Found this variation of Wonder Woman's costume...

Overall, I like it. The only thing I don't care much for are the pieces of armor that are gold as it clashes with the rest of the outfit in terms of colors. I also don't like the brown piece of leather hanging from her backside. But other than those minor details, I like this design.

I generally don't like Wonder Woman in pants but this could work.

Or this

Without pants I like this look.

A funny thing about WW's outfit:

Unlike most superhero outfits, her's is connected only to the american flag, and so she has no identity of her own on it!!!

Where on her outfit does it NOT signify the american flag? Where on her outfit signifies JUST Diana?

Lasso, bracelets, and royal tiara...

@natvin:

Check "the Challenge of Gods". Read it before you critizice her costume.

I already have, and my statement stands. Study my statement before you tell me I'm criticizing her "costume".

But that's all? Just the Tiara? That's pathetic. And the Lasso is not a part of her outfit. Its a part of her arsenal. The bracelets the same. While green lanterns outfit is ENTIRELY about the green lantern, not America or Russia or friggin Ireland.

Technically Diana's costume is not that hard to connected with The Greek Gods or the amazons flag. Red Blue Gold and White all connected to Aphrodite and Athena. The Stars could be 6 point stars. The Eagle although rare is also Athena. Athena was in eagle form in odyssey to give strength or a Dove. Eagle could be a war flag since Athena was form in eagle in Odyssey to give courage and strength which she is the goddess of.

@sayaotonashi: Exactly, those colors and the Eagle do not belong to America alone

@natvin: there is a huge w on her chest

@captainmarvel4ever: Thanks. I mean look at this shield design.

Sure it does have American colors but it also has the Greco design.

BTW, love the outfit that resembles Jim Lee's/Azzarello's version of WW. I'm sure we see ti as brown...at first. Then when she meets Superman, gets inspiration to color her outfit to red-white-blue.

I just hate that her lasso is SILVER!

Hello! Its supposed to be gold!

Her chestplate is supposed to be silver!

@natvin: hopefully it will at least glow golden when in use.

I don't like her costume

Hey, check it out! Did any of you notice something funny about Gadot's new WW outfit?

SHE'S WEARING ARMOREDHIGH HEELS!!

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

I guess the costume designer was saying to himself something like this:

"Wonder Woman's high heels have been a topic of criticism for their lack of practicality in combat. Hmmmm. I think I'll solve that problematic stigma by slapping some armor on them. There, problem solved."

This one looks great, imo, head and shoulders above the official design, except for the ornament between her boobs. She's convincingly strong but still exceptionally beautiful. She shows a lot of skin but doesn't look trampy. The belt is splendid.

@natvin: or, perhaps, they thought "she can fly, who gives a crap about heels"

Sif wears heels too and she's a warrior. People think she's badass even though she cant fly. Same with Widow, but I/m sure while Diana is in battle - her wedges will be flats for the moment.

@archizoom:

But...your photo does not stay true to the original Marston concept of WW, which is that her muscles are no larger than an normal woman's muscles should be. The point was to look FEMININE.

About Gadot's Wonder outfit:

If you notice up close, her Tiara's triangle symbol resembles the Live-Love-Laugh triangle of William Marston!!

Plus, if you look closely at her belt and chest emblem, they're both shaped in a way that forms the contours of the letters W M M. Which is William Moulton Marston's initials!

The costume designer did this on purpose, maybe? To honor Marston?

Here's the story behind the outfit:

Diana, being an amazon warrior and all, comes to Superman & Batman dressed in drab brown combat gear that you see in the photo. THEN toward the end of the movie, after being influenced by SM and BM, and influencing THEM with her feminine way of thinking (to balance out their masculinity), she decides to put some color to her outfit, namely red-white-blue. Being the quirky creative girl she is, ONLY Diana does this to her outfit, while the other Amazons do not and even think that she's strange/wild to do so. But Diana doesn't care. She's unique.

