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A catsuit is a close-fitting one-piece garment with sleeves and long legs, and sometimes with feet or gloves, and sometimes with a hood. Unlike a unitard, its use rarely involves sports, and it may be made of leather, rubber, PVC or velour instead of spandex. In construction it is identical to a unitard, but the term catsuit tends to be preferred in fancy-dress costume and stage contexts. This page explains the catsuit's construction, its materials, and how it differs from the unitard, bodystocking and jumpsuit.
Unlike a unitard, its use rarely involves sports, and it may be made of leather, rubber, PVC, or velour instead of spandex.
It is identical to a unitard in construction, but the term 'catsuit' tends to be preferred in fancy-dress costume or erotic contexts.
You may want to learn the difference between a catsuit & a jumpsuit.
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The catsuit belongs to a family of one-piece garments that differ mainly in name, fabric and use. The unitard is the dance and gymnastics version, almost always in a stretch knit, covering the torso and legs in one piece. The leotard covers the torso only. The bodystocking is a sheer, stocking-weight version. The jumpsuit shares the one-piece construction — top and trousers joined — but is cut as ordinary clothing, usually looser, with a front opening, and is worn as daywear or workwear. The catsuit sits between costume and clothing: the same pattern as a unitard, but made in the heavier or glossier materials of stage and fancy dress, and often finished with feet, gloves or a hood so the covering is complete.
Material decides most of the garment's character. In spandex, a catsuit is light, elastic and washable, and serves dancers, performers and costume wear. In leather, rubber or PVC it becomes a heavy, structured garment that must be cut and fitted much more precisely, because those materials stretch little or not at all; closures, usually long zips, do the work that elasticity does in a knit version. Velour gives a softer, matte costume finish. Because the garment covers so much of the body in a single piece, fit is judged at the torso length first — a one-piece that is short in the body cannot be adjusted at the waist as a two-piece outfit can.
A catsuit is a close-fitting one-piece garment with sleeves and long legs, and sometimes with feet or gloves, and sometimes with a hood.
A catsuit is identical to a unitard in construction, but its use rarely involves sports, it may be made of leather, rubber, PVC or velour instead of spandex, and the term is preferred in costume contexts.
Catsuits may be made of leather, rubber, PVC or velour, as well as the stretch fabrics such as spandex that are standard for unitards and other one-piece garments.