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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080516222226/http://www.northwestern.edu/nucuisine/images/newsletter/Starbucks-logo.gif The woman on the Starbucks logo], depending on how you look at it. The logo is based on a 15th century Norse woodcut of a siren, and [http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/brandautopsy/2005/06/the_evolution_o.html hasn't always been so SFW.] The Pike Place Roast bags have the original logo.

* The logo for Godiva Chocolatier shows a nude woman riding a horse, with one arm tucked across her chest and strands of hair falling down the other side of her chest and covering her crotch.

* Several celebrities who have posed naked in PETA's anti-fur ads have done this.

 

* ''[[Inuyasha]]''

** Kagome in an early [[Hot Springs Episode|bathing scene]].

* Used in the anime adaptation of ''[[Hans Christian Andersen|The Little Mermaid]]'', as Marina and her sisters are topless, although Marina's nipples can be seen at some points.

* Similarly used in ''[[Mahou no Mako-chan]]'', another anime adaptation of ''The Little Mermaid''.

* One "How to Draw Manga" book called ''Girl's Life Illustration File'' has a section about tactfully rendering nudes. This is given as an option.

* Eureka's long hair in the ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' movie serves this purpose really well for her.

* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'''s [[Ms. Fanservice|Sheryl Nome]] has this in a couple of her scenes. Despite the conveniently placed hair, Alto still gets a good slap.

* In ''[[Katanagatari]]'', considering the [[Rapunzel Hair|sheer length]] of Togame's hair, it's actually harder to ''not'' use this trope when she's naked.

 

* [[Older Than Steam]]: The famous 1486 painting ''The Birth of Venus'' is a strong early candidate for this trope, with the goddess Venus using her long hair to cover her lower self.

* Pretty much every depiction of Eve in the past couple centuries.

 

* ''[[X-Men]]'''s Storm, not caring for most people's [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|silly nudity taboo]], is frequently hair-clad (but more frequently [[Censor Steam|wind effect-clad]].)

* Timmain in ''[[Elf Quest]]'' qualifies, when she's not being a wolf. From time to time, so does her polar counterpart Winnowill.

* Knockout of the ''[[Secret Six]]'' once emerged from a shower completely naked, with only with a few strands of hairs covering her nipples and groin.

 

* The goddess Hecate, in the ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]'' animated film ''Blood and Iron''.

* This happens in ''[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]'' after the Unicorn turns into Princess Amalthea.

* ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' was going to use this, and did use it through the storyboarding and the initial pencil tests. It was only abandoned when the colour tests showed the concept to be unworkable without redesigning almost every underwater shot. [[Seashell Bra]] were used instead.

* ''[[Treasure of Swamp Castle]]'': Szaffi bathing.

* [[Lindsay Lohan]] after she wakes up nude (in a church!) in ''[[Machete]]''.

* ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' has a scene with the above-average looking psychic/fortune-teller/seer popping up out of a pool of water in a Godiva Hair moment.

* [[Brooke Shields]]' hair was apparently glued to her breasts during some scenes of the 1980 film ''[[The Blue Lagoon]]'' in order to satisfy censors.

* In ''[[The Mask of Zorro]]'', Elena is left clad in pajama bottoms and hair when [[Zorro]] [[Clothing Damage|slices her nightshirt off]].

* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Alyda]] in the ''The Unnamable II'' spends a good portion of the film like this due to the fact that she hates/fears clothing. It's ''awesome''.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'', Uma Thurman in the ''The Birth of Venus'' scene.

 

* Subverted in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', when one of the main characters is travelling through a rather rowdy festival and notices that a number of women attempting this don't have long enough hair to pull this off. We ([[Literature|obviously]]) don't get to see anything.

* In [[H. Rider Haggard]]'s ''[[She]]'', She's hair is long enough and thick enough that it doesn't just cover her nipples, it covers everything. She fastens a belt around her hair and wears it like a dress.