@natvin: But that's the body of a woman, one that's 100% biologically female. Unless she's had a little unnatural augmentation those muscles are no larger than a woman's.

@archizoom: I said a NORMAL woman. That means nothing outta the ordinary. "Venus Body measurements" to be exact.

Well, let's assess Gadot's outfit:

Armored high heels.

Chest emblem & belt emblem that contain Marston's intials.

Tiara that has a triangle icon that resembles Marston's Live-Love-Laugh icon.

A sword.

A lasso (silver, at that).

And a Greek combat skirt that she will soon trade out for some close fitting shorts.

I'd say our Gal is off to a good start!

@natvin: The perfect measurements are a social construct, they have and they will change. In my opinion that photoshop montage of Gal Gadot is the best-looking "flesh and blood" interpretation of Wonder Woman I've seen on the internet so far.

Here to show you William Marston's initials built into the Gadot WW outfit, is this photo where the contours of the initials are highlighted in blue and red:

This video sums up how I feel about people complaining about Wonder Woman's outfit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB6TiRJNI-Q

@mpfly88: I love this video SO much! And for the record that Spider Woman cover is beautiful! His POV is brilliant!

@mpfly88 said:

I'm very sorry to burst your bubble but that's a 7-minute load of insufferable mumbo jumbo. He made a few good points about the spider woman cover controversy and we can all agree that elle magazine's far from being the beau-ideal of feminist journalism but the last 4 minutes of the video bordered on pathological imbecility. He postulates that sexualization occurs in the reader's mind but it occurs first in the mind of artists that create titillating visuals to spark a sexual response. Moreover, this response is only semi-voluntary, leaning towards involuntary. To top it off, he argues that we associate sex with negativity which is a common misconstruction. The problem is the unhealthy amount of emphasis they place on a woman's sexual appeal and the indiscriminate depiction of scantily clad women posing provocatively often at the sacrifice of the character's personality and irrespective of the situational variables. While some female characters such as Emma Frost land themselves to this kind of treatment, others like Wonder Woman don't. It's naive to think the character's outward appearance doesn't affect the reader's perception of the character.

Personally, as long as she's buff and her top doesn't sit halfway down her boobs, I don't mind the bathing suit. Otherwise it does tend to look trashy

Blah blah blah ... She's been NOT buff and flying around in a bathing suit for decades. Why is it such a problem to draw an idealized female figure in comics? How many fat guys in tights do we see? Even Spider-Man and Mr. Fantastic are ripped studs in this day and age ... It's comics, people aren't supposed to be "real".

@erik: It has been done bro. WW 8

@itheone said:

@erik: It has been done bro. WW 8

I don't know why you are replying a post I made August 2011, as if I should have known about New 52 series that didn't even start until November of 2011. In my post, I even showed Wonder Woman wearing armor that is more hoplite-based from the Post Crisis.

@erik: But you got your design, right ?

Lol I suppose that's true.

@erik: Did you like it, coz I did.

I loved it. I love most things about Azzarello's run.

About what Gal is wearing...i think the boots were made after Donna's when she took up the mantle of Wonder Woman.

I think the costumer and producer are trying for a more progressive approach as far as objectifying WW's body. Just look at the evolution of her outfit as portrayed by live actors....

Notice how the boobage is clearly seen to be a bit more & more. Then all the sudden its fully covered up in Gadot's version. Oh, and the uber prudish Cathy Crosby outfit doesn't count.

The ones below are my favourite Wonder Woman costumes.

@knightsofdarkness2: Ah! Some show boobage, some don't.

She's one of the reasons I don't watch JLA in front of parents and other people of older generation. Her outfit is disgraceful. If they make a live action movie with her I cannot come up with a good reason for watching her without making myself out to look like a pervert. For being such a morally concrete character she certainly outputs an immoral image.

@bats_colony: Ah, don't worry. Did you see the latest WW outfit on Gadot? It covera her cleavage and all.

Nothing to worry about.

No I didn't. I'll check it out. Thanks.

