

I've often wondered how Melissa kept warm during shoots after they moved the production to Vancouver, and now after listening to this interview and learning it was affecting her health, to me it's another practical reason for the change. This is just my own opinion and I respect all the comments, pro and con I've read here. While Melissa looks great in her current costume, I've felt since the beginning of the series she should have had a more modern, practical superhero outfit. I haven't posted here for quite some time, but I've kept up on the posted comments here thru out Supergirl's first 4 seasons. How does someone who’s been put through the wringer multiple times maintain that optimism while not looking naive, that’s a delicate balance. As a show goes on IMO it’s actually more of a challenge to write and play a hopeful optimistic hero like Kara or Barry than someone like Oliver. Kara at her core will still be Kara no matter what she wears but her experiences over the past four years have changed her and that should be acknowledged. She’s still bubbly and optimistic but in a more grown up way. In four years we’ve seen her find her place in this world and even take her cousins place as it’s sole Kryptonian protector. When we first met her she was a bubbly naive but fiercely passionate eternal optimist but she was also unsure of herself and her place in the world and in her cousins shadow. The only thing that will change is Melissa's ability to stay warm and healthy.You’re right the more I think about it the more I think that the skirt perfectly fit who Kara was when we first met her but she’s changed enough that now pants are a better fit.

None of that has changed, nor will it change with pants. IMO, she can be feminine, strong, and covered and to me there is nothing that will keep her from being who she has always been, a strong, passionate, hopeful superhero. I think this change goes right with the changes we have seen Kara go through these past 4 seasons.
