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== Advertising ==

* A Flash cartoon advertisement for a shower gel on French websites has a mother and daughter doing a [[media:Smoothie_1_9777.jpg|dance in modesty towels]]. With the last image, [[media:Smoothie_2_3595.jpg|the towels fall.]]

* Many spoofs of advertisements featuring towel-only clad models have appeared through the years. However, North Scott High School in Eldridge, Iowa, took this a step farther in the spring of 2002 when members of the school newspaper, ''The Lance'', published a "centerfold" featuring students -- including several 18-year-old male and female students -- dressed minimally, including some girls wrapped only in towels. Related pictures (which also appeared in a "minimal clothing calendar") appeared on the April 25, 2002, issue's back page. The student editor told the ''Moline Daily Dispatch'' that his staff had gotten the idea from reading ads for such items as perfume and shaving cream in magazines that circulated at the school's library. The resulting newspaper gained noteriety in the community for several days as several conservative-minded community members expressed their concern about the morality of the feature and, despite the absence of outright nudity and a disclaimer that the students ''were'' dressed, the fact that child pornography had inadvertently been published. (All of the students pictured in the issue were seniors, but the worry was that some had yet to turn 18.)

* A woman is painting a naked male model wearing only a towel over certain parts you can't show on TV, and she is even painting the towel on the portrait, but her biggest concern was the problem the model had, a discolored toenail. (This was, of course, an ad for a toenail fungus treatment.) If she wanted not to show that, why didn't she just have him wear a bathing suit or underpants?

* In the ''[[Love Hina]]'' manga, characters are normally naked when in the hot springs, while in the anime, they are often wrapped in towels. Evidently, even the [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|Barbie-doll bodies]] of the manga are too risqué for anime.

* [[Censor Steam]] aside, this was also quite common in Akamatsu's next work, the anime version of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', also done by Xebec. In the manga, however...

* Used on Meyrin Hawke in ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'', despite the fact that she's still wearing her underwear. A case of [[Invoked Trope]]: it's the old trick "can't open the door, I'm naked" women use when they hide someone pursued.

* [[Time Skip|Late into]] ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', there is a [[Fetish Fuel|fight scene in the prison bathroom]] between {{spoiler|[[Estrogen Brigade Bait|Simon and Viral]]}}, who are wearing nothing but ridiculously tiny towels.

** In ''Lagann-hen'' {{spoiler|the trope [http://i47.tinypic.com/30j413d.png returns], but with an added touch of [[Magic Skirt]]. Modesty towel indeed...}}

* In the ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' manga, when Touga sees Dios's power for the first time and decides to get close to Utena to find out more about it, he joins Utena's household as a "shimobe" (personal servant). The first time Utena hears of this is the next day, when he waltzes out of her shower, clad only in a [[Modesty Towel]].

* Pacifica Casull from ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'' has an odd habit of bathing with a towel wrapped around her.

* Present on every character during the [[Hot Springs Episode]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', though absent... [[Furo Scene|everywhere]] [[Shower Scene|else]].

* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', when France goes around in the Christmas Special, he catches Spain in the shower. He pulls the curtain towards himself, but only manages to cover his crotch.

** He also suffers frequent [[Clothing Damage]], but that's a different trope altogether.

* While the title character of ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' [[Shameless Fanservice Girl|really couldn't care less]], Akane will wrap her in a towel anyway. Even if there's nobody but girls in the room.

** Akane herself dons the Modesty Towel quite a bit.

* One scene of Goku bathing in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' is censored with the use of a digital towel. They even animate it falling off to the ground as Goku jumps in. That is to say, animated it POORLY.

** Depends on the dub, because in the Latin-American one it went uncensored.

* Used [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilariously]] in one episode of ''[[Sailor Moon]] Stars''. When Seiya is hanging out at Usagi's house while her parents are out (it's completely innocent, don't look at me like that...), Chibi-Chibi spills cake all over him, so he uses her shower to clean himself up while his clothes are being washed. Meanwhile, the other girls show up... just in time for him to come out of the shower in what appears to be the tiniest towel on the face of the earth, asking where his clothes are. Then Chibi-Chibi complains that he's using her towel and proceeds to do her best to get it away from him. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** Used even earlier in the [[Hot Springs Episode]] of the first season. Shingo is embarrassed about wearing one, and when Usagi teases him about it, he retaliates by stealing hers and leaving Usagi naked.

