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In film and television, characters that have just bathed or showered will often be wrapped in towels to preserve their modesty. Men will wear the towel wrapped around the waist, usually reaching to the knees, while women will wear it from under the arms to the hips ,<ref> or knees, depending on how long the towel is</ref>, covering themselves up even if there is no-one else around.

This is often [[Truth in Television]]: those who are accustomed to doing so while others are around will often cover themselves out of habit, even if they are alone -- notalone—not to mention that if you've just stepped out of a hot shower, the rest of the bathroom's going to seem a bit chilly, not to mention it soaks up extra dampness from the body and hair. A woman will also often wrap a towel around her hair, and effeminate males are sometimes shown to wear towels in the feminine style [[Played for Laughs|for comic effect]] or to establish their [[Camp Gay|effeminacy]]. Female characters ''can'' wear their [[Modesty Towel|'''modesty towels]]''' in the masculine way (or a mock-up of that way, which has one towel around the breasts and another wrapped at the waist, [[Bare Your Midriff|baring the midriff]]), but this isn't done that often and will most likely be used for [[Fan Service]] (or to establish a female character as acting like "one of the guys").

* A Flash cartoon advertisement for a shower gel on French websites has a mother and daughter doing a [[media:Smoothie_1_9777Smoothie 1 9777.jpg|dance in modesty towels]]. With the last image, [[media:Smoothie_2_3595Smoothie 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 -- includingstudents—including several 18-year-old male and female students -- dressedstudents—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.)

* 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]].

* Game shows: Many game shows with models -- especiallymodels—especially if they're the beautiful, 20-something type -- willtype—will sometimes feature them wrapped in towels if they are modeling spas, saunas and similar prizes.

* ''[[Monday Night Football]]'': An infamous pre-show skit aired November 15, 2004, as a takeoff of Nicolette Sheridan's Edie Britt character on ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''. Sheridan, in-character as Edie and dressed only in a towel, enters the Philadelpia Eagles locker room and seduces wide receiver Terrell Owens. Owens remains focused until Edie takes it off ... takes it ''all off'', after which Owens remarks that the Eagles "are gonna have to win this game without me" as an estatic Edie jumps into Owens' arms. Afterward, two women -- perhapswomen—perhaps reflecting the soon-to-come negative criticism over the incident (and it did come, despite the absence of outright nudity) -- scoff at the skit before shouting to the camera, "Are you ready for some football?!"

** In one episode ("Home, Part II"), Number Six uses an interesting variant -- avariant—a Modesty ''Chair'' which she straddles backward -- whenbackward—when she talks with Baltar.

* A week after the Terrell Owens-Nicolette Sheridan ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' "towel skit" aired and gained negative criticism by conservative critics and women's groups, a parody skit aired on ''[[Monday Night Raw]]''. Shelton Benjamin was initially in the Owens role, while -- despitewhile—despite wearing a nose brace due to a legit injury suffered a week earlier -- babeliciousearlier—babelicious blonde diva Trish Stratus was the towel-clad Edie Britt (Sheridan's ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' character), this time with Benjamin trying to prepare for a match and Trish doing her best to turn on her sexual charms. WWE owner [[Vince McMahon]] entered the locker room to express (mock) outrage, claiming the swift downfall of society would result by solely said actions being aired on TV. Benjamin walked off disgusted, and after he left McMahon immediately focused entirely on Trish ... who took it all off. Cue the ''Monday Night Football'' theme as an orgasmic McMahon gleefully said, "Are you ready for some wrestlin'?"

* In ''[[Secret Agent Clank]]'', [[Ratchet and Clank|Ratchet]] and the more humanoid enemies wear these in the showers (and lose them upon taking damage, leaving them with [[Censor Box|Censor Boxes]]es).

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

** 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.