Films and TV shows featuring tight skirts

Last updated 16th January 2005

Ellen Barkin in tight houndstooth suit

"Addicted to Love" - notorious Eighties video by Robert Palmer. Featured a backing group of four blank-faced, very beautiful girl musicians who may or may not have been able to play the instruments they were miming to but certainly were packed into the tightest possible black Lycra minidresses - the epitome of the Eighties Lycra fashion!

"A Little Bit" - by Jessica Simpson. Suggested by "JDWB", who says "she is wearing a short tight purple miniskirt for most of the video."

"Back Street Pickup" - WB says this is "by The Angels Glitzy skirt - briefly viewed as a girl gets into a car."

"Chain Reaction" by Diana Ross - how could I have missed this out? This was one of the great events of my teens! The beautiful Miss Ross sheathed in absolutely the tightest possible dress, cherry-red silk and skin-tight to the ankle, then bursting out in an explosion of tulle ruffles. And she manages to dance in it too! There is another tight dress (silver, with sequins) at the end.

"Corazón espinado" - suggested by "Martinez", who couldn't recall the name of the artist. He remembered that a "Dark haired beauty of Mexico City dresses up in a blue-denim, narrow mini skirt and long boots on high heels, goes out of her home, takes her place in her green Dodge charger '68 and starts a trip to the setting sun. On the guitar plays Santana, Carlos Santana."

"Dominion" by the Sisters of Mercy is also recommended by "Martinez". He says they were "a band which I remember from the second half of the 80's when I was a teenager, who made this video clip in a legendary ancient Jordanian city called Petra. A dark haired woman, who plays in this band on keyboards (I'm not right), appears in a white, knee length skirt suit with short jacket; it is narrow but not very tight, however, it looks fine."

"Dominion" - another recommendation from "Martinez". He describes it as "The best tight skirt video clip I have ever seen - unfortunately only once. The song is sung by Paul Hardcastle, jazz and film's music composer. In the second half of 80's he engaged as a vocalist a beautiful young black lady who appears in this clip wearing a range of tight skirts and dresses made of latex and PVC and high heeled shoes! In the beginning we have her in a black rocker jacket and a red knee length skirt (as you expect - second skin of tightness), a while after - in tapered white long mermaid gown. The last scene drove me to the edge of catatonia: wearing yellow latex knee length dress, she turns her back, takes a hand of Paul Hardcastle and they both go out of a view of camera - two pieces of her latex dress aparted by a middle length slit, following the movement of her legs!"

"Flying Elvis" - this was reported by contributor Chris. He wrote to tell me about it: "a new music video by a female artist named lieni {think thats right) its called flying elvis in which she is dressed as a fifties air hostess and getting the male passingers hot under the coller with her tight pencil skirt". It sounds exactly my sort of thing though I have not been lucky enough to see it myself.

"Giving Him Something He can Feel" - Mike69gt6 says that this is a video by En Vogue "which features all four members in very tight red dresses dancing seductively."

"Heartbreaker" by Mariah Carey is strongly recommended by "Silenced", who says it "features a nice tight skirt scene where Evil Mariah fights girly Mariah."

"Hippy Hippy Shake" - suggested by "Martinez". He applauds "Rock'n'Roll - Tight'n'Mini skirts - an ideal connection! A group called the Georgia Satellites are performing a song composed probably by The Swinging Blue Jeans in the middle of sixties. The Satellites play boogie-metal, a little similar to Van Halen, typical (as I heard) for some areas of USA, where Ladies are still Ladies and gentlemen are still gentlemen (how originally it was for my country - the place of an androgynous cult!). When I heard this song first time in the beginning of the 90's it was out of my taste, but nowadays - in the time of hip-hop and other trash - it sounds pretty nice. The video clip is black and white; the action is set in a pub - the band plays on the stage and the camera shows at the rear a crowd of beauties in tight mini skirts, usually made of shiny leather and denim. One of the scenes is extremely dangerous - a couple of girls wearing these outfits get up out of the bar's seats slowly shaking, as the title describes, their hips.
"I think this Georgia Satellites clip could be dear to the sensitive hearts of each young fair lady and every gentle swain!"

"Human Nature" - a Madonna song recommended by "Martinez". "Madonna's clip, of which I was reminded after visiting Arwen's pages. It was produced in the middle of the 90's (I suppose) - Madonna wears a black corset, impossibly tight black latex skirt and high boots. In one of hands she holds a crop (!)."

"I Want To Dance With Somebody" by Whitney Houston, from the 1980s, was recommended by "rg70" because it "has many shots with her in a tight black dress".

"Ka-Ching" - from the video of this song "Martinez remembers "Shania Twain in a very glamourous, very red and very tapered, long mermaid gown.".

"Kleine Maus" - "Martinez" describes this as "An example of horrible German-taste dance music from the middle of the Nineties, featuring a beauty called Blumchen. I remember those clip because of her, wearing a black just over the knee shining second-skin latex dress and long white socks!"

"Lily Was Here" - WB says this is "by David A Stewart and Candy Dulfer Black and white striped, off the shoulder dress - nice pan of the dress."

"Material Girl" - I remember this when it first came out and didn't think there was a tight skirt in it. "Martinez", however, watched the whole thing and knows better. He reminds us that the singer was "of course: Madonna. A lot of people remember this one usually due to her copying Marilyn Monroe's style from the performance of the song ‘Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend’. Madonna wears, similar to Marylin's one, a pink gown made of silk, but I do not think it's tight. In the last scene of a clip, we have her going out of a film's studio dressed in very fitted white skirt cut just below the knees, a white sweater and white lace gloves."

"Pink Cadillac" - suggested by Juan MTM. This came out in 1987/8, and he says that it is by "the beautiful and tall singer Natalie Cole. She appears there in a wonderful leather miniskirt very tight and she 'dwarfs' both male and female dancers besides her.."

"Venus" - already a classic hit (though I don't know who for) when Bananarama took it over in 1986. Pete Waterman accurately described the accompanying video as "sex on a stick", and though he drew particular attention to the singer gyrating in a skin-tight red PVC catsuit with matching corset and devil horns, there's also a very glamorous tight sheath dress a little further on. A clip I saw in a programme about these women showed me that at the 1986 BPI Awards Bananarama did a song in classic, spectacular tight shiny stretch dresses, but how anyone could get hold of the film of this I don't know.

"What Are You Doing With A Fool Like Me" - WB says this is "by Joe Cocker Lots of ladies wearing 80s style tight black lycra dresses."

"Who's That Girl" - I don't like Madonna and by the time this came out I wasn't looking at pop videos, so I never saw it. "Martinez", however, has a report. It is "another clip of Madonna from the mid-80's accompanying a song from the film ‘Desperatly Seeking Susan’. In one scene Madonna appears in white, shining, around knees and genuinely tailored dress and stilettos. Miaow ..."

"You Do Me" - WB says this is "by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Jill Jones Jill wears two lycra dresses - one blue and one green. Not so tight at the skirt end but still nice. Some shots in black and white."

"You'll See" - another Madonna video of which "Martinez" brought back an intriguing report. "Another Madonna video, made in the first half of 90's - I guess - while she was fascinated by Evita Peron. The action is in Argentina or Spain, and she plays the role of a lady, who falls in love with a famous torrero. Madonna wears glamorous skirted tailored suits in the style of the Fifties with beautiful hats and gloves."

ZZ Top Greatest Hits - The Video Collection - HL tells me that this is available in Blockbuster Video and a good source of tight miniskirts.

Above Suspicion (1995) - now a rather unfortunate film, since Christopher Reeve plays a man paralysed and confined to a wheelchair a year or so before he ended up playing that part for real. His pretty, long-haired wife is played by Kim Cattrall, and as some kind of businesswoman she has some very smart but also sexy tight skirted suits. One has no slit to its skirt and the resulting walk as she hurries away across the grass is extremely exciting to watch if not very effective at covering the ground!

The Accused (1988) - Jodie Foster in one of her best roles in an excellent, though harrowing, movie. RJS reminds me that "Jodie wears a very sexy tight jeans miniskirt in the rape-scene, although it isn't always clearly visible of course. Both Jodie and Kelly wear some sexy tight suits and skirts during the court room scenes", and I also remember Jodie Foster wearing tight jeans at some places.

Acting on Impulse (?) - DWM recommends this film as it "has a few nice tight skirts on the main character who plays a beautiful celebrity who has become rather disenfranchised. [Means "lacking in the right to vote" - Webmaster's note.] There's a nice leopard print miniskirt on her for quite a while, which is topped by a biker-style leather jacket. There's also a tightly-stretched black spandex mini on the same woman."

Action (contemporary TV series) - a US sitcom which I loved, not least because of the lack of any canned laughter. The second episode has the central character's new assistant, his resident prostitute, joining him in his film production office wearing a tight dark red leather minisuit.

Adam and Eve's House Party (?) - DWM recommends this porn movie for those whose ambition it is to see a woman having sex while wearing a sexy skirt. "It featured a straight sex scene with a girl in a blue latex top and skirt. The top came off but the skirt stayed on her the whole time. The scene was done exactly how it should be done! After all, the skirt during the sex was just an insignificant scrunching of rubber around her hips."

The Addams Family - Sixties American TV series; later two big-budget comedy films (the second called Addams Family Values.) In the TV series and both films, the character Morticia (played by Anjelica Huston in the film) appears in a tight black dress with a long hobbling skirt. "David" tells me that there is a third in the series, Addams Family Reunion, in which Morticia is played by Darryl Hannah in a tight dress; it apparently went "straight to video".

Adrian Mole - The Cappucino Years (UK TV series 2001) - I found this absolutely unwatchable, but the glamorous busty blonde young "Blair Babe" MP Dr Pandora Braithwaite is played by Helen Baxendale and in episode 2 I saw her modelling both a tight minidress and a tight pink satin minisuit. [Note to foreign readers: this listing will only make sense to fellow-Britons, and you don't have to worry because the series is so British it's very unlikely to be sold abroad anyway.]

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane - see under Ford Fairlane.

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) - apparently an expensive remake with elaborate computer graphics of the cheaply made cartoon which, it has to be said, Matt Groening of the Simpsons enormously admired. Its relevance to this page is star Rene Russo: David O explains that "All of Ms Russo's skirts are Mid-calf red-ish purple, tapered tight to then slightly flaring out below the knee."

After Hours (1986) - OK says that "there's a woman tied up in a scene and she wears a short, black ls laced at the sides. It's maybe 2 min."

The Age of Innocence (1994?) - Michelle Pfeiffer and others wearing dresses in the styles of the mid-1870's (see the History page) with corseted bodices and long tight skirts.

An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) - a silly UK made comedy, which gains its place here thanks to Diana Dors. There is a long sequence in the middle of the film at some grand evening occasion, for which Miss Dors wears a divine top-glamour evening white gown with a tight, boned, jewel-encrusted bodice and a tight ankle-length sheath skirt in which she walks gracefully but with very small steps. The final touches are given by a pair of second-skin opera-length evening gloves and a bustle at the back of the waist from which hangs a sumptuous white net train.

All That Jazz (1979) - I have never seen this film, but "David" left me a message in the guestbook pointing me at it. He said "i just saw All That Jazz in which a young lady walks down a ramp in a long silver sequined sheath." Sounds nice!

Ally McBeal (contemporary) - US TV series. Ally herself has a tendency to A-line miniskirts which I particularly detest, but she often works with a poised and beautiful blonde lawyer called Georgia, played by Courtney Thorne-Smith, whose taste runs to beautifully tailored and very tight suits.

