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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 6, 2017 9:42:54 GMT -5
I guess that Electro had a wimple. Then again, I've always seen him as a wimpy character, so it is appropriate. Electro had a green cowl with a yellow mask affixed to the front. Cei-U! I summon the haute couture! |
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Post by brutalis on Oct 6, 2017 10:17:24 GMT -5
The wimple was a very European style thing in the day so it was likely Kirby's visual short hand for showing her cultural difference and making her stand out in a crowd. Pietro had shoulder pads and peter pan/elf fin boots on his original costume which also denoted another visual style that wasn't conventional or the norm and far more European looking.
Much preferred Wanda once she converted to the more tiara style. And has nobody heard of or remember that hair pins were for how these things were able to stay on?
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Post by badwolf on Oct 6, 2017 10:22:58 GMT -5
She used her powers to warp the improbability of it staying on.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 14:16:48 GMT -5
She used her powers to warp the improbability of it staying on. Good thinking here ... makes sense to me. |
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Post by Jesse on Oct 6, 2017 14:37:59 GMT -5
The Scarlet Witch's Head Thing I assumed the title meant the thread would be about Wanda going crazy and magically created her own children or making all the mutants go away during M-Day.  |
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Post by Confessor on Oct 6, 2017 17:58:48 GMT -5
I guess that Electro had a wimple. Then again, I've always seen him as a wimpy character, so it is appropriate. Electro had a green cowl with a yellow mask affixed to the front. Cei-U! I summon the haute couture! Call it what you want...it was the biggest fashion disaster in the Marvel Universe this side of Wonder Man. Electro...love the character, hate the costume. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 6, 2017 18:28:34 GMT -5
I'm guessing that what keeps her headress in place is the same thing that keeps this in place.  |
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Post by zilch on Oct 7, 2017 21:32:11 GMT -5
Moving back a bit...
One has to wonder about costume choices (or lack there of...) for the original BOEM. Magneto's helmet was a defensive piece and the cape for drama, but the rest, welll...
Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver's costumes are both good.
But the other two tell a bit more. Toad's costume is more like a drab court jester's outfit, befitting his grovelling nature. He was probably saved by Magneto from a bunch of bullies, not unlike several other mutants stories (Cyclops, Iceman, Nightcrawler). Mastermind's lack of a real costume backs up his power set of illusion, letting others see him not how he really was (a pervy British guy in a grungy tweed suit and overcoat). Would love to see how he first met up with Magnus (good story there, folks!).
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Post by Outrajs on Oct 9, 2017 9:06:11 GMT -5
I never liked her costume in general and disliked the head-piece because of that - too much red! The swimsuit, the headpiece, the tights and whatever you call the see-through sleeve things, all different shades of the same colour - and then they changed her hair to a reddish tint as well! But when I see the earlier versions with the black hair it doesn't look as bad. The best version I've seen is when they made her swim suit a two-piece and got rid of the pink tights - apparently not on purpose but because of a colouring error. And lo and behold, the head-piece doesn't look bad then. They should have went with that as her standard look. But I think Hela's has to take top prize in any discussion of Kirby heroines' head-pieces. Barda's weird helmet thingy is up there too. Well...she IS the Scarlett Witch after all! But seriously though, with a color like red, I agree too much is too much. It needed more contrasting colors to make it appreciable. And her helmet is ridiculous. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 10, 2017 2:46:34 GMT -5
So she started with a modified wimple to signify "European-ness" and that was re-modelled into the pointy "head through a napkin" thing we all know and love. Got it.
Good job, guys. Great thread!
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Post by rberman on Jan 5, 2018 14:06:57 GMT -5
Were wimples really fashionable in Europe in the 1960s? They typically cover the hair, but Wanda's hair was free. A quick Google search doesn't turn up face-framing, hair-flowing women's fashion accessories from that era. Remember that Wanda wasn't the only Kirby character like that; he showed great fondness for framing faces. Big Bear in the Forever People had a bushy mustache-free beard; Mark Moonrider had a framing cloth (I assume) cowl that left his hair exposed, like Firestorm and Gambit would later have. Darkseid has a framing helmet from which his face protrudes. I bet other similar head-dresses show up in New Gods and Eternals on other folks.  |
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Post by berkley on Jan 5, 2018 21:12:36 GMT -5
Yes, also Thena's golden head-piece thing, speaking of the Eternals:  Almost all of these are better than the Scarlet Witch's, to my mind. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 21:58:59 GMT -5
Yes, also Thena's golden head-piece thing, speaking of the Eternals: Almost all of these are better than the Scarlet Witch's, to my mind. Agreed, and I still do like the Scarlet Witch too ... Thena is an excellent design ... no questions about it. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 5, 2018 22:33:50 GMT -5
Makarri has one too, I'm reminded now I look at the image I posted. And the Enchantress, if she hasn't been mentioned yet.
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Post by rberman on Jan 6, 2018 9:47:41 GMT -5
In retrospect, a lot of these designs seem Meso-American. Ajax looks like he would fit in just fine in a mural in Chichen Itza.
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