Costume

Our main character, is a female assassin, whom we wish to portray as realistically as possible. Her costume plays a huge role, in the believability and generic iconography of the film.
The ‘usual’ attire for a female assassin consists of tight black clothes, often including leather, and boots with large heels. For example Kate Beckinsale’s costume in Underworld (Len Wiseman 2003).
This type of costume appeals to the male audience, and quite often men with a ‘latex fetish’
This attention is not what we wish to attract from the audience, we want the audience to be attracted to her, because she is a strong, powerful character.
How ever if we take away the usual clothes and replace them with lose fitting, more masculine clothes, then we lose the concept of the film.
We are trying to point out that a female lead is just as strong as a male, by taking away her clothes we lose her femininity.
As well as this point, baggy clothes would be impractical, they would catch on things, and generally slow her down.
This is why we have chosen to keep the tight black costume, also it conforms to the generic iconography.
Besides, the fact that her costume is appealing to men is irrelevant, we want our character to be appealing for who she is and what she does, and not for her sex appeal.