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Okay, so after watching the Summer Olympics I think I have to discount almost all complaints about skimpy superhero costumes, especially for any hero who doesn't need to wear body armor or relies on athletic moves. If you're durable enough to avoid minor abrasions on the job, then it seems the best physical specimens of humanity opt to do their thing wearing less rather than more.
Seriously, could the female athletes where less clothing? The runners on TV right now are in tiny tank tops and bikini bottoms. For some, the numbered tags they have to wear on their chests are larger than their shirts.
Add the crazy colors and designs of athletic apparel, and the use of spandex for about every event in both the summer and winter games, and I'd say that superhero costumes seem pretty damn plausible. Okay, so maybe bustiers are still an unlikely style choice, but still...
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... Which is that, ironically enough, the more that superhero comics have tried to tone down their more colorful, absurd or unrealistic aspects, the more that NON-superhero stories in other media have actually ADOPTED those aspects, which basically means that the whole excuse of "mainstream audiences won't accept primary-colored spandex and crazy powers" is bullshit, and really, it's more that a certain subset of PREEXISTING FANS of superhero characters and stories are feeling ashamed of the lack of realism in a genre that they increasingly regard as "immature," but that they nonetheless refuse to outgrow.
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