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* On ''Series/GeneralHospital'', varsity athlete Jason gives Karen his letter jacket as a means of making their relationship official... and she returns it when she breaks up with him.
* On ''Series/OneLifeToLive'', Jason loans Marty his leather jacket. When his girlfriend Dorian sees Marty wearing the jacket, she flies into a jealous rage. This is not helped by Marty's taunting her (she's not interested in Jason, but she dislikes Dorian and thinks she's bad for him).
* ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'': Jessica's trademark leather jacket is revealed in season 2 to have belonged to her late boyfriend Stirling.

* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Caitlin is wearing Crockett's jacket the morning after they have sex.
* ''Series/TheGoldbergs'': In the episode "The Age of Darkness," Adam the narrator remembers Erica receiving a letterman jacket from her boyfriend Drew Kremp, which Adam describes as the high school equivalent of a marriage proposal. Unfortunately Drew breaks up with Erica fairly quickly, & she throws his jacket at him after she and Beverly discover Drew's with another girl.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In a variant Dustin let his long distance girlfriend Suzie keep his iconic red, white, and blue baseball cap when they left science camp.
* ''Series/MsMarvel'': In the flashback episode showing the romance of Kamala's great-grandparents Aisha and Hasan, a political activist and flower farmer, the first sign that the two had fallen in love is when Aisha is shown wearing one of Hasan's flowers in her hair. We see the flower first, ''then'' her pregnant belly.

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* In ''Anime/LastExile'', after Claus and Tatiana crash land in the desert, he offers her some spare coveralls as a change of clothes. When they get back to the Silvana, Claus' old friend Lavie sees Tatiana wearing his clothes and she begins to fear this is happening.
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'': During the Virtual World arc, Yugi lends Tea his jacket.
* In ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', the title character frequently lends his overshirt to Kagome. Sometimes because it's durable, sometimes to keep her warm, and once immediately following a NakedFreakOut.
* ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor''. Empress Azalyn wears Tylor's UPSF coat with [[HaveANiceDaySmile smiley face button]] while he's her captive and 'pet', a sign that she's fallen for him.

* ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'' has [[ClubPresident Awara]] borrowing [[NumberTwo Uozumi's]] shoes on occasion. While they aren't actually dating, they get a lot of ShipTease.

* ''Fanfic/WhyAndWere'', a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fanfic, has a scene where Assassin Johanna dons Wizard Ponder Stibbons' wizarding robes. Partly because they're warm, comfortable, and smell slightly of Ponder (a big plus in the early stages of a relationship), but mainly because she'd otherwise have had to answer the door naked.

* Many ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fanfics depict Kim using one of Ron's red hockey jerseys as sleepwear.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode ''Dead Man's Hand'', which introduces The Royal Flush Gang, Terry meets Melanie Walker and, at one point, gives her his jacket. In the fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10427979/1/BATMAN-BEYOND-Reunited-a-TxM-Story Reunited]]'', which is set several years later and depicts the reunion and rekindling of the romance between the two, she still has the jacket and is in fact wearing it when she first appears in the second chapter.
* In Chapter 36 of ''[[Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm Ghosts of the Past]]'', at one point Harry notices that his friend (and Most-Definitely-Not-A-Girlfriend) Carol is wearing what appear to be his boxers as sleepwear, and is somewhat bemused. It is probably not a coincidence that this is around the point where they admit their mutual attraction, and that they love each other, and that both are open to the idea of a RelationshipUpgrade... after they've both dealt with a few issues. It's later revealed that this is an ongoing habit of hers, which her mother teases her about.
* A curious variant exists in the ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' series of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' fanfics. When [[spoiler:Bethany Hawke]] joins the Inquisition late in the first story, it's observed that she wears a heavy-looking ring on a chain around her neck, but no details are given. A side story reveals that this is actually [[spoiler:the signet ring of House Tethras, sent to her by Varric for "safekeeping."]] Eventually other characters figure out what the ring really is, but nobody seems to be quite sure what her wearing it ''means'' - including both herself and the person who gave it to her.
* Done a couple of times in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12619258/1/Aggressive-Love Aggressive Love]]'' with Tonks simply grabbing Harry's shirt and putting it on while [[GenderBender Lady]] [[{{Yandere}} Voldemort]] instructs her owl to steal one of Harry's shirts while delivering him a letter.

* By ''Fanfic/AngelOfTheBat: Times of Heresy'', Cassandra has developed a taste for taking her ButchLesbian girlfriend's faux leather jackets.

