Lightning Archives SUKA JACKET
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Deadline for orders is January 5, 2025.
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Orders placed between October 15, 2024 and November 4, 2024 will be shipped sequentially around early December 2024.
Orders placed from November 5, 2024 to December 1, 2024 will be shipped sequentially around mid-January 2025.
Orders placed between December 2, 2024 and January 5, 2025 will be shipped in order from early February 2025.
*Japan Time
Size：28.5×21cm
Pages：P257
The Lightning Archives series
The Lightning Archives series gained popularity when it was published few years ago.
Reissue of the Lightning Archives series was long-waited by vintage fans all over the world.
We are pleased to announce the reissuing of the series.
About the book
This year, the Sukajan has become a worldwide boom in the fashion world. The Sukajan was made in Japan as a souvenir of Japan for American soldiers stationed in Japan after the war. It had a baseball jacket-type body familiar to Americans with oriental embroidery of eagles, tigers, dragons, etc. The embroidery was done with a traditional horizontal swinging sewing machine used for Japanese clothing. It later became popular among Japanese youth in Yokosuka, where it came to be known as the Yokosuka Jacket = Sukajan.
This one-of-a-kind clothing made in Japan flourished from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, soon after the war. This book is a collection of such vintage Sukajans. We hope you will enjoy the beauty of the horizontal swing embroidery, which can be said to be one-of-a-kind.