History Main / FromDressToDressing

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* ''Roleplay/STOForumVersusThreadRP'': After Kang is stabbed in the shoulder by a Hirogen, Kanril Eleya tears a strip off Kang's Honor Guard cape to make a sling.
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[[caption-width-right:331:When miles away from a first aid kit, your jammies will do]]

* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', when Bob injures his head, his fiance Jean [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20131203.html has to use her shirt]] to bandage it.

* In one of the ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'' theatrical shorts, Umeko-chan rips off part of the bottom of her kimono to wrap up Komusubiman's damaged foot (which he hurt by skidding down a mountainside, which snapped his sandal in two and rubbed a hole in his sock, which rubbed his heel raw). What makes it kinder was the fact that he hurt himself saving Umeko-chan.

* ''Film/TheWomanHunt'': After [=Billie=] is bitten by a snake, McGee uses the belt off her dress as a tourniquet while Tony cuts her leg to SuckOutThePoison.

** "Epilogue" has a variation. A perp stabss a security guard, hitting his femoral artery, then tears off one of the man's sleeves to use as a tourniquet ''on his own arm'' (where the guard had stabbed him after pulling the knife out), and runs away, leaving the guard to bleed to death.

** In ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20080424102900/exit3.i-55.com/~ffaller/dark.html One Dark and Stormy Night"]], Johnny and Dixie are kidnapped after a Halloween event and Johnny is badly beaten. Dixie tears strips from her costume dress to bandage him.
** Captain Stanley uses his flannel shirt to make bandages for Mike Stoker in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4420033/1/I-Will-Carry-You I Will Carry You]]" and ends up hypothermic from it.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12342350/18/Its-Not-Over It's Not Over]]'' Hermione uses her dress and Draco's cloak to make bandages for themselves after fighting Death Eaters.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11506150/23/My-Godfather My Godfather]]'' Harry uses part of his robe to bandage Ron's badly broken leg.
* Early in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Misty sees Ash being attacked by a flock of Spearow and Fearow. After he successfully fends them off [[spoiler: using [[AttackReflector Counter]] ]], he collapses from exhaustion, and she uses an old shirt to bandage his wounds.
* In the ''Series/{{AdamTwelve}}'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8243040/1/Thunder-Rolls-Again Thunder Rolls Again]]",Sgt. [=MacDonald=] uses his uniform shirt to tie off Pete's bleeding leg after Pete is shot.

* In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'', the Prince tears off one of his sleeves to bandage his own arm. (Later he tears off [[SleevesAreForWimps his other sleeve]] and [[ShirtlessScene the rest of his shirt]] just for the hell of it.)

* Brennan grabs Sweets’s shirt in ''{{Series/Bones}}'' to stop the bleeding when a guy gets shot during an undercover plot at a death metal concert. The scene is used for additional drama as well due to Brennan seeing Sweets’ scar-covered back and realizing he’d been abused as a child.

** In "Charge of This Post," he borrows a shoestring from a bystander to bind a profusely bleeding artery in Flack's gut until the paramedics can arrive. Then he tears strips from his own shirt to stuff in the gaping wound to staunch additional bleeding.
** "Epilogue" has a variation. A perp shoots a security guard, hitting his femoral artery, then tears off one of the man's sleeves to use as a tourniquet ''on his own arm'' which the guard had hit first, and runs away, leaving the guard to bleed to death.

* In ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', Prussia does this for a wounded Hungary.

* Maddie rips the sleeves of her dress in ''FanFic/HomeWithTheFairies'', chapter 5 "Up and Out", to make pads to soak the blood from her own period. In this DeconstructionFic, ripping her dress was not trivial. "I had to use my teeth and rocks, and got some rug burns on my hands from all the pulling."

* ''Film/TheChargeAtThunderRiver'': When the Guardhouse Brigade runs out of actual bandages, Anne--who has been pressed into service as nurse--is reduced to using strips torn from the soldiers' clothing to bandage their wounds.

* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In "Hunting Ground", the BodyOfTheWeek is found [[PinnedToTheWall nailed to a tree]] by an arrow, with a makeshift tourniquet made from his pants leg wrapped around his arm.

* Discussed in a background conversation in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInqusition''. Two nuns are discussing treating the wounded when one of them worries about running out of bandages. The other tells her to just start tearing up shirts if that happens, since if the Inquisition can afford fancy uniforms they can certainly afford bandages.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. After bandaging Wesley when he gets an ImpaledPalm from a {{Booby Trap}}ped door, Cordelia points out that she doesn't have enough shirt for the rest of them.