* In ''Fanfic/TheFlowerPrincessAndTheAlchemist'', although not in a romantic relationship yet (though they do have quite a few ShipTease moments), Edward often lends [[LoveInterest Orihime]] his [[IconicOutfit signature red coat]]. This serves a practical purpose. After her FreakOut, Ed's coat is one of the few things that calms [[StepfordSmiler Orihime]] down whenever her TraumaButton gets triggered. And Orihime fondly comments while sporting a LuminescentBlush that [[SmellsSexy the coat smells just like him]]. Bonus points in that WordOfGod explicitly states that this is sort of a RedStringOfFate between them, so expect more ShipTease involving Ed's coat.
* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33911125 Designated Duty]]'', when Steve sees Sharon getting ready for a girls' night with Natasha and Wanda, he offers her his jacket to which Sharon responds that she'll wear it to bed tonight, flustering Steve. [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Wanda]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint thinks to herself on why someone would wear a jacket to sleep]]. [[BrickJoke At the end of the story, when Wanda is messaging Vision, she asks for a reason as to why someone would wear a jacket to bed.]] Vision, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike not getting the social cue either]], thinks its because of the cold.
* ''Fanfic/GuysBeingDudes'': Spark and Arlo form a male-on-male example here. At one point, Arlo ends up wearing one of Spark's hoodies. PlayedWith in that it isn't a hoodie Spark usually wears; it's one his ex gave him when they wanted them to have CoordinatedClothes.
* ''Fanfic/SavingTheBoy'': Before he's due to enter the Arena, Peeta gives his jacket to Katniss to wear as a memento of him. The sentimental value ends up helping Katniss accrue sponsorship money for Peeta, as it further enthralls the Capitol audience with their love story.

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* Shelly in ''Film/SinCity'' wears Dwight's shirt when Jackie Boy arrives at her apartment. He is not amused.

* Over the course of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', both Finn and Rey end up wearing Poe's leather jacket. The fans [[http://izzy-alec.tumblr.com/post/142533988808 have noticed.]]
-->'''Poe:''' Keep it. It suits you.

* ''Film/TheGoonies'': At first, Andy is seen wearing JerkJock Troy's letterman jacket, complete with his name embroidered on it. When she decides to cast her lot in with the Goonies, she leaves the jacket behind, and eventually hooks up with Mikey's older brother Brand.
* In ''Film/PoliceAcademy 4: Citizens on Patrol'', Zed falls in love with cute reporter Laura, and one scene shows them chilling by the lake with Zed in his police uniform playing the guitar while Laura is wearing Zed's punk rocker jacket.
* ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'' has AmbiguouslyBi Nick and Javi stall [[spoiler:orders to kill each other]] by trading Javi's brown suede loafers with Nick's taos taupe checkerboard canvas slip-ons. Nick eventually finds the loafers impractical for running, but doesn't remove them until his next complete change of outfit. Javi seems simply delighted to wear the slip-ons.

* In ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfNowhere'', there's a gender reversal of this. Girls wearing their boyfriend's letter jacket to signify that they are together is a custom in their high school, but when protagonist Jason gets together with his [[PassionateSportsGirl athletic tomboy]] love interest, ''he'' wears ''her'' letter jacket.

* At one point in ''[[Literature/TheQueensThief The King of Attolia]]'' Eugenides is told there is an urgent matter he needs to address and he half-halfheartedly notes he's wearing the queen's floral embroidered nightshirt in an attempt to delay it.
-->'''Irene:''' Your attendants. I have spoken to them. You will speak to them as well.\\
'''Eugenides:''' Ah. They have seen me in my nightshirt. Not in your nightshirt, though.

* ''Literature/TheMoonAndTheSun'' has a mermaid with dark green hair, with one light green lock. It turns out to be a token from her lover, who cut off some of his hair and tied it into hers.

** In "The Chase", it's revealed Ian likes to wear his ImpliedLoveInterest Barbara's cardigan at times.
** In a platonic example, the Fourth Doctor's companions liked to wear parts of his outfit when they could. In "Terror of the Zygons", Sarah wears his hat and Harry his scarf; in "The Invisible Enemy", Leela wears his hat; and Romana II would often 'borrow' his scarf or wear a copy of his outfit, sometimes in pink.
** Another [[LikeBrotherAndSister very platonic]] example: the Tenth Doctor lends Donna Noble his jacket when she's [[SittingOnTheRoof on a high rooftop]] in her wedding dress, but since he has a narrower physique than she does, she complains that it "wouldn't fit a rat" and wears it CoatCape style.
** Amy Pond, disconsolate after [[spoiler:the death of the Doctor]] in "The Wedding of River Song", is shown consoling herself by drinking wine on her patio, wearing the Letterman's jacket Rory was sporting in "Let's Kill Hitler".
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Angel gives Buffy his leather jacket in the fourth episode, "Teacher's Pet". She wears it for the rest of the first season, [[HugeGuyTinyGirl albeit with the sleeves rolled up]]. They're not a couple yet, but when, at the end of the episode, he says that "it looks better on [her]", she ''knows'' she's fallen for him.
** Tara wears Willow's sweater in the fourth-season episode "New Moon Rising", which precipitates the episode's trouble.
** In "Tabula Rasa" Xander lends Willow his jacket [[YouMustBeCold because it's cold]], leading to comical misunderstandings when they have their memories wiped and assume this trope is in play.

