For those interested (and willing to ask specific questions to which I'd happily give specific answers, if you're willing to spend 5 minutes to look at what I actually DID first, before looking for a full blown walk through), here's what I did:
The design was 100% a friend of mine's - you may know her online as Tallest Silver (google her). We modeled all the particular details off the art of Amanda Conner (who signed my shoulder pad at SDCC in 2011).
The gloves were tailor made from whole cloth, by me. The zippers are actually functional, and I can't get the gloves on without them (the gauntlet part is vinyl, the hands are a very, very lightly stretchable stretch vinyl). They're all sewn together - no separate gauntlets over gloves or any of that. I still don't know how they worked out so well - they were the first pair of gloves I made.
The boots are permanent vinyl boot covers over hacked up, remade combat boots, which were painted (the rubber soles are painted as well to get the correct gray). There are zippers down both sides to make that lined piece of the front - the buckles were weathered to match the color scheme, but are totally non-functional. Good luck finding those buckles, though! Round ones are apparently very, very hard to come by. I lucked out and eventually found them at a salvation army on 2 different pairs of women's shoes (after at least 7 different thrift stores over 3 weeks).
The shoulder is a cast urethane resin piece. I have a mold, and I'd be willing to sell pulls to those I felt comfortable with. I'm sure in retrospect there are many easier ways, but for the complex shape I wanted, I couldn't think of anything else at the time. The strap holding it on is a simple belt.
The cape is spandex. The method of getting it wrapped the way it is looks incredibly simple, but is a huge pain to get right without a model to fit it on (I've been careful to not undo mine since I got it right last year - took me nearly an hour of fiddling! Which just makes you feel really, really silly when done at a Jack In The Box).
The belt is actually red vinyl, hemmed and fit to shape, since I couldn't find a suitable red belt. The buckle is molded from Apoxie Sculpt around a solid metal ring for stability. Those rivets on the front are actually snaps, so the belt is attached AT the buckle in the front.
The shorts were a gift from a friend - no idea where they originally came from, but I had a heck of a time trying to find white spandex shorts before my friend handed me these.
Yes, I'm actually blond. I might... accent my color for the costume, though. But no, I'm not that tan.