Tokyo Dept. in Harajuku has these for like 250. I am not an all black guy but found them very snazzy.
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https://item.rakuten.co.jp/feeling-mellow/tops-19221-m/
Was staring at a classy version of this on the train just now.
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Video of the old man himself!
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I went to Yokosuka again to go to a exhibit on Sukajan. It was pretty nice, but 90% of the exhibited jackets were from Tailor Toyo’s private collection and the whole thing kind of felt like an advertisement for Tailor Toyo. It also kind of passed by how Kosho Industries went from a normal business to bespoke designer stuff.
It really treated sukajan as a lost/dead art when there are two shops down the street still making them like they always have and there was actually 2 new generation of embrodiers I saw. That was encouraging.
Afterwards dragged my friends to Honeybee which the one from New Jersey declared “This looks just like a place in New York”. So Great Success there. The staff gave us some honeybee matchbooks because they were out of the promotional stickers for the Sukajan Exhibit. We did not pay a jarhead to get popeyes because we were full of grill cooked burger.
The bigger highlight was stopping by First Shop and seeing the old guy (Rudie you really need to learn his name.) He looked at my sukajan and did not recognize his own work. He asked me to take it off to check the tag. Thought that was funny. Said he was full of orders as usual and we got to look through his photo album which was really cool!
The exhibit had a lot of beautiful jackets to look at but you could only see the back of most of them. When so many of these were original bespoked works is dissappointing. An American Sailor bringing a personal sketch and then a Japanese professional commiting it to thread and needle on disused parachute. Then later sukajan being adopted by street gangs and yakuza as a symbol of Japanese spirit and rebellion.
Yes you could buy a beautiful Tailor Toyo for 500 to a 1000 dollars. Or a Studio D’Artisan or one of the ones celebrating a game or anime. The real spirit of Sukajan is the same as a tattoo. Yours. Tailor Toyo Company loves Sukajan as much as I do, however, they are taking the most beautiful design they can find and copying and recreating it.
It is a still existent artwork and honestly you can probably find a tailor or embrodier in your area to do the same thing which again, is more in keeping with the art.
I got to see the bulldog sukajan in person so 10 outta 10 janky tigers day.
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The Bulldog Sukajan again.
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Report with pictures of the exhibit.
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Incredible Custom Sukajan from First Shop. CATS AND BUNNIES
https://twitter.com/misaking_515325/status/1636627596543954944?s=20
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damn, i fuckin WISH i could fit into these because this is the first one i’ve seen in awhile ( i lurk this thread ) that made my jaw drop. i could make it work with my whole aes irl
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I saw the very boned head take on twitter, “all sukajans now are reproductions” which as anyone that has read this thread knows is like really really untrue. I’ve been mad about it for two weeks. They recommended getting Tailor Toyo which has I have said is fine if you have six hundred dollars but the true art of the sukajan is taking your sweaty drawing a friend made to an embrodierer and having them etch it into the fabric.
Which is to say there are probably embrodierers in your area and anyone’s sukajan dreams are closer than you think. You just need a jacket that fits. People will thread anything for money.
Any who, buying a reproduction as being closer to the real thing than the real thing is such an astoundingly bad take that I start foaming and want to yell at a nobody at how distinctly wrong they are.
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i really want some weeb shit tbh but this gives me hope!
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I kind of want my moped club’s patch as a Sukajan, i wonder how much that’d cost
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You’re in a hipster city there gotta be hella embrodiers in your area and you can get a blank jacket from online.
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