History Main / ModestyShorts

* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'': all of the girls wearing dresses and skirts without tights/pantyhose wear (very short) black bike shorts underneath them. Originally, almost all of them had just their white panties visible when such an angle occured on a Live 3D stream, but as more and more of the girls got into trouble with [=YouTube=]'s content policies, hololive had them cover up/replace the panties with shorts.

* ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' uses the bloomers variety to avoid inappropriate upskirt shots of the often-flying heroine.

* All of the titular team of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' wear biker shorts under their skirts.

* In a male example, classic depictions of ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'s'' Simon Belmont had him wearing small shorts under the "skirt" plates of his armor.

* ''Franchise/{{FireEmblem}}'':

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarus''' Pit's redesign used in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' and ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' features black shorts under his toga (smart move, with all the flying around he does).

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'''s [[StaffChick Leia]] has a school uniform DLC outfit that leaves her with a short, plaid miniskirt. It's difficult to see, but if she's wearing it during her introduction scene, the player can see that she's wearing a pair of black shorts underneath.

* ''VideoGame/UmaMusume'': Bike shorts are an integral part of the Tracen Academy [[SailorFuku serafuku]]-type day uniform, so all the horse girls wear small black shorts underneath their pleated skirts.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'': all of the girls wearing dresses and skirts without tights/pantyhose wear (very short) black bike shorts underneath them. Originally, almost all of them had just their white panties visible when such an angle occured on a Live 3D stream, but as more and more of the girls got into trouble with [=YouTube=]'s content policies, HoloLive had them cover up/replace the panties with shorts.

* Subverted with Molly McGee and many other female characters wearing skirts in ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostandMollyMcGee'': what appears to resemble black shorts underneath Molly's skirt is actually the shadow of her skirt on her legs underneath.

->'''Hayate:''' Uh… well, that's okay, but isn't it kind of ''unseemly''? I mean, a girl climbing up to such a high place while wearing a skirt?\\

This trope is common in anime, as [[SailorFuku School]] [[{{Joshikousei}} Uniforms]] are almost always extremely short. It is often worn by {{Kick Chick}}s, [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders Cheerleaders]], {{Action Girl}}s, {{Tomboy}}s or anyone else with an active lifestyle. It's also perfectly practical in real life.

* A male version is found in this Lycos search engine ad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpnZd2Ssm6A here (It's in French with English Sub)]]. A man in a kilt is having a hard time keeping his kilt down while playing the bagpipes. The dog in the commercial brings him some of these shorts so all is safe from being seen.

* In ''ComicBooks/Batman66'', The Harlequin (this universe's variation on [[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harley Quinn]]), wears a minidress and roller-skating gear with black bike shorts underneath.

This is where [[TitleDrop Modesty Shorts]] come in. They let a girl run, jump, tumble, fight, [[SkirtsAndLadders climb ladders]], or even fly without anyone catching a glimpse of her underwear. Other common variations are large puffy bloomers in non-period pieces which are used as a bit of a fancier version normally on more gothic characters. In Western works, spankies are worn for this purpose under cheerleading outfits, sometimes combined with tights or leggings.

This is where [[TitleDrop Modesty Shorts]] come in. They let a girl run, jump, tumble, fight, [[SkirtsAndLadders climb ladders]], or even fly without anyone catching a glimpse of her underwear. Other common variations are large puffy bloomers in non-period pieces which are used as a bit of a fancier version normally on more gothic characters. In Western works, spankies are worn for this purpose under cheerleading outfits, or sometimes tights or leggings.

Compare ProperTightsWithASkirt and SkirtOverSlacks. May be combined with ZettaiRyouiki.

Compare ProperTightsWithASkirt. May be combined with ZettaiRyouiki.