* Subverted in ''[[Everworld]]'', as Christopher discovers that the mermaids' attempts to use Godiva Hair are not always successful.

* Played straight in ''[[Where's Wally?]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130120184522/http://www.toplessrobot.com/6%29%20Topless%20Mermaids.jpg of all things]. Made even better by the fact that this is the place Waldo chooses to "hide".

 

* In the episode "The [[Jersey Devil]]" of ''[[The X-Files]]'', Claire Stansfield (who played a Neanderthal woman) was required to have her hair tied over her breasts in many shots to keep the [[FOX]] censors happy.

* [[media:sarahconnorchronicles-cameron1.jpg|This promotional image]] for ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''.

* An early David Copperfield magic special included a trick in which he removed a bikini top from a poster of Loni Anderson. Loni (on stage) then removed the hair clips from her poster, causing a Godiva effect on the poster.

* ''[[iCarly]]'': A non-nude version was used for Sam in ''iQuit iCarly'', when she wore a purple skintight bodysuit, as part of their usual attempt to hide the fact that the actress is a female and actually has boobs now. Carly however, wasn't required to do this.

{{quote|'''Owen:''' We reenacted Lady Godiva; everyone was so disappointed.

'''Gerri:''' What, Lady Godiva in a body-stocking?

'''Gerri:''' Wow!

'''{{spoiler|Cropley}}:''' Well, I didn't have time to grow my hair long enough, you see... }}

* Used in several photo shoots on ''[[America's Next Top Model]]''.

 

* The music video for [[Alanis Morissette]]'s "Thank U" shows her completely nude, with her long hair covering her breasts and a blur over her genital area. According to Pop-Up Videos, she is also wearing a latex codpiece.

* Used in the [[Britney Spears]] music video "Everytime".

* A dancer in Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" seems to only be covered by her hair.

 

* The trope is named for Lady Godiva, the medieval English noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked on a white horse through Coventry, England, to get rid of the unfair taxes posed by her family. Many paintings of her portray her with very long hair, covering her naughty bits as per the trope. But the paintings made in medieval times portray her with more graphic nudity and normal, shoulder-length hair, with the Godiva Hair paintings not coming around until centuries later. So the idea that Lady Godiva really was covered in this way is clearly a product of [[Bowdlerize|Bowdlerization]]. Some scholars have speculated that there might have been some confusion in the telling of the tale—that the original story might have said she went out ''without her clothes'', that is, dressed in a shift like a religious penitent, rather than ''naked'' (which would not make much sense as a protest). On the other hand, there's little historical evidence to support the story having happened at all, naked or not.

* Many depictions of the Biblical figure Eve, particularly in illustrated childrens' Bibles, use this.

* Also in depictions of Saints; Mary Magdalene is sometimes shown nude with Godiva Hair.

 

* The cover of ''[[FATAL]]'' has this for just the boobs of the random slave-woman on the cover. If you ''saw'' said cover and didn't come to a few conclusions about this game's attitude towards women, you have no-one to blame but yourself.

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''

** Most depictions of Eilistraee - a goddess worshipped by good-aligned drow - depict her as naked (as she embodies freedom and generosity) and the SFW depictions employ this Trope, [[Scenery Censor]]s, or both.

 

* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405101237/http://micechat.com/forums/disneyland-resort/96720-redheaded-pirate-painting-disneyland.html#post2808525 bar painting of a pirate lass] in "Pirates of the Caribbean" at Disneyland is topless with just a few wisps of Godiva Hair.

 

* Nevan in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3''. It must be glued to her nipples.

* The Rusalka in ''[[Quest for Glory]] IV''—even teasing the players when a lock of her hair is needed as one of the steps to free her. Naturally, it apparently comes from the back of her head. She does make a crack about how she would look with [[Fetish Fuel|short hair]].

* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' turns this trope on its head. The title character is a witch whose default wardrobe consists ''entirely'' of her own magically manipulated hair. [[Most Writers Are Male|Not surprisingly]], she [[Prehensile Hair|uses her hair]] for [[Our Dragons Are Different|other]] [[Power Fist|things]] sometimes, which in turn makes this both an inversion and an aversion of the trope. And when she's doing some serious witchcraft, [[Fan Service|not much is left on her person nor to the imagination]].

* A good number of female demons/Personae in the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series; while the hand-drawn artwork in their profiles shows them in various (and detailed) stages of nudity, the actual character models have seemingly glued their hair to their chest.

* Felicia from ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' manages to combine this concept with [[Fur Bikini]].

* Therazane of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' does this, but considering [[Fan Disservice|her skin made of cracked rock and a smile of razor-sharp, purple crystals]], it's easy to overlook.

* Quelaag, one of the bosses from ''[[Dark Souls]]'', is a naked woman (With a horrible lava-spider for lower body) and rocks the Godiva Hair.

 

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Mermaid!Nanase is shown with [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-06 this] during a dream.

* [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_885.php This] ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures|Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures]]'' strip. And even more blatant two strips later, with the same character.

* Averted by Lady Godiva herself, in [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/danmazur/palindramas/series.php?view=archive&chapter=35039 this strip] of ''[[Palindramas]]''.

* Kili of ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' explodes out of her clothes when she turns into a werewolf recently. Fortunately, she's got very long hair now to cover her up when she [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716044840/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=666000 turns back].

* ''[[Blade Bunny]]'' wakes up with this in one strip.

* ''[[Too Much Information (webcomic)|Too Much Information]]'' has a [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|shoulder devil]], Cleopatra, who's [https://web.archive.org/web/20121017212549/http://tmi-comic.com/2007/02/26/coping/ a sexy demoness covered only by long tresses of flaming hair].

* An early ''[[Apple Geeks]]'' page has a nudist club having a party in one character's room, leading to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405091814/http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=35 this].

* ''[[Wayward Sons]]'': Cassandra removes her clothes to use her powers, resulting in this trope.

* Miho of ''[[Megatokyo]]'' has it when she goes to the bathhouse with Piro while fleeing her rabid fans.

 

* Used (and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]) in ''[[Family Guy]]'', providing us with this quote:

{{quote|'''Peter:''' Oh my God! She's got hair growing out of her boobs and up to her head!}}

* And on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', when Marge is Eve in a dream sequence. And whenever she's showering.

* This trope let ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' keep its TV-Y7 rating while showing Katara bathing. That and [[Scenery Censor|staying mostly underwater]].

* In the ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation: A.R.C.T.I.C.", after the KND are hit by a "[[The Nudifier|Nude Torpedo]]", Numbuh Three manages to cover herself ''completely'' with her long hair, like a cape.

* One episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' had Hank and Peggy visiting a nude campsite where they met two female nudists. One of which had long, straight brown hair that conveniently covered her breasts.

 

* Lucy Pinder, former [[Page Three Stunna]] and still "steaming hot" nude model, started the recent{{when}} "Hairkini" trend in England, with women covering up their nips with long, long hair.

* Ayumi Hamasaki (the current page image) had a CD poster of her with Godiva Hair.

 

== Male variant ==

* ''[[The Vision of Escaflowne]]'': In the anime, when emperor Dornkirk [[Fan Disservice|gets out of his machine naked]], the only thing leaving him some modesty is his massive beard. Averted in the manga when he gets an energist body, where his beard barely reaches his chest. However, we are treated to heavily shaded [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]].

 

* Sometimes Mr. Natural walks around naked, except his beard covers up the rude bits -- [[Fan Disservice|but not the back]].

* Also seen in one album of the [[Franco Belgian Comics|French comic book]] ''Marine'', with an old naked hermit living under the sea.

 

 

* [[Shel Silverstein]] once wrote a poem about a long-bearded nudist who takes advantage of this trope. The illustration is very much ''not'' fanservice.

 

* ''[[Adventure Time]]''

** The Ice King has once an [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]. Thankfully, his beard is inexplicably longer during that scene.