Catwoman. Created in the 1940s for DC Comics, she has progressed a very long way since her inception. She began wearing stylish black dresses of the forties and a black cowl much like Batman’s. She moved onto the small screen in the Batman television show in the 1960s, played first by Julie Newmar and wearing skintight cat suits, if you’ll pardon the pun. From there her look changed forever. Now she appears to wear almost nothing. Her breasts are exaggeratedly large, and her costume appears so tight that every muscle and indentation in her flawless physique is perfectly visible. For example, one can very easily locate her belly button and the curvature of her abdominal muscles. How many women do you know with perfectly spherical breasts? The only things that have stayed the same in her costume since the forties are the cowl with cat ears, high cheekbones and long wavy black hair. I noted the previous differences in Catwoman while reading Trina Robbins’s book, The Great Women Superheroes.

this is a brief paragraph from an essay about women super heroes explaining how they are dressed and what the point of them dressing like this is basically how they are represented and the history of women in comic books

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