeHanging Subtly remarked upon]] by two men in the waiting room to his office. |
| 125 | * In one scene in the [[PornWithPlot softcore film]] ''Girl for Girl'', Sara (Tracy Ryan) [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl wears]] only panties and an unbuttoned shirt. |
| 126 | * In ''Film/HorribleBosses'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCuD1ZPhoho Dr. Julia Harris]] [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl wears]] an unbuttoned lab coat with [[VaporWear nothing underneath]]. |
| 127 | %% * ''Film/Legend1985'': Lili's gown after her transformation. |
| 128 | * ''Film/ModestyBlaise'': In order to avoid the pursuing bad guys, Modesty impersonates a prostitute by pulling down the zipper of her catsuit to below her navel. She is not wearing anything underneath. |
| 129 | * ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' has Paloma (Creator/AnaDeArmas) wearing [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/28/ba/0028bac1021ca634c2317c0dc7419f30.jpg a very-low cut dress]] that almost reaches her navel. It's also [[SexyBacklessOutfit backless]]. [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery And she goes to town wearing it, from flying kicks to going]] GunsAkimbo. |
| 130 | * ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet2013'': The handsome romantic lead, Romeo, is introduced sculpting away at some marble while wearing a billowing white shirt that's open all the way to his pants. |
| 131 | * In ''Film/Revenge2017'', the skimpy dress that Jen wears to Richard's party with his buddies has a neckline that plunges almost to her navel. |
| 132 | * ''Film/SpiritsOfTheDead'': One of the many many sexy outfits that MsFanservice Frederique (Creator/JaneFonda) wears is what's basically a swimming suit that is cut in the front down past her navel. |
| 133 | * ''Film/TheresaAndAllison'': Paisley wears an outfit which shows her cleavage and stomach. |
| 134 | * In ''Film/Transylvania65000'', Odette (Creator/GeenaDavis) wears a leotard (seemingly based on ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'s) with a plunging neckline that dips to her navel. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 138 | * "Dear, do you think this dress' cleavage goes too low?" "Do you have hair on your chest?" "Of course not!" "Then it's too low." |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 142 | * ''Literature/ADealWithADemon'': In the cover of ''The Gargoyle's Captive'', Grace is shown with a dress whose cleavage goes all the way below her belly button. |
| 143 | * ''Literature/{{Ravirn}}'': Downplayed in ''[=WebMage=]''. When first seen, Cerice's outfit is described as a gown that "was very low cut, but a half-jacket prevented it from being indecent." |
| 144 | * ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': |
| 145 | ** {{Downplayed}} with Headmistress Esmeralda, who customarily wears a wide-skirted blue dress with a close-fitted halter-style bodice. The neckline isn't quite cut to her navel and is closed at her bust, but has another opening showing some underboob and a sheer panel that exposes her navel in some images. |
| 146 | ** Ophelia Salvadori, in keeping with her image as TheVamp, wears a long slinky purple gown with a cutout below the bustline that exposes her navel. {{Justified|Trope}}, as her signature magic "births" the chimeras she grows and stores in her womb: they emerge through her belly. |
| 147 | * In ''Literature/Twilight2005'', Rosalie's prom dress has a neckline down to her waist. |
| 148 | -->Her vivid scarlet dress was [[SexyBacklessOutfit backless]], tight to her calves where it flared into a wide ruffled train, with a neckline that plunged to her waist. |
| 149 | * A [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] in the ''Literature/VillageTales'' series, SupremeChef Teddy "The Hipster Chef" Gates, outside the kitchen, can hardly manage one shirt button. Which is [[InsatiableNewlyweds just fine]] with his husband, retired Premier Leaguer turned activist Edmond Huskisson. |
| 150 | * ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', being rife with CostumePorn, often mentions this. In particular, the narration often comments that a woman looks like she's "about to pop out of her dress". |
| 151 | * In Roger Hall's ''You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger!'' he mentions a notary public who wore a dress so low-cut that one of his buddies referred to it as an "Umbilical Special." |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 155 | * ''Series/CoronationStreet'': Bet enters a pub wearing a dress with cleavage all the way down to her waist, with a black bra underneath. Thich makes the patrons stare at her in various combinations of shock and appreciation. It turns out the dress is supposed to have a bare ''back'' but she is wearing it backwards. [[https://youtu.be/Ujam6LG1pkc "Bet‼️ You've got it on back—to—front!"]] |
| 156 | * ''Series/ControlZ'': Rosa wears a dress which displays this for the last episode's party, as do other girls. |
| 157 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Many of Stella's outfits highlight her cleavage, but in episode 4.03, "You Only Die Once," she wears a scintillating black dress that drops all the way to the top of her stomach. |
