How I Became "Copperwoman"
Here I am in the full costume.
Why am I called Copperwoman? I have always really loved the color of copper. In 1996, I was in recovery from a full year of treatment for breast cancer, and was very interested in doing as many of those "someday" things as I could. One was to make a costume for myself and go to a Star Trek convention. I had made many for other convention-goers, but not myself. It all started with the mesh of the headdress, which was a thrift store shopping bag that I just happened to put on my head. I had the copper fabric in my stash - lots of it! It's black and metallic jaquard tissue lame. The jewelry used to be a Rubick's Cube. The boots are black slip-on canvas shoes with scrunched copper stitched to them. I constructed the thing that goes over my shoulder from empty serger thread cones, cut apart and reassembled, and covered with painted suedecloth. I went to the convention in Seattle and won first place in the costume competition, and got to meet Nichelle Nichols (Leiutenant Uhura.) I had to have a name for my character, so I called her "Copperwoman" and have been using that name sometimes ever since. By the way, I apologize for the poor photos, but they were scanned from 15-year-old slides.
Pattern or design used: My Own Design - Carol Plaia
copperwoman, member Posted on Feb 9th, 2011 in design, embellishments, reader's closet, costumes, recycling, tissue lame
Comments (1)
It is wonderful hearing how you recycled and gave new life to discardable objects in such a unique way!
keep up the creative work...
Posted: 5:42 pm on May 22nd
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