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Wonder Woman Gets a New Look - '80s Street Style

by Ben Widdicombe (Subscribe to Ben Widdicombe's posts)
Posted Jun 30th 2010 at 6:40PM  
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Panty raid: Wonder Woman gets a makeover. Photos courtesy of DC Comics

After spending 69 years fighting crime in a star-spangled, one-piece bathing suit, Wonder Woman has been given a new wardrobe.

DC Comics has unveiled a new-look superheroine with a costume closer to streetwear. The change coincides with a rewritten history for Wonder Woman's alter ego Diana Prince, who now no longer grew up on the mythical Amazon island of Themyscira (the story goes that mysterious forces, perhaps a cadre of evil fashion stylists, have somehow managed to change the past).

But critics may find the Amazing Amazon's look has been updated all the way to 1985.

What's modern is that her skin-tight separates have reinforced seams that suggest Kevlar or some other high-tech material.

But the cropped jacket with sleeves rolled up (she has to show off those famous cuff bracelets) gives her a silhouette that suggests she's waiting in line outside some Lower East Side, NYC, nightclub to hear a new act called Debbie Harry.

The star-spangled shoulder pads both reinforce the '80s look and seem like they might have been influenced by another icon who recently got a new costume, Captain America.

De-emphasizing her signature headband, the new ensemble perhaps acknowledges that a tiara is a difficult look to pull off with day wear. But the artist has added a kittenish choker -- a vintage touch which is new for Wonder Woman and further undermines the sense that we're looking at an outfit from Spring/Summer '10.

(Also, if you're wrestling with your arch-nemesis, the Cheetah, on the wing of an invisible plane, are you going to want to be wearing a choker? Seems like you're asking for trouble.)

DC Comics has changed Wonder Woman's look before, almost destroying the character in the process. For a couple of years in the '60s, she adopted changing Mod fashions in an effort to emulate the catlike Emma Peel from the British spy series, "The Avengers." But after that, and a brief foray into black leather in the '90s, she went back to her familiar, flag-inspired costume.

A recently published book on Wonder Woman explored how much her original costume owed to the fetish fantasies of her psychologist creator. So it remains to be seen whether the Amazon will get to keep her Kevlar jeans, or like other attempts to change her wardrobe, it's only a matter of time before she gets back into high-heel boots and a swimsuit.

Speaking of wardrobe changes, read StyleList's take on whether teen queen Miley Cyrus's style is too sexy.
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crescent seward, 7-01-2010, 12:58AM

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crescent seward

I love the new Wonder Woman look! It's hip, and although it may seem like she's going to a Blondie concert . . . all styles are in now anyway. Kudos to DC Comics!

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Joe King, 7-01-2010, 6:29AM

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Now make a big screen Wonder Woman film already!!!!

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b, 7-01-2010, 9:32AM

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when will the people wake UP! and see that these small changes from wholesome things( up beat american suit) to dark things(ie. demonic) such as outsfits becoming streetish is a SIGN that the countrys morals and pride are on a downward spiral . Just look at how the movies from Disney has all changed from the 60's and 70's of bright up beat and happy to the Dark characters in the movies or cartoons now. IF people could only see whats going here then maybe they will see how evil quitely creeping into our lives.

GOD BLESS AMERICA and peace to JERUSALEM

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mrdata98, 7-01-2010, 8:10AM

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mrdata98

Ugh! Awful, just awful. If you want to create a punk rock 1980's superheroine fine, go ahead. Call her whatever, but don't pretend she's Wonder Woman. I've been a Wonder Woman fan since the beginning. I know Wonder Woman. This is NOT Wonder Woman.

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kbaredge126cd, 7-01-2010, 8:43AM

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kbaredge126cd

Lol. Priceless.

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julie, 7-01-2010, 8:59AM

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julie

Alice you moron lest you forget wonder woman was an Amazon from Paradise Island, so that would make her curvier,and well built like a real woman, NOT like an anorexic stick figure like most of you white chicks.So why dont you go throw up in the toilet and while there stick your dumbass head in it.

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sunny, 7-01-2010, 9:02AM

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sunny

The "new" Wonder Woman looks like the original Wonder Woman's totally kick-ass 20 year old granddaughter.

