This happens in the Game Boy Advance game Disney Princess to 4 princesses Snow White, Belle, Aurora (as Briar Rose), and Cinderella after they drop down from a distance. A male variation: the Looney Tunes short "Injun Trouble" has Sloppy Moe's suspenders serving as a parachute. Often a form of Improvised Parachute, but just as often it's accidental. Compare Parasol Parachute (often found on similar sorts of characters). Baby Piggy in Muppet Babies (1984), as she told her version of the Lewis Carroll 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.

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Team Umizoomi Milli's dress balloons out briefly for a few seconds despite having no petticoats when she jumps in the episodes "The Rolling Toy Parade", "Special Delivery", "The Butterfly Dance Show", "The Elephant Sprinkler", "Playground Heroes", "Favorite Things Show", "The Big Boat Race" , "Shark Car", and "Umi Toy Store". This serves as a Shout-Out to Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: In "School Daze", this happens to Sabrina when she escapes from an air vent. Molly Coddle in the Bump in the Night episode, "Party Poopers". While she and Mr. Bumpy are falling, her dress suddenly puffs up and becomes longer, as Mr. Bumpy holds on to her leg and they descend, and land, safely.

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And in the sequel, three of her four possible jumps involve this trope as a way to cross long distances. 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 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 "full exposure." See Marlene's Tunic Chute in all its glory ◊. It was also used for Brooke Shields's guest appearance on The Muppet Show where she sang as Alice falling down the rabbit hole . Beauty and the Beast (1934) has a variant where the pajama-clad little girl has her descent slowed down by having her dropseat function as a parachute, exposing her bottom in the process. Elena of Avalor In the episode "Heart of the Jaguar" Princess Isabel was shrunken by her cowardice and fell through a trap hole set by the jaguar when attempting to trade the heart of the jaguar for the crown jewel, her skirt acts as a parachute during the fall, slowing her descent.

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In Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, while not a gameplay feature, Peach's dress does this again in the cut-scene after uncorking Terra Flora's water volcano. Falling is a very unladylike activity on the whole. There's lots of tumbling and screaming, your hair and clothes get ruined, and there's the danger people below may see your underwear. This trope offers an alternative for the more ladylike and feminine of tumblers, especially Princess characters with a Pimped-Out Dress. Basically, a character's dress or skirt flares out in mid-air, forming a parachute shape and somehow slowing their descent. Lagenlook Clothing UK is a UK company based in North Wales. We are a family run business with over 30 years experience in retail and textiles. At the end of the Kim Possible half-episode "Rufus in Show" Kim presses a button so her spy suit becomes a dress to serve this function, and is motorized compared to all the others.The Alice in Hanna-Barbera's 1966 special Alice In Wonderland, or: What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? effects this even though she's in a dress a normal little girl in 1966 would wear. Here she's holding her skirt and slip down as she slowly descends the rabbit hole, only billowing up from the rear. Beatrice can pull this maneuver off in Umineko: Golden Fantasia, making it handy for avoiding further punishment.