How come every single superhero in the comics automatically knows how to make his or her own costume? Peter Parker, science nerd, is able to hand-sew a form-fitting and intricately patterned costume several times, from scratch, without any help. Clearly his Home Ec class rocked, if it can produce such professional results. And yet Peter has no other sewing-related hobbies. You never see him quilting, or designing his own shirts, or so much as patching his jeans. Shenanigans! I demand scenes of Peter Parker hunting for red web-patterned fabric on clearance racks.
Marvel seems to believe that people with sewing hobbies are at high risk for gaining superpowers. The Invisible Woman, Wasp, and Scarlet Witch all spent their time designing and sewing costumes for themselves and their teammates. Without even being asked! I totally need to start hanging out with people like that. As it is, I'm the one who gets suckered into sewing up the foot-long tears in my friends' ludicrously impractical gauzy skirts (seriously, I long for the day those things go out of fashion), but I doubt I'd be able to make an entire costume for myself, let alone one made out of something that could withstand constant soaking and low temperatures. The difficulties of working with the fabric aside, I have far too much dignity to wear a costume made entirely out of umbrellas.
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