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GuruSoldier, 7-01-2010, 9:06AM

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GuruSoldier

The new Wonder Woman's look isn't slutty enough for today's standards. If you want to make her look like she belongs in today's fashion, you would have to make her a size zero, increase her bust line to show she had implants, inflate her ass to look like she had that done too, make her nipples stand out like tooth paste caps, give her two over-inflated lips to show she had Botox and give her the famous hair style and make up job of the "I look like I'm on heroine and just rolled out of bed after doing the entire football team" and then she would look like what generation "Y" are attracted too. Oh, you would also have to make her Bi-Sexual too so the gays don't get upset and to show that she is chic. Don't forget to remove all of her American related colors or you might offend someone and don't forget to make her invisible jet to be Eco-friendly so as not ot offend the liberal tree huggers!

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HRCBATMAN, 7-01-2010, 9:31AM

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HRCBATMAN

This is probly Donna Troy, who was Wonder Womans sidekick. This would not be the 1st time she has taken over the mantel from Diana Prince.

DC made Dick Grayson Batman so it only seems fit that they are gonna give the old timers a break again and let thier protoges take over for awhile.

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Caitlin, 7-01-2010, 9:35AM

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@ g
I am white and I don't have wrinkles at all. In fact, my mother is 50 and she still looks like she is mid-30's. Not that I agree with Alice because I do not think black women are fat, but you went a little far with the looks of white women. The only white girls who get wrinkles so young are the ones who go to the tanning salon every day. So you are wrong.

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Angi and Tom, 7-01-2010, 9:50AM

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Angi and Tom

ick ick ick ick ick----why do they have to go and change the classics?

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Kim, 7-01-2010, 12:39PM

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Kim

Yay, Linda Carter!!!!

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Shirley, 7-01-2010, 10:35AM

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Shirley

Bring back the former Wonder Woman!

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Cargib, 7-01-2010, 10:40AM

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Cargib

That's right! This is not Wonder Woman! Give her her clothes back! Give her heritage back to her! You have created another woman....this one is no Ronald Regan.....
oops! (I meant Wonder Woman!)

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Pat, 7-01-2010, 10:43AM

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Dont these people who make movies or want to change the past have any ideas of their own. Leave the old ways alone and try to be creative enough to come up with your own new material. Thats the way she looked in the comics and the way Linda Carter dressed the part in the mini serious. Leave the past stand or no one will really remember how it was. Make up your own material and quit sponging off of others work.

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Almostperfect, 7-01-2010, 10:43AM

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Almostperfect

HATE IT! The ICONIC Wonder Woman outfit needs to stay! (Probably changed it because they can't cast any one for the movie role because there are no curves left in Tinseltown...only stick thin, emaciated women with no (real) breasts and no hips!)

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John F.C. Taylor, 7-01-2010, 10:42AM

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George Perez did the art for an 80s rewrite of Wonder Woman. Should have used a cut from him rather than from the original 40s Wonder Woman. I think that the new Wonder Woman looks great, but still prefer Wonder Woman as she looked. By the way, for non comic readers, they are also messing with her origin too, not just her costume.

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Koz, 7-01-2010, 11:03AM

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Another icon down the toilet to politicaly correct.

Where is the stars and strip she is American.

Did not like the last super man either when they changed his outfit. Super man along with wonderwoman flash and all the other heros where part of the justice league true AMERICAN. They fought for truth, justice and the American way of life.

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gloria, 7-01-2010, 11:03AM

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I grew up with wonder woman she was my idol and role model how dare you change her costume and look she looks like a hooker dang you people

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Marian White, 7-01-2010, 11:07AM

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Why does there have to be an update to everything? A lot of things are better in their original form, such as wonder woman...Remakes of original movies are horrible like Alice in Wonderland with johnny Depp..That is not meant for children as was the original animated version... And I agree with b...We have taken happy wholesome movies and have made them into evil things.. like live action Chipmunk movie. nothing compared to the original animated version which was more fun and clean... Satan is at work. The morals of this world is going to H in a handbasket....Please leave original ideas and things alone.. If it isn't broke, don't fix it....

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