My Starfire Costume
Friday, November 14th, 2008 by tcg
I decided to give the Fights, Flights, and Tights contest a try. I started working on the costume a little late in the game since I hadn’t decided which superperson I was going to try to redo. I eventually picked Starfire. Starfire’s a sweet girl from another world who wears a bathing suit as a costume. Well, not an actual bathing suit but she shows more skin then Wonder Woman. I thought it could be interesting to try to create a more modest outfit for Starfire.
In the cartoon series Teen Titans, Starfire was given a completely new costume. It is cute and age appropriate. Perfect for a teen on the go frighting crime. I thought she could use something different as a woman attracting stares from men and glares from their wives.
I started with the idea that she would wear pants. She does a lot of flying and needs to have things covered. I realize she has a different sense of modesty and body image than us silly earthlings, so I wanted to leave some skin showing. The top keeps her high collar yet shows her midriff. I’m not into the boob window or the super v-neck styles some artists give costumed females, but I acknowledged the trend by adding cutouts along the collar bone. Starfire is one of the heroes that wears gauntlets. My version also has gauntlets.
Things about my changes that aren’t really changes just me working with what I have. She has long red hair and when she flies she leaves an energy trail that makes her hair look longer than Godiva’s. I don’t have a long hair wig. I have my hair but it isn’t red. I felt it was more important to have the red hair contrasting with the purple suit than my long hair. So, short red hair wig. You’ll notice I don’t have any shoes. I thought boots would be the best thing to do. However, since I started so late on the project and finished right at the last moment, I didn’t make boot covers. I know, how can I submit a costume without shoes? I did. You can imagine knee-high purple boots. A dark purple similar to some of the accent color.
What do you think? I won’t know if I placed in the contest for a few weeks. For my first entry, I think I did okay.
Tags: fights, flights, project rooftop, starfire, tights
November 14th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Brilliant! You look awesome.
June 18th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Hi, great start choosing to go with Starfire, but don’t be so modest – the only thing more figure hugging than a superheroes costume would be bodypaint, it’s all about shape and form (so I’m with you on the cleavage cutouts – unnecessary) which it looks to me like you have, excellent midriff certainly. Would say you could go with a more figure hugging top, making the most of your ideal slim waist. The archetypal Starfire image is, as many super heroines are, unobtainable hybrids of ripped musclature and accentuated feminine sexuality. If you really make the most of the ‘materials’ you have to work with I’d wager you’d score very well on the later of the two and its important remembering that these images of heroes need to be so physically pumped up to fuel our imaginations to leap off the page, while you have no such hurdles to jump, you’re already here in glorious 3D…and so in short: tone down the modesty, accentuate your great figure and you will see those ‘glares’ wives and girlfriends become looks of admiration. Hope you have fun and feel larger than life.
Kind regards
Mike