No skirts for this superhero
Facts about the original Wonder Woman
1. While several images make it look like she is wearing a skirt, they are actually culottes, split pants that vary from thigh to knee length. The original costume design "had a fully Grecian look with sandals" that was rejected by both the character's creator, William Moulton Marston, and his wife Elizabeth, upon whom she was based. She thought a skirt was impractical for combat, and he insisted on boots over the sandals.
2. Wonder Woman was on the side of rehabilitation for the criminals she caught. "Especially [with] the female super villains, she takes them over to Reform Island [also known as Transformation Island] and tries to get them rehabilitated back to their true nature of women, which Marston believed was a superior nature and, like many suffragettes, thought was the only recipe for peace - women being in charge of society."
3. Wonder Woman surrendered her powers in 1968. She wanted to stay in Man's World and look after Steve Trevor (who, ironically, was killed off) rather than join her Amazonian sisters in travelling to another dimension. She opened a mod clothing boutique, dressed in the fashion of the time, and learned martial arts. Gloria Steinem put her on the cover of MS magazine with the line "Wonder Woman for President".