| 158 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Commandant Mele-on Grayza's standard outfit includes a neckline that ends somewhere around her navel. The outfit earns her the nickname "Commandant Cleavage" from John Crichton. |
| 159 | * The page image is Creator/JenniferLopez and the green Versace dress she wore to the 2000 Grammy Awards, with its neckline plunging past her navel. The dress sent so many people to Website/{{Google}} looking for pictures of it, the site released a new feature for searching just for images. And that's how Google Images was born. |
| 160 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self]]", when Lestat de Lioncourt attempts to make amends to his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac after an argument, the former's robe is almost fully open, so much of his well-built torso is exposed. He presumably does this to try to tempt Louis into having sex with him. |
| 161 | * ''Series/LostGirl'': In the first scene of the first episode, Bo (who is tending the bar at a posh hotel) wears a black shirt that is unbuttoned way below her breasts, with a black bra underneath. |
| 162 | * ''Series/ManhattanLoveStory'': Normally conservative Dana wears a surprisingly revealing dress to a frenemy's wedding, looking more like extra-wide suspenders than anything else. |
| 163 | * Unsurprisingly, ''Series/{{Manswers}}'' once asked how skimpily a woman can dress before she's legally naked. The absolute limit consisted of two vertical ribbons in front and one slender thong in back; the ribbons' elongated-vee arrangement constituted this trope. Specifically, the garment (such that it exists) must completely cover the nipple and areola, as well as completely cover the vulva and anus, plus pubic hair. Less/no hair, technically less fabric needed. |
| 164 | * ''Series/RelicHunter'': In "Transformation", the heroes search the female villain, Turley, for a wire and find it hidden in her bra. Naturally, this requires unbuttoning her shirt, but she doesn't bother buttoning it again and spends the rest of the episode with her shirt open down to her navel. |
| 165 | * ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' has an accidental example in a scene where Jane is sitting in her bathrobe, discussing with Maura what to wear to a party, and doesn't notice that her robe has fallen open to her waist (she is wearing a bra underneath). |
| 166 | * On ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'', Morgan le Fay always wears gowns with cleavage that go below the breasts. After all, she is a HotWitch who runs her own tech business, and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelcinematicuniverse/images/2/27/R306_-_4556887.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/800?cb=20200107094805 using those dresses in ads]] [[SexSells is totally justifiable]]. |
| 167 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOzAiDlJGp8 this]] ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit, Andy Samberg and Ben Stiller compete with increasingly outlandish and low-cut V-necks. |
| 168 | * ''Series/TidelandsNetflix'': Adrielle often wears dresses showing her navel or near there and thus also a lot of her breasts. |
| 169 | [[/folder]] |
| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 172 | * Music/DavidBowie: The UK cover for ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' features Bowie in a tailor-made satin dress, the upper area of which is unbuttoned to bare his chest and upper abdomen, tying in with his longtime affinity for playing around with gender norms. |
| 173 | * Cristina Scabbia of Music/LacunaCoil: |
| 174 | ** In a [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/b0/9d/d8b09dd2ae8b49187ee55f954f8bda5f.jpg Halloween photo shoot]] from 2017, she poses as a [[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily Morticia Addams]]-like vamp, wearing a dress with cleavage that goes down to her navel and exposes most of her chest (though she’s wearing a bra that covers her breasts) and stomach. |
| 175 | ** In one of her many cover images from "Kerrang!", she wears a white dress shirt unbuttoned so far that you can see not only her black bra, but also part of her bare belly. |
| 176 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, has Dion in [[SpyCatsuit tight metallic coveralls]] with the zipper down to her abdomen. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/JinniZeala'' features a male example, as Zeala has a shirt that is open from the collarbone all the way down to his waistline. |
| 181 | * The {{Evil Sorcere|r}}ss of ''VideoGame/RuinerPinball'' wears a bustier to emphasize her cleavage... which is then cut down to her navel for further emphasis. |
| 182 | * The female warriors of ''Pinball/LaserWar'' wear breast-separating jumpsuits that leave their centers exposed. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Print Media]] |
| 186 | * Creator/KimCattrall appears on the cover of the April 2003 issue of ''FHM'' wearing only a pair of [[BlackBraandPanties black panties]] and a white dress shirt that's totally unbuttoned. Some variation on this is very common in most men's magazines, and even many women's as well, though the men's are more openly fanservice-y. |
