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Oh, Cassie. Let’s talk about costumes.
You conjure a pair of jeans, don an armored blouse or collegiate sweater, and occasionally drop the bracers. There’s a colloquial charm in your street-ready threads but are they appropriate dress for superheroics?
Consider your predecessor’s clothes: when she was in the Teen Titans, Donna Troy’s costume was a wonder of economic, elegant design, truly a heroine’s costume. Her current starry suit ain’t half bad, either.
We’ll spare you an all-red get-up; you tried that and, I must agree, it didn’t always work. Also, we must control the blue, lest we mistake you for Supergirl, and temper the star motif, lest you remind us of Stargirl. How about a new ‘do, too?
Just try it on your next couple of adventures, Cassie. Should it fail to wow friends and foes alike, we’ll try something else.
Fondly,
Jonathan McNulty
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Dear Jonathan;
Oh boy. 10-4; I totally love it when civilians try to give heroes fashion advice.
You worked your way around this one, but I'll bring it up: a lot of people blame Superboy for kick-starting this "street ready" costume thing and ask if it's really appropriate for superheroes to wear. It's really funny, because I was in jeans and t-shirts long before Superboy was; other than those spandex shorts on my first costume, my first (and to date, only) actual spandex outfit was the all-red get-up you don't think worked. I've been doing it for six years, and people have been complaining about it ever since. Until I started wearing the black zip-up and the red pants towards the end of Young Justice, I made just about every worst-dressed list ever.
I'd ask why I got bitched at all the time about this, but I think we all know why Superboy "started a trend" and I'm "charming but inappropriate." What's so wrong with wanting to wear something comfortable, not so revealing, and more durable? Jeans look good scuffed up and torn -- they even sell them that way sometimes. Spandex looks grubby and tacky when torn up, not to mention what's happened to most female heroines at least once... to be blunt, inconveniently-placed tears suck. As the icing on the cake... touch velcro once in spandex and the entire thing's ruined.
I don't know about you, but I get really annoyed when I have to get a new costume made for me every time I go out and fight. Sponsors don't like it either -- and conveniently, they DO like that Wonder Girl knock-off jeans sell like hot cakes.
And I know what you're saying -- that doesn't really invalidate your criticism. It's still jeans and a shirt. But calling Donna's costume a wonder (ha ha, by the way, as if we haven't heard that a zillion times) and truly a heroine's costume... not to be crude, but are you sure you aren't distracted by the neckline? I love Donna, but I'll strangle myself with my own lasso before I wind up with a neckline that dips to my navel. Or that necklace -- you're practically asking to get whacked in the teeth or choked with it. And what is a "heroine's costume" anyway?
But really, I'm here to save your behind when some ugly thing is about to step on you. When the frame of your car is collapsing and there's a foot three inches from your head and bearing straight down, do you really want to bitch about my choice in pants?
Also, it's Wonder Girl to you.
Shove it,
Wonder Girl
You conjure a pair of jeans, don an armored blouse or collegiate sweater, and occasionally drop the bracers. There’s a colloquial charm in your street-ready threads but are they appropriate dress for superheroics?
Consider your predecessor’s clothes: when she was in the Teen Titans, Donna Troy’s costume was a wonder of economic, elegant design, truly a heroine’s costume. Her current starry suit ain’t half bad, either.
We’ll spare you an all-red get-up; you tried that and, I must agree, it didn’t always work. Also, we must control the blue, lest we mistake you for Supergirl, and temper the star motif, lest you remind us of Stargirl. How about a new ‘do, too?
Just try it on your next couple of adventures, Cassie. Should it fail to wow friends and foes alike, we’ll try something else.
Fondly,
Jonathan McNulty
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Dear Jonathan;
Oh boy. 10-4; I totally love it when civilians try to give heroes fashion advice.
You worked your way around this one, but I'll bring it up: a lot of people blame Superboy for kick-starting this "street ready" costume thing and ask if it's really appropriate for superheroes to wear. It's really funny, because I was in jeans and t-shirts long before Superboy was; other than those spandex shorts on my first costume, my first (and to date, only) actual spandex outfit was the all-red get-up you don't think worked. I've been doing it for six years, and people have been complaining about it ever since. Until I started wearing the black zip-up and the red pants towards the end of Young Justice, I made just about every worst-dressed list ever.
I'd ask why I got bitched at all the time about this, but I think we all know why Superboy "started a trend" and I'm "charming but inappropriate." What's so wrong with wanting to wear something comfortable, not so revealing, and more durable? Jeans look good scuffed up and torn -- they even sell them that way sometimes. Spandex looks grubby and tacky when torn up, not to mention what's happened to most female heroines at least once... to be blunt, inconveniently-placed tears suck. As the icing on the cake... touch velcro once in spandex and the entire thing's ruined.
I don't know about you, but I get really annoyed when I have to get a new costume made for me every time I go out and fight. Sponsors don't like it either -- and conveniently, they DO like that Wonder Girl knock-off jeans sell like hot cakes.
And I know what you're saying -- that doesn't really invalidate your criticism. It's still jeans and a shirt. But calling Donna's costume a wonder (ha ha, by the way, as if we haven't heard that a zillion times) and truly a heroine's costume... not to be crude, but are you sure you aren't distracted by the neckline? I love Donna, but I'll strangle myself with my own lasso before I wind up with a neckline that dips to my navel. Or that necklace -- you're practically asking to get whacked in the teeth or choked with it. And what is a "heroine's costume" anyway?
But really, I'm here to save your behind when some ugly thing is about to step on you. When the frame of your car is collapsing and there's a foot three inches from your head and bearing straight down, do you really want to bitch about my choice in pants?
Also, it's Wonder Girl to you.
Shove it,
Wonder Girl