Thread:AnnabellRice/@comment-5111077-20160129092816/@comment-61022-20160129145821

Nurdboy42 wrote: To tell you the truth I don't even see why we need articles for costumes that don't really do anything special (Cap's suit, DD's suit) as opposed to ones that do (Iron Man Armor).

But I figure if someone took the time to create these articles then there should be some useful info in them.

I can see some validity to having pages dedicated to a costume that was worn. Particularly for a specific individual. If anyone is curious as to how many different costumes that the Wasp has worn over the years and when, it could be a valuable tool provided the proper reference material has been provided. What happened to the costume (eg: was it destroyed? did they decide to change it? why?)

OR when you have a group that all adopt a similar uniform. The Fantastic Four is a great example. They all wore the trademark blue on black uniforms. Johnny briefly wore a red and yellow variant, Medusa had her own unique FF uniform when she was a member of the team, the entire team switched to the black on white costumes thanks to a Negative Zone costume inversion (weird gimmick, but that was a thing) when Ms. Marvel became the "She-Thing" she had her own FF uniform, Sue's "revealing" costume when she was possessed by Malice, and the less risqué costume she wore shortly thereafter, the costumes they wore JUST before Onslaught, the Heroes Reborn costumes (which were modified SHIELD uniforms), the post HR costumes, and so-on and so-forth.

Characters often adopt specific costumes for different uses. For example, your assessment of Daredevil's costume not "doing" anything is not entirely accurate. Granted his first two costumes were only esthetic, later when he adopted the red and grey biometric costume it was designed with various functions built into it.

Captain America's uniform was once modified with an exoskeleton and various gadgets during a period in which his super-soldier serum was failing him.

.... Now that I think of it, the 90s were quite a period where characters "enhanced" their costumes with various gimmicks. Was probably because of that "Everyone's got to be a cyborg with big guns" craze, they had to add gimmicks to make characters more 90s..