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 ◊. 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. In Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Belle's dress balloons out for a very brief moment to slow her descent during "Stories". That said, Belle's dress acting as a parachute was only part of a storybook-like sequence and Belle does not actually float down with her dress in the movie's main story.

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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. In Ralph Breaks the Internet, this happens to Vanellope after descending from the sky during "Slaughter Race", and the princesses use 4 dresses to make a parachute to save Ralph. Beatrice can pull this maneuver off in Umineko: Golden Fantasia, making it handy for avoiding further punishment.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. 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.

Parachutes and Petticoats - Exploring a peculiar NL legend

The falling scene as Alice falls down the rabbit hole as her dress balloons out like a parachute which causes her to float in Disney's version of Alice in Wonderland (seen here) . This trope is used to explain why she falls slowly enough to look around her and ruminate on the whole situation, which in the book goes unexplained.

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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. In the Pucca, episode "Chef-Napped!", when Pucca and Garu are falling down a trap door, Pucca's dress billows like a parachute, causing her to float safely. 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.