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[[File:multiplex-367 966.png|link=Multiplex|frame| Of course the movie nerd would ''request'' a [[Lampshade Hanging|modesty]] [[Deconstructive Parody|bedsheet]].]]
{{quote|"''Sexy women would "happen" to be topless in the 1970s movies for no better reason than that everyone agreed, including themselves, that their breasts were a genuine pleasure to regard
▲{{quote|"''Sexy women would "happen" to be topless in the 1970s movies for no better reason than that everyone agreed, including themselves, that their breasts were a genuine pleasure to regard -- the most beautiful naturally occurring shapes in nature, I believe. Now we see breasts only in serious films, for expressing reasons. There's been such a comeback for the strategically positioned bed sheet, you'd think we were back in the 1950s.''"|'''[[Roger Ebert]]''', [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091014/REVIEWS/910149998 reviewing Black Dynamite].}}
A nude character gets out of bed and wraps up in a sheet pulled from the bed to avoid exposing nudity to a sex-partner and, coincidentally, to the viewer.
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Somebody, somewhere, may have actually done this in real life. Once. Maybe. It's of course largely illogical, as they've already seen each other completely naked. It's equally illogical when a character is actually all ''alone''—although a chilly bedroom might be a possible explanation.
Also, when a man and a woman are nude in bed together, the sheet falls to the man's waist but covers the woman's bust. Somebody in TV land must be selling L-shaped sheets. This version of the trope is also known as the ''His 'n' Hers Bedsheet''. There's also the unisex bedsheet that also falls to the woman's waist and leaves her bust uncovered. The latter was
Another way to serve the same purpose is to leave the actress' bra on (which is probably just as rare in real life as dragging the sheet off with you). Sarah Jessica Parker was criticized during the run of ''[[Sex and the City]]'' for relying on these techniques to avoid topless scenes, which her co-stars did perform.
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See also [[Scenery Censor]], [[Modesty Towel]], [[Modesty Rags]], and [[Right Through His Pants]]. Compare [[Toplessness From the Back]], another way of showing nudity without showing ''nudity''.
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== Advertising ==
* The unisex bedsheet is featured in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRAxqtWib4c this] Anne Klein commercial.
== Anime & Manga ==
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* Chase Meridian from ''[[Batman Forever]]''.
* Alan in ''[[The Hangover]]'' makes a sort of improvised bedsheet skirt when he can't find his pants.
* The unisex bedsheet is used in the Roger Corman films ''The Student Nurses'' and ''Candy Stripe Nurses''. In ''The Student Nurses'', [http://ancensored.com/clip/clip-student-nurses-phred-0 the bedsheet's pulled up to Karen Carlson's waist]{{Dead link}}([[NSFW]]) when she goes to bed with the wrong doctor. [http://ancensored.com/clip/clip-student-nurses-phred When she gets busy with the right doctor she walks naked from the bed to the chair and turns on a lamp because she now insists on having sex with the lights on.]{{Dead link}}([[NSFW]]) In ''Candy Stripe Nurses'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120815194317/http://ancensored.com/clip/clip-candy-stripe-nurses-sandy-1 Candace Rialson's laying on a bed with the sheet pulled up to her stomach after having sex with a guy.]([[NSFW]]) and when Robin Mattson climbs into bed with Rod Hasse [http://ancensored.com/clip/Candy-Stripe-Nurses/Robin-Mattson/7668 the bedsheet] only reaches their waists.([[NSFW]]).
* Utilized in the PBS filmed version of the musical ''Passion'' for the opening scene. While Clara and Georgio are shown having sex with her on top as the curtain rises, her back is to the audience, and the sheets are conveniently arranged so you never see Marin Mazzie's breasts. Averted in the actual play
* Occurs in the ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' after Frank catches Janet and Rocky having sex. But warranted, as the ''entire cast'' comes to gawk at them.
* Laetitia Casta playing Brigitte Bardot does a phenomenally sexy dance with a modesty bedsheet in the French film [[Gainsbourg]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110829060219/http://en.vidivodo.com/410437/laetitia-casta-and-eric-elmosnino-_-gainsbourg Video here (NSFW)].
* Utilized in [[The Movie|the film of]] [[The Runaways]] by Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie.
* Averted (possibly accidentally) in ''The Woman in Red'' where Kelly [[Le Brock]] gets out of bed and pulls up the sheet to cover herself. Unfortunately - or perhaps not - the sheet briefly snags on something and while she is able to conceal her breasts, her pubic hair is visible.
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== Webcomics ==
* Used without apparent irony in ''[[What Birds Know]]'', [http://fribergthorelli.com/wbk/index.php/page-190/ here] and [http://fribergthorelli.com/wbk/index.php/page-191/ here].
* [[Dominic Deegan]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140912141928/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-07-13 also bought one].
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0622.html This] ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' comic.
* Both varieties are used in ''[[How I Became Yours]]'', both in chapter 4. L-shaped sheets are used in a scene between Zuko and Katara, and Toph covers her naked self with her bedsheets just before the Taang love scene.
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* ''[[Concession]]'': [http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20070309 Incredibly disturbing variation (link is not worksafe or brainsafe)]. {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Technically there was no need for the modesty bedsheet]], either.}}
* In ''[[Looking for Group]]'', Benny gets one on [http://lfgcomic.com/page/208 page 208.]
* In ''[[Out There]]'', characters (mostly the females) are sometimes shown bathing, undressing, or lounging in bed. Usually they are seen from the shoulders up, or from the rear (so that [[Toplessness From the Back|only a naked back is visible]]); otherwise, a bedsheet provides cover. Interestingly, Rebecca and Wally, the only ''married'' couple in the strip, are also the only people ever portrayed under the sheets ''together'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20180216151425/http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20100428.html
* In ''[[Rhapsodies]]'', Kate uses one after a night of [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=1872 fun] as does Paul, [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=554 when] he finds himself [[Not Staying for Breakfast|alone]] in a [[What Did I Do Last Night?|strange bedroom]].
* Averted in [
* Used by one girl in [https://web.archive.org/web/20121126064939/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/5009523/ this comic] of ''[[The KAMics]]'' (the other girl uses a pillow.)
* Used in the last comic on [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php?view=archive&chapter=33564 this page] of ''[[Skin Horse]]'', though the bedsheet goes almost up to the man's chest. A more traditional female-chest/male-waist version appears in the following comic (though perhaps justified in that the woman is somewhat ashamed of what she did).
* Despite being fully-clothed, [[Dubious Company]]'s Elly pulls the bedsheet over his chest during Raque's [[Epic Fail|attempt]] at [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?|seduction]].
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