There is something pointedly anti-fashion about a catsuit, as one garment, it’s hard to accessorize and layer, and it touches on the utility and ease of athleisure with a subversive kink that’s unequaled by any frock. To wear a catsuit is to be bold, to own your curves, to take charge, which brings me back to Trinity. In The Matrix, Trinity, played by Carrie Anne Moss, is the wise, tough agent hunter who shows Keanu Reeves’s Neo the ropes of the Matrix. She’s a no-nonsense woman who kicks serious ass. She’s far from the only power woman to don a skintight catsuit. Catwoman wears a bodysuit, so do Charlie’s Angels and every female member of the X-Men. The point is: Superheroines wear catsuits, while mere mortals wear pantsuits, superheroines bring about vigilante justice in a body-con one piece. Maybe the pantsuit nation should consider a rebranding, the idea of what a pantsuit is after all, drawn from masculine codes of power. A catsuit is all woman.
