Star Wars: 10 Reasons Return Of The Jedi Isn't As Perfect As You Remember

10. Princess Leia's Golden Bikini

George Lucas and his team have made a number of memorable costume and accessory designs throughout the years which have wormed their way into our cultural consciousness, from Naboo’s excessive royal headwear to slick bad-ass bounty hunter armour. But Return of the Jedi’s contribution to the costume canon is one the Saga could have maybe done without.

We are, of course, talking about Princess Leia’s gold bikini, topped off by a chain around her neck in an outfit staggeringly christened as ‘Slave Leia’ by an outrageously out-of-touch marketing executive at Lucasfilm’s action figure department.

Leia’s extremely revealing outfit has been cemented in the zeitgeist as a trigger of sexual awakening for a whole generation of fans. From middle aged men telling Carrie Fisher about their teenage fantasies to a Pandora’s box of questions about why a giant slug crime lord would even want to dress a human

woman up like that, the decision to have a scantily-clad Princess Leia at the beginning of a children’s movie was questionable at best.