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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Jet Dream (Comic Book)|Jet Dream]]'': In one story, Marlene's dress billows out into a "Tunic Chute" to save her from falling off a cliff to her death. Technically not "improvised," but a piece of [[Shoe Phone|spy gear]] ''designed'' for the purpose. It's a pretty goofy design, though, and one of the less "ladylike" examples, as just about ''any'' angle other than that chosen by the artist would give Marlene [[Panty Shot|"full exposure."]] [http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/5218/jd194.jpg See Marlene's Tunic Chute in all its glory].
* A ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Liloand Stitch]]'' comic from ''[[Disney Adventures (Magazine)|Disney Adventures]]''' Comic Zone has the characters playing with "jump jelly," goop that acts as a super-trampoline if charged with electricity. When [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Pleakley]] tries it, he wears one of Nani's dresses as a safety precaution. Stitch turns the electricity up and Pleakley bounces extra-high, using the dress as a parachute to float back down with.
 
== [[Film]]-Animated ==
* The falling scene as Alice falls down the rabbit hole in Disney's version of ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHte24GGHD4 (seen here)].
** It was also used for Brooke Shields's guest appearance on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' where she sang as Alice falling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFD3TkuPR8c down the rabbit hole].
** The few jumps across gaps with uprising wind in ''[[American McGee's Alice (Video Game)|American McGee's Alice]]'' also make use of the billowing uplift of the dress.
 
== [[Film]]-Live Action ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the first episode of ''[[Jack of All Trades (TV series)|Jack of All Trades]]'', Jack rescues President Jefferson's niece from a French fort in Canada. To escape the fort, Jack and the girl jump off a high cliff. They are saved because Jack grabs on to her feet and her skirt billows out to form a parachute. (Jack also gets an excellent view of her petticoats.)
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Princess [[The Legend of Zelda|Zelda]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros]].'' can use this to slow and control descents after being hit up.
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Princess Peach]] in ''[[Super Mario Bros 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 2]]'' uses this to hover in the air and make long jumps.
* Rachel Alucard in ''[[Blaz Blue]]''. Ironically, although she [[Parasol of Pain|wields an umbrella]] ([[Equippable Ally|a cat which turns into one, no less]]), she doesn't use a [[Parasol Parachute]], except in her intro poses.
* Alice of ''[[American McGee's Alice (Video Game)|American McGee's Alice]]'' uses her dress as a parachute to ride steam.
** And in the [[Alice: Madness Returns (Video Game)|sequel]], three of her four possible jumps involve this trope as a way to cross long distances.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Baby Piggy in ''[[Muppet Babies]]'', as she told her version of the Lewis Carrol story, had this happen to her own Alice character, her dress taking a parachute-like means as she fell down a rabbit-, er, I mean tadpole-hole.
* In ''[[Jem]]'', one of the Misfits videos "Lovesick" had Pizzazz do a parachute petticoat.
* At the end of the ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]]'' half-episode "Rufus in Show" Kim presses a button so her spy suit becomes a dress to serve this function.
* ''[[Rugrats (Animation)|Rugrats]]'' had Chuckie and Phil try this while wearing dresses for the first time. It actually worked for a second.
 
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