Angel 4 (1994) - "LinePal" tells me that "The film is set in Calif. and the main characters are dressed in rubber dresses (syren) and leather throughout the film. One scene in particular a rock singer slowly undresses a latex clad (mini-dress) actress. And a club scene with several rubberized and leather clad partygoers".

Animals (2002) - a silly, silly film, but there is a brief scene with the beautiful, beautiful Marisa Taylor Kaplan in a tight, tight dress. She walks down the street, drops some of her shopping, bends over to pick it up, the camera does close-ups of her from front and rear, etc., all in slow motion.

Animal Instincts (?) - DWM says this is "a T[it]&A[ss] movie featuring T&A queen Shannon Whirry. There's tight skirts here and there throughout as there inevitably are in T&A movies. No leather." The webmaster of the Opera Gloves site adds that "Shannon Whirry does occasionally show up in tight skirts; in Animal Instincts II, she appears in a brief scene in a tight black gown with long black gloves." This brilliantly intellectual series continues with Animal Instincts III, evidently: he goes on to tell me that it is "Another T&A movie, as your correspondent put it, in which Wendy Schumacher, the star, appears in a backslit tight black evening gown with black opera gloves and backseamed stockings. (She has sex later while wearing the opera gloves.)".

Another Stakeout (1993) - comedy/thriller, sequel to Stakeout which I have never seen. Marcia Strassman appears as Pam, long-haired beautiful blonde neighbour to our eccentric heroes and heroine in the police. Most of the time she wears smart casual clothes, but there is one long sequence at a dinner party where she wears a classic Eighties-style ultra-tight black Lycra minidress with a wide belt.

Appoinment with a Killing (?) - this is just another name for Beyond Suspicion. It features Markie Post in a super-sexy ultra-tight shiny black leather minisuit.

April in Paris (1953) - Doris Day's rival for the hero's affections is a young lady of quality who appears in one scene wearing a Fifties suit with tight-waisted jacket and pencil skirt.

Arena (1953 and not to be confused with several other films of the same name) - K.R. told me about this one. "it was one of the early 3D movies , and feature an attractive girl wearing a yellow blouse, and a lovely tight skirt, all though the film,. the film is about a rodeo in texas. She is featured thoughout the film and takes delight in showing her skirt off"

Armed and Dangerous (1986) - a comedy film with John Candy, if you like him. If you don't, you may appreciate his and his friend's dates who wear classic Eighties tight, low-cut minidresses!

Artists and Models (1955) - long-standing supporter SW says that this film is "Tight skirt heaven" but gives no other details apart from a summary of the plot and cast.

As Good As Dead (1996) - "Willpath" recommends this film, "a made-for-TV (I think) American film with Traci Lords and Crystal Bernard, circa 1996. Semi-sluttish Traci wears several tight mini-outfits during the first 10 minutes; following Traci's death, and an identity switch, the more conservative Crystal is thereafter "forced" to wear Traci's outfits, which are always a little tighter and more revealing than sweet Crystal is used to.... From approximately 28 to 47 minutes into the film, our Crystal runs around L.A., occasionally adjusting her snug little skirts, tugging her hem down from time to time. Such a charming theme!"

¡Atame! (1990 Spain) - known in America as Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. Juan T tells me that in this film "a secondary female star that plays as a candy store seller wears an extremly tight black latex skirt. Furthermore, an "extra bonus" with the actress who plays as the "Film director assitant";she wears a black cotton mini skirt and looks some sexy." Having studied a series of reviews of this film on the Internet Movie Database I feel bound to add that some women found this film extraordinarily offensive.

The Avengers (1998) - the big-budget megaflop movie is meant here, not the original Sixties TV series. DWM advises me this should be on my list: "Uma Thurman as Emma Peel wears some tight skirts, including a cheongsam or two. She also appears to be wearing leather shorts or possibly a skirt but there's not a single clear shot of it. There are also some regular tight skirts on other women in the movie."

Avenging Angel (1985) - JDWB told me about this one. "In 1985 there was a Drama/Comedy called Avenging Angel starring Betsy Russell. She plays the daughter of a cop that was killed and goes undercover as a street-walker. Throughout the film she wears tight miniskirts, including purple leather, jean and various colors. Total of about five outfits with tight miniskirts. along with other actresses. It's been on TBS and TNN late night and I only know of one video store that carries it."

Back to the Beach (1997) - "LinePal" tells me that this film contains "several girls in BodyGlove neoprane Dresses ,skirts, tops, and swim wear throughout the movie plus a QUICK glimps of a tight leather dress."

Bad to the Bone (1997) - I thought this a silly film, but whoever wrote the review on the Internet Movie Database called it "great", so you might like it. However, I am not a film critic. It gets its place on this list because Kristy Swanson as the wicked rich girl wears a long clingy green dress in the middle of the film and shortly afterwards a smart tight olive suit. I lost patience then and went to bed so I don't know if there are any more tight skirts in it.

Baja Oklahoma (1988) - Lesley-Anne Warren appears as a part-time country singer who wears various tasty outfits including a fairly tight denim skirt, a tight red spangled dress, a very tight knee-length skirt to go out in the evening in which she sticks out her bum to the camera and wiggles it, and an ultra-tight short black leather skirt with lacing at the sides which she wears through much of the middle of the film. She puts it on for a funeral, at which she is joined by a girl friend in a tight pale blue suit.

Bartleby (2002) - A review of this I found gave some information which makes this film relevant: "Glenne Headly is terrific as the all-aware, tight-skirted secretary who coos and slithers around the office in order to please the boss who, she knows, controls her fate."

Basic Instinct (1992) - a correspondent says "How could anyone leave out this one? There's the famous scene in which Sharon Stone, wearing a very short, tight micromini dress, slowly crosses and uncrosses her legs....and she's clearly not wearing panties."

Bastard out of Carolina (?) - RJS has sent me a picture, showing Jennifer Jason Leigh in a brown pencil skirt. Does anyone else know anything about this film? I'd never heard of it before.

Beautiful but Dangerous (also known as La Donna Più Bella Del'Mondo) - Italian historical drama (circa 1955.) Gina Lollobrigida as a beauty of the 1880's appears in dresses with hourglass corseted bodices and floor-length tight skirts.

Bedroom Eyes (1984) - HdaS tells me that "the female psychiatrist treating the main character wears a different leather skirt every day. They're all below-the-knee, but she's quite attractive and looks great in them." I have seen this film myself and though the skirts are definitely leather they are not really tight.

Bedroom Eyes II (?) - HdaS says this film is also worth a look for tight skirt fans. "Towards the end of the movie, the yummy blonde who plays the wife of the lead character wears a tight yellow sweater and even tighter leather mini. Very nice."

Beginner's Luck (1935?) - VS sent in an extremely detailed account of this:

Being John Malkovich (2000) - the reports of this film rather put me off it as probably incomprehensible, but though I haven't seen it former featured model "Miss Houdini" brought it to my attention with a few words from the star, Cameron Diaz. Apparently she (Miss Diaz, not Miss Houdini) said:

Belle of the Nineties (1934) - "David" reported this one in my guestbook. "the belle of the ninties has may west standing on stage in a too-tight-to-move gown in front of a series culminating in the original of her statue-of-liberty pose." Mae West was famous for her tight dresses (and corsets) in Thirties Hollywood: she habitually had her costumes made too tight to sit down in without bursting a seam, and if it was absolutely necessary for her to sit during a take she would have the costume department make up a different dress which (just) allowed sitting, but use the can't-sit-down gown for all other scenes.

The Best of Everything (1959) - my fellow Fifties-lover "KJB" sent me some stills from this film showing a very well-dressed blonde hurrying about in a knee-length pink pencil suit.

Beverly Hills 90210 (US TV series) - "HL" says that this frequently features short tight skirts. More specific details I turned up on the Internet: apparently there is an episode in which one of the actresses goes to a party in a very tight "mermaid dress" and finds it restricts her movements. Does anyone know more about this episode? I found the reference to it here.

Beverley Hills Cop (1986?) - "HL" says that in this film there is a character worth looking at : "a pretty blond who plays a childhood friend of he Axel Foley character, and wears very tight jeans while reclining in bed in one scene, and short tight business suits and dresses in several others."

Beverley Hills Cop II (1990?) - "HL" says that "Bridgette Nielson wears tight leather miniskirts through most of this movie."

Beverley Hills Cop III (1994?) - Eddie Murphy's love interest is played by Theresa Randle in sexy office outfits with tight miniskirts; there's a great deal of this, if you care about such things!

Beyond Suspicion (?) - American TV movie about a murderous dentist. In one early scene his wife, played by Markie Post, wears an incredibly sexy tight black minisuit with a leather jacket which excited a lot of my readers when I posted a video clip of it that I couldn't identify; later on she is briefly seen wearing a tight stretchy knee-length blue dress to a garden party. This film is also known as Appointment with a Killing.

Big Business (1988) - Bette Midler as a she-devil executive in various power suits, often so tight they seem to be on the point of exploding, with narrow knee-length skirts and high heels.

The Big Hit (1995?) - I know nothing about this film apart from a video capture that contributor "Gerry_UK" sent in. This showed a curvy black woman hurrying elegantly down her garden path to her car, wearing a very tight, long-sleeved dress. He assures me that that is the only tight skirt sequence in the film, so don't rent it just for that, but if it's on TV it's worth seeing!

The Big Money (1956) - Fifties fan Joe B saw this on television and wrote in to tell me about it. "There is a night club scene with lots of ladies in long tight ballgowns, including a cabaret singer in a sexy clinging white dress. Belinda [Lee] herself features in the most memorable of tight skirt sequences: first in a soft clinging powder blue dress, then later in the most delicious salmon pink dress. She has a superlative figure for it: shapely breasts, a very slim waist and generous hips."

The Big Night (1997) - "Ariel", the artist, tells me that "Isabella Rosselini and Minnie Driver are in it and wear some nice tight 50's dresses." The webmaster of the Opera Gloves page describes this listing as "Confirmed. Minnie Driver wears a gorgeous gold dress (with, naturally, elbow-length white gloves) which is vidcapped in one of my galleries."

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) - one of Bill and Ted has a glamorous young stepmother, called Missy and played by one Amy Stock Poynter, who in the clip I've seen wore a sexy tight black leather miniskirt. Unlike most Western men of my generation, I think, I have never seen the film itself.

The Birds (1957?) - a notoriously nasty, scary film by Alfred Hitchcock. Don't watch if planning to buy a bird table. However, "moylan" says "In the Hitchcock film The Birds, Tippi Hedren goes to a shop to buy 2 love birds and the outfit she wears would fit your criteria for wow I think."

The Birds and the Bees (1960?) - JL says this film is worth a look for the tight skirt fan - it's one of his favourites. "Although the video cover shows Mitzi Gaynor in a loose skirt, the movie gives her two long and glorious tight skirt scenes. That sentence is ambiguous, but both meanings apply -- the scenes are long and glorious, and so are the skirts. The second tight skirt scene is a solo song and dance number."

Black Roses (1988) - KAG sent a helpfully detailed review of this film. "Tacky movie, but really cool soundtrack with a few cool special affects. The movie is about this really famous band (which happens to be demons) that comes to this quiet town to perform. Their real intention however is to turn the youth into chaotic images as well. I liked this movie because it has one of the main characters falls victim to the music and she eventually starts dressing the part in a tight black leather skirt. :) She is seen in this for probably about 10 - 15 minutes towards the end of the movie. Worth the rent at least for the sound track if any thing else (if you like 80's hard rock.)"