| 187 | * ''Magazine/{{Humorama}}'': Many of the women in the gag cartoons showed off lots of cleavage. When not wearing {{Stripperiffic}} outfits, many wore low cut tops and [[SexySweaterGirl tight-fitting sweaters]]. |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 191 | * ''VideoGame/{{Echocalypse}}'' Kiki, who was already showing a lot of her skin, has the neckline of her outfit extend from her cleavage to past her navel which is more apparent in an artwork featuring her lying down in front of Raeon and Pan Pan. |
| 192 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': |
| 193 | ** The Daedric Lords Azura and Nocturnal both wear robes split from shoulders to navel. While Azura is only depicted through statues, Nocturnal appears in person (if you complete the Thieves' Guild questline). Her robes are unobtainable barring console commands. |
| 194 | ** Ancient Nord Armor, when worn on females (Aela the Huntress has a set as her default), is comprised of a deep-V halter-top and [[SexyBacklessOutfit no back]] (or [[{{Sideboob}} sides for that matter]]). |
| 195 | ** For FanDisservice, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Draugr]] who were female in life wear this armor. |
| 196 | ** The female version of Hide Armor also has cleavage that extends to their stomach. |
| 197 | * ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': |
| 198 | ** Artemis' strapless white dress showing her cleavage in her first two forms is probably one of the more striking aspects of her design. In stages 3 & 4, as well as when she uses her Noble Phantasm, she switches it for a skimpier red dress that shows her cleavage all the way past her navel. |
| 199 | ** Saint Martha has a cross-shaped cutout in all of her outfits for her Rider form, which shows her cleavage and plunges all the way down to her navel. |
| 200 | ** Napoleon Bonaparte provides a RareMaleExample in his first form, where his shirt and vest are both unbuttoned to halfway down his chest to show off his muscular torso. He does button them up in later forms, and one of his Ascension comments is how [[LampshadeHanging that kind of look is best left to the ladies anyway]]. |
| 201 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'': The UsefulNotes/NintendoDS remake added Nagi, the avatar of the Divine Dragon (see ''Awakening'' below). In her human form, her dress has a large strip going down the middle made of transparent material; so it covers her chest completely, while still showing everything between her neck and her navel. |
| 202 | * ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'': Mommy Mearest's SexySantaDress in Week 5 exposes her cleavage from her neck to her stomach. |
| 203 | * Zyra, the Rise of Thorns from ''Franchise/LeagueOfLegends'' is "dressed" only in an arrangement of large leaves which expose her torso all the way down the middle of her body to below her navel. [[FridgeLogic However, this raises the question of why she even HAS a navel, considering]] [[WhenTreesAttack she's actually a plant who constructed herself a humanoid body to live in.]] Nami's default skin is also a textbook example of this. |
| 204 | * A rare male example but one of the DLC costumes for Rean in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'' has him wearing a long coat that's buttoned right at his stomach, leaving a large V. |
| 205 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', Mineru's outfit is two halves of a corset [[VaporWear that don't meet in the middle]], meaning Mineru's neckline goes all the way to her legs. The only thing covering her modesty is a loosely-hanging loincloth. |
| 206 | * ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey'''s Ming has a leather corset-thing under a cropped top that features a wide expanse of her cleavage almost down to her navel. How her cleavage doesn't pop right out is a mystery. We even get a cutscene that could be an excuse for a closer look. |
| 207 | * In ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'', the devil's daughter Satana runs around in a halter-top outfit that shows cleavage from her neck to her navel. |
| 208 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'', Kitana, Jade, ''and'' Mileena wore an outfit consisting of a leotard with two sides held in place by straps across the bust. |
| 209 | * The fan-made ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' module "Aribeth's Redemption" includes an item (female characters only, not that you are allowed to play one) entitled the "Armor of Impossible Cleavage." It consists of an ordinary suit of gold chainmail with a foot-wide strip of nothing down the entire torso. The person who wears it is a priestess of the setting's goddess of physical beauty and sex. |
| 210 | * ''VideoGame/RedNinjaEndOfHonor'': the titular kunoichi, Kurenai, is almost naked under her red robe that's completely open at the top and goes to her stomach just above her brown obi. The cover of the game shows just how much she's flashing. |
| 211 | * In the first ''VideoGame/{{Risen}}'', [[PirateGirl Patty Steelbeard]] wears a cleavage and midriff-bearing vest. |
| 212 | * ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses'' has Rowdy Reiko after the ProudWarriorRace [[ActionGirl Girl]]'s FaceHeelTurn has cleavage almost down to her crotch. |
| 213 | * In ''Videogame/SenranKagura'', [[KickChick Katsuragi]] wears a completely unbuttoned shirt that somehow manages to cover up her lady-bits as she's kicking people. |
