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My favorite Legion costume of all time.

ExCUSE me?? That costume was one of the very best in all Superherodom, okay?!

YO, you dudes gots to QUIT dissin' the skintastic 70s!

I knew the Grell partisans would launch the counteroffensive. Lash to the defense!

YO, it's FABRIC not plegm... I don't care what Drura's creator Dave Cockrum says!!

The high collar on K Kid's white outfit would have interfered with his vision during battle.

Not to mention it probably used up all the starch in Legion headquarters.

Huh?? I didn't say that ...

I have to break the near-unanimity, as well, on Grell's outfit for Cosmic Boy.

~ It's functional in a galaxy where nearly every planet -- certainly Earth -- has some form of climate control. Fewer temperature extremes and less fabric have been the trends over centuries as this has progressed, even in our own "backward" era.

~ The whole "how is it held up" question shows a lack of imagination. Selectively taut fibers, down to the molecular level? Being attached to an invisible body mesh that provides weightless "smart" armor, reacting to incoming fists or projectiles? Being held in by a 24/7 transuit, for that matter? Those are all active possibilities.

~ Bare shoulders and pecs look good on men, especially when so many are in such good shape. For all we know, that physique comes out of a bottle at GNC, a millennium hence!

Beyond all that, the men in our family will all look great in this design. It could be the skin tone, though. We don't need a tan {g}

Her outfit reminds me of a nurse's uniform. In terms of her train (which so far isn't outrageously long), I see it akin to the flowing fabric, tassles etc you sometimes see used in martial arts flicks -- they're used to obscure and confuse the opponent during combat. The same might be said of her colors -- it might be a component to trijitsu, which would make her outfit the most practical of all! (well, next to Wildfire's that is )

Three pages on this thread with 45 years of history?!?

What's clear is that the legion needs some serious work on their costumes!

Mr. Batista, are you listening?

We're talkin' ...

High collars.
Bizarre leggings.
Capes. Capes ! Capes!!
HATS!
and Fringe. Must have more fringe. Bring back dawnstar if only for the fringe!

It could be liquid latex or somesuch as well...

Or maybe it's all just iron filings that "cling" to him like tiny refrigerator magnets...

When Giffen did the "pocket" costumes he gave Invisible Kid II a really clunky costume covered in armour. It never made sense to me why a character with a stealth based power would have such a clumsy and probably noisey costume.

My apologies,DrakeB3003. Next time, I will try to get my facts right, before I rush off to defend the honor of the hottest superheroine's costume of all time.
How can ANYONE claim Imras Bikini-costume would be "Inpractical"?! Just think of it! Every Villain with the exeption of Glorith would have SWOONED, just after he laid eyes on Imra's Dress, and LONG, bevore Imra ever had to fight (though we all would have LOVED seeing Imra kickboxing an enemy in that costume.)
And, Omni Craig, Your'e dead on with all Your assessments of Imra's aparel. Glad to know that I'm not the only one who swoons/drools over "Bikini-Saturn Girl".

No, it was me. I do not like the costume or the character. Sorry...

Sigh... If You simply DON'T LIKE Imra, there's nothing to be done about it. But I will NEVER understand it.

Yeah, where the hell did that trend for martial artists come from in the first place, anyway?

Same with Iron Fist. That ridiculous collar! Ugh!

I'm not a fan of the pants that end mid-calf and the ballerina slippers either, for that matter...

Boob windows, spike heels, and Spears midriffs really all need to be retired. I hate to sound like a broken record, but it's true.

Send the characters to the beach if you want them to run around barely clothed. Send them to the opera if you want them in backless evening gowns and eff-me pumps.

and the drag when jumping up and down through the air.

I always thought that it was one of the most out-of-character costumes, myself...

Karate Kid's costume with the big collar, and to an extent his Postboot semi-loincloth look, were also impractical for a fighter.

Shadow Lass' cape, for that matter, was as well.

On Imra's bikini costume...I always thought it kinda fit at the time. She was portrayed as a snooty, stuck up kinda gal. Like the head cheerleader with the high school jock that other people never mattered too. And yet, that was all surface for the character, which actually ran much deeper, but still had a touch of the WASPish attitude. Sort of a "Look and drool, boys, but you'll never have because I'm a one man kinda gal."

Rokk: I always figured the bustier was a form of metal fabric held up by his power. No, it wasn't practical...but wasn't there an explanation a few years back that it was a coloring error that just kinda stuck, or am I thinking of something else?

But for most illogical, I'd have to go with Tharok. He's half man, half robot. And yet, there are no fasteners but his costume still clings to his human half perfectly. Given that he most likely had the normal human..."equipment"... simple movement would cause a wardrobe malfunction. Just ewwww.

Paul tried mixing that up with a Tharok that had a mechanical bottom half and a human-ish top half, in this last run (which, IMO, made him look too much like Marvel characters like the Shaper of Worlds and Korvac), so it seems that the left/right machine/human division was also not to his preference.

I get, visually, why he didn't wear clothing over his robot half, but, it no longer being the '60s, he should just have more robot parts all over (perhaps with a human brain and bits embedded in the robot's chest?) and clothing over much of it. The half and half thing was a neat concept, many decades ago, but it looks a little silly now, and opens up weird questions like does he have a half-robot tongue? Does he have half a willy? Ew.

deftly avoiding all of the mechanical equipment comments...

I just felt that the human half you saw, wasn't completely human either. That some of the human half was an interface with the robot side. Otherwise he would just fall apart.

As a cyborg related aside I remember Valance form the early Star Wars issues.

http://borgdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/borg-star-wars-valance.jpg?w=640

I think that came out pre Terminator. It would have made for quite a reveal for Tharok, had he not been quite futuristic looking back when he was introduced.