Actually your description reminds me of a Japanese folk tale, where a (roughly translated) [url=http://blogs.c.yimg.jp/res/blog-b6-6c/yatsurugi319/folder/1054244/26/46955026/img_0]"woman of the heavens"[/url] has her cloth stolen by a human man and is unable to fly because of it. The ending varies, but the cloth looks like this: 

 [img=http://rincrossing.smrj.go.jp/common/img/story/story12/img_02.jpg]