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[[File:Carol Curtains.jpg|link=The Carol Burnett Show|frame|"I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist it."]]
A character is in dire need of some new clothing, but short on materials - so he converts the curtains (or some other unconventional item, like a sail or a tablecloth) into a new outfit.
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A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Improvised Clothes]]. See also [[Bankruptcy Barrel]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A TV commercial had a lady showering on the beach. The cleaning lady comes in and accidentally takes her bathing suit. She makes an impromptu dress from the shower curtain and wears it to a party. [[Distracted By the Shiny|Don't remember what was advertised.]]
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* In ''[[Sister Princess]]'', when the family ends up stranded on what seems to be a deserted island with a vacant house, the sisters make dry clothes out of the curtains for everyone to wear.
* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', Miya needs a yukata but doesn't have one, so she thinks of using the curtains to make a "modern" one. She ends up borrowing one of Hiro's, though.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[G Gundam]]'', after Domon {{spoiler|saves a very naked Rain from the Devil/Dark Gundam,}} he promptly throws his cape around her, which conveniently morphs into a form-fitting sexy [[Lady in Red|red dress]].
* Ohana in ''[[Hanasaku Iroha]]'' makes a wedding dress out of curtains for {{spoiler|Takako}}.
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* In ''Black and Blue Magic'' the main character finds that the only way to make a warm outfit that allows his wings to go through while flying at night is to drape a curtain around himself.
* [[Captain Underpants]] uses a curtain to make a [[Superheroes Wear Capes|cape]] the first time he assumes his superhero identity. This is also his ''only'' article of clothing other than the obvious.
* In ''[[The Egypt Game]]'', the main characters use old curtains and pillowcases to make Egyptian-style robes and tunics for Halloween costumes.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Virginia Lewis in ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'' makes a shepherdess' costume from a set of curtains. (One can only assume that she found a magic sewing machine.)
* This was how Bruce Campbell's character in
* In one episode of ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'', Alice's mother makes her a dress out of curtains. Sadly, she leaves the drawstring in the sleeve.
* In ''[[Drake and Josh]]'', Drake rips off a curtain and wears it over himself to hide the theme park shirt he's wearing to get out of trouble.
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* It's stated that Leela once made a prom dress from carpet samples on [[Futurama]].
* In real life, it was [[wikipedia:Maria Franziska von Trapp|Maria Franziska von Trapp]], one of the Von Trapp children whose story inspired ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', who made clothes from curtains, [http://greensburgdailynews.com/local/x212457544/North-Alive-With-The-Sound-Of-Music according to her sister, Rosemarie von Trapp.]
* Beatrice Jackman, a Danish secret agent in World War II, had a [https://web.archive.org/web/20111221194939/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44644153/ns/today-today_people/t/dress-made-nazi-flag-reveals-owners-past-spy
* Major Claude Hensinger, a WWII pilot who bailed out of his B-29 after an engine fire, kept warm overnight using his parachute and was rescued in the morning. His fiance, Ruth, had his [https://web.archive.org/web/20120429022554/http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/costume/object.cfm?recordnumber=834994 life-saving parachute made into her wedding dress], patterned after a dress in ''Gone With the Wind''. Ruth Hensinger's dress, which was also been worn by her daughter and daughter-in-law for their weddings, was donated to the National Museum of American History.
* In a similar example, Temple Leslie Bourland, a radio operator on a C-47, bailed out under enemy fire in 1945. Injured, Bourland and a comrade spent two days in a foxhole using his parachute to stay warm before being found by Allied troops. His fiance, Rosalie Hierholzer, had a [http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2011/06/june-brides-and-d-day.html wedding dress made from the bullet-ridden parachute.] Rosalie Hierholzer's parachute wedding dress is in the National Museum of American History.
** Wedding dresses made from retired parachutes were fairly common in those days, since the parachutes were no longer being used as such but were still large amounts of precious silk, in a wartime/post-war economy when such resources couldn't be allowed to go to waste.
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