While poking around the interwebs researching for a possible comic book post, I came across this page from Justice League of America #112 which happens to be first issue of JLA I ever bought.
The Justice Leaguers have lost 50% of their powers so they've re-assembled their android arch nemesis Amazo to help them recover their lost powers.
The heroes get to work sciencing the shit out of this android so it will help them in their efforts to regain their full powers.
Black Canary takes on a specific task vital to their all important effort: a new look.
You might speculate that in her civilian persona as Dinah Lance, perhaps she is a fashion designer or something.
No she is not.
Black Canary gets the nod for designing and sewing the new look for Amazo by virtue of her being a female woman of the opposite sex.
This is not the first time writer Len Wein tasked Black Canary with sewing up a new costume.
At the end of the Christmas story for Justice League of America#110, Black Canary provides the latest product of her prodigious sewing machine, a new costume for Red Tornado.
Yes, that costume is really... something that exists.
Dinah Lance was a florist by day and by night was a kick ass martial artist with a super sonic cry as Black Canary.
She was not a fashion person by trade.
But she was stuck with the sewing because, well, I guess that's what womenfolk do or something?
It was the early 1970's and feminism was just getting started.
I know it's ugly but I kind of always kind of liked that Red Tornado costume.
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