1941 sketch shows original Wonder Woman costume
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Posted on: 2010-10-22 11:44 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
That's great stuff. Thanks!
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It'd be interesting to know if work on the supposed WW TV show next year has gotten far enough along for them to be sketching outfit concepts like this now.
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That's how far before her time WW really was: she was wearing tube tops 33 years before they hit the mainstream.
Of course, considering the twisted puppy her creator was (and who he based her on) it's not surprising she wore revealing outfits.
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One can argue (by extension) that Marston himself was ahead of his time. |
Originally Posted by Ironik
That's how far before her time WW really was: she was wearing tube tops 33 years before they hit the mainstream.
Of course, considering the twisted puppy her creator was (and who he based her on) it's not surprising she wore revealing outfits. |
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Other things one might not know about Marston:
He helped invent the lie detector (polygraph).
Despite his bondage fetish, he was a staunch supporter of the feminist movement.
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I did know that (although lie detectors are notoriously unreliable), but he was still an oddball. Few people are (or should be) defined by a single thing. No one is purely bad or purely good, or in Marston's case, purely mainstream or purely weird. We are delightful mixes of all sorts of stuff.
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Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
Other things one might not know about Marston:
He helped invent the lie detector (polygraph). Despite his bondage fetish, he was a staunch supporter of the feminist movement. -np |
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They could always save themselves the trouble of sketching and just take a look at a WW comic |
Originally Posted by Lothic
It'd be interesting to know if work on the supposed WW TV show next year has gotten far enough along for them to be sketching outfit concepts like this now.
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I fail to see where one thing has to do the other.
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Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
Despite his bondage fetish, he was a staunch supporter of the feminist movement.
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Depends on if he was on receiving side of things. If he liked women tying him up, then there would be more women to tie him up if they didn't follow the classic stereotype of women before they gained equality.
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Originally Posted by Desmodos
I fail to see where one thing has to do the other.
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Apparently this article's author has never seen images of other characters being designed... most characters go through several stages of development and are commented on a lot before they are ever made the final draft of a character v.v
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It was pretty obvious that those shoes would have to go; drawing those straps in a variety of perspectives would have become a problem. The eagle tended to become a lot more stylized over the years as well, and in its last incarnations was barely recognizable as an eagle.
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Originally Posted by Durakken
Apparently this article's author has never seen images of other characters being designed... most characters go through several stages of development and are commented on a lot before they are ever made the final draft of a character v.v
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Marston was of the firm belief that everyone, male or female, on some level deep down wanted to be dominated by a woman. It shows in a lot of the early WW scripts.
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
Depends on if he was on receiving side of things. If he liked women tying him up, then there would be more women to tie him up if they didn't follow the classic stereotype of women before they gained equality.
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Which only supports the notion that his bondage fetish had absolutely nothing to do with his support (or lack of) of feminism.
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Originally Posted by Warp_Factor
Marston was of the firm belief that everyone, male or female, on some level deep down wanted to be dominated by a woman. It shows in a lot of the early WW scripts.
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I think they'd probably want to be a little more specific than that. If you looked through the 70 years worth of WW comics you'd probably find literally hundreds of different outfits she's worn and dozens of variations of the more popular ones. |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
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Obviously any new WW movie or TV show will redesign its own version of the outfit for its own purposes, even if they decide to take an existing example and clone 99.9% of it.
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It would look better if she had a 90s style jacket on....
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Originally Posted by Heraclea
Rare 1941 sketch shows birth of Wonder Woman's costume
A 1941 sketch reveals the character's creators were just as conflicted about the Amazonian's looks right from the beginning.The original sketch shows Wonder Woman wearing a two piece outfit: a belly shirt with the eagle motif, a blue and silver belt, and a star spangled skirt.  |
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Rare 1941 sketch shows birth of Wonder Woman's costume
The original sketch shows Wonder Woman wearing a two piece outfit: a belly shirt with the eagle motif, a blue and silver belt, and a star spangled skirt.<《 New Colchis / Guides / Mission Architect 》>
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