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50 Most Iconic Star Wars Costumes

By Cheryl Wassenaar

Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) loads the plans for the Death Star battle station with a plea for help to Obi-Wan Kenobi into R2-D2 on the Rebel Blockade Runner.
Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) loads the plans for the Death Star battle station with a plea for help to Obi-Wan Kenobi into R2-D2 on the Rebel Blockade Runner. /
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37. Leia in the Ewok Village

This is the outfit Leia dons during her stay in the Ewok village, and the one she has on when Luke tells her that she is his sister and that she has the power of the Force. As it ends up as a pivotal moment in the film, and one of the quietest scenes in ROTJ overall, it gets a spot on the list.

This is the most vulnerable we ever see Leia — at least in the original trilogy, and we’d hear arguments about her in TFA — and so she has her hair down. Even when she tells Han she loves him, she has her hair up. (Here, she asks him to hold her, and clearly distressed about what Luke has just told her about his plans to confront Vader. Leia’s the pragmatist of the twins.)

She still has a braid, though, because of course she does.

However, the costume makes sense on another level as well. The clothes she wears here are presumably given to her by the Ewoks to wear while she stays in their village, and they’re clearly not as high a quality as she wears otherwise. On the same level, if she doesn’t have to put her hair up and look like the Rebel leader and Alderaanian princess, why not do so?

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