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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:02 am 
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Want one? It's kinda neat how they offered a "Supergirl" suit too, years before the Supergirl character was actually introduced. (And they even advertised it with a blonde girl!)

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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:08 am 
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$6.98 was probably quite a lot of money back then. Probably the equivalent of $29.95 today! :)


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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:19 am 
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The blue hair ribbons are a nice touch. Supergirl should have had those as part of her official costume.

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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:59 am 
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Good Stuff, Maynard!

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It was the '50s, so they didn't need the disclaimer: "WARNING! Cape does not enable wearer to fly."

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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:27 am 
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Linda wrote:
The blue hair ribbons are a nice touch. Supergirl should have had those as part of her official costume.


I was thinking that this costume has a much cooler skirt than most s-girl costumes have.

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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:08 am 
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I like the boy's shoes. Gotta get me a pair of those.


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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:27 am 
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When I was a kid, somebody passed theirs on to me. All that was left was the shirt and the cape, but good enough.

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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:53 pm 
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Pip wrote:
I like the boy's shoes. Gotta get me a pair of those.

What a sad world it is that 8-year-olds don't wear wing-tips anymore.

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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:25 am 
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Bump for our newer members.

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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:28 am 
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Are there actual photos of these costumes? I'm curious what the quality is, as $7 for 1956 does sound fairly steep.


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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:33 am 
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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
Are there actual photos of these costumes? I'm curious what the quality is, as $7 for 1956 does sound fairly steep.

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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:37 am 
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Linda wrote:
The black-with-blue-highlights hair ribbons are a nice touch. Supergirl should have had those as part of her official costume.

fixed. :yay:


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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:37 am 
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I got one in the 70s and it was made of plastic, like a halloween costume. It was shortsleeve too, so different than the one shown.


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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:39 am 
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Nice. Though I love what they keep coming out with now for kids. My four year old LOVES his Iron Man costume (with muscles) and his Spiderman one. Though lately he has been on pretending he is an animal. He will declare himself a tiger and then ask for Cheerios at which times he declares the Cheerios to be individual people that he may eat them all.

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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:44 am 
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Joe Mayer wrote:
Nice. Though I love what they keep coming out with now for kids. My four year old LOVES his Iron Man costume (with muscles) and his Spiderman one. Though lately he has been on pretending he is an animal. He will declare himself a tiger and then ask for Cheerios at which times he declares the Cheerios to be individual people that he may eat them all.


How immature. Tell him to get a job.


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 Post subject: Superman playsuit
PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:50 pm 
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I wanted one as a child, but never had the barrel chest required to pull off a Wayne Boring Superman suit.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:39 pm 
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Those pictures are from Linda's personal collection.

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