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[[File:satine_feathered_dresssatine feathered dress.jpg|link=Moulin Rouge|frame|<small>Good thing that skirt covers the most important parts.</small> ]]
 
 
This is a skirt that wraps only partly around a lady's waist, thus making a crescent instead of a full circle.
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Contrast [[All-Encompassing Mantle]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Ken Akamatsu really likes this, going by the number of crescent-shaped skirts he throws into the costumes of the girls in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''
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* Satine's [[Pink Means Feminine|"Pink Diamonds"]] dress in ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' has a skirt of [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers|pink feathers]].
* Miss Kitty the Showgirl Mouse in ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' wears one of these during the "Let Me Be Good to You" musical number... in an animated [[Disney]] movie, no less.
* The Grand Councilwoman from ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|LiloandLilo and Stitch]]''.
* In ''[[White Christmas]]'', Judy wears a detachable one for the "Mandy" number.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Often worn in the ''Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows'', including one [https://web.archive.org/web/20130718172146/http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/ap/nyr15508121942.widec.jpg Tyra] [https://web.archive.org/web/20101224154053/http://vsholic.com/gallery/2003/2003_56.jpg Banks] wore that was [[Pretty in Mink|trimmed with white fox]].
* Centauri female court dress in ''[[Babylon 5]]''.
* Kahlan's supposedly practical traveling clothes in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]''.
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== [[Music Videos]] ==
* The wedding dress in the music video for [[Guns N' Roses]]' "November Rain".
* [http://z.about.com/d/golondon/1/0/9/D/-/-/Showgirl_Performance.jpg Some of]{{Dead link}} [http://i00.rnhh.de/eu/shared-images/rhaps/b/0/9/f/bc039df115fd96e42afd7cfbc1677dd3_510x462.jpg the outfits] that [[Kylie Minogue]] wore in her "Showgirl" concert.
 
== [[Theater]] ==
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== [[Toys]] ==
* The "Ready In Red" outfit for She-Ra from ''[[She -Ra: Princess of Power]]'' lets her wear her cape like this.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The fairy familiar in ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]''.
* Many outfits in ''[[Ragnarok Online]]''. In fact, a lot of [[MMORPGMassively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPGsMMORPG]]s seem to have this for some class outfits for ladies.
* ''[[EverQuest|Everquest 2]]'', while normally avoiding the women wear skimpy clothes cliche of MMORPGs, offers one of these skirts to female characters as a prestige item.
* All ''over'' the place in the designs for ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' -- and—and they're all ''male'', to boot: Warrior Of Light, The Emperor, Onion Knight, Squall Leonhart, Sephiroth, Kuja, and even ''Jecht.'' Most of them are at least wearing pants as well - unfortunately (or [[Your Mileage May Vary|fortunately]]), that doesn't include Kuja.
* ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'' has the Gunner Class/Job/Dresssphere which features this. It's also Yuna's default outfit.
** It also appears in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Dissidia Duodecil Final Fantasy]]''.
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* Judith of ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]''.
* The showgirl in ''[[Bloody Good Time]]''.
* [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]] has nearly every female demon and furniture wear a [[Showgirl Skirt]]. [[Villainous Crossdresser|And one trap]].
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* From the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', the [[Necromancer|Bone White Queen]], the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of Disease and the consort of the [[Complete Monster|Blood Red King]], wears a (naturally) bone-white [[Showgirl Skirt]] as part of her costume.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'': Hexadecimal trades her cape for one of these when she {{spoiler|assumes her Sprite {{spoiler|Spriteform}} form in Season 4.
* Shows up in, of all places, ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' when Pinkie Pie puts on a show for the Buffalo and the Appleloosan homesteaders in "Over a Barrel". The characters weren't too impressed with her [[Tastes Like Diabetes|cutesy song about sharing and understanding]], but fan reaction to Pinkie's dance hall girl outfit was predictable.
* In ''[[Transformers]]'', any female Transformer will have her kibble become this while in robot mode.
 
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* Child pageants will even have this, among other questionable costumes.
* If anyone has ever seen Northmead High School perform at Rock Eisteddfod...
* At least 2/3 of the female performers/background-singers at 2010's Eurovision Song Contest wore these.
 
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