JACKET #9 - It's Olympics Time!

Since the Olympics are coming to a close, I thought I would do a post on my Nicole Miller Olympics jacket from 1992, even though the graphics on this jacket depict summer Olympic sports. The jacket is 100% silk, and a Nicole Miller limited edition as per the label, which states, "Limited quantities of this pattern have been made for the Untied States. This pattern will never be repeated."

I also happened to see the passing of the Olympic torch while I was wearing this jacket back in 2008. A total fluke, the torch's route was changed (due to protesters) from the Embarcadero to Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, where my office used to be. There was this excited commotion emanating from the streets below that included sirens, helicopters, and hundreds of people lining the streets in confused anticipation. I was deep in conversation while standing on the corner of Van Ness and Clay Street when my friend Jesse shouted, "Turn around! There it is!"

And to think, I almost missed it cause I was running my mouth!



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VIEW OF VAN NESS AVENUE - PASSING OF OLYMPIC TORCH SF - APRIL 2008

JACKET #8 - Is a Reversible Date!!

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The multi-color geometric print of jacket #8 just makes me happy. This jacket comes from The Goods and was part of my really spectacular birthday gift of, guess what--crazy jackets! 80s vintage, and from an undecipherable Asian brand, the shell of the jacket is cotton, a fact also proudly displayed as "COTTON HOUSE" is printed in all caps, mind you, randomly all over the fabric. The lining of the jacket is a tomato red poly satin that makes me want to pop my collar and do a body roll. Cotton's in the house....Okaaaaaaaaay!!


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JACKET #7 - CRAZY JACKET HEAVEN

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Liz picked up this super ultimate crazy jacket a couple months ago for me at LA's Rosebowl Flea Market. It's 80s vintage and made from sequins and glass beading. This jacket makes me really excited. The kind of excited that includes jumping up and down accompanied by sporadic jigs, cause all at once, I feel just like the capitalized expressions on the jacket: "AWESOME", "PARTY", "WOW", "WILD", "NUTS", "YIKES", "CRAZY", "FUN", etc. I'm waiting for the right occasion to wear this one out, thinking it might be the perfect way to kick off 2010!!



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JACKET #6 – PLANET UNICORN IN THE MIX

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Liz and I were thrifting this summer when she came across Jacket #6, a cotton bolero/vest one piece combo. Its bedazzling and rainbowness totally reminds me of what a real life Rainbow Brite would wear. And when I saw the prancing ponies on the back, I thought it was so funny, since it was an automatic association with Planet Unicorn, a Youtube cartoon. It is from the brand 1849, and surely from the 1980s.



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Planet Unicorn heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

JACKET #5 – GIMME A SWAN DIVE

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This jacket has the tendency to stir up a lot of trouble. The first time I wore it out, drunken people wouldn’t stop following me around and asking to try it on. One difficult person in particular, at 111 Minna in San Francisco, went so far as to take it out of my bag without asking, so he could dance in it. A couple people have offered to buy it off my back, and for good reason: it’s rad vintage Speedo from the 80’s and ones like these are becoming increasingly rare, so of course I’m not selling. Plus I like to wear this one when I travel, since it is warm and cozy (cotton but lined in mesh).


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JACKET #4 – IS NOT A BORE!

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This sequins/fringe/cheetah number came from one of Liz’s shopping excursions, and when she showed me The Goods, I was absolutely speechless because I had fallen in love. Firstoff, I have NEVER, EVER seen leather fringe on a sequins jacket. And then, cheetah sequins designs too?!!! It was just really overwhelming how absolutely fabulous this jacket is, and it remains one of my favorites. There are no labels inside the jacket, and I am guessing it is from sometime in the 1990s.


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And oddly enough, there is a somewhat similar fringed jacket worn by Megan Fox on the cover of this month’s Nylon magazine.

JACKET #3 – ELLESSE ME

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I practically screamed when I spotted this electric blue vintage Ellesse jacket from a thrift store some months back. Reminds me of when I was a kid in the eighties, and I had a pair of Ellesse black leather sneakers that I LOVED, and wore until their bitter end, despite the fact they looked like black orthopedic, granny, janitor shoes. What I like in particular about this jacket is that it has the look of a racing jacket, complete with a lime green satin lining, and a Perugia, Italy patch (city/country of origin) and a 59 patch (year of origin). It also has gargantuan removable shoulder pads and Ellesse embroidered in lime green across the front chest area. I’m guessing it dates back to the mid-1980s.


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