* This becomes a plot device in an episode of ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'', in which Mary-Ellen Rogers wants to impress her friends and charms Wally into letting her wear his Letterman sweater.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33911125 Designated Duty]]'', when Steve sees Sharon getting ready for a girls' night with Natasha and Wanda, he offers her his jacket to which Sharon responds that she'll wear it to bed tonight, flustering Steve. Wanda [[ComicallyMissingThePoint thinks to herself on why someone would wear a jacket to sleep]]. [[BrickJoke At the end of the story, when Wanda is messaging Vision, she asks for a reason as to why someone would wear a jacket to bed.]] Vision, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike not getting the social cue either]], thinks its because of the cold.

* ''Series/MsMarvel'': In the flashback showing the romance of Kamala's great-grandparents Aisha, one of the Clan Destine, and Hasan, a political activist and flower farmer, the first sign that the two had fallen in love is when Aisha is shown wearing one of Hasan's flowers in her hair. We see the flower first, ''then'' her pregnant belly.

* ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'': Jessica's trademark leather jacket is revealed in season 2 to have belonged to her then-boyfriend Stirling.

SubTrope of FashionBasedRelationshipCue. See also YouMustBeCold, which can be a one-time romantic gesture and serve as part of a ShipTease. Her Boyfriend's Jacket is a long-term appropriation of clothing to demonstrate a relationship. Also related to SexyShirtSwitch, where she wears other articles of clothing after sex. Both are signs of intimacy. SexyShirtSwitch is sexual intimacy, Her Boyfriend's Jacket is emotional intimacy.

* While they aren't actually dating, the artist for the manga version of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' certainly likes to draw [[SexySecretary Namie Yagiri]] wearing her employer [[{{Troll}} Izaya Orihara]]'s jacket.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'', while on the way to Rimefang, Vex'ahlia complains about the increasingly cold weather, at which point Percy gives her his coat to help her stay warm. When Vex protests and tries to give it back, [[CrushBlush a vividly blushing Percy]] insists that she keep it.

* A major ShipTease moment in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is when a distraught [[KnightInSourArmor Sandor Clegane]] [[TurnInYourBadge tears off his Kingsguard cloak]] and abandons it in [[PrincessClassic Sansa Stark]]'s room. She picks up the cloak and wraps herself in it (this has added RuleOfSymbolism, as in a Westerosi wedding the husband wraps his wife in his cloak) and later hides the cloak in a chest.
-->She could not say why she kept it.

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': In Chapter 14, Kat can be seen wearing the T-shirt of her brief love interest, Alistair, who left her his personal belongings after he had to [[ItMakesSenseInContext turn into a bird and leave]].
* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Hannelore and Sven go on a fake date (because she never has), at the end of which she looks ''absolutely adorable'' wearing his hoodie against the cold.

* ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'' has AmbiguouslyBi Nick and Javi stall [[spoiler:orders to kill each other]] by trading [[NiceShoes Javi's brown suede loafers with Nick's taos taupe checkerboard canvas slip-ons]]. Nick eventually finds the loafers impractical for running, but doesn't remove them until his next complete change of outfit. Javi seems simply delighted to wear the slip-ons.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' had the title character start wearing Milo's [[NiceHat ever-present hat]] so it would look like they were dating. To cope, Milo started wearing [[RunningGag increasingly-ridiculous hats as the episode progressed]].

* By ''[[Fanfic/AngelOfTheBat Angel of the Bat: Times of Heresy]]'', Cassandra has developed a taste for taking her ButchLesbian girlfriend's faux leather jackets.

* ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'' has AmbiguouslyBi Nick and Javi stall [[spoiler:orders to kill each other]] by trading [[NiceShoes Javi's brown suede loafers with Nick's yellow checkerboard canvas slip-ons]]. Nick eventually finds the loafers impractical for running, but doesn't remove them until his next complete change of outfit. Javi seems simply delighted to wear the slip-ons.

* In ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfNowhere'', there's a gender reversal of this. Girls wearing their boyfriend's letter jacket to signify that they are together is a custom in their high school, but when protagonist Jason gets together with his athletic tomboy love interest, ''he'' wears ''her'' letter jacket.

* A near-universal trope in the early-1960s fad for [[{{Melodrama}} teen death songs]] was the presence of a lover's class ring.