How to dress for work if you’re a She-Hulk sometimes
No one is more surprised about Jen Walters, J.D. getting a new job than Jen Walters, J.D. In the second episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at LawwhenJen (Tatiana Maslany) is hired to head up the superhero law division at Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway, she hopes it’s for her expert legal skills, not her newly revealed superhero identity. But when she shows up for work she’s blindsided by her boss: He expects her to come to work everyday as She-Hulk, not Ms. Walters.
As someone still getting used to her superhero form, Jen is not stoked about this. It’ll likely mean having to buy a whole new wardrobe, as she tells her friend Nikki (Ginger Gonzaga). And yet, in the first few episodes we see her settle into this new sartorial life: wearing clothes that work for two wildly different professional proportions, even if it means changing shoes a few times a day.
If that seems… difficult to achieve to you, you’re not alone. Buying ready-to-wear clothes is already a bit of a challenge, and the idea that you could buy clothes that would fit the waist, shoulders, and legs of a woman who’s both 5 feet, 4 inches (the height the internet says Maslany is) and 6 feet, 7 inches (She-Hulk’s in-show height, per the creators) tall depending on her mood seems tough to imagine. But She-Hulk director Kat Coiro says while they were certainly aided by some good old-fashioned Marvel CGI, they worked to make sure all of her fashion choices actually had some foundation in reality.
“We absolutely discussed and tested out methods of how you would do that in real life,” Coiro tells Polygon. “6-foot-7 is large, but it’s still very much human scale. And we had a woman on set with us, an actress named Malia [Arrayah] who is our double, and she is
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