Blade Runner (1980?, reissued 1992) - two authorities suggest this expensive science-fiction film as an interesting experience for the tight skirt lover, but can give no details. I didn't remember anything from having seen it myself, but that doesn't mean they're wrong! Having watched it again I can identify what they are talking about: early in the film Sean Young comes on as android beauty Rachel, dressed in a Forties-style ensemble with elaborately rolled hair and a black suit with a big-shouldered jacket and a tight knee-length skirt, in which she moves about elegantly.

Blind Date (1959) - not to be confused with the Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger film of the same name. Supporter RJS has seen this film, and says "my eye caught a beautiful lady in a very sexy tight "fifties" suit. She was in a museum. A minute later she ran away and we see her running down the stairs that are in front of the museum; she is definitely strained by her just-below-knee-length skirt. She wore a short jacket, but just long enough to hide a possible back zipper. In the next scene she wears a fairly tight dark dress and strips to her slip."

Blindfold: Act Of Obsessions (1994) - RJS tells me that this film has Shannon Docherty in some interesting outfits, including "an ultratight red lycra dress"; later on there is an interesting scene where "she stands next to her car wearing an ultratight black suit with miniskirt, drops her keys and picks them up. This was just a short scene and only in the last seconds I looked in the shiny car to see that it was indeed an ultratight miniskirt. That was pretty much it I'm affraid... "

The Blonde (1992) - "HF" sent in an account of this film with Nastassja Kinski, in which she appears "wearing a wow leather miniskirt for several minutes and there are some nice views of her front and back, really, her skirt is very tight and lovable."

Blood Money (1988) - one of CH's many contributions to this page. He says it "features Ellen Barkin in a number of tight dresses (including a knockout beaded black dress, black hosiery and heels)."

Blow Dry (UK 2001) - comedy about hairdressers. A publicity picture I've got here shows Heidi Klum in an OTT fur-trimmed top, tight white microskirt, and platform heels. I've never seen the film myself.

Blue Iguana (1988) - Gianvittorio sent me some excellent clips from this film showing a cool, beautiful and dangerous woman first walking about in a brown leather jacket and very tight knee-length black leather skirt zipped right up the back, then threatening passers-by with a revolver while dressed in a white blouse and extremely tight green knee-length skirt. After a lot of work I have definitively tracked down this film and the principal female cast appears to be Jessica Harper, Pamela Gidley, Michele Seipp and Katia Schkolnik, but who is the very cool lady in the tight skirt I have on my page I can only guess.

Blue Sky (?) - RJS has watched this film, and says that Jessica Lange wears "a tight white dress with little black dots printed on it. They showed her back, displaying a zipper! Her dress is knee-length. This movie is very good for back zips. I saw at least four other scenes, displaying a back zip; among them a tight pink minidress and a very tight white knee-length skirt."

Body Double(1984?) - "ACDN" tells me that this is a film I should have listed. "The movie was made in the 80's (mid I believe) and it had Melanie Griffith in a tight leather skirt with a zipper. Although she didn't wear it throughout the entire movie it was for a period of time that satisfied me! Hopefully, it will satisfy you too."

Body Language (1992) - a silly TV movie thriller, but Linda Purl as the evil secretary is lushly curved and shows off her figure with tight and sexy clothes; her boss, Heather Locklear, also wears some rather tasty suits.

Boomerang (1992) - the lovely Robyn Givens in deeply curved suits with tight pencil skirts that hug her figure - and what a figure they have to hug!

Booty Call (?) - recommended by MB, but no details apart from "2 Nice Dresses but not Leather ( I think it is Latex)" and a confirmation when I asked him about it that the dresses are indeed tight.

Born in East LA (?) - HL wrote in to tell me that this film deserves a place on my list. "At the very beginning and end of this movie, there's a sexy woman in a very short tight dress, walking around very seductively. It's a funny movie, too."

Born Yesterday (1950) - very good comedy with Judy Holliday as the owner of the world's most awful Brooklyn accent. She is dressed well, if slightly tartily, by the standards of the time: as well as other clothes I saw a long black sheath dress, very slim and tight, covered in spangles, and a fitted black pencil suit.

Born Yesterday (1993) - a remake of the above film with Melanie Griffith, whom I do not like. However, she does appear in a tight minisuit and a couple of swanky floor-length tight evening dresses in slightly bad taste.

Bound (1996) - a very violent and unpleasant gangland thriller co-starring Jennifer Tilly as china-doll pretty mobster girlfriend Violet who turns out to be not only violent but a thief and a suppressed lesbian as well. In the course of stealing two million dollars and watching her boyfriend bump off innumerable Mafiosi she wears an incredibly tight black Lycra minidress and then for a long period a nicely tight wine-red Lycra minidress, both with the most elaborate hairstyle and makeup you will see outside a 1950 fashion shoot.

Bowfinger (2002) - recommended by cat-loving friend Matty. He says "Film which had a great satin skirt scene in it was bowfinger. In a scene where they are trying to get eddie murphy unwittingly into his film they use an old dame to act bizzarely with him at a restaurant. She's wearing a long, tightish, red satin pencil skirt and there's a great shot of her walking sexily across the road."

The Boyfriend from Hell: another name for The Shrimp on the Barbie

Boy Rents Girl - another name for Can't Buy Me Love.

The Brain that Wouldn't Die (1959) - "Detlef Bendethain" suggested this one. ":Searching for a new body for his girlfriend (only the head is still alive) a doctor meets several women in tight skirts in this science-fiction trash!" An entry on the Internet Movie Database tells us that the central character Jason Evers "goes 'body shopping' -- cruising the streets in his convertible while he ogles numerous shapely women in tight skirts. (In fact, there doesn't seem to be anything BUT tight-skirted women walking the streets in his neighborhood. How curious . . .)"

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958?) - a famous showpiece for late-Fifties fashion, the styles by Balenciaga, I think - I welcome correction from experts. Contributor David O told me about this film: "In the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's about mid-way there is a scene in which a show girl (not Audrey Hepburn) wears a white "mermaid" gown. You know the type - skin-tight to the knees followed by a big poff to the floor." I certainly did know what he meant about the dress and told him that it's my favourite style of evening gown!

Breaking All the Rules (1984) - "LinePal" tells me that this film stars Carolyn Dunn "in several 80`s style outfits and minis not too tight but not bad also a bungling trio of criminals one is female who wears some killer tight tight spandex outfits and gets into an oil wrestling match sort of in said outfit."

Brenda Starr (1989) - not to be confused with the 1945 black and white cinema serial. According to the reviews I've been able to find this is an absolutely dreadful film, as a film - but Brooke Shields appears as an adventurous post-war reporter who is thrown out of a window wearing a tight maroon suit and evades certain death, goes to work in a lovely tight blue and white Forties style suit, and then manages to escape from ?gangsters, climbing out of a window, down a wall, running through a marketplace, climbing another wall, and finally scrambling over the railing of a spiral staircase, all wearing a tight yellow skirt and managing to keep her make-up and perfume in order at the same time! Then she rewards herself by popping into a dress shop and buying a splendid gauzy New Look suit with a big hat, short tight jacket, and long full skirt...I think I'm in love :-)

Bride of Chuckie (1998) - since this is associated with the Child's Play series of horror movies, don't go to it expecting clever dialogue nd subtly telling characterisation. "Gomez" does, however, tell me that "it has one thing that none of the others did: Jennifer Tilly in a skin-tight rubber dress and other sexy fashions throughout perhaps the first half hour of the film!" He also told me of a link to a promotional page where this dress can be downloaded in a long (6.5MB) video clip: go to this location to try it. I myself cannot face the time it would take to come in, so I can't tell you how good it is.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) - sequel to the supposedly superior first Bridget Jones film. I didn't like that when I looked at it, so I wouldn't know. I did, however, uncover masses of evidence that in the second film Renée Zellwegger wears fashions worthy of this list's august attention: "a tight dress and an even tighter girdle", "an appallingly tight gold frock", "her trademark tight black skirt", "ill-fitting clothes and a duck walk necessitated by tight formal wear", "a skin tight gold lamé dress", "a too-tight dress", and "a gold gown so long and tight, she can barely walk".

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (UK 1998?) - unsuccessful big-screen comedy financed by the BBC, a TV station that even some Americans have heard of (watch The Glenn Miller Story if you want to know who they are.) I have not seen this film but extracts seemed to indicate an elegant and curvaceous older woman wearing a tightly fitted red suit with a short, waisted jacket and tight knee-length skirt, an outfit of which I am very fond.

Bull Durham (1988) - Susan Sarandon waves goodbye to the baseball team wearing sexy knee-length tight leather skirt. (Danger: blink and you'll miss it! The scene is one where she is seeing them off as they drive away in their coach, but it's only visible for a few seconds, and I have already had one corespondant write to me complaining he couldn't find it in the whole film.)

Bus Stop (1956) - one of Marilyn Monroe's best films, and possibly the best as a film to show her in 1950s clothes, Some Like It Hot being set in the 1920s. Marilyn as down-at-heel "shantoozey" Cherie appears at the rodeo to which her self-appointed fianc&eacu; has dragged her wearing a tight black satin pencil skirt buttoned up one thigh; there's also a close-up of her delectable bottom as, having dropped her lipstick, she digs around for it under the bench.

Cactus Jack (1979) - not at all sure of the date of this film. I know I "watched" once on fast-forward looking for corsets, of which there aren't any. This may have caused me to overlook something worth having: contributor Jerry P tells me that it features "Ann-Margret in v. tight dresses", and in my humble opinion a woman with a good figure cannot look better than in a v. tight dress! Frank G later confirmed this, and assured me that " Ann does indeed wear some nice tight hobble type dresses in this western satire."

Cadillac Man (1990) - Robin Williams works with a woman who wears a very tight green satin suit with a knee-length narrow skirt; later in the film she tries to run in it, with little success.

California Man - another name for Encino Man

Can't Buy Me Love (1987) - also known as Boy Rents Girl, "LinePal" tells me that this film contains "A scene with a white leather skirt and top. Some other leather skirts and pants ,But quickly in movie. short skirts also."

Carman The Champion (2001) - I am listing this film because of a highly disapproving review on the Christian Answers web site, which is not at all what they wanted! Their review is by someone who objects to the film because it isn't Christian on his terms: ""Here are some things I found offensive: CLOSE-UP OF THE WOMAN'S BUTT as she strolled away in a VERY TIGHT dress, also offensive was one scene where the BRA-LESS YOUNG WOMAN ran to get her son (use your imagination), scenes of WOMEN TABLE-DANCING PROVOCATIVELY, remarks by Carman's 'Christian' friend about the young mom being so hot that he could put down his bible for her, a scene where the 'sinner' boxer repeatedly said the name of the product WHOOP A**." It would be unkind of me to make fun of this; you can do it if you like. I know a fine Christian gentleman in California, though, and I don't think he believes Christ has forbidden him to watch films in which women wear tight dresses!

The Carol Burnett Show (?) - contributor David O. told me about this TV series, of which I had never heard. "The character Miss Wiggans played by Carol Burnett on the Coral Burnett Show wore a very tight black knee-length skirt." Any more information?

Caroline in the City (contemporary US TV series) - EG tells me that in the episode 'Caroline and the Ultimatum' there is material worth seeing: "the blackhaired chick with the bad temperment has for some reason squeezed herself into a shiny red (possibly latex) dress, lamenting 'cut this thing offa me!'"

Cash McCall (1959) - Shelagh tells me that in this film "Natalie [Wood] wears very narrow skirts, beautifully tailored, walking in them with great poise."

Cat Ballou (1968?) - comedy Western with Jane Fonda. I have seen this film a long time ago, but evidently missed the costume designer's best work. Contributor "tight denim-skirt" says: "i watched an old movie on tv, called 'cat ballou' (western) where jane fonda was in a scene wearing a tight mermaid dress, turning'n'wiggling her bum in the tight dress."