| 214 | * ''VideoGame/SuperOffRoad'': The woman standing by the third-place racer on the podium dons a one-piece attire that bares her cleavage and goes straight down beneath her navel. |
| 215 | * ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this when [[ActionGirl Ves]], who wears a ''very'' open silk shirt beneath an undone padded jack with little bits and bobs of plate here and there, gets chewed out for rushing into combat by her superior officer [[ColonelBadass Vernon Roche]] without any proper armor. |
| 216 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': |
| 217 | ** Many armor pieces have necklines that extend down to the navel or even further. Sometimes this is only true for the female version, while the male versions are more modest. Even though all female player characters wear bras when "naked", the bra magically disappears as soon as they put on a top. |
| 218 | ** Some cloth chest armor is in the form of jackets or vests that are open in front, only held together by straps in a way that lets the region between the wearer's breasts as well as a strip of their stomach show through. This [[http://www.wowhead.com/item=2582/green-woolen-vest tailor-craftable low-level item]] doesn't even have anything holding it closed. |
| 219 | ** In the matriarchal night elf society, both men and women show off their bodies to display their power. One aspect of this is that, at least in vanilla and the earlier expansions, almost all female night elf [=NPC=]s wear tops with cleavage down to their navel (or lower) and no bra, the exception being those wearing full armor (though even some plate armor has low necklines). Later expansions tone this down, with more "normal" tops for the female [=NPCs=]. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Visual Novel]] |
| 223 | * ''VisualNovel/MajorMinor'' gives us Dazz, a female wolf who wears an open coat top with no undershirt, but somehow manages to keep it positioned so it doesn't slip. No wonder Acheron was [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted by her]]. |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 227 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Agatha briefly appears in a mostly unbuttoned white shirt that shows her ample cleavage when she wakes up after the events in Sturmhalten. |
| 228 | * ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Referenced in the second-to-last panel of [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-770-reactions-are-mixed/ "Grrl Power #770 – Reactions are… mixed"]], with a magazine cover showing a woman with a neckline that goes all the way to her belt, and the only other thing covering that area are two thin straps that presumably are to hold the left and right sides of her suit to her body. The caption is: |
| 229 | --> Decolletage: Full-V or high and tight |
| 230 | * ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': General [[spoiler:Zaid]]'s casual outfit includes a long-sleeved shirt worn unbuttoned to the waist, showing off [[TookALevelInBadass the muscle he's put on]] over the TimeSkip. |
| 231 | * ''Webcomic/TwistedTropes'': [[Franchise/GIJoe Destro asks the Baroness]] if the cleavage is too revealing, then clarifies he means his. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 235 | * On ''Miami T.V.'' this is Jenny Scordamaglia's trademark. She leaves her [[VaporWear blouse totally unbuttoned]] and closes it by tying the bottom front into a knot. |
| 236 | * In Website/{{Pixiv}} community, this is denoted as "下ろしチャック" [[note]]Zipped down[[/note]]. The tag is for characters wearing zipped down catsuits which show both their chests and stomach. |
| 237 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Valley Girl of the West Coast League was seen in "a shimmering purple ‘fuck me senseless’ minidress with a V neckline that came all the way down to her solar plexus.", as reported in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/9-original-canon/177-ayla-and-the-grinch-a-christmas-story Ayla and the Grinch (A Christmas Story)]]. |
| 238 | ** [[BeleagueredAssistant Greasy]] once derails a ranting [[CasanovaWannabe Peeper]] by telling him that [[MostCommonSuperpower Attributes']] new costume has a neckline which "goes down to about ''here''." The ever-classy Peeper immediately asks if she needs to give herself a Brazilian wax in order to wear it, and demands pictures.[[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/178-combat-boot]] |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 242 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Molotov Cocktease's SensualSpandex assassin outfit is split down to the waist (slightly further than that in [[SexyBacklessOutfit the back]]...). Dr. Mrs. The Monarch also sports this in her themed costume. |
| 243 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The Daughter, [[AnthropomorphicPersonification living embodiment of the Light Side of the Force]], wears a dress cut down to just above her navel. |
| 244 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': During one episode, Agnes Skinner wears a dress similar to the page image. Everybody is [[{{Squick}} not enthused to see a woman her age wear it.]] |
| 245 | [[/folder]] |
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