"If you were going to fight a poisonous, armor-plated, flying ten-foot iguana, would you do it in a gold lame bikini with a sword from Fredrick's Weaponne Boutique?" That's an easy one to answer :) you go into battle covered in armour the iguana is going to attack straight away, but if as in most cases Vicky goes in the "gold lame bikini" the iguana will be so stunned by this vision of lovelyness that she can get in the killer blow before he realises what's happened.