** Tifa in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' has a visible pair of black shorts under her skirt, perfectly fine considering the [[MaleGaze embarrassment]] Tifa went through when ascending the AbsurdlyLongStairway at Shrina HQ with her mini skirt in the original game. It’s also more sensible compared to ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' where getting a PantyShot while playing as Tifa [[{{Fanservice}} is unavoidable]]. Remake Tifa even has a Modesty Bra under her top in this version as well.

** Eirika, a returning character that has been around since the series' beginning, newly wears very short black bike shorts in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage''. Unlike with Bernadette, these are clearly only intended for modesty, so they aren't visible from most angles (i.e. her overall design remains unaffected).
** Judging by Eirika, probably all returning short-skirted heroines will be updated with brief black shorts going forward.

* Elise from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' wears black short shorts under her hoop miniskirt. This also makes sense, considering she rides a horse into battle.

** Most of Link's incarnations have given him either a set of green shorts or, more commonly after the release of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', a set of tights under his tunic.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' initially didn't have their girls wearing these in its Live 3D streams, but as more and more of them got into trouble with [=YouTube=]'s content policies, all of the girls that wear dresses and skirts for the Live 3D streams now have black shorts under them just to be safe.

* Mikoto Misaka of the ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' franchise has this trope as her fashion calling card, much to [[PsychoLesbian Kuroko Shirai's]] dismay. Also, Shizuri Mugino does it once. Mikoto's clones wear striped panties instead, which often helps Touma determine when he's speaking with one of them, rather than with the original. Of course, he eventually realizes that trying to peek under a girl's skirt to determine her identity is... problematic, so he buys 10032 (the clone he usually meets) a cheap necklace instead.

* ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': Suruga Kanbaru wears this, in conjunction with her [[{{Joshikousei}} school uniform]]. Of course, it's left unclear whether or not she's actually wearing anything underneath them.

* In episode five of ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'', Riko is worried about the rather short skirts of their idol outfits. Chika tries to assure her by lifting up her own skirt to show off the shorts she's wearing underneath, to which Riko tells her to put it down.
-->'''Chika (Dub)''': I got shorts!\\
'''Riko''': Stop it! Put your skirt down!
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Setsuna wears compression shorts under her skirt and has a bit of both shyness and [[{{Tomboy}} tomboyish]] traits. Akamatsu did this to show that she was a less sexual character than the other girls. She later ditches these but wears long-boyish underwear instead.
** Asuna dons in later chapters, too. Although in her case it's less about tomboyishness and more about not wanting to flash people whenever she fights in a miniskirt after a certain GoingCommando incident in the Kyoto arc...
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'':
** Katsura Hinagiku wears a skirt over her bicycle shorts.
** Izumi also wears these in the first season of the anime for a quick joke/censorship reasons but in the manga, she is shown [[PantyShot not to]], at least on some occasions. She ''was'' wearing them when Hayate needed to use his special attack on Yukiji and feared the side effect would lift Izumi's skirt.
* In later chapters of ''Manga/{{Horimiya}}'', the artist Daisuke Hagiwara gave female characters shorts under their short skirts so that they can sit in a feminine pose freely without being immodest.
* Satsuki Miyanoshita of ''Anime/GhostStories'' wears them in one episode, after getting tired of Hajime flipping her skirt and revealing her panties.

* Ai Nanasaki from ''VideoGame/{{Amagami}} SS'' wears her SchoolSwimsuit under her clothes, leading [[TheHero Jun'ichi]] to think he got a [[PantyShot view of her panties]] when... he didn't.

* Kaname in an early chapter of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' wears gym shorts under her skirt to prevent [[PantyShot panty shots]].

