Yellow and black leather costume worn by Bootsy Collins: Museum Object and Cultural History
Yellow and black leather costume worn by Bootsy Collins: Date: ca. 1990. Designed by: Tom the Leatherman, American. Manufactured by: New Rock, founded 1978.
The object in the museum catalogue
A yellow and black leather costume designed by Tom The Leatherman (Tom Wojciechowski) and worn by Bootsy Collins that consists of a jacket(.1abc), pants (.2), a hat (.3), and a pair of black platform boots (.4ab).
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1990
- Designed by: Tom the Leatherman, American
- Manufactured by: New Rock, founded 1978
- Worn by: Bootsy Collins, American, born 1951
- Type: ensembles (costume)
- Medium: Jacket (1abc): leather, metal, and synthetic fiber
- Medium: Pants (.2): leather, synthetic fiber and metal
- Medium: Hat (.3): leather and metal with plastic and nylon buckram
- Medium: Platform boots (.4ab): leather, rubber, metal, and cotton cord shoelaces with plastic aglets
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Clothing and dress
- Topic: Costume
- Topic: Funk (Music)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2015.234.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bootsy Collins
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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