History Main / ImprovisedClothes

* Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, before she started her career as a couturier, once made a dress for a party consisting of only fabric and a pin.

* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'': Kuroe Akaishi's InvoluntaryShapeshifting into a {{Kaiju}} results in [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing her clothes being ripped to shreds]], so each time she has to find nearby materials to cover herself up when she changes back. When she transforms at the gym, she covers herself with a trash bag, and when she transforms at the Ultra Bakuon Fest, she covers herself with a parachute.

* Disney/ChickenLittle makes pants out of his homework.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'': Ariel's first dress is an old sail strategically tied up with rope.

* In ‘’Anime/DirtyPair’’ Project Eden after a monster attack while they are bathing Yuri and Kei are forced to leave their clothes behind, Yuri makes a bikini out of her towel while Kei takes master thief Carson’s clothes cutting them down to her size.

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

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'': Ariel's first dress is an old sail strategically tied up with rope.

* The [[WesternAnimation/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.

* In the ''Webcomic/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 (It attracts baby chickens). The result is a very fuzzy, very yellow, very loud pair of boxer-shorts. Meanwhile, Torg has to make do with some newspapers.

* CheapCostume: When your [[SuperherosWearTights superhero tights]] needs a fast and low-cost substitute.

* BankruptcyBarrel
* CheapCostume
* CurtainClothing
* EggshellClothing
* GardenGarment
* HandOrObjectUnderwear
* ImprovisedArmour
* LiveMinkCoat
* ModestyBedsheet
* NemeanSkinning
* SeashellBra
* UnplannedCrossdressing

* ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'': Duke Lucas Greyfort, once finding himself unfortunately naked while traipsing in the woods, notices that one of his monstrous companions is a cloaker (a ''D&D'' monster looking like a floating cloak) and [[http://yafgc.net/comic/0659-the-naked-facts/ decides to use it as an improvised cape]].

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-->'''Belle''': Your son was trespassing on my property and destroyed a very valuable stone gargoyle and... are you wearing a grocery bag?
-->'''Homer''': I have misplaced my pants.

* Disney/ChickenLittle makes pants out of his homework.
* The costume Sulley and Mike use to disguise Boo in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' appears to be made of chair fabric and desk lamps.

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* In the ''Webcomic/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 (It attracts baby chickens). 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 ''Webcomic/{{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]].
* 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.]]

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* Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, before she started her career as a couturier, once made a dress for a party consisting of only fabric and a pin.
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Compare RummageSaleReject and CheapCostume. See also ImprovisedArmour. ClothingDamage may be involved.

* ''TheSimpsons'':

* In an episode of ''SpongeBobSquarePants'', Mr. Krabs admits that when he was younger, his mother fashioned his clothes out of paper bags.

* In an early episode of ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Anthy's dress is 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]].

* The ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' opponent [[EmbarrassingFirstName 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.

* At one point in the ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'', Janet "TheWasp" Pym is caught without a costume, and wearing a non-shrinking dress, so takes a moment to fashion a restaurant napkin into a dress.
* Whenever SpiderMan has ClothingDamage, he can usually make up for it using his webs. In more extreme cases, losing his mask forces him to take up the mantle of "[[https://jpderosnay.wordpress.com/whos-this-bombastic-bagman-anyway/ The Bombastic Bag-Man]];" at least once this also involved a borrowed FantasticFour outfit.

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* In ''{{Help}}'', after Paul accidentally gets shrunk, he improvises a wrap out of a discarded Wrigley's gum wrapper.

* In the ''Webcomic/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.