History Main / ImprovisedClothes

* In the ''SluggyFreelance'' atory-arc 'Emergency Pants'', a swarm of cloth-eating super-moths force MadScientist Riff to improvise some pants out of his newest invention, the Chick Magnet. The result is a very fuzzy, very yellow, very loud pair of boxer-shorts. Meanwhile, Torg has to make do with some newspapers.
* Some of the Exiles in ''{{Homestuck}}'', after pivotal moments in their backstories. WV wears a ghost-patterned blanket [[spoiler:after inadvertently leading an army to its doom]], AR wraps himself in yellow Caution tape [[spoiler:upon being stranded on Earth when upholding the law]], and PM has a faded Prospitian flag [[spoiler:after Prospit is destroyed and the monarchs in hiding]].

* The [[IceAge Scrat]] short ''Gone Nutty'' ends with Scrat's acorn crumbling to ashes after hitting the ground and causing the Earth's continents to break up and move to their current positions, causing Scrat to gasp in shock and wear the top half (which did not disintegrate) on his head as if it were a beret.

* BodySushi

* ''{{Mythbusters}}'': Adam has made some [[DuctTapeForEverything duct tape]] hats in some of the Duct Tape Specials.

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* ''{{Bayonetta}}'': the eponymous character uses her own hair as clothing. Not that you'd be able to tell (at least until she repurposes it [[MegatonPunch for]] [[GiantFootOfStomping other]] [[SummonMagic uses]]), since she's a witch and is thus able to turn it into a leather catsuit.

* {{Dilbert}} manages to make an [[ImprovisedUmbrella improvised raincoat]] out of a garbage bag.

* At one point in the ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'', Janet "the Wasp" Pym is caught without a costume, and wearing a non-shrinking dress, so takes a moment to fashion a restaurant napkin into a dress.

* Gayle from Webcomic/WorkSucks lost his pants in a pool of quicksand only for a new friend, Socks, to quickly sew him up a pair. However, [[spoiler:it later turns out the pants were made from a piece of Socks' friend, Poly.]]

* Early in ''TimeEnoughForLove'', Ira orders that female medical staff attending Lazarus Long dress as attractively as possible. Ishtar is the antithesis of Clothes Horse; Galahad ends up improvising a dress for her from a couch cover.

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* Possibly the UrExample is Adam and Eve in TheBible, who improvise the first clothes ever out of leaves after eating from the Tree of Knowledge and realizing their nudity.

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* ''{{Disney/The Little Mermaid}}'': Ariel's first dress is an old sail strategically tied up with rope.

* The costume Sulley and Mike use to disguise Boo in ''MonstersInc'' appears to be made of chair fabric and desk lamps.

* In the final episode of ''MobileFighterGGundam'', when Rain emerges (naked) from a silvery case of GoGoEnslavement, Domon Kasshu (having apparently studied under Utena) improvises an improbably sexy dress out of his [[LadyInRed bright-red]] [[BadassCape cape]].

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* In an early episode of ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Anthy's dress is ''literally'' destroyed by the AlphaBitch in the middle of a school ball. Utena then improvises an improbably sexy dress out of a tablecloth for her and [[LesYay invites her to a dance]].

* ChickenLittle makes pants out of his homework.

* Some of the Exiles in {{Homestuck}}, after pivotal moments in their backstories. WV wears a ghost-patterned blanket [[spoiler:after inadvertently leading an army to its doom]], AR wraps himself in yellow Caution tape [[spoiler:upon being stranded on Earth when upholding the law]], and PM has a faded Prospitian flag [[spoiler:after Prospit is destroyed and the monarchs in hiding]].

* Three guesses how this trope figures into ''ThePaperBagPrincess'', but the first two don't count.

Compare RummageSaleReject and CheapCostume. ClothingDamage may be involved.

* In an early episode of ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Anthy's dress is ''literally'' destroyed by TheLibby in the middle of a school ball. Utena then improvises an improbably sexy dress out of a tablecloth for her and [[LesYay invites her to a dance]].

* The ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' opponent [[EmbarrassingName Pantyhose Taro]], despite his hatred for his own name (or perhaps as ironic payback) tends to transform his Jusenkyo-cursed enemies into their weaker animal forms and wrap them in pantyhose. In the case of Shampoo, he wrapped her in so much hose she was basically just a kitty head popping out of a huge ball of polyester. When Akane transformed her back, the pantyhose coincidentally stretched itself over her naked human body into a very convenient bikini shape.