Catch-22 (1970) - not a worthy adaptation of the book, which is superb, but contains a couple of sexy items which make it worthy of this list. General Dreedle's trouser-wearing nurse in the book becomes in the film a WAC assistant in an ultra-tight uniform with a knee-length skirt showing off an extreme hourglass figure: there are a few very good shots of this. Later on Yossarian's girlfriend Luciana is introduced in a beautiful second-skin blue dress with a belt to emphasise her waist.

Catch Me If You Can (2003) - "caper" film with Leonardo de Caprio and Tom Hanks. The central character, based on a real person, blagged free flights around the world in the 1960s by pretending to be an airline pilot, and as a result the film contains actresses in tight pencil-skirted 1960s air-hostess uniforms.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1957?) - famous Tennessee Williams play filmed starring Elizabeth Taylor among other luminaries of the time. K.R. points it out as a tight skirt film too:

Chained Heat II (1992) - RJS says that this is a film about a prison worth watching. "All of the female inmates wear a prison uniform consisting of a loose shirt above a tight brown mini skirt that is back zipped. Brigitte Nielsen herself is seen wearing very tight suits with knee-length skirts. We also see a woman in a tight black dress."

Charlie's Angels (2000, I think) - daft (by all accounts) blockbuster eye-candy action film. Catfriend Matty told me that it is a " Rubbish film but had a great scene where the lead chinese actress is dressed as a dominatrix and is wearing a really tight designer pencil skirt..nice."

A Chorus of Disapproval (1989) - the hero finds himself beseiged by amorous women in a small town, including one who tries to seduce him with the help of her very tight back-laced mini-dress and five-inch black stilettos.

Christine Cromwell (1989) - US TV series. I saw one episode of this ?detective show, "Only The Good Die Young", in which Jaclyn Smith was seen running about in one of the tightest, sexiest pencil suits ever shown on television - and believe me, I am somewhat of an expert on this! It was a short-lived series with four feature-length episodes and evidently isn't available on video or anything else, but if it turns up on TV near you and that's your kind of thing, look out for it. I'm only sorry it's taken me so many years to identify it: it is because I remembered the episode title and not the title of the series.

Chrome and Hot Leather (1971) - someone who signed my guestbook recommended this film but doesn't state if the skirts in it are tight or not - only that they're leather.

CIA Vengeance (2001) - a review on the essential Internet Movie Database drew this to my attention. "First, a knockout blonde in a too-tight red dress discovers her car is out of gas and calls on a friend--a knockout blonde in a too-tight blue dress--to give her a ride." Don't ask me what that has to do with the CIA. I haven't seen the film, I just liked the look of this description.

Cinderella (UK TV movie 2000) - I thought this programme was damn near perfect, it was so exactly to my taste, but that means that there are a lot of people who wouldn't find it interesting at all. To make it clear: if you are thrilled by the idea of the beautiful Kathleen Turner and two equally lovely young actresses as 1950s belles in excruciatingly glamorous clothes with tight pencil skirts, fitted jackets and tight bodices, high heels, stockings, corsets, long gloves, smart hats, flawless make-up and hair and everything else beyond reproach, then this is something you ought to watch; and if you only like short skirts, then don't bother.

Clue (?) - a correspondent reminds me that in this film, set in the mid Fifties, Lesley-Anne Warren wears a beautiful tight silver-green silk strapless evening dress; also, there is another female character who wears a tight black strapless dress, played by Madelaine Kahn.

Clueless (1995) - no relation to the above. Most of the fashions in this film are things like A-line miniskirts which I detest, but the gorgeous Alicia Silverstone does appear in a couple of tight stretchy party dresses, and at the end there is a wedding where the bride wears a long, tight backless narrow-skirted dress.

Cold Feet (?) - a correspondent says of this film "Sally Kirkland is wearing a spandex dress in almost every scene. I especially liked the white wedding dress at the end."

Cold Heart (2001) - starring Nastassja Kinski; information about this film was sent in by "HF". "Here 'nass' and her perfect ass wear a nice black leather skirt, but before she wears nice under knee black boots and a bit after a nice long black leather coat. You doesn't wonder how nice she looks and you can't imagine the mix of leather with those big and beautiful eyes of nass!"

The Color of Money (1986) - HL says that you should keep an eye on Tom Cruise's girlfriend in this film as "through much of the movie she wears tight leather miniskirts." I have now seen this film myself, and it's quite true. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, for it is she, is very much the Eighties belle with a great line in mid-calf-length stiletto boots of a kind that just aren't made any more. She tends to wear baggy jeans, but later on takes more and more to tight leather miniskirts, as advertised.

Come Die With Me (1994) - a very poor TV movie thriller in which Pamela Anderson (yes, her) appears as Mike Hammer's sexy blonde assistant. No, she doesn't wear a tight skirt...The film is set in Florida which is basically an excuse to include lots of girls (not including Pam-Ann!) in bikinis, of which there are many gratuitous shots, if you like that sort of thing. For the really dedicated tight skirt lover, about half an hour into the film there's a scene where Mike goes to rent a car, and the woman who shows him to the one he can take out is wearing a very tight black stretchy microskirt: we follow his eyeline panning up from her shoes to her bum.

Come Fly With Me (1963) - not to be confused with Come Die With Me, above. Contributor and friend RJS sent me a scan of a poster advertising this film which he had seen for sale on Ebay. It portrayed a group of early-Sixties air hostesses in tightly tailored suits with knee-length pencil skirts and smart hats and gloves, a look of which I'm very fond. I haven't seen the film itself but if they dress anything like that in it, it deserves a note here.

The Commitments (1991) - the Dublin soul band acquires a backing-group of three pretty girl singers who wear classic Eighties dresses - black Lycra, very short, and very tight.

Cool World (1988?) - "Gomez" tells me that this picture is worth watching for the scenes at the end where cartoon sexpot Holly Would comes out of the animation and is incarnated as Kim Basinger. "She wears a long, slinky & tight white gown for most of the latter part of the film." I have seen this myself and I have to say don't think it that good.

Cop (1988) - Peter says that "The 1988 James Wood Movie 'COP' contains a sequence of Randi Brooks in a very tight short mini. She has a spectacular figure and would enhance your avi selection."

Corrina Corrina (1994) - suggested by Fifties specialist KJB, who has seen it. I haven't, and wouldn't have guessed it was significant from what I was able to find out about it in reference books, but he sent an MPEG he had made showing a nice lady in tight, narrow black saying goodbye to her dinner date and tapping her way off up the street showing why, in Dianne Brill's words, a tight skirt and high heels let a woman who can manage them "rule from behind!"

Countess from Hong Kong (1966) - a film I haven't seen, but "Roger" left a note in my guest book recommending it. He says "Sophia Loren wears a black leather suit in the movie Countess from Hong Kong. There is about a 4 or 5 minute scene with her wearing it. She looks absolutely fabulous. It outlines her glorious figure perfectly." "Glorious figure" - I couldn't have put it better myself!

The Cover Girl and the Cop (1989) - one "Jim" wrote in to recommend this one in detail. He told me quite a lot about it:

To which I commented, it doesn't sound like a realistic quality production, but if you like watching a woman in action in a tight dress, does it matter? I don't think they were trying to go for authenticity!

Coyote Ugly (2000) - I don't know much about this film, but a picture in the film reviews section of my paper shows a pretty leading actress in a tight knee-length tapered skirt, perhaps denim.

Cradle of Fear (2001) - "Steven" told me that "this is a really gory horror film but in that last scene of it this las is adicted to watch people get killed and tortured well in the office he stairs at his girl friends behind and she wears a tight silver silk skirt and the camera zooms on that as well." WARNING: this is a film of which reports on the IMDB say dreadful things. Even a self-proclaimed fan of violent horror films thought it went too far and was badly done. If you choose to chase tight skirts into a film like this, you do it at your own risk.

Crocodile Dundee (1985?) - Linda Somethingorotherowski appears at the end of this film in a very 1980s dress, tight orange Lycra with lots of cut-outs.

Crocodile Dundee II (1988?) - Linda Somethingorotherowski is reported by HL in "a tight black business suit with miniskirt in a couple of scenes."

Crush (New Zealand 1992) - I have never seen this film, but I found a review on the Wellington Film Society web site that suggested it needed to be mentioned here. "In her tight skirt, racy leggings, leather jacket, beret and bright-red hooker lipstick, Lane [Marcia Gay Hayden] is a garish, incongruous sight, wandering through the landscape with no purpose and no understanding."

Cry Baby Killer (1957?) - one of Jack Nicholson's earliest films. This is apparently a routine "program filler" of its time about out-of-control teenagers - that's the time when teenagers really started to be noticed as such - but it earns its place in this list because the female out-of-control teenagers exhibit very in-control figures with the help of tight sweaters and tight long pencil skirts.

Cybill (TV series, mid 1990s) - Juan M.T wrote to remind me of "the three women from the TV comedy show (USA) Cybill (Starring Cybill Shepard). There are two mature women (They're late 40s maybe) and the daughter of Cybill who is about 25. I always wait for the show because the friend of the star Cybill uses to wear a lot of beautiful leather cloths (including tight skirts.) Besides, the other two women wear leather frequently. Once, the youngest one (the daughter) wore a extremely tight shiny dress (She was representing a doll for a children's party)."

Dallas - the Reunion (1998) - TV movie (in two parts, I think.) Zxyxz (what makes me think that's a pseudonym, I wonder?) tells me that this film is worth watching for tight skirt reasons because it "had a predeliction for tight minisuits for it's younger women characters. Many nuances added to this (female extras plaed in corners of the scenes with crossed legs and such) but the real treat here was the young female star (not from the original series) who wore tight, colourful minisuits with above mid thigh hemlines. In frontal views of her sitting crosslegged, it appeared as though there was no skirt at all below her tight business jacket!"

Dancing through the Dark (1992?) - BBC TV play. Much of it is set at a hen night where a bunch of young girls take a bride-to-be out for a last fling: one girl wears an extremely tight spangled dress, and her friend has to force her into it because it's too tight for her to get the zip up by herself.

Danger By My Side (1962) - artist and connoisseur of 1950s styles JB recommended this film. He describes it as "a routine London gangland thriller, but a good one for tight dresses", and sent a painting of actress Sonya Cordeau amazingly voluptuous in a very tight, very low-cut strapless dress.

Dangerous Ground (?) - W.B. recommends this one slightly though it's not evidently a concentrated source of tight skirt material. "Liz [Hurley] wears a coiuple of tight skirts in this - albeit too briefly."

Dangerous Prey (?) - a correspondent says this is "an awesome movie for leather/latex dresses. It's a really dumb movie about a European training camp for female assassins. There's a big lesbian orgy with two or three women in leather dresses, and there's a part near the end where a woman seduces a guard while wearing a short, tight leather dress. It's not a porno either, although it might as well be!"

The Darling Buds of May (UK TV series 1990s) - this rather annoys me, so I gave up on it. However, fellow Fifties fashion fan Marcus told me that one of the third-series episodes, which may be that called "The Happiest Days of our Lives", features a pre-superstar Catherine Zeta Jones in her first big rôle filling some splendid Fifties finery: "Catherine Zeta Jones in a lovely smart pencil skirt suit, in her TV debut role in the Buds of May series. Lovely looker in those days."