Wonder Woman the Greek with a perfect physique. Why hide that?

Let her flaunt her stuff while she's beating bad guys down, there's nothing shameful about it.

yes cus straight sexuality is immoral... your a disgraceful slut shamer (im mostly conservative, and im saying this, you went too freaking far man)

pervert implies perverse, implies unnatural, there is NOTHING wrong with straight males enjoying imagery of the female body... sexually or just visually pleasingly

Sorry. I didn't mean to burst your bubble. Please allow me explain why I said her dressing sense is immoral. It's not that I don't condone sexuality. I don't like that such vulgarity is applied in such an influential form of entertainment. It's one thing to dress sexy and something else if the dress is almost non-existent. Wonder Woman was created to depict sexual equality and not to facilitate sexual innuendos.

FYI to everybody:

Wonder Woman was a character that was designed to be sexual in imagery. Dr. William Marston was a sexual psychologist. He wanted to promote this erotic love emotion in readers of his day. Hence the way she's dressed. Even though she's evolved from those days, the basic design of her outfit remains the same.

So...the idea was NEVER about being prudish!

There's nothing wrong with straight males enjoying scantily clad women, where you find them, not at the expense of characters that should otherwise be built like Ronda Rousey and dress appropriately for what's happening in the scene. When these women are dehumanized and transformed into cookie-cutter red-light district prostitutes for the enjoyment of men then that's a perversion of the woman, and smacks of body shaming.

1.) ronda rousey can look plenty hyper sexy and glamorous, regardless of how built she is

2.) there is no whats appropriate for the scene in comics (ception only the most dead serious scenes) comics are a fantasy, we read them for the escapism

3.) im fine with wonder woman being built and muscular in fact i like it, she just can't be devoid of sexuality ether, its a matter of balance, frank cho's Zarda In my mind has the absolute ideal wonder woman form, massive shoulders, powerful arms but also a plump chest, BALANCE!

4.) the only bloody person dehumanizing them is you trying to claim looking sexy for sexy sake equals - prostitute and non unique (cookie cutter), YOU are placing these concepts on them, we still find them to be exactly who they are just more beautiful

5.) for it to be body shaming, it would be degrading fat/masculine women, its doing nothing of the kind, its simply saying the majority readership likes this visual the most (we are allowed to have bloody preferences, would you tolerate a man telling you what your allowed to be and not be attracted to? hypocrite!) and comics are primarily a VISUAL form of entertainment or else we would stick to reading novels

No you dehumanize them because you think it's okay to dump the unique human attributes that constitute the character's identity so that they can be refashioned into indistinguishable calendar girls to whom they then assign a mismatched personality. What we end up with is the old tired cliché of the hot warrior-chick that is totally not believably strong because it's not their strength the male readership is interested in.

Wonder Woman is fit, beautiful and wears a bathing suit, that should turn you on but no, that's not sexy enough for the exceptionally handsome comic book readership, gotta take off 40 pounds of muscle and place them on her tits, then put them 24/7 on display! If you're gonna have this what-men-want-men-shall-get mentality then what am I even doing here.

Adam Hughes and Frank Cho kind of strike a good balance but David Finch whose art you admittedly like a lot, does not.

Here we go again ... go look up the art that influenced Marston and H.G. Peter ... it was the equivalent of pin-up girls from Victorian era pseudo-porn. While I agree that WW and all other female super heroes can be done tastefully, there is 70 years of precedent working against that. Marston and Peter certainly had a sense of irony as part of the look they were going for, but face the facts that from day one Diana was meant to be a sexualized fantasy as well as a heroic figure. This is only "bad" if you choose to allow it to be. Should a beautiful woman never wear provocative clothing or show her sexuality simply because it may be harmful to the way all women are viewed in society? In my opinion, objectification requires at least some level of intent and in a visual medium it's difficult to avoid altogether and maintain integrity. We are all drawn to what we consider visually appealing, for some it's sexualization for others it's more simple. No need to rabidly attack anyone who thinks differently than you.