* Wendy Garret of ''Anime/GunXSword'' wears black bike shorts underneath her trademark yellow dress: probably a wise choice for someone who plans [[WalkTheEarth to hike across a whole continent]] in a short skirt.
* ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'': In the ShowWithinAShow ''PCP'', Annojo Mai has these. Mashiro and Takagi were very deliberate about this.
* A teacher in ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' gave Lum a pair of shorts to wear underneath her uniform after noticing that she was flashing other students as she flew around the school.
* The title character in ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'' wears these with her MagicalGirl outfit in the second season. In the first season, her outfit had no shorts underneath and was more following the MagicSkirt example.
* Isanami from ''Manga/Brave10'' wears cycling shorts under her {{miko}} open attire. [[AnachronismStew In 1599]].
* [[{{Meido}} Fabiola Iglesias]] from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' wears black shorts under her ''full length'' skirt. And she does still need them when she [[NinjaMaid busts out her capoeira moves]].
* Plotpoint in ''Manga/UltimateTeacher'' where the resident CuteBruiser Hinako can only fight when she's wearing Lucky Kitty bloomers, a brand that she's worn constantly since childhood so that she could fight without getting teased about showing her panties.
* The extras in one volume of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' examined the school uniforms. It notes that if your skirt is as short as Tohru's, it's a good idea to wear shorts underneath.
* Arisa Bannings' battle outfit in ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaInnocent'', which is a pink MiniDressOfPower and jacket combo worn over a pair of cycling shorts.
* In ''Manga/AllRounderMeguru'' Kamiya explains that everyone wears gym shorts under skirts these days. Cue BigNo from two upperclassmen.
-->"What's with them?"\\
"That's the sound of their lecherous dreams being shattered..."
* ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan'': The shorts Umaru wears when at home are actually these.
* ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' uses the bloomers variety to avoid inappropriate upskirt shots of the often-flying heroine.
* In episode 9 of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'', Bu Ling is shown to wear her regular clothes, shorts and all, under her maid uniform.
* ''Manga/{{Kodocha}}''[='=]s Sana Kurata is revealed to be wearing a pair when her school's gang of bullies shred her skirt with box cutters.
* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': Jun wears [[http://www.animevice.com/jun-kubota/18-28546/all-images/84-197565/kubota_jun/83-719139/ a black pair of bike shorts]] with her waitress uniform. Which prevents any peeks up her skirt during her high flying specials, like [[FinishingMove her signature finish:]] the [[MeteorMove "Kubota Special".]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': During Renji's flashback to how he and Rukia met, he is wearing a very short kosode, but clearly visible underneath are the skin-tight shorts he's wearing, which come further down his legs than his kosode does.
* In the manga version of ''Anime/AzumangaDaioh'', the girls hang Chiyo upside down from a window as a good-weather charm. She's wearing shorts under her skirt.
* Kashima, the resident {{Bifauxnen}} of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', is shown to wear shorts under her uniform's skirt in her official profile.
* Sakura from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' wears a pair of bike shorts under her dress. Ino is shown to use ''bandages'' for the same purpose when first introduced.
* Some of Sakura's outfits in ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' involve these.
* UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Aoi Futaba of ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'' wears biking shorts under her skirt.
* ActionGirl Benio of ''Manga/TwinStarExorcists'' sports a pair. In one episode of the anime adaptation, she goes without because they're being washed. Of course, that winds up being the day that she's forced into taking part in what amounts to indoor parkour with [[BelligerentSexualTension Rokuro]] as part of a test of their ability to work together. He quickly agrees to forget that he saw anything.
* All of the titular team of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' wear biker shorts under their skirts.
** They're worn by other Cures, too, such as Cure Black.
* The title character from ''Manga/TomoChanIsAGirl'' wears shorts under her skirt because she's active (not to mention a KickChick); on top of that, she wears a fairly short skirt with her school uniform because it's easier to move around in. In one story arc, her friend Misuzu forces her to lose the shorts in an attempt to draw the attention of her best friend Junichiro. Naturally, FinaglesLaw is in full effect, and a stray gust of wind gives Jun [[PantyShot a good look at Tomo's panties]].
* Mina Ashido from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' is stated to wear shorts under her skirt, presumably to facilitate her hobby of dancing. Resident perv Mineta notices when she does some breakdancing.
-->'''Mineta:''' What's the point of a skirt if you're just gonna wear shorts underneath?!
* Natsuki Kuga from ''Anime/MyHime'', after the skirt-blowing, panty-less incident.
* In ''Franchise/DragonBall'', Videl's shirt/singlet in her first and second outfits are so large that they come down to short skirt level, meaning that her tights effectively act as this.
* ''Manga/TeasingMasterTakagiSan'': In one scene where Nishikata challenges Takagi to do a flip over the bars at the playground, she asks him to [[NoPeekingRequest turn around while she does it]] because she's wearing a skirt. He peeks at her anyway to make sure she isn't cheating, and, naturally, she's wearing shorts underneath.
* ''Manga/MyDressUpDarling'': When Marin goes to her first cosplay outdoor event, she wears a pair of black shorts under her skirt, as per the event's rules. [[EnforcedTrope There are even signs all over advising the cosplayers to do exactly that]].
* ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'' prefers not to use PantyShots so any gag that would otherwise result in one gives the character shorts. Which makes sense for someone like [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Mitsuba]], but it's a little strange to see [[LovableSexManiac Aria]] don them while held upside-down in handcuffs, considering she normally wears [[GoingCommando far less than that]].