Day of the Warrior (1996) - Minirocker gave me a splendidly detailed account of this, complete with a set of stills which made it amply clear that it deserved a link. He says "Although it´s a very dumb and silly and low budget action thriller (for the video shelf) with some erotic scenes, it´s really worth watching because there are great and long scenes with women wearing hot and tight miniskirts (and for those who like the big breasted - it´s all in that one)." The stills included a tight ?PVC minidress with pierced details at the neckline, a tight high-necked shiny gold metallic minidress, and an ultra-tight suit in a very smart combination of short pink jacket and black miniskirt. One picture had a close-up from behind of this suit - starting at the actress' waist and ending at her knees - which is hardly subtle, but for those who want to look at a nice behind in a tight miniskirt, it's worth seeing.

Dead Husbands (?) - John F. told me about this film "with John Ritter and Nicolette Sheridan. The movie is a half baked black comedy but well worth watching for Ms Sheridan who wears a number of incredibly tight skirt suits, [that's my favourite! - Webmaster's note] including a powder blue number (We have a long shot of her walking down a corridor from behind) and a short, tight black leather (yum) number at the end"

Deadly Family Secrets (1995) - Loni Anderson, an actress with lovely eyes who had not come to my attention before, is credited as a "career woman" but staying with her sister doesn't dress up in the suits you might expect: instead she wears tight jeans, and at least one tight denim skirt. Her sister also wears tight cotton miniskirts, for that matter. The film itself seems to be pretty silly, but that could be said about a lot of stuff on this page. This isn't the Variety Movie Guide, you know.

The Dead Pool (1988) - fifth, last and (according to Halliwell's Film Guide) worst of the Dirty Harry films. One of Clint Eastwood's foils is Patricia Clarkson, a smartly dressed journalist, who shows off the best of the styles of the time: either loose silky blouses or snug sweaters, teamed with shapely pencil skirts to mid-thigh or just below the knee. There is also a short scene of a heavy metal star's "rock slut" girlfriend rushing about in a very tight Lycra microdress.

Death Feud (1989) - HdS tells me that this is a film worth looking at: "This straight-to-video production features a very sweet brunette in a turquoise leather mini dress with a lace-up back, and she's in it for probably the first third of the movie."

Delirio de Muerte (?) - "Timmer" told me about this one in a message he left on the guestbook. He tells me it is "a movie that i caught on cable with at least one good shot of a leather skirt and a shot of leather pants I didnt watch the whole movie because it was so late the title is Delirio de Muerte I dont speak Spanish but it seemed to me the lead character loves leather"

Delivering Milo (2000) - SP told me about this one. "About half way through the ultimate blonde bimbo secretary arrives, and with one of the lead characters goes to Atlantic City. She has a great curvy body and is in an absolutely skin tight blue suit, and the shot of her walking through the casino is truly stunning. Its worth renting the movie just for her, but the rest of the movie is terrible."

Delta House (?) - US TV series. I've never seen this, but my TV listings magazine says that it gave Michelle Pfeiffer her first big break in her role as Bombshell, for which she wore "a padded bra and a skintight red dress". Can anyone give me further information?

Desert Blooms (1986) - WARNING!-an intensely depressing film. Ellen Barkin as a Fifties sexpot who believes beauty is only skin tight teaches her frumpy adolescent niece to make the most of herself, including outfitting her in a pencil skirt which gets some attention in the classroom.

Designing Woman (1957) - two people have drawn my attention to this film, which apparently stars Lauren Bacall and Dolores Gray. I haven't seen it myself, but I gather it's about a lady fashion designer, and video clips supplied by one reader and an artist's impression supplied by another have shown me that Miss Gray wears a simply superb "mermaid" style dress tight to the calves and then flaring out with a huge net flounce - in which, it seems, she does a dance.

Devil in a Blue Dress (1994?) - CH says that this film starring Jennifer Beals is worth a look. "The lovely Ms. Beals is fully attired to the nine in forties finery-tight suits, ankle-strap heels, seamed stockings, the works. Some nice stocking top scenes."

Devil's Food (1996) - TV movie starring Suzanne Somers as an attractive thirtyish news "anchor" tormented by her inability to turn her normal figure into a fashionably slim one. At the start of the film a lot of her suits are too tight; after she enters a pact with the Devil to lose weight (yes, really) she celebrates her new slimness by choosing suits that are tailored even tighter.

Devils of Darkness (1965) - WJB gave me detailed information about this film:

Diabolique (1994?) - Gianvittorio recommended this film to me. "Do you know the film called Diabolique with Sharon Stone? In this film she wear some nice tight skirts." I have seen a publicity picture from it with Ms. Stone in a very tight yellow suit. "Cool and Deadly" later said that when he saw it "I thought of you [i.e., me] coz Ms Stone's skirts were NOT at all short, but were very tight." I have now seen some of this film myself and can confirm that - perhaps in honour of this being a remake of a 1954 French film - Ms Stone wears very Fifties clothes: a tight black sheath dress, three gorgeous and sexy skin-tight suits, and also (technically off-topic for this page) some tight Capri pants.

Doctor At Sea (1955) - part of a very long-running British comedy sequence (a TV series based on it continued into the 1970s.) This film apparently co-stars Brigitte Bardot and to judge from some video captures sent by fellow Fifties fashion lover Mr J van H, she wears some impressive "mermaid" style evening gowns with tight strapless bodices and long gloves too.

Dr Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1990?) - MB recommends this one because Sean Young has a green leather dress which on cross-questioning he confirmed was tight and had a short skirt.

Dr T and the Women (2000) - Frank G. had some very nice things to say about this film:

The Dollars Arrive (1957) - Italian film, of which I have few details but some video clips supplied by Gianvittorio. One shows a dark-haired beauty wearing a classic tight-fitted Fifties suit, walking with her boyfriend in the woods; another a woman in a long, tight silk dress vigorously dancing the cha-cha-cha, which has to be seen to be believed!

Do Not Disturb (1965) - KJB suggested this one, by means of a lovely film clip from it that he sent me. It shows a beautiful actress of the time in an amazingly tight sparkling floor-length strapless evening gown bending over her boyfriend as he sits at a restaurant table: he drops the keys to his hotel room into her ample cleavage. I can't stand the "youthquake"/Mary Quant type of Sixties fashion and it's nice for one such as myself to see true elegance and glamour was still valued as late as that.

Don't Knock the Rock (1956) - an early rock&roll film which DC says is worth a look for the original Fifties costumes: he says it contains "some great shots of teen girls in tight skirts and sexy one-piece swim suits."

Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead (1991) - Mom appears only briefly at the start, wearing a cute suit with fitted pink jacket and tight black knee-length skirt. Later in the film Christina Applegate goes to work for a boss who likes to wear suits with tight skirts.

Don't Try This At Home (UK TV series, contemporary) - I have never watched this, but CL recommends it. "Davina McCall...regularly wears long tight skirts when on this show."

Double Impact (?) - HL tells me that this is "A martial arts movie with Jean Claude Van Damme. There's a scene in a bar in Hong Kong with a beautiful blond wearing a tight business suit with a short skirt."

Down in the Delta (?) - "ACDN" recommends this film "with Alfree Woodard (I didn't know her body was so nice). She had on a brown tight mini in the first part of the movie. She goes on an interview with what seems to be a red leather outfit (which she wears twice) and towards the end she has on a black leather mini. It was pretty nice to me!"

Dracula's Widow (?) - AT tells me that this is "Another movie I can highly recommend for tight-fitting skirt-suits and good close-up shots of nyloned legs - PLUS stocking tops."

Dying Young (1991) - early in the story Julia Roberts goes to apply for a job as companion to a dying man wearing a tight miniskirt suit and high heels. There are so many shots of this that Variety observed that Julia's "legs seem to play the lead role in the first act."

Earth Girls Are Easy (1987?) - "Gomez" thinks that this film contains a nightclub scene with "a few brief shots of a girl in a very nice, very tight, red rubber dress." I don't remember that, but I do remember close-ups of a girl's feet as she dances in five-inch stilettos, so it's worth a try.

Easy To Love (1951) - one of Esther Williams' watery confections. Early in the film she is carried into her manager's office by attendants dressed as a mermaid with a "tail" of more than skin-tight gold silk.

Ed Wood (1994) - an excellent, very funny, and true film about the man reputed to be Hollywood's worst ever director. The segments of the film dealing with the production of Plan 9 from Outer Space show Lisa Marie as Gothic icon "Vampira" wearing her standard costume of ankle-length skin-tight black dress and trimly belted, fiercely corseted waist!

Encino Man (?) - recommended by one of my longest-standing contributors, SMcG. He says "there are a few shots of high school girls is tight skirts in this comedy about a prehistoric man thawed back to life in the main character's garage. Most noteably the group find themselves in a fairly seedy bar in the middle of the day and there is an unknown woman sitting on a ledge wearing a tight spandex/lycra minidress that is a sparkly dark grey. Irresistable!" Also known as California Man in Britain.

Erin Brockovich - based on a true story, this film was new in early 2000. I haven't seen it myself - Julia Roberts in general makes me want to puke - but I was interested to hear that she went "out of character" relative to her usual girliness with short, tight outfits in her starring role. Contributor DJC told me that I ought to list the film and sent a picture of Julia in a tight miniskirt from the official website to prove it.

Exclusive (1994?) - Suzanne Somers and another woman as stylish journalists work in sexy tightly fitted business suits.

eXistenZ (1999) - strange horror/SF/thriller by David Cronenberg. It earns its place here because Jennifer Jason Leigh looks wonderful in a very smart heavy grey silk tight mid-thigh-length skirt. I saw this myself; someone else also suggested it but I'm afraid his message got lost in a system crash so I can't credit him fully.

Exit in Red (?) - "Ice Holli" says this film "stars Mickey Rourke, Annabel Schofield and Carre Otis. I'm not sure of the girl's name where she was wearing this tight red dress while sharing an intimate moment with Mickey Rourke." WB adds that "There are two actresses in it - Annabel Schofield and Carre Otis. In one scene is a tight shiny pink dress (lycra?) which the actress (from a distance) is seen getting out of her car and pulling it down. Initially it is covered by her jacket but the dress is seen by itself later in the movie. Later is featured a tight red knee-length (vinyl?) skirt and top."

Eve of Destruction (?) - HL tells me that in this film "A pretty blond actress (who's name escapes me) has a double role as a sexy killer robot, and the scientist who creates it. The movie is violent and depressing, but the robot wears tight leather microskirts while blowing people away." Weird...:-) DWM, my resident expert on leather, says "the female lead doesn't run around in a leather miniskirt. I would have remembered that. She wears a red leather jacket but I think her skirt is black spandex or something." "Juncrow" has since protested that as the skirt in question is mid-thigh-length it doesn't deserve to be called a "microskirt", and that it is actually a dress. If any more authorities wish to comment, I'm welcome to add your voices to the confusion! :-)

The Fabulous Baker Boys (1990?) - worth watching in the first place because Michelle Pfeiffer acts her stilettos off, showing that she really is "not just a pretty face." I was too impressed with her performance the one time I saw this film to notice the costumes that much, but HL tells me that she has some sexy outfits as well: "She wore a short tight dress at her audition. Later, when she showed up for her first performance she wore a hideous looking, long, multicolored outfit, but the Boys took her shopping and bought her a sexy short tight black dress." "Matt" who runs a page dedicated to this film has shown me some stills which confirm the story of the tight skirts no end. On his Fabulous Baker Boys website you can find out all the information you might conceivably want about the film, including that one of Michelle Pfeiffer's tight miniskirts was auctioned for charity - and there's a picture of it in a frame with certificates of authenticity!

