Costume design

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 65. Chapters: Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Angels The Costumiers, Batsuit, Bodysuit, Body painting, Catsuit, Catsuits and bodysuits in popular media, Chicken suit, Cloak, Codpiece, Cosplay, Costume coordination, Costume Designers Guild, Dolphin Factory, Domino mask, Fake moustache, Fatsuit, Feather tights, French maid, French Quarter Mardi Gras costumes, Fursuit, Gorilla suit, Hennin, Illusion costume, Inflatable costume, Kigurumi, Kumadori, Leotard, Max Karl Tilke, Modern dress, Robe, Santa suit, Spirit gum, Stage clothes, Use of costume in Athenian tragedy, Wardrobe supervisor, Western Costume, Zentai. Excerpt: The Batsuit (or Bat-Suit) is the costume of the fictional comic book character Batman, a superhero appearing in DC Comics. Though the suit has been drawn many different ways by different artists, and the stories themselves have described Batman as modifying the details of his costume from time to time, it is most often depicted as consisting of a black or blue scalloped cape, a bat-like cowl, a pair of gloves with blades on the sides, boots, a yellow utility belt, and dark briefs over a gray tight-fitting body suit with the image of a bat emblazoned on the chest, either as a part of a yellow ellipse or black entirely. Batman wears this costume both to conceal his identity, and to frighten criminals. Most versions of the Batsuit incorporate some form of body armor, and often night-vision, gas filters, and other aids to combat effectiveness or protection. All versions of the outfit incorporate a utility belt containing a variety of crimefighting equipment. While brooding in his study over how to be a more effective crime fighter, Bruce Wayne saw a bat come through his window (in the earliest Detective Comics portrayal simply flying in an open window, in Post-Crisis continuity such as Batman: Year One, dramatically crashing through the glass). Seeing that "criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot," Bruce adopts the persona of a bat in order to conceal his identity and strike fear into his adversaries. Subsequent origin tales have had Bruce terrified by bats as a child, and observing a bat costume worn by his father at a costume ball. Batman's cape, cowl, gloves, briefs, and boots are usually either of two colors: Black (Usually with gray or blue highlights) or blue entirely. The blue highlights on the black, which was how he was designed in his 1939 debut appearance, are there in order to show detail and give the illusion of three-dimensionality. Over time, the initial blue highlight spread out over the previously black cape and cowl to become the dominant color. Th