* Lampshaded in ''Fanfic/SOSPrettyCure'' after Haruhi takes down some bullies. They express disappointment at not seeing her underwear, and she flips her skirt deliberately to show them her bike shorts just to add insult to injury as she remarks, "Sorry to disappoint."

* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': Alice wears knee-length pantalettes under her dress. It proves handy owing to changing sizes a lot as well as unintentionally exposing them to the viewers at times.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' has the majority of the women of the Madrigal family wear knee length bloomers under their skirts that prevent any exposure during vigorous dancing, such as by Mirabel in the opening number. Possibly averted by Isabela, because she alone gets a MagicSkirt.

* In ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'', Alice wears black shorts underneath her red dress.

* In ''Film/IT2017'' Beverly wears knee-length tights under her dress.

* Gogo Yubari in ''Film/KillBill''.
* In the Live-Action Remake of ''Anime/BloodTheLastVampire'' Saya wears shorts under her already long skirt to avoid {{Fanservice}}. This is in tone with the original film, where {{Panty Shot}}s are averted.
* Creator/JuliaRoberts as Tinkerbell in ''Film/{{Hook}}''. Having a live actress wearing [[MagicSkirt Tink's getup]] from [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan the Disney movie]] likely wouldn't have worked out.

* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'''s Duncan [=MacLeod=] is a rare male example: In {{flashback}}s to his long-ago youth in Scotland, Duncan inevitably wears biker shorts under his kilt, often visible in action scenes.
* See a female in a skirt on ''Franchise/PowerRangers''? There's a really good chance that they have either black or [[ColourCodedCharacters Ranger colored]] shorts on underneath.

* ''Series/AustinAndAlly'' has Ally wearing short dresses in almost every episode, and she usually has black shorts on if she does something that flips her dress up. It's usually just a shadow since it IS a Disney show.
* ''Series/ShakeItUp'' had Rocky wear this at least once. She wore biker shorts during a spotlight dance, and for good reason, since the skirt spent almost as much time up as it did down.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': When Rachel is trying to impress a guy, she puts on her old high school [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders cheerleader uniform]]. When she turns a cartwheel, we see she's wearing shorts.

* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Persona4'': Chie wears compression shorts under her uniform skirt, perfectly justifiable her being the KickChick of the team.
** In ''VideoGame/Persona3DancingInMoonlight'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5DancingInStarlight'', to avoid any {{Panty Shot}}s during their dance, the girls wear shorts underneath their skirts.
* Lightning in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' and Serah Farron in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' both wear black bike shorts under their miniskirts.
* Tifa in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' has a visible pair of black shorts under her skirt, perfectly fine considering the [[MaleGaze embarrassment]] Tifa went through when ascending the AbsurdlyLongStairway at Shrina HQ with her mini skirt in the original game. It’s also more sensible compared to ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' where getting a PantyShot while playing as Tifa [[{{Fanservice}} is unavoidable]]. Remake Tifa even has a Modesty Bra under her top in this version as well.