The Facts of Life (US TV series 1979-85) - I learned about this when a search I was doing turned up a character guide to the series more or less by accident. I recommend it here because of the description of Tootie Ramsey, played by Kim Fields: "She was cute with those roller skates and flashy one liners, but puberty was quite unkind to Tootie. Her breasts didn't just develop, they hatched into dinosaur sized melons. So had her booty that she insisted on squeezing into too-tight jeans and ridiculous second skin skirts." There is nothing ridiculous about a curvy woman in a tight skirt, in my opinion!

Fair Game (?) - a correspondent tells me that "Cindy Crawford as a lawyer in fair game wheres very nice short skirts around the office". I have seen this film myself. As a film it's daft - though La Crawford does have a dear cat in her expensive flat - but it's true that she wears a smart, rather tight, short-skirted suit for her high-powered job of whatever kind, and subsequently for much of the fore part of the film. After her flat is blown up, though, we just get loose jeans.

Fatal Instinct (1993) - the webmaster of the Opera Gloves page told me about this skit on Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction, which I haven't seen myself. He tells me that "[Sean] Young spends almost the entire film in several different pairs of long gloves and as many different snug dresses and gowns." Having now seen it myself I can add that Sean Young does wear a series of glamorous, sexy dresses with tight skirts and tight low-cut bodices, and Kate Nelligan as the hero's wife also wears some tight business suits with very narrow knee-length skirts.

Fatal Obsession (1992) - WB recommends this film on the grounds that "Mimi Rogers wears a lovely tight black leather dress in this movie as a prostitute. Medium level sex scenes."

The Favor (1995?) - WB (not the same one as above) was surprised I hadn't already listed this film. "This was a chick movie made in the mid-90s with Brad Pitt in it. I don't know too much about the rest of the movie, but the first few minutes feature Harley Jane Kozack in a dream sequence where she is walking down the street in a tight red leather skirt, jacket, and high heels. This is one of the sexiest things I've seen on film. If you haven't seen this scene, it's worth checking out."

La Femme Nikita (TV series) - according to contributor GTB, this programme has "Peta Wilson in some TIGHT skirts."

Fierce Creatures (UK 1997) - sort-of sequel to A Fish Called Wanda (q.v.). I have only seen the end of this film but I did notice Jamie Lee Curtis in a pretty silky purple blouse and a very tight miniskirt. Later, seeing earlier sections, I saw Ms Curtis in several other tight-skirted business suits of the kind more typical of Eighties fashion than ten years later. This is not a criticism!

The Fifth Element (France 1999) - spectacular SF adventure, in whose plot I can pick holes, but that's not what this page is about. The reason it gets the link is that in the sequence dealing with travel by luxury space liner it emerges that the casting director has followed the tradition of having the enquiries desk and the cabin crew staffed by very pretty girls, and the "space hostess" uniform involves a bare midriff and a very tight blue miniskirt.

Fifty-Fifty (1984) - contributor Gianvittorio tells me that this is a TV series in which Loni Anderson and Linda "Wonder Woman" Carter wore "a lot of tight suit". I haven't seen it myself but I have seen Loni Anderson in tight skirts and jeans and I'm sure she was worth a look at least! The webmaster of the Opera Gloves page tells me that in America the series was known as Partners in Crime.

Fighting For My Daughter (TVM 1994) - Lindsay Wagner and friend, disguised as streetwalkers, wander about in tight leather miniskirts; Renée Humphrey, as the real thing, looks pretty sensational in tight stretchy microdresses.

Final Analysis (1992) - Variety's review says that Kim Basinger's wardrobe in this film is "stunning", and when I saw a bit of it myself I noted down seeing "Kim B in ultra-tight strained grey suit" up to about half an hour into the film. Years later, seeing a video of it someone kindly made for me, I found it wasn't that good.

A Fine Madness (1964) "Hal" sent a long note about this:

Fire Birds - this is the original (American) name for the film here indexed as Wings of the Apache.

The First Wives' Club (1996?) - "ACDN"recommends this film. "Goldie Hawn wears a couple of nice leather outfits as well (if I'm not mistaken) a nice tight black leather skirt with Jacket." Confirmed by observation of Webmaster: Goldie Hawn (not a woman I like, I have to say) is twice seen wearing a tight black leather minisuit, plus briefly in the same outfit earlier in the film; she also appears in a very chic funeral suit with a knee-length pencil skirt and big hat, and there is also a sexy psychoanalyst splendidly well dressed in her satin blouse and fairly tight grey wool skirt. Also some tight trousers, and some fairly tight jeans. Not a bad film either, for that matter, though I don't care for Ms. Hawn and don't much like Diane Keaton either.

A Fish Called Wanda (UK 1990?) - a correspondent says that in this film "Jamie Lee Curtis at the beginning wears a real, real short and tight black leather skirt".

Flashdance (1983) - a correspondent says "The dance scenes with Marine Jahan doubling for Jennifer Beals are sexy. Also there's a scene in which Beals dressed in a black, knee-length leather skirt tries to seduce her boss by slidiing the skirt up real high as she sits down. There's also a scene in which the main character's sister -- a cute blond figure skater is wearing a leather jacket with a very short, tight skirt and high heels."

The Flesh Eaters (1964) - DC tells me that this picture is a good source of historically classic tight skirts. "The female lead was an attractive blond with a marvelous, shapely, really big ass, and she either pranced around in a very tight skirt or in a flattering two-piece swimsuit."

Flight To Hong Kong (1956) - fellow Fifties fashion lover Mr J van H sent me some video clips from this film showing a lovely actress to whom he could not put a name in a "mermaid" dress with a tight bodice and skirt tight to the knee, then flaring out ina lovely flounce - my favourite style!

The Flintstones (1994) - "LinePal" says that "I guess thse were the first leather skirts and dresses designed(ughhhhh!!!) Wilma and Betty dressed in throughout the movie."

The Fly (late version: 1990?) - a correspondent tells me that "Geena Davis is seen early in the film wearing a dark green leather suit". This has independent confirmation from another source.

Ford Fairlane (1990) - also known as The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. "LinePal" tells me that in this film "the bubbly blond co-star wears a latex skirt throughout most of the film plus some scenes with a leatherised female rock band. Fairlanes secratery has a nics skirt too."

Formula for Death (1995) - thriller starring Nicolette Sheridan as the beautiful, dedicated, brilliant, controversial epidemiologist. In one scene of a party she wears a classic, simple, beautifully tight black sheath dress.

Fort Apache, the Bronx (1980) - MJC recommends this film and gave a great deal of detail about it:

Four Rooms (?) - "Gomez" tells me that the last segment of this film is about four witches, one of whom is "Madonna, who shows up in a beautiful sausage-skin-tight black rubber sheath dress".

Frankie and Johnnie (1995?) - OK tells me that in this film "there's a very brief scene with a black l[eather] s[kirt]." He adds that it isn't Michelle Pfeiffer who wears it.

Frantic (1988) - Emmanuelle Seigneur spends the middle third of the film looking very foxy in a black leather dress with a very tight skirt.

Frat Fright (1998) - after a long period being a "mystery" film at the top of this page KAG has finally identified it. "The movie is about some fraternity students putting together the worst scare for the new pledges on "hell night". The plan is for the 2 pledges to go to an insane asylum. to take a picture of this demonic killer. He gets released and starts killing of the frat members back at the frat house. The girl in the leather skirt isn't even a main character. She is just seen briefly for about 30 seconds as a foreign exchange student convincing one of the other frat guys to "try something new" as far as sex. She then gets killed off moments later. :("

Freeway (1996). DWM tells me: "Freeway is a modern retelling of 'Little Red Riding Hood,' and at the end the cute female lead wears a little red leather mini that zips at the side. There's about twenty minutes worth of this skirt. Also look for Amanda Plummer looking trashy at the beginning of the movie in a tight black leather skirt."

The Freshman (1988) - Gianvittorio sent me a sequence from this on a video, showing Penelope Ann Miller being hurried along a corridor by Matthew Broderick: she is wearing a black top and a tight knee-length back-zipped leather skirt.

Friend of the Family 3(?) - DWM gives quite a lot of details about this film "featuring a woman in a sexy fake leather outfit. The female lead at one point has dressed herself as a prostitute as part of a sexual game that she's playing with an underenthusiastic fellow that she repeatedly gets into trouble. She had a tight skirt that disappointingly zipped at the side. She also wore a trashy looking vinyl jacket that buttoned up. She had a bra and panties on. This shouldn't have been; what kind of woman wears a fake leather miniskirt and jacket and then defeats the purpose of such things by having underclothes? What kind of prostitute wears panties on a sunny day? But I digress. She also wore a pair of sexy vinyl boots that came up to her knees."

The Frighteners (1996) - rather good comedy/horror/adventure/fantasy starring Michael J Fox, who I don't usually like but by who making himself a dislikable character actually makes his character more likable! But this is nothing to do with him. I was particularly struck by Elizabeth Hawthorne as the editor of the local paper, Magda Rhys-Davies if I remember rightly. She illustrates one of my favourite hobby horses as regards ladies' fashion: that with the help of a tightly tailored suit cut in the right way, a woman can dress to say both "I am serious, I am professional, I know what I'm doing" and "I am a woman, I am womanly, I want you to realise that I am feminine and attractive". Feminine and important need not be incompatible, ladies! Take a look at Ms. Hawthorne's sharp-shouldered, waist-nipped, tight-skirted, knee-length, incomparably smart suits and her immensely sophisticated bob for a good example of how one outfit can make both statements for the same person. Alternatively talk to Anna.

From Beyond (1986) - KAG recommends this film. "Pretty cool 80's movie, with some good special effects. One of the main characters in this movie - a very attractive female doctor, while researching the strange going ons at this "haunted house" becomes overwhelmed by her hormones (caused by a creature).She opens a cabinet to find a leather dominatrix outfit she puts on and tries to seduce on of the other main characters. She then come to her senses and covers most of the outfit with a robe. Still at least a good 5minutes worth though. If anything the movie is worth watching for the special effects."

From Russia with Love (1964?) - one of the first James Bond films, if not the first. Film critic "MJC" comments:

Full Exposure - The Sex Tape Scandal (?) - a correspondent tells me that this is "A TV film made all about life of high class call-girls. It's star Lisa Hartman, and she wears a WOW of a leather mini skirt." DWM later studied it and gives a more detailed account: "Lisa Hartman plays a cop who has to go undercover as a prostitute. This is where her wardrobe gets interesting. As you might expect, she wears short, tight skirts, one of which happens to be made from my favorite material. Her back-zipped leather skirt doesn't appear until an hour into the movie but she wears in a couple of scenes for a total of about ten minutes. The movie was made in the Eighties and the fashions reflect the best parts of that period nicely: plenty of tightly-skirted suits and leather. Vanessa Willams also appears in a high-waisted purple leather skirt for a brief but memorable moment at the beginning of the movie."

Funny Face (1956?) - fellow Fifties lover KJB reminded me of this one. It dates in fact from the time when the New Look styles that I adore were being replaced, and a contrast is made between Audrey Hepburn as the new, simple (and funny) face of fashion on one hand and the austerely beautiful, very artificial professional models on the other. For me the "old style" models are the business, and particularly relevant to this page is a photo shoot in the bookshop where Audrey works featuring a gorgeous model in an incredibly tight black sheath dress. When she moves away afterwards we are able to see that her stylists have used the classic 1950s modelling trick of pegging her tight dress down the back to make it even tighter for the photograph.

Funny Girl (1968) someone or some people calling himself/herself/themselves "the Adams family", and using an email address which didn't work, suggested this film. He says "when the Ziegfeld Girls arrive by train at Grand Central, watch for the black-haired girl in the gold-coloured hobble skirt calling out "I am coming" to her friends."

