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- According to Pérez, the Wonder Woman costume was inspired by a woman the Amazons revered as a great hero. In the 1940s, a female American pilot named Diana Trevor crashed on the Amazon island of Themyscira, and sacrificed her life helping the Amazons defeat a threat from the underworld.
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Apr 3, 2018 · In that first story, Queen Hippolyta explains that the costume has been designed to make her a hero in America—a country that the Amazons, despite their dedicated isolationism, view as a bastion...
- Wonder Woman’S Golden Age Original Costume
- Wonder Woman's Silver Age Costumes
- Wonder Woman's Costumes Go Back to Basics in The Bronze Age
- Wonder Woman’S Iconic Post-Crisis Costumes
- The New 52 & DC Rebirth: Wonder Woman’S Newest Costume Designs
The superhero comic genre’s Golden Age, which ran from 1938 to the early 1950s, is defined by the Second World War. Golden Age superheroes were often defined by their patriotism and opposition to the existential threat of fascist regimes. Wonder Woman is easily one of DC’s best examples of this, representing 1940s-era American feminism and anti-fas...
While the superhero comic genre’s popularity took a nosedive in the early and mid-1950s in part due to Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent (an alarmist and homophobic attempt to censor comic books), DC Comics bounced back in what is now known as the Silver Age, and Wonder Woman’s stories became less violent. While initially retaining the le...
With the superhero genre’s Bronze Age in the early 1970s came a return to the classic outfit for Wonder Woman. After having her powers restored (and gaining a greater understanding of humanity in the process), Diana Price began using her Wonder Woman moniker and classic costume once more, albeit with further tweaks. Wonder Woman’s Bronze Age outfit...
DC’s Modern Age began in the late 1980s, following the conclusion of the game-changing Crisis on Infinite Earths. With the DC Universe now rebooted, Wonder Woman - as with many other DC heroes - had her lore rewritten. Having started her superhero career well after WWII, Wonder Woman’s post-Crisis stories now had a much stronger focus on Greek myth...
The post-Flashpoint DC Universe, marketed under the “New 52” title, gave Wonder Woman yet another update to her mythos, establishing her as the daughter of both Hippolyta and Zeus, as well as giving her a new costume for the new DC continuity. Wonder Woman’s New 52 costume was fundamentally similar to her post-Infinite Crisisoutfit, but its gold be...
- Amazon fashion over time. Following the release of Wonder Woman 1984, we looked back at how Wonder Woman's style has evolved from her first appearance in the '40s to her latest comics redesign.
- The original (1941) The first design from Wonder Woman co-creators William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter contained most of what would become the superhero's signature elements—the red, blue, and gold color scheme; the bracelets; the tiara.
- Get shorty (1942) It didn't take long for the hero formerly known as Diana Prince to ditch her initial star-studded culottes for formfitting (and far more practical) shorts—though they started out longer than they would later become.
- Strap-happy (1949) In the years after Marston's death, Wonder Woman got new footwear, replacing her boots with lace-up gladiator-style sandals befitting her roots in Greek mythology.
May 30, 2017 · We trace the evolution of Wonder Woman's iconic costume across DC's comics, TV shows, games and movies.
Jan 6, 2021 · Jessica Plummer Jan 6, 2021. At long last, Wonder Woman 1984 finally hit U.S. theaters and HBO Max on Christmas Day. The world’s most famous superheroine has been around for 79 years, and the new movie has me thinking about her history. Specifically, her costume history. Let’s take a look, shall we?
- Jessica Plummer
Mar 22, 2016 · The infographic begins with Golden Age Wonder Woman from 1941 in her signature costume of patriotic blue shorts with stars, a red bustier adorned with a yellow eagle, and red boots designed...
Mar 22, 2016 · A former college adjunct ... In honor of the release of 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,' a new infographic is making the rounds that traces the evolution of Wonder Woman's iconic look...
