Catsuit

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title: "Catsuit" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["20th-century-fashion", "21st-century-fashion", "costume-design", "fetish-clothing", "one-piece-suits"] description: "One-piece form-fitting garment" topic_path: "general/20th-century-fashion" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catsuit" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary One-piece form-fitting garment ::

::callout[type=note] the form-fitting garment ::

The catsuit is often worn in movies, television, music videos, and computer games.

• In comics and their movie adaptations, catsuits are often worn by superheroes and supervillains, including the iconic Catwoman; other examples include Black Cat, Batgirl and Black Panther.
• Scarlett Johansson wears a catsuit portraying Natasha Romanoff-Black Widow in several films, beginning with Iron Man 2 (2010).
• The lead female characters of the Underworld film series and The Matrix wore catsuits.
• [[File:Eras Tour - Arlington, TX - Reputation act 1 (cropped).jpg|left|thumb|291x291px|[[Taylor Swift]] wearing a catsuit during [[The Eras Tour]]]]Female villains and heroines in spy films may wear catsuits, such as the Baroness and Scarlett in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
• An iconic use of catsuits in popular media was on the British television show The Avengers, where Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) wore tight leather catsuits; leather was chosen because it lit well in studio lighting and did not split during action scenes.
• Shirley Bassey wore a sleeveless chiffon catsuit for a gatefold album photograph, and in concert.
• Cher has worn catsuits in concert.
• In popular culture, catsuits have become the stereotypical costume of dominatrixes.
• Lara Croft, heroine of the Tomb Raider franchise, has worn catsuits in specific segments in Tomb Raider 3 and Tomb Raider: Chronicles.
• In the Star Trek: Enterprise TV series, the Vulcan commander T'Pol (portrayed by Jolene Blalock) wore a uniform sometimes described as a catsuit.
• The music video of Liberty X's 2002 smash hit "Just a Little" features two of its members, Jessica Taylor and Kelli Young, wearing tight black latex catsuits. On occasions where the group has performed the song live on television, both Taylor and Young wear their catsuits from the original music video. In 2013, when the group performed during the Big Reunion, both members wore a different design of their catsuits.
• Taylor Swift wore a snake-patterned catsuit for the Reputation act of her Eras Tour.

References

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