Genevieve (1953 UK) - a light romantic comedy which was enormously successful in its time. When I was a little boy I liked it because of the old cars; now I like it because the beautiful Kay Kendall appears as a glamorous model who has to accompany her self-centred boyfriend on a cross-country ride in an unreliable open-topped 1900s car. She looks wonderful in a classic Fifties pencil suit, but is made to scramble around in mud wearing it. When I was little I thought this funny; now I think it next door to sacrilege that my favourite fashions should be treated in this way!

The Getaway (1994) - crime drama starring Kim Basinger, among others. There is a sequence in which she goes to see a criminal mastermind wearing a smart white blouse and a sexy tight leather skirt, but though she looks fabulous she is clearly seen on screen for only a short time full length.

Get Carter (1971): John F sends the following information:

Ghostbusters (1984) - another film I've seen several times but never noticed as a source of tight skirts. Tobias, however, tells me that it's worth a look for the skirt lover: "Annie Potts wears a short leather mini in a scene." Don't get on my back, DWM, if you don't think this sequence is long enough to be worth mentioning.

Gia (?) - DWM tells me this film is worth a look. It is "a movie about the eighties model of the same name. She does indeed wear the tight latex dress that she wears on the cover of the movie. The scene is only a couple of minutes long, but Angelina Jolie in a latex dress... it's worth it!"

Gilligan's Island (late Sixties) - famous American TV series (though not being an American I've never seen it myself) which evidently contained an interesting character. "Steven" tells me: "The character Ginger was played by Tina Louise. Good full body shots or lower body rear views of Ginger are rare on the show, but there are glimpses. Ginger had it all, a fantastic body that looked fabulous in her tight dresses, especially her gorgeous butt! Too bad there weren't more views of it in the show though." MS agrees: "Ginger was a movie star, always in some sort of sexy outfit...Though predictable, it's worth watching for the scenes with Ginger."

Gimme A Break (US TV series, mid-Eighties) - the third series introduced a beautiful young black woman called Abbie. In a show that may or may not be called "The Spirit of Christmas" Abbie tries to seduce a visiting man by squeezing herself into an unfeasibly tight gold lamé evening gown with a corset-like strapless bodice and a floor-length hobbling skirt in which she can hardly walk and finds it almost impossible to sit down. There is a long sequence of this which I have on a tape sent by Gianvittorio.

The Girl Can't Help It (1956) - Jayne Mansfield, owner of the most over-the-top bustline until Pamela Anderson came along, in various Fifties outfits, most with wasp waists and some with ultra-tight long skirts.

Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) - KAG recommends this movie. "There is a scene where Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt are on a bus going home from school and Helen Hunt changes into a short black leather skirt. She is in it for about 10 minutes of the movie."

The Glenn Miller Story (1953)- though set in the Thirties and Forties, most of the clothes belong to when the film was made in the Fifties. "Moonlight Serenade" is sung by a woman in an unreasonably sexy dress with a strapless corseted bodice and a floor-length ultra-tight skirt ending in a huge net flounce to bring out every wiggle.

Glitter (2002) - Mariah Carey's ill-fated venture into film stardom. Still, she is a lovely girl with a magnificently generous figure, so unlike the starved stars of today, that her decision to wear what a couple of reviews I found on the Internet called "a too-tight mermaid dress" has to be applauded and recognised here!

Goldeneye (1997?) - a James Bond film, which traditionally have sexy ladies to assist Our Hero and sometimes have a sexy villainess to hinder him. In this film the latter role is played by model Famke Janssen, and there is a scene where in an immaculately tailored skin-tight black suit she exudes knife-sharp, diamond-hard glamour to perfection!

GoodFellas (1990) - a reader tells me that "Lorraine Bracco plays a mafia wife who near the end of the movie wears a nice tight leather outfit." My leather specialist DWM watched this film and elaborates: "the description on the films page hardly does it justice. The woman in the scene is wearing a short black leather jacket and a tight knee-length matching skirt. She has a pink sweater on underneath the jacket. She has this outfit on for about five minutes or so and we get to see it from several angles, including the most favored - rear view. In the last few moments of this excellent sequence, we see her back-zipped skirt stretched tightly across her beautiful bottom as she runs up a set of stairs."

Go To Blazes (1961)- UK comedy film. Chantal, assistant to a fashion designer, wears simple and sexy outfits: a plain tight dress, or a tight brown wool pencil skirt showing off a firmly girdled figure, and in one scene an elaborate and very tight evening dress in which she says she won't be able to sit down.

Grease 2 (1982) - set in 1961, a lot of the girls (including a very young Michelle Pfeiffer) wear snug knee-length skirts as part of their period costume.

The Grifters (1990)- Anjelica Huston in various suits with very tight skirts; Annette Bening in even tighter skirts and higher heels.

The Grimleys (UK TV series, third series 2001) - having reached 1978 by the third series, Amanda Holden as the pretty teacher Miss Titley models the sexiest styles of the time, including a fetching tight leather miniskirt and knee boots.

Guest House Paradiso (1999) - a pretty terrible film by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, not up to the standards of their wild sitcom Bottom on which it was based. Its one redeeming feature is Hélène Mahieu as Italian film star Gina Carbonara, who is beautiful, elegant, and lives in glamorous tight-skirted knee-length sheath dresses of the kind fashionable in around 1960.

A Guide for the Married Man (1967) - this comes rather late in time for good fashions, but contributor "KJB" showed me some video clips and one AVI file which let me see that 1967 doesn't necessarily mean dull types of miniskirt. Sue Ann Langdon appears (1) in close up from behind followed wearing a tight green back-zipped plaid miniskirt, and (2) dancing with someone wearing a very fancy, pretty, sexy, tight white evening gown!

Gypsy (1960?) - film biography of the singer and stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. I can't remember the name of the actress who appears in it, but "Ms. Cherie" put its place in this list beyond doubt by sending a series of video captures from it showing her in a long tight lace dress as well as some other nice costumes beyond the scope of this essay.

Hammer (late 1980s?) - US TV series. Mark tells me that "Hammer's trusty female sidekick, another cop, wore very tight skirts. Not just occasionally -- a skin-tight miniskirt and high-heels was her normal mode of dress in nearly every episode. You could see her run, jump, climb, fight, get tied up, etc., all in a short, tight skirt."

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992) - the beautiful Becky De Mornay stars, but wears uninteresting clothes. However, her employer has a friend called Marilyn, played by Julianne Moore, who wears a nice black suit with a tight miniskirt.

Hangin' with Mr Cooper - US comedy series. Resident sexpot Vanessa has a wonderful figure, and wants us to know it; so she chooses skirts and dresses that show it off...

Hanging Up (2001?) - "Webspin" suggested this one. "To recommend a good movie featuring some great shots of an attractive lady in a tight skirt suit, I will draw your attention to Diane Keaton's latest video release, Hanging Up, in which she wears some fantastic dark skirt suits with some luscious leggy shots! I especially like the part where she is sitting in the hospital, crossing her legs and swinging them, so sensually, to and fro! Her black suit here is fantastic, and the way that tight skirt rides up over her beautiful knees....Heaven!"

Hard to Kill (1990) - HL tells me this film is worth watching for skirt-lovers. "A martial arts movie with Steven Seagal. There's a scene with Kelly Le Brock (who was Seagal's wife at the time) trying to seduce him while wearing a very short tight black dress." "Cool and Deadly" later commented "Kelly Le Brock, wearing a very short, tight black minidress, bare legs, seduces Steven Seagal as he works out in his martial arts training room/gym. Unfortunately, miraculously and annoyingly, we only get a long-shot of the said dress."

Harlow (1965) - MvdZ told me about this one. "Actress Carroll Baker wore lots of satin dresses and nightgowns. But what might be interesting to you is that in a certain scene she wore an extremely tight (satin) evening dress, in which she danced very seductively for about a minute. Great scene! And besides that there were lots of tight (New Look) skirts to be seen throughout the whole film. In the sixties they were not so very keen on the specific scenery for a certain time era."

Harper (1966): John F sends the following information:

Having Wonderful Crime (1945) - I have never seen this film, and nor has anyone else I know, but it gets its listing here because the superb Internet Movie Database lists a quotation from it where the heroine says "Not so fast, my skirt's too tight!"

The Haunting (1999) - silly, IMHO, remake of a well-known film from 1963. In this version Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a beautiful, voluptuous, rather slutty bisexual who likes to wear sexy clothes. She has a wonderful outfit of a short, fitted, nip-waisted black leather jacket over a very tight black miniskirt and black knee boots.

Heartbreakers (2001) - film with Sigourney Weaver, who is always worth watching. ES says that it is "a definite must see for the tightskirt fan. J Love spends almost the entire movie in short tight mini dresses and spike heels. (my favorite look-my favorite actress) Siggy wears quite a few tight dresses as well."

Heart of Midnight (?) - "Gomez" says that near the end of the film Jennifer Jason Leigh is put into a very tight dress; he isn't sure if it is rubber or "coated spandex".

Heathers (1989) - a very funny, very black comedy. Mostly the "Heathers" and their trainee Winona Ryder wear "preppy" outfits with short pleated skirts, etc., but there are also a couple of very tight Lycra minidresses, one worn inappropriately at a funeral!

Heavenly Kid (?) - Todd, a lover of tight black leather skirts, tells me that this film has "has a young women wearing one".

The Heist (1989) - "LinePal" tells me that this is a "HBO film staring Pierce Brosnan and Wendy Hughes who is seen wearing several tight outfits especially a beautiful black LEATHER MINI skirt and crop coat."

Here Come The Girls (1953) - a musical comedy set in about 1902, with dresses in the tiny-waisted, hip-hugging style of the period (see the History page).

Hexed (1993) - HL reports this is "Not a very memorable movie. In fact, about the only thing I remember is that it's about an attractive model who wears extremely short tight skirts. In one scene she's bending over looking out a window, and her short tight skirt keeps riding up, exposing her knickers, and she is constantly pulling it back down." "Juncrow" has since told me that the lady with the troublesome skirt is one Claudia Christian.

Hey Let's Twist (1961) - just like the lambada movies of thirty years later, a film designed as a cash-in on a new dance craze so that the young people will rush to watch it. KJB has seen this film and reports that it shows "some actual filmed dance scenes"; he doesn't specify that they contain tight skirts, but he knows my taste well enough not to waste my time with it if it didn't.
[Webmaster's note: For a contemporary observer's account of the interaction between pencil-skirted girls and the Twist craze, you can read AB's account of it.]

The Hidden (?) - former featured model Amy's husband recommends this film. "This movie had a great scene of a stripper in a night club wearing a short plastic yellow mini skirt, and then a tight short red dress. Both outfits were worn in one part of the movie that lasted about 15 minutes." He warns, though, that she is shot to smithereens not too long afterwards. A contributor who doesn't want to be credited tells me that "the girl in The Hidden is Claudia Christian, known for playing Ivanova on the sci-fi series Babylon 5."

Homesick for Saint Paul (1963, German) - "Detlef Bendethain" recommends this film. "To make this bad stuff tolerable at all for a wider public (for me) the producer had the idea to let Jayne Mansfield sing as well. Her figure is amazing to behold in a white thight [sic] evening dress. Absolutely a must to see once in a lifetime!"

Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) - Sarah Jessica Parker, who suffers from incurable cutehoneyitis, appears early in the film wearing a tight stretchy minidress with a back zip, and later on in a long tight white stretchy dress in which she runs down several flights of stairs. By the way, in my opinion it's worth watching this film just to see that magnificent skydiving team The Flying Elvises as the end: "brave Elvises of the sky..."