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' with Kay Faraday -- official artwork shows that she ''is'' wearing a pair of shorts under her skirt.
* Bloomers are prevalent in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanart due to the [[ElegantGothicLolita Lolita]]-style outfits and highly-acrobatic depiction of the game's BulletHell fighting. Also canonical for at least some of the characters in the spin-off fighting games.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'':
** Sakura Kasugano wears her gym shorts underneath her uniform. Though given how short they are, the effect is mostly lost on most western gamers.
** ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Street Fighter Alpha 3]]'': Karin Kanzuki wears a red schoolgirl outfit over her biker shorts.
** ''Super VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'': Ibuki and Makoto's alternate outfits are their school uniforms, with bike shorts under their skirts. For ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', Ibuki's default outfit is more like Sakura's in that she's wearing dark gym shorts, not biking shorts, which show off more of her upper thigh.
*** Ibuki does go back to this in some outfits such as her Story and 30th Anniversary outfits wearing shorts under the skirts but averts it with some outfits such as her Battle Outfit that have full-blown panties.
* Aika from ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' wears black shorts under her mini.
* [[http://eng.tekkenpedia.com/images/4/4f/Xiaoyu_przezroczyste.png Ling Xiaoyu]] from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' commonly wears a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qipao qipao]] with shorts underneath; if not for these, she'd be bare all the way from the hips downward. And for extra modesty points, when wearing her bonus schoolgirl uniform in ''Tekken 3'', one of her victory poses [[note]] where she does the splits during a handstand [[/note]] is ''disabled'' to prevent her from blatantly [[PantyShot flashing her panties]].
* In a male example, classic depictions of ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'s'' Simon Belmont had him wearing small shorts under the "skirt" plates of his armor.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'':
** After fighting with her bare legs under her dress in ''Melee'', Zelda was given a set of leggings under it from ''Brawl'' onwards.
** Peach wears large puffy bloomers under her dress in ''Melee'' and ''Brawl''. In the fourth game, [[CensorShadow this was changed to a black void past her lower legs.]]
** Palutena wears them too. In version 1.0.6 of the Japanese version, [[http://www.sourcegaming.info/2015/09/18/cero-and-palutenas-censorship/ they got even more modest]].
* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'': Kokindenju-no-Tachi as a male example: he wears what seems to be a SailorFuku with a very long tapered skirt, but with the problem that it's slit up to his ''hip''. Because of this, he wears a pair of shorts underneath, which when coupled with the slit skirt still do a good job of accentuating his shapely, tattooed legs.

* Almost all of the ''Cartoon Doll Emporoium'' dress-up dolls, since they're made for kids, will have shorts when you strip them instead of normal panties, although while a few games have normal panties, they are usually black. The ''Dress Up Dream'' dolls, which usually share ties with CDE, do this same thing.

* Played with by KickChick Serina Leaf of ''VideoGame/Conception2ChildrenOfTheSevenStars'', as her skirt is so frilly on the underside that it's impossible to see above her knees. Illustrated perfectly in her official art, which is an upskirt shot.
* ''VideoGame/{{ARMS}}'' has the singing Ribbon Girl, who wears compression shorts under her skirt.

