Oct 25, 2016
Backpiece jackets - The evolution of the painted jacket Throughout history, a lot of groups and gangs used painted jackets as a collective characteristic and to communicate their rank or position within a group. But it is not always about the group identity or belonging. Since the 1900s, individualism and freedom of speech were growing, and so are the individual design approaches of jackets. In this book we will focus on the phenomenom of "backpieces" on jackets. We will investigate how the ritual of painting jackets started and how it finally got applied by the graffiti subculture of New York of the 1980s.