Hot Child in the City (1987) - KAG recommends this film for tight skirt watchers. "The main character of the movie, desperately trying to find her sister's murder, takes on her type of lifestyle to track them down. She is totally opposite of her sister because she is the shy quiet type, but she decides to slip into one of her sister's outfits. A short black leather dress. She wears this for at least 15 minutes towards the end of the movie."

Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) - a correspondent says that this film is worth putting on the list because of "the actress that only appears in the beginning, briefly in the middle and near the end of the movie. I didn't get her name though. [She's called Brenda Bakke - Webmaster's note.] She's wearing a sexy suit, but that is only very brief. The part that got my attention was the next scene, which was pretty long and got some clear shots of her wearing a tight sand skirt.that is of above-knee length. The back zip is also shown."

Houseboat (1958) - suggested by "Wilco", an admirer of Sophia Loren. "Due to her georgeous curves nearly every movie she´s in shows her in tight skirts, but I remind especially of Houseboat (USA 1958), where she´s serving dinner in a kind of golden (?) dress and receiving a smack on her plump rear from a guest whilst bending over the table. There are some more scenes with her in tight skirts."

How to Marry a Millionaire (1954?) - I've seen this film myself; "Shelagh" reminded me of it. Various tight skirts and dresses according to the fashions of the period, worn by Marilyn Monroe among others; in one scene Betty Grable poses fetching before a three-way mirror in a stunning pink strapless evening dress, very tight and with a floor-length pencil skirt.

The Human Duplicators (1965) - apparently a very lame horror/science fiction film. It gets its place here because on a message board someone was kind enough to post some sumptuous screen captures of it, showing an outstandingly voluptuous blonde actress as a nurse squeezed into an unfeasibly tight white uniform dress that outlines her outrageous hourglass figure and in the process the powerful corsetry she has used to perfect it!

The Hunger (1983) - not to be confused with several other films with the same name. At the beginning of the film David Bowie seduces a rock chick who we see bending over in a tight back-zipped black leather miniskirt.

I Love Lucy (US TV series of the 1950's) - a correspondent tells me of an episode "where she wears a super tight skirt-can't sit, her and ricky eat standing up, and when going to the ladies room drops a handkerchief and you hear a loud ripping noise when she picks it up. She then walks backwards thru curtains." A helpful web-mistress running an I Love Lucy page with an episode guide has now identified this episode as "Country Club Dance", which aired on the 22nd of April 1957, during the show's sixth season.

I Love Trouble (1992) - RJS located a journalist reviewing this from the point of view of it being a realistic film about the life of journalists. He said it was fairly close to reality, but "If only they hadn't sent Julia out on assignment in a train yard in high heels and a tight skirt. I know a lot of female journalists, and none of them dress like that when they're on duty..." Well, from my point of view, who cares if it's realistic? Why hire Julia Roberts and dress her frumpily? I missed an opportunity to record this film at Christmas 1999, which seems to have been a mistake. The webmaster of the Opera Gloves page tells me that "Julia Roberts wears a close-fitting evening gown in another scene; there's a very sexy shot of her sliding her gloved hand up and down the side of her tight-clad hip." I would have liked that! I must add, though, that when I had an opportunity to tape this film I found it disappointing: La Roberts has one "business skirt" outfit early on, a suit with a skirt that is straight but not tight and cut to stand away from her hips instead of hugging them, and later on there is a short segment of her in the wilderness walking in a tight minidress. The evening gown sequence does not include a tight skirt within the meaning of the Act of 1679.

I'm All Right Jack (1959) - WJB sent in information about this film:

I Married A Woman (1956, or 1958, depending on which source I consulted) - mediocre light comedy starring Diana Dors as a sexy model/actress who stars in beer commercials. She dresses well according to the standards of her time, and for those who like such things the film opens with her in a splendid Fifties suit with a short, tight, tailored, wasp-waisted jacket and a tight calf-length pencil skirt; she has various other pencil-skirted outfits, many very narrow and with the short kick pleat my friend A.B. likes so much!

I, Mobster (1955? - from the actress's hairstyle I would guess nearer 1960) - fellow Fifties lover KJB uncovered this one for me, describing it rudely as "a mid 1950's grade B; more like a grade C; movie". However, he produced an MPEG of it showing a lady character displaying her charms to the mobster by means of a splendid spangly evening gown with a very tight strapless bodice emphasising an hourglass figure and a tight skirt to below the knee with a long slit up the left front.

Impulse (1990) - a correspondent says "Theresa Russell stars as an undercover policewomen. In several scenes, she's a call girl decoy wearing very short, very tight micro-mini skirts."

An Inconvenient Woman (1990?) - US miniseries. That highly gorgeous woman Rebecca de Mornay as a millionaire's mistress who among other things goes to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a leather suit with a short orange and black jacket and tight black miniskirt.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - a correspondent says that in this film "the female lead, who turns out to be a Nazi, is wearing a gorgeous tight grey skirt throughout the first part of the film." I have now see this film and can confirm Alison Doody, china-doll beautiful, wearing elegantly sexy late-Thirties suits with very long narrow skirts.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985?) - CH says the beginning of this film is worth watching, reminding me that "there is a brief scene at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom featuring Kate Capshaw in a tight red beaded dress doing a song in a Chinese club. The shot is reasonably good, with some closeups." Incidentally, Kate Capshaw was then Mrs Steven Spielberg; Hollywood marriages being what they are, I don't think she still is.

Inferno (1993) - I've never seen this video, but a review of it I found on the Web describes all sorts of romping with supermodels, including where the hero's car breaks down: "The nearest garage houses Eva Herzigova who makes a play for the star. Dressed in stockings, suspenders, tight top and very tight skirt, Eva really makes these scenes hot."

Innerspace (1987) - Meg Ryan as a special agent, who wears a tight knee-length leather skirt and black stilettos to break into the enemy compound. There is no shortage of clear shots of this outfit.

In The Line of Duty: Kidnapped (1993) - RJS tells me that this film features "an oriental actress who mostly wears tight minisuits".

In the Mood for Love (2000) - "Rabotorto", cheongsam and Gina fan, brought this one to my attention. He used it as his "gold standard" for what he considers to be a tight cheongsam, and when I asked for illustrations he pointed me at the Yahoo! "sleeveless cheongsams"club, where I was able to see video captures from it. By 'eck, he's right, and they are tight too! An interview with the star made this clear:

In The Spirit (?) - "PDC" tells me that in this film "Marlo Thmas sendes half her time in a short black leatther mini".

Invaders From Mars (1953) - the mother of the little boy who sees the UFO land is a Fifties elegant beauty who is wearing a suit with long tight pencil skirt when she is captured by the aliens.

The Iron Petticoat (1956) - more or less a rehash of the "pretty Soviet woman comes West and is seduced by its beauty" story previously told in Ninotchka and Silk Stockings. However, this one does have Katherine Hepburn in it, and some truly sumptuous Fifties gowns of the first water. As well as pencil skirts, those who (as I do) like elaborate evening gowns with long sweeping skirts, very tight boned bodices and tiny waists will be happy.

I Still Dream of Jeannie (1990?) - another of Barbara Eden's films in which she shows off her mature curves with very, very tight suits!

It Started In Naples (1960) - another film recommended by contributor MJC, with his usual detailed commentary:

I Want Him Back! (1990) - not very good romantic comedy in which Brenda Bakke of Hot Shots! Part Deux appears as a sexy young journalist who steals an older woman's husband. While this is very deplorable, several readers would probably like the sequence where they meet in a restaurant early in the film: she comes on in a tight miniskirt and stilettos, and gets the man to light her cigarette in a languidly sexy way...

Jackie Brown (1997) - famous crime story by Quentin Tarentino, lacking the excessive violence and worship of thuggery that I disliked in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, wimp that I am. Pam Grier, a beautiful, full-figured woman, plays the fortysomething Jackie Brown, a glamorous air hostess with a short, tight blue suit for her uniform. There's also a short scene of another handsome and generously curved black woman dancing sexily in a tight skirt to a Supremes song.

Jagged Edge (1985) - a correspondent says "Glenn Close wears some really sexy suits in the courtroom scenes, believe it or not." RJS has seen it as well, and confirms that "this movie is a must for all tight skirt lovers, especially if they love back zips." I now have it on video, and though Glenn Close doesn't wear ultra-tight skirts the film does present a feast of sexy-but-elegant professional suits.

Janice Beard 45w.p.m. (UK 1999) - a comedy-drama largely set in an office typing pool. Though Janice herself is plain and a little frumpy, a lot of her colleagues wear tight business suits that combine the businesslike look with femininity and sex appeal. Their leader, Julia, is played by Patsy Kensit who in one scene has a really gorgeous tight pale blue minisuit. For the "launch party" at the end of the film they dress up in glamorous red outfits - mostly dresses, but one pencil suit - and Julia is briefly seen in a tight strapless minidress with lacing down the side.

Jawbreaker (1999) - "Attoled" recommends this one very highly, and apparently for once I've heard about it early enough to get tight skirt lovers out to see it in the cinema! "I went to see Jaw Breaker today. YOU GOTTA SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is from start to finish, loaded with skin tight skirts!! From every angle you have ever imagined. The movie as a whole is OK. It won't win any academy awards, but it has no dull moments and is well worth the time spent. But as far as the "tight skirts" are concerned, it gets a AA rating!!"
Eminent and long-standing contributor DWM later added this praise: "Scenes of note include Rose McGowan in a tight red leather skirt and Julie Benz in a tight pink leather skirt. The beautiful Rebecca Gayheart also wears a tight blue latex skirt. As noted in the current description, it's a movie for all tight skirt lovers and there isn't a dull moment when it comes to eye candy."

Jerry Maguire (1996) - Renée Zellwegger as Dorothy Boyd, a smartly dressed young mother, wears one short tight plaid skirt and one glamorous very tight short black skirt. I haven't seen all the film and so don't know what else there might be.

Jersey Girl (1992) - Dylan McDermott as Sal is fought over by Jami Gertz as Toby, a luscious, long-haired Hispanic honey with a taste for tight dresses and skirts, and Sheryl Lee as Tara, a society business beauty with short blonde hair and a taste for tight dresses and skirts. Toby also has some over-the-top girlfriends one of whom wears a splendid outfit with a tight black microskirt and high-heeled knee boots during a goldfish-stealing raid on Sal's place of business. Altogether an excellent resumé of the best of Eighties fashion in its last moments-and some of the worst of it too, as shown by Toby's off-the-shoulder jersey and baggy jogging trousers.

Johnny Handsome (1989) - BR says this is "another Ellen Barkin movie that has her wearing throughout most of the movie tight leather,PVC skirs and suits." DWM, my resident leather expert, says he doesn't believe her skirts are leather, though.

Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)- one of Whoopi Goldberg's colleagues wears a long, tight black satin pencil skirt.

Just One of the Guys (1985) - "LinePal" tells me that this film contains "One of the prettyest brunets in black leather ive scene.This movie has her in leather skirts in most of her scenes (5) Plus the star has a STUNNING white leather skirt-outfit on."

Keeping Up Appearances (UK sitcom 1990's) - I have never watched this myself but my fellow-European "John C" recommends it. He says that "the character Rose (Mary Millar) is running around in thight skirts and high heels!"

A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) - WJB sent in detailed comments about this:

Kill Me Again (1987) - curiously enough the first film beginning with a K to make this list. It's a violent thriller in which the extremely beautiful Joanne Whalley-Kilmer is introduced as a gangster's moll who whops her robber boyfriend on the head with a big rock and makes off with $800,000 of Mafia money in a briefcase, later falling in with a private detective who is - can you guess? - played by her husband Val Kilmer. I enjoyed what I watched of it - I haven't seen it all - but the reason it makes the list is that Mrs Whalley-Kilmer w