Thirty-two colors

What is available almost everywhere

Black, blue, green, light blue and red appear on all twelve listings. Grey, hot pink, lime green, nude, orange, pink, purple, white and yellow appear on eleven of the twelve. If you want a specific one of those in a specific cut, you will almost certainly find it.

The animal prints — leopard, tiger, zebra — and the pattern finishes checker and spot run across ten listings each. Brown, dark grey, dark purple, navy and wine are on ten. Olive green is on nine, and the three camouflages on eight.

The ones you can only get in one place

Gold and silver exist only on the metallic bodysuit, which is the only listing made from the shiny Lycra rather than the matte spandex. The green alien finish and the printed muscle suit exist only on the two full-hood listings, and they are ordered from those same pages rather than as separate products.

A word on how colors arrive

Dyed spandex photographs brighter than it wears. Two buyers in this catalog reported colors landing off the mark — an orange closer to pink, a pink closer to neon peach — and one metallic buyer received a suit with no shine at all. That is a small number against a large one, but it is real, and it is the reason to open the parcel and look before you cut off the tag.

The pale colors are also the thin ones. White, nude and light blue let light through; a nude suit will show tattoos. Dark solids and prints are opaque.