{"id":45177,"date":"2020-04-30T23:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=45177"},"modified":"2020-05-01T00:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:58:05","slug":"throwback-thursday-leather-painted-by-lyko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/throwback-thursday-leather-painted-by-lyko\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Leather Painted by Lyko"},"content":{"rendered":"

My painted motorcycle jacket has already appeared on the blog numerous times.<\/p>\n

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In Washington, D.C., on February 5. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Artist Andrew Lyko customized it for me last year, and now I like to wear it when I’m going to be arrested.<\/p>\n

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In New York City on February 16. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

I’m so glad I never purged this jacket from my closet<\/a>\u00a0like you’re “supposed to” with clothes you never wear. This jacket was gathering dust for over a decade because I didn’t like its oversized, 1980s style, and I had gotten a smaller motorcycle jacket that I preferred<\/a>. There were several times when I put the old jacket in a pile of clothes I was taking to Housing Works thrift shop<\/a>, only to take it out at the last minute, remembering how much I eventually regretted giving away other 1980s\/1990s fashion<\/a>. As for the exact vintage of this motorcycle jacket — I suddenly have doubts.\u00a0 I’ve always been sure that my mother got it for me at Bloomingdale’s in the mid-1980s, but I just now realized that I’ve never looked for any photographic evidence of that, while I do have photos of me wearing it in 1992.<\/p>\n

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West Point, October 1992. Click to see another photo from the same day.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

The jacket looks awfully new to me in the 1992 photos. On the other hand, the jacket doesn’t look all that bad in this photo from 2009. A lot of my homegrown vintage is in good shape!<\/p>\n

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I wore the old jacket in 2009 just because the dress had a motorcycle-jacket style to it. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Pending further investigation, I’m going to continue calling the jacket “1980s.” The fit is right, and I certainly was desperate for a motorcycle jacket in that decade, although my dream jacket was the turquoise one belonging to my friend Jim.<\/p>\n

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1984 or ’85, in my friend Jim’s jacket. He still has this jacket! Click for original post.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Despite committing to keeping my jacket for sentimental reasons, I still looked askance at it when rummaging through the closet because it didn’t seem very special, like something that only existed in the 1980s. But then, last June, while hanging out with my musical friends Christina Castle and Gangsta Boo in Los Angeles<\/a>, I spent a lot of time petting Christina’s cropped, painted motorcycle jacket.<\/p>\n

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Thank you so much to the insanely talented @andrewlyko for making me this BADASS jacket for my first performance. It seriously is everything.. think it might be my uniform for life \ud83d\udc8b\ud83d\udd2a #crazylover #thestoryofchristinacastle<\/a><\/p>\n

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