# Weirdest and Sexiest Costumes from the Original Star Trek - Awesome slide show!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 25, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097 "2012-12-25T05:02:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/1 "2012-12-25T05:02:49Z")
[Yes it’s a slide-show, but this time it works.](http://io9.com/5969957) A great blast from the past.
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> Star Trek has broadened our visions of the future in so many ways — but most of all, the original Star Trek took us to the final frontier of fashion. And beyond. Some of the costumes that people sported in William Shatner’s day remain classics today — and some of them are just… I don’t even know.
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> Here’s our roundup of the weirdest and trashiest fashions of the original Star Trek. We’re not picking on terrible alien makeup so much, because that’s a matter of cheap special effects. Rather, this is the bikinis, the uniforms, and Kirk’s strange workout gear.
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### Author:  [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/2 "2012-12-25T10:35:48Z")
Good memories. Thanks for posting.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/3 "2012-12-25T14:15:06Z")
Neat. It does bring back (mostly) good memories.
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### Author:  [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/4 "2012-12-25T16:09:11Z")
I saw the episode with the fake fur bandoliers and pony tails not too long ago!
I love the aesthetic that developed as a result of not being able to expose any breastage. Methinks there must have been a lot of toupee tape employed to keep some of those costumes in place.
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/5 "2012-12-25T16:13:55Z")
Okay, I don’t see a slideshow - I see a bunch of pictures down the left side of the page and text comments down the right, gradually getting more and more out of sync with the pictures. ☹
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/6 "2012-12-25T17:06:12Z")
> [@chrisk](#):
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> Okay, I don’t see a slideshow - I see a bunch of pictures down the left side of the page and text comments down the right, gradually getting more and more out of sync with the pictures. ☹
Click on one of the pics and it will enlarge, giving you a back and forward arrow to review the rest of them.
Fond memories!
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/7 "2012-12-25T17:14:50Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Click on one of the pics and it will enlarge, giving you a back and forward arrow to review the rest of them.
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> Fond memories!
Hmm… doesn’t seem to like Google Chrome. I clicked on the pics and just got a full-window zoom version, no arrows.
Seems to work tolerably well on IE. I should probably install Firefox on this laptop for emergencies. 😃
Merry Christmas to all!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/8 "2012-12-25T17:22:14Z")
I agree with one of the comments - how dare they not incluse Leslie Parrish’s pink chiffon outfit from “Who Mourns For Adonais?” That was gorgeous, and held on entirely by the weight of the cape.
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### Author:  [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/9 "2012-12-25T18:44:38Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Click on one of the pics and it will enlarge, giving you a back and forward arrow to review the rest of them.
That doesn’t work for me in Firefox. You could open the page in 2 different tabs and look at the pic in one and then switch over to the other to read the description since they fall out of sync and you can’t read one and look at its picture without scrolling up and down.
The page must have been set up by someone who was drunk at the time.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/10 "2012-12-25T18:48:00Z")
Nothing from Mudds Women? I’m surprised.
Love this pic of Diana Ewing from The Cloud Minders. Did they glue that top on?
[http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/189dfy9rmhpgujpg/original.jpg](http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/189dfy9rmhpgujpg/original.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/11 "2012-12-25T18:59:55Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Nothing from Mudds Women?
[#7.](http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/188ve4zjpsy8ijpg/original.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/12 "2012-12-25T19:01:16Z")
Ah, yes, Sherry Jackson.😃 ETA: And Nancy Kovack!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/13 "2012-12-25T19:28:53Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> Ah, yes, Sherry Jackson.😃 ETA: And Nancy Kovack!
Let us not forget Susan Denberg!
[SFW](http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/t.php?id=318)
[Not quite SFW](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TI3jgFgZL7M/Tc1kJvbz3WI/AAAAAAAAMEY/k-o-ypx92Ds/s1600/Susan-Denberg-1641.jpg)
[Most assuredly NSFW](http: [//4.bp.blogspot.com/\_SQp-vjUvbFo/TKTaRbk1vpI/AAAAAAAAB2w/CmWoqlvgmhY/s1600/80072\_196608\_Susan\_Denberg\_23xl\_123\_518lo.jpg](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SQp-vjUvbFo/TKTaRbk1vpI/AAAAAAAAB2w/CmWoqlvgmhY/s1600/80072_196608_Susan_Denberg_23xl_123_518lo.jpg)) (Remove spaces)
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### Author:  [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/14 "2012-12-25T19:58:59Z")
[William Ware Theiss](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ware_Theiss) was one of the costume designers, and the “Theiss Titillation Theory” is named after him:
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> The degree to which a costume is considered sexy is directly proportional to how accident-prone it appears to be.
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### Author:  [@scotpens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotpens)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/15 "2014-03-23T01:13:50Z")
> [@freckafree](#):
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> I love the aesthetic that developed as a result of not being able to expose any breastage. Methinks there must have been a lot of toupee tape employed to keep some of those costumes in place.
Costume designer William Theiss must have ordered double-sided adhesive tape by the truckload. The stuff is so commonly used in runway modeling and fashion photography that it’s often called “fashion tape” or “boob tape.”
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### Author:  [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/16 "2014-03-23T01:21:46Z")
Ha, I did not know the kid in _Corbomite Manouver_ was Clint Howard. He actually did a pretty good job, I thought. Eerily adult expressions on a little kid’s face. Which kind of describes Clint Howard more recently as well…
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek-awesome-slide-show/645097/17 "2014-03-23T02:08:36Z")
If sexual orientation is something that is programmed at a young age, I’m pretty sure ST is largely responsible for making sure that I love women.
Wow!