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 #1 - GRAFFITI IS MO' FUN

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JACKET #1 - GRAFFITI IS MO' FUN
I found this one about two years ago sitting in a rumpled pile at a flea market. Even from afar, the bright neon colors screamed, "Buy me! Buy me!" So I did. Upon closer inspection, I realized the jacket was home sewn, and I believe it is a cotton print from the mid 1980s. People LOVE this one. I LOVE that, "Party" and "Dude" are emblazoned on it. I actually have to keep this one hidden in my closet cause my brother tries to steal it every time he comes over!



PARTY ON DUDE!!!!!!