* One gets applied in the Anime Adaption of ''[[Eiken]]'', but ''[[You Should Know This Already|Eiken]]'' [[Gag Boobs|being]] ''[[Up to Eleven|Eiken]]'', this barely covers the girl's front as opposed to wrap around..

* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' has these for all the guys during the [[Hot Springs Episode|Hot Springs Epic Battle]] in the OAV. Much to the fangirls' disappointment.

* After being pulled into the water {{spoiler|by Corphish}} in the episode "Gone Corphishin'", [[Pokémon|May]] appears briefly in one while the protagonists' clothes dried.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Nino]] wears one while bathing (outdoors) in ''[[Arakawa Under the Bridge]]'' (much to Ko/Ric's disappointment). She [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|didn't originally]], but one time she was getting in just as a police car went by, and it was "a pain".

 

 

== Fan Works ==

* The ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'' [[Slash Fic|Nirial]] fanfiction ''[http://sana-the-random.deviantart.com/art/WL-Wishes-161500825 Wishes]'' has Niall wishing he had one of these.

* One of the Figuretoons at OAFEnet showed [[X-Men|Wolverine]] wearing one of these towels [http://www.oafe.net/toons/0502/3.php on his way to the shower.]

 

** Ally Sheedy does much the same thing after skinnydipping in ''Maid to Order''. Hell, you can't afford to be too modest when your ass is the only reason to see the movie.

* Used to keep a PG rating in ''[[Enchanted]]'' ([[Rule of Funny|and also because it's funny]]), when Robert ''accidentally'' walks in on Giselle stepping out of the shower. Two doves move a towel in front of her ''just'' as he opens the door.

** Reed gets an [[Accidental Pervert]] moment as he accidentally walks in on Sue when she's about to get into the shower. She responds by clutching the towel to her and simultaneously turning invisible... you'd think one of the two would be enough, but maybe it was just reflex.

** Subverted in the sequel, where Johnny comes out a shower room wrapped in a towel and is accosted by the female military officer he's had his eye on. Johnny insists she was waiting there on purpose to catch him in the nude. Seeing as how he's played by Chris Evans, [[Even the Guys Want Him|who]] [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|wouldn't]]?

** There was a commercial for ''Bad Company'' where Chris Rock ends up pulling the same gag.

* Speaking of Chris... Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker fight like this in a bath house during the second ''Rush Hour'' movie, replacing towels with bath robes. (They end up being thrown out naked anyway.)

* Some film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme had a fight in a bathhouse where everyone involved is wearing the typical towel skirt. At one point there is an "upskirt" shot that makes it obvious that they are still wearing underpants.

* Lampshaded and lampooned in [[The Three Stooges]] short film ''A-Plumbing We Will Go''. Curly has to evict a bather from a shower he needs to repair. After some bantering with the bather, Curly loses his patience and pulls the shower curtain, to reveal that the occupant had been showering with a towel already wrapped around him.

* In ''Youngblood'', Rob Lowe's towel falls off [[Eating the Eye Candy|to the delight of Cynthia Gibb.]]

* In ''What's Up, Tiger Lily?'', Teri is in Phil's apartment, wearing only a towel:

{{quote| '''Teri:''' ''(seductively)'' Name three presidents.<br />

'''Phil:''' Roosevelt, Mc Kinley... ''(opens towel)'' ...Lincoln? }}

* In ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'', Joan Wilder emerges from the shower with a towel around her.

* Subverted by [http://ancensored.com/clip/clip-savage-beach-sexy-beauty Maxine Wasa] in ''Savage Beach'' when she wraps a towel around her [[Waist/NSFW]]

* Played straight in an episode of ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' when one of the title characters spent a good part of the episode wearing a towel that reached from his ankles to his ribs. Was it a towel or a carpet??

* This is standard practice in Japan on documentary or magazine TV shows that show public baths or hot spring resorts. While no one actually wears towels in the water at these baths in real life, the presenters or celebrities are shown wearing towels in the typical male or female style. There's even often a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen saying "Towels have been used for the purposes of filming", as if to reassure the viewer that this isn't some weird prudish resort, and they do allow good old-fashioned nudity in real life.

* Hilariously subverted in an episode of ''[[Lucky Louie]]'' where a male character enters the kitchen wearing a towel the way a woman would, the "hem" barely concealing his package. Then, standing with his crotch a foot in front of Louie's face he casually bends backward revealing what the towel was meant to conceal.

* In Series Five of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor, under the (mistaken) impression that his roommate is being attacked, races out of the shower to rescue him, barely managing to wrap a towel around his waist beforehand. Considering that this is the [[No Sense of Personal Space|Eleventh]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Doctor]], it is rather impressive that he remembered to grab a towel at all.

** Mitsuru also comes out of her private shower (the only one in the dorm, at that) and lounges around in a towel while musing about her friends and fashion. She only doffs it when she walks out of frame again... which is lucky, since she was being recorded by a surveillance camera and was none the wiser.

* ''[[Persona 4]]'' uses this for its [[Hot Springs Episode|hot spring scene]] as well.

* ''[[Maple Story]]'' has these as an equip. [[Lethal Joke Item|Oddly enough]], it's one of the best items a [[Min-Maxing|pure]] can have/make, as it's one of the few relatively cheap pieces of overall armor that can be scrolled numerous times for a specific stat.

* One of the people you must possess in ''[[Geist]]'' is a woman taking a shower. After you scare her out of the shower, she wraps a towel around herself. After scaring her a bit more and possessing her, you have to go get dressed before she'll leave the locker room.

* In ''[[The Sims 3]]'', if a character has their clothes stolen while skinny dipping, they immediately cover up in one of these on emerging from the pool.

* [[Ar Tonelico]] features [[Modesty Towel]] as a ''battle costume'' for Aurica. Somehow, it gives away most stats of all her clothes selection.

* Elh wears one during the two [[Shower of Awkward]] scenes in ''[[Solatorobo]]''. It's perhaps implied that Red tried to steal it the first time.

 

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[Misfile]]''

** One of these [http://www.misfile.com/?page=395 here.]

** And again [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1456 here], in Ash's case, anyway. Missi is anything but modest with her towel.

** Haley wears one for a gag on the bottom of [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0277.html this strip].

{{quote| '''Haley:''' Zfq bq nzml? (Are we back?)}}

* ''[[Okashina Okashi]]'', with its [[Bishie Sparkle|sparkly]] [[Bishounen|bishie]] waiters at Beauty Man Garden.

* ''[[Out There]]'': Miriam on occasion, others (like Sherry) less frequently [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20070901.html\]

* "Around the Universe in a Bath Towel" is the fourth ''[[Girls in Space]]'' story. Scarlet "Red" Macrumble spends almost the entire story wearing only a modesty towel.

* On [http://flyingsparkscomic.com/archive/issue-4-page-1/ the first page of issue 4] of ''Flying Sparks'', Johnny Benvinuti has just come out of the shower wearing only a towel, which suddenly slips off his body.

 

** Yumi Ishiyama is seen in a Modesty Towel in at least two episodes, most notably the first. To be fair, the boys are seen wearing one even more often over the run of the series.

** One particular scene (which became [[Fan Service]] fuel to nearly all the girls watching it) near the end of the episode "Bragging Rights" had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNAeQg0P6q8 Odd dancing around for "breaking the record of fastest shower"], while wearing only a [[Modesty Towel]]. For some reason, many fangirls wanted that towel to fall off.

** This is the villain who has a rubber ducky in his bathtub. ''Beast Wars'' sometimes does invoke the [[Rule of Funny]].

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'''s "Gaming the System" has Candace fighting off video game villains in one that stays put. [[Fridge Logic|Technically, she even went on her]] ''[[Fridge Logic|date]]'' [[Fridge Logic|wearing it under her dress.]] That must have been kind of uncomfortable to dance in. (Well, that or she went on the date with nothing underneath.)

* Helia is seen in one during episode 21 of the third season of ''[[Winx Club]]''. Perhaps it was a little [[Fan Service]], since we hadn't seen him much in that season.

* [[Bugs Bunny]], who is always naked except for his gloves, wears one in the short ''The Wabbit Who Came to Supper'', during a scene in which he's coming out of the shower.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart Gets Famous": When Homer comes out of the shower at the nuclear plant to answer the phone: "You'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel."

* [[Played for Laughs]] with Jimmy Five during the first half of a ''[[Monica's Gang]]'' cartoon named "Quero Entrar" ("Let Me In").

* In one episode of ''[[Justice League]]'', Green Lantern visits an old friend of his and is introduced to his pretty fiancée, who had stepped out from the showers with nothing but a towel.

* Used by Judy Funnie in ''[[Doug]]'' when she's waiting for Doug to get out of the bathroom so she can take a shower.

'''Archer:''' We touched penises.<br />

'''Lana:''' Glossing over! }}

 

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