One of the most popular costumes that I have noticed year after year is the Cat Woman costume. This costume is popular with the women as it shows off their great physiques which then makes it popular with the men! As a young guy growing up, I watched the Batman TV series and thought that the Cat Woman character was very good looking and exotic. Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether, and Julie Newmar were very good actresses when it came to something that had never been asked of a woman before…portray a cat in skin tight costume. They handled it well and looked great doing it!
One of the interesting story lines to come through quite well in different media is the potential that Batman saw in possibly turning Cat Woman from her criminal ways. It had been eluded to many times, through various story lines, that Batman and Cat Woman had a romantic relationship and that was one of the reasons why some felt that Batman did not pursue her as hard as other criminals. That, of course, is left up to the interpretation of each of the viewers and readers of the comic book series. From the time Cat Woman was introduced as Selina Kyle in 1940 to the modern day versions of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry as Catwoman, she has been one of the most popular anti-heroes of my generation.
