The final season put its lead in a wetsuit, and the brand is real: the costume designer worked with Body Glove to recreate an archival design. Then she cut it apart on set — twenty times, once for each copy. Body Glove does not sell it. We checked their entire catalogue, all 951 products, and found nothing.
Below: what the costume actually is, why it was cut, and the three honest routes for anyone who wants it.
The instruction came from the top
The wetsuit was not a costume department idea. Designer Amy Parris told The Set Set that the show's creators specified it:
"They said, 'We think she should be in a wetsuit.' Like, very specifically, a wetsuit, which both Millie and I were a little concerned about with the weather and the heat."
The concern was practical — the production shoots in Atlanta, and a wetsuit in that heat is punishing. Which leads to the best detail in the whole story.
She cut it up, on purpose, twenty times
Parris's reasoning is a small masterclass in how costume design actually works:
"What would Eleven do? She'd cut it so she could breathe a little more. So we snipped the wetsuit down, knowing we'd have to do that to all 20 copies, which is fine."
Two things are worth pulling out of that.
First, the alteration is characterisation. The question is not "how do we make this wearable" but "what would this person do to it" — and the answer is that a girl raised without regard for how clothes are supposed to work would simply cut it.
Second, twenty copies. That is the invisible reality of screen costume: stunts, blood, and the general destruction of a final season mean the same garment is built many times over. Parris told WWD she needed "something I can find many more of or make many more of for all the stunts, blood, rifts, goo, etcetera."
The finished look pairs the cut-down wetsuit with in-house barrel-leg trousers and custom Nikes. Parris's verdict: "It's a very cool '80s version of a superhero. And it just feels badass."
And the governing rule for this character, which explains why it works:
"She's never really meant to be fashionable, because she wouldn't know how to do that. If I ever did try to do that, the Duffer Brothers would pull it back and tell me that she looked too cool."
The brand is right. The product does not exist.
Reporting on the interview states that Parris collaborated with Body Glove to recreate an archival wetsuit design, grounding the look in the 1980s. Note the wording: recreate an archival design — this was not pulled off a shelf. It was a defunct design rebuilt for the production.
So we checked whether Body Glove sells it.
They do not. We pulled their complete product catalogue — 951 products — and searched every title, description and tag for any reference to the show or the character. Zero matches.
That is a definitive answer rather than a guess, and it is worth explaining how we got it, because the obvious method fails here: Body Glove's search endpoint returns the same default products no matter what you type. Anyone testing with a search box would get a misleading result. Reading the full catalogue is the only reliable check.
There is no licensed wetsuit. There will most likely never be one — the garment on screen is a recreation of a design the brand retired, cut up by hand, in twenty copies, for one production.
The three honest routes
1. The same brand, a current wetsuit. You cannot have the archival design, but Body Glove is genuinely the right brand, and their current women's fullsuits are in stock:
| Suit | Price | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Women's Pro 3 Back Zip Fullsuit 3/2mm, black | $119.99 | 2 sizes in stock |
| Women's Gold Cell 3/2mm Chest Zip Fullsuit, black | $405.00 | 4 sizes in stock |
This is not the screen garment, and we would not let you think otherwise. It is the correct brand making the correct category of thing. Currency is USD; we could not verify international shipping.
2. The figure. Funko made the wetsuit look as Pop #1807 — $17.21 and in stock at a US specialist as of 10 August 2026. In the UK, Zavvi lists it at £12.99 and it is sold out.
⚠️ A warning: a Netflix shop URL for this figure surfaces in search results and is dead — a 404. If you land there, you have not missed anything; the product is not on the platform's own store.
3. Make it. This is the route we would actually take, and unusually, the costume designer has already told you how. Buy a plain black wetsuit and cut it down yourself — that is literally what the production did. Add high-waisted wide-leg trousers and white trainers. The look is a cut-off wetsuit top over trousers; there is no licensed component to miss.
What else the same interview confirms
Since the season is still rolling out, two more verified details worth having:
The vintage is sourced online. Parris's method, in her words: "The internet is our friend." Resale sites plus a dealer network built over years. When she found the right sweater for one character at a Long Beach vendor, she bought the lot: "She had multiples of this sweater. And so I bought them all."
One character's look is stitched from another's. Max's mindscape costume uses vintage Levi's jeans patched with fabric from Henry's shirt, and her red boots are the same boots worn by a young Joyce in Henry's high-school memory. Parris: "I knew that Max needed to be in a patchwork of clothes that kind of just felt unlike anything that any of the characters would have recognised when they saw her."
That is not decoration. It is plot, sewn into cloth, and it is the kind of thing you only learn because a designer sat down and explained it.
And it explains why so little of this show is buyable. Across the seven Stranger Things pieces we have now written, the pattern is consistent: the items that carry meaning were built, altered or hunted down individually, while the items you can actually purchase are the merchandise built alongside them. The alphabet wall exists as decals without lights. The Camp Know Where cap survives only inside a costume set. The genuine four-piece Scoops Ahoy uniform ships from one European storefront. Now a wetsuit that was recreated from an archive and then destroyed twenty times over.
That is not a complaint about the licensing programme — it is what happens when a costume department does its job. The more specific a garment is to a character, the less likely it is to exist as a product, because specificity is exactly what mass manufacture removes. Which is why the recreate-it-yourself route keeps being the honest answer on this show, and why the designer telling you how she altered it is more valuable than any product link.
FAQ
What brand is Eleven's wetsuit? Body Glove. The costume designer collaborated with the brand to recreate an archival wetsuit design for the final season.
Can I buy it? No. We checked Body Glove's entire catalogue of 951 products and found no Stranger Things item. The screen garment is a recreation of a retired design, made in twenty copies for the production.
Why is the wetsuit cut down? Deliberate characterisation. Parris asked what the character would do about the heat and answered: she would cut it so she could breathe. All twenty copies were cut the same way.
Who decided on a wetsuit? The show's creators. Parris recounts being told, "We think she should be in a wetsuit" — very specifically — and both she and the actor worried about the Atlanta heat.
What completes the look? In-house barrel-leg trousers and custom Nikes, which Parris describes as "a very cool '80s version of a superhero."
Is there a Funko of it? Yes — Pop #1807, $17.21 and in stock at a US specialist. The UK listing at Zavvi is £12.99 and sold out. A Netflix shop URL for it circulates in search results but is a dead 404.
What can I buy from Body Glove instead? Their current women's fullsuits: the Pro 3 Back Zip 3/2mm at $119.99, or the Gold Cell 3/2mm chest-zip at $405. Correct brand, not the screen garment.
How do I recreate the look cheaply? Exactly as the production did — take a plain black wetsuit and cut it down, then pair it with high-waisted wide-leg trousers and white trainers. No licensed component exists to miss.