TNG's season 3-7 uniforms for women

[tim0122]

I've watched TNG for decades, but I just noticed near the end of TNG season 6 of my current franchise watch/rewatch that when the uniforms changed in season 3, the female officers still have one-piece suits even though male officers got two-piece uniforms. Was there any reason for this beyond sexism (having tight one-piece suits to accentuate bodies of female peformers)? They moved away from this with the DS9-Voyager and, later, FC uniforms.

 

[Tosk]

They moved away from this with the DS9-Voyager [...] uniforms.

Still a one-piece, generally. Except for things like when B'Elanna was pregnant, etc.

The dudes started wearing one-piece uniforms again too.

 

[tim0122]

Still a one-piece, generally. Except for things like when B'Elanna was pregnant, etc.
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I stand corrected. I guess those just looked more like two-piece suits. They're definitely looser fitting and look more comfortable.

 

[Tosk]

Even quite a few of the FC-style uniforms were one-piece too. But some people did get two-piece versions. (Like Sisko.)

 

[tim0122]

Even quite a few of the FC-style uniforms were one-piece too. But some people did get two-piece versions. (Like Sisko.)

I just can't catch a break.

 

[Arpy]

I've watched TNG for decades, but I just noticed near the end of TNG season 6 of my current franchise watch/rewatch that when the uniforms changed in season 3, the female officers still have one-piece suits even though male officers got two-piece uniforms. Was there any reason for this beyond sexism (having tight one-piece suits to accentuate bodies of female peformers)? They moved away from this with the DS9-Voyager and, later, FC uniforms.

Oh no it was definitely sexism lol the boys got to have their two-piece uniforms after all, just the girls didn’t. That changed later, but the girls didn’t get to have their two-piece uniforms…ever? (Pulaski doesn’t count as she was old.) And I mean are we really going to say that Seven’s or T’Pol’s uniforms were standard for the men of their eras as well? Come the DSC era and later they just cast slimmer actors, male and female, and put them all in tight outfits. …until DSC went into the 32nd Century and everyone wore asexual gray potato sacks with high collars.

 

[Mojochi]

Ro Laren had a new style of two piece, by season 5. In the finale, Ogawa has a pregnancy outfit that was similar to Pulaski's uniform (which seemed like a dress uniform refit)

Ro Jacket
Ogawa Maternity
Pulaski Tunic

 

[Tosk]

Ro Laren had a new style of two piece, by season 5.

That's only for when she takes the jacket off. It turns back into the one-piece as soon as they return to the ship. Here she is from the end of the ep.

The same thing happened to Kira's uniform even after she switched from the two-piece to one. Any time Ro was in her regular duty uniform it was actually a one-piece.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Unless an actress was playing an admiral, Starfleet women were in tight catsuits from TNG all the way through VOY, just with a Starfleet motif. I think even Kate Mulgrew referred to her uniform costume once as a catsuit and that it could be rather unforgiving.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The women do eventually get very distinct two-piece uniforms.

In Enterprise.

...in the mirror universe.

 

[The Wormhole]

Was there any reason for this beyond sexism

No, that was more or less it.

They moved away from this with the DS9-Voyager and, later, FC uniforms.

There actually was a more form-fitting version of the FC uniforms worn by women.

Still a one-piece, generally. Except for things like when B'Elanna was pregnant, etc.

There was also a two piece variant worn by Janeway on this occasion.

 

[Tosk]

There was also a two piece variant worn by Janeway on this occasion.

But like Ro and Kira, it's only so that she can wear her uniform open like that. Once she zips up, Mulgrew's outfit magically technologically turns back in a one-piece. Now that I think about it, I seem to recall it happening with both Daxes too.

 

[Arpy]

Chakotay’s too. Probably Tuvok’s. I don’t remember the other boys’ on VOY.