Star Wars Costume Spotlight: More Leia's outfits (and the famous bikini)

Star Wars Costume Spotlight: More Leia’s outfits (and the famous bikini)

Since we’ve looked at the white gown that Leia wore through out “Episode: IV: A New Hope,” here are other outfits she wore in episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

If you recall in one of the scene’s of Return of the Jedi, Leia was dressed as a bounty hunter in order infiltrate Jabba the Hutt’s palace and freed Han Solo from the Carbonite. Later, she is forced to wear her most famous costume: the slinky slave bikini.

Now before we go on to Leia’s bounty hunter costume lets first take a look at this concept 3d model of it:

 

Here’s the full bounty hunter costume:

 

In this close up you can see that the equipment looks old and the fabric looks a bit dirty. The thermal detonator looks dented and beat up like it hasn’t been used in years:

 

Now here’s the full bikini slave costume that Leia was forced to wear for Jabba:

 

In this close up you can see that the chain and the color look very rusted:

 

In this close up you can see that the gold paint is chipped off:

 

In this close up the boots of the costume are wrinkled and a little bleached: