Aye! Thats just what I'm wondering.
Writeups.org -- huge encyclopaedia of characters, chiefly from super-hero comic books. It's great.
One could reasonably hypothesize that it's retracted into the same place the rest of her costume goes when she's not wearing it. (Possibly the same dimension that all lost socks go to when the dryer eats them.) She does have special "my costume turns on and off on a whim" powers, afterall.
In a world of unstable molecules and stark metal that can look like silk... well comic book science. lol.
I remember that cover to X-men Legacy:
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And being a huge Mark Brooks fan right after that.
Her cap marvel costume is really superb.
"It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It ensures his existence." -- James Douglas Morrison
I remember two years back when the new suit was shown, some were strongly opposed to it.