* Ajna of ''VideoGame/{{Indivisible}}'' has a skirt that she can hike up to allow her to move easier and black shorts under it.
* Elise from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' wears black short shorts under her hoop miniskirt. This also makes sense, considering she rides a horse into battle.
* In the ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'' games, all skirts have either biker shorts or tights underneath them. There's also a few cases of Modesty ''Bras'': Tops that expose male characters' bare chests (like Beerus' clothing or Gogeta's vest) can be worn by females, in which case they wear the default tube-top bra underneath it.
* When D.Va in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' got a skin that has a proper skirt (essentially a Korean Hanbok, albeit much shorter than usual) in the Lunar New Year event, she had a pair of white biker shorts added underneath.
* Bridget from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' wears these, though she still holds down her skirt after jumping and in one of her winning poses one of her yoyos accidentally gets caught in the dress and shows the shorts are rather form-fitting around her buttocks, much to her chagrin. It should also be noted that Bridget used to identify as male until ''-STRIVE-''.
* ''VideoGame/GodEater'' series: A few mini shorts underneath skirts are available for the female player character as a clothing option.

* ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'': Miyabi wears shorts under the skirt of her school uniform.
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'': Lexine in ''Extraction'' is an unusual case of wearing a skirt over a skin-tight bodysuit. The MaleGaze moments with her make it clear just how short the skirt is and still imply fan service.
* ''VideoGame/IdolManager'' such shorts come up as a potential choice for the performance outfits of the idols. There are in fact two "short skirt" options: one with shorts and one ''without'' them.

* In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', Madeline is sensibly wearing (anachronistic) biker shorts under her leather skirt in her first appearance. (In the second, she's wearing winter clothes, making the matter moot.)

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Upside-Down Girl wears shorts under her jumper to avoid any panty shots when she's hanging from the monkey bars.

* The Winx in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' wear shorts under their skirts (most often seen with Bloom and Flora), averting a few panty shots in the series.

* The bunny twins from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' wear black shorts under their skirts.

* Elspeth from The Family-Ness wears red shorts with matching vest beneath her pleated skirt.

* Lady in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' is wearing some [[https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/236519-devil-may-cry-3-dante-s-awakening-special-edition-windows.jpg short black leggings]] under her "ammo skirt". Probably very wise with all the flipping Lady does and especially when HandsomeLech Dante [[MaleGaze is holding her upside down]] by one leg.

* Mikoto Misaka of the ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' franchise has this trope as her fashion calling card, much to [[PsychoLesbian Kuroko Shirai's]] dismay. Also, Shizuri Mugino does it once. Mikoto's clones wear striped panties instead, which often helps Touma determine when he's speaking with one of them, rather than with the original. Of course, he eventually realizes that trying to peek under a girl's skirt to determine her identity is... problematic, so he buys 10032 (the clone he usually meets) a cheap necklace instead.

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': Suruga Kanbaru wears this, in conjunction with her [[{{Joshikousei}} school uniform]]. Of course, it's left unclear whether or not she's actually wearing anything underneath them.

* Kaname in an early chapter of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' wears gym shorts under her skirt to prevent [[PantyShot panty shots]].

* Bridget from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' wears these, though he still holds down his skirt after jumping and in one of his winning poses one of his yoyos accidentally gets caught in the dress and shows the shorts are rather form-fitting around his buttocks, much to his chagrin. Oh, and even though it's common knowledge by now, it bears repeating: despite appearances, [[WholesomeCrossdresser Bridget is actually a boy]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'':
** The playable Inklings always keep the same shorts on regardless of what outfit they're wearing, making them work like this for outfits with skirts such as the female variations of the school uniform and the ''Manga/SquidGirl'' tunic.

** ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' allows players to customize Inklings' pants, one of the options for girls is a miniskirt over the usual bike shorts.

** ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'': Umeko and Jasmine even went as far as to wear shorts under a {{Qipao}}.

They tend to be [[WhoWearsShortShorts rather short]].

* Lady in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3'' is wearing some [[https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/236519-devil-may-cry-3-dante-s-awakening-special-edition-windows.jpg short black leggings]] under her “ammo skirt”. Probably very wise with all the flipping Lady does and especially when HandsomeLech Dante [[MaleGaze is holding her upside down]] by one leg.