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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

Actually, I was talking about the Spider-Woman costume, since you were tackling two posts about the matter up there.....

Oh ok! So yes, in that case, we do have a disagreement! But let me try and explain why I hold this seemingly absurd position.

I hold to the school of thought that beauty is objective, rather than subjective. In this line of thought, beauty of a piece of art/clothing/statues for an example, is measured in terms of how well it communicates the truths about what it represents. This is actually how (good) character designers construct their creations as well. When a character is designed or redesigned, the artist does not simply draw different costumes till they find one that is pleasing to their eye. Rather, they start with what they want to communicate, and then try to integrate it into their design. So when you see a character redesign, you can also see what exactly the author was thinking in regards to what this character is supposed to represent.

So lets come to this particular spider-woman costume. When you look at it, there is almost minimal information conveyed in the costume to identify this individual as a superhero. If one did not mention anything about her, one could mistake her for a black haired Mary Jane by just looking at the figure. Or perhaps even mistake her for a figure of a Spiderman fan.

Now I am not saying that the old Spider-woman costume was the best in the world. It can certainly be improved. However, what I would definitively say is that the costume displayed here is most certainly not an improvement. If anything, it seems like a design borne out of an overly eager mindset to convey the idea that anyone can be a superhero (which for reasons I am not going to get into here, I think is a pretty absurd motivation that has gone unchecked in recent years).