u/Keezees

I started it when I found the green dragon-motif'd fabric in a local fabric shop and I loved the look of it, so I decided to make a green jacket after having made a red jacket and yellow jacket. My initial thought was to make a Matrix code style theme, with random (but diametric) characters floating about.

I researched Chinese characters that could mean something along the lines of "Resist/Oppose/Rebel/Fight", and having been told by actual people and not just going off of Google Translate, I settled on the characters seen on the jacket (反抗). I made a stamp of the characters, used it to bleach them into the jacket, then dyed the whole thing green. I'm tempted to do "resist" in other languages as well to maintain the Matrix vibe.

I added some glow-in-the-dark paint on all the seams and pockets.

I also had some green pyramid studs that I had kicking about, added a few but tried not to make it too stripey; I live in Glasgow (Scotland) so I need to be careful about wearing green or blue. I've literally had someone try to start a fight with me for wearing this t-shirt, thinking I was a Celtic supporter. Some people are fucking idiots.

I bought the Return of the Living Dead back-patch a while ago and didn't know where to put it, and thought, green patch, green jacket, match made in heaven, but now that it's on I don't know how I feel about it. Mostly because I don't know what theme I'm going for here. Do I need a theme? I'm erring towards horror.

I defo want to put something on top of the dragon/shoulder fabric, but I'm struggling to think of anything.

Oh and the bottom back patch says, "Don't touch my arse". I thought it was a funny thing to put on.

The list of street names released in The Herald just came across as white noise, couldn't get a sense of the areas being closed of (mostly because I don't know the names of the lanes).

Collected a bunch of patches from local gigs over the past couple of years and decided to make a local (ie Scottish) band jacket. Got more to add, I just need to muster the patience to sew around the pockets.

Bleached some jaggy designs into it with a paint brush and dyed it yellow.

Bought some yellow tartan fabric from a local fabric shop and sewed it on the shoulder blades.

Added some spikes and studs. Got some yellow pyramid studs currently stuck in the mail, waiting on them to stick around the Rezillos patch, which I had custom made (I had already settled on a yellow theme before I added Scotland into the mix).

Made some badges with my badge-maker. Still undecided on the Exploited badge, but I'm not wearing a patch for them, a badge is all they're getting.

Been trying to decide what to put on the shoulder blade tartan, when some smart-arse in the pub last week saw the tartan and said I looked like an annual for The Broons or Oor Wullie, and I thought to myself, you know what, that's given me an idea. So I've got an Oor Wullie patch designed* for the shoulder blades, just need to fire up my newly-learned screen-printing skills to make it (Oor Wullie is a newspaper comic strip going back to the 1940's that was collected every year into an annual, which every wean in Scotland has been given for Christmas since. Think Dennis the Menace but Scottish).

And I've just noticed the Spunk badge that I left on, clearly not a Scottish band but I got it at their gig during the week. Bought a t-shirt as well, but lost that on the bus home :( Gutted.

*based on a design I found online, but I believe that design was based on OG Oor Wullie artwork