Post pics of the best/worst Battle Jackets and ILM will mark them out of 10

http://i.imgur.com/cYZ1ROX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ajVmEWF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UC6EKVy.jpg

http://metalinjection.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ChrisBrownGoneMetaljacket.jpg

Is that Chris Brown? Don't let Alex In NYC see that!

How does NV rate this one?
http://i.imgur.com/w3rldvQ.jpg

@ag : yup ..

and i very much doubt alex comes over this side of the wire these days.

:(

He pops up occasionally. I'm sure he knows about those pics.

I used to see loads of these battle jackets with Public Enemy patches alongside Anthrax/Slayer/Megadeth etc I keep forgetting how much Public Enemy crossed over to the metal crowd

http://i.imgur.com/ibR6JRu.jpg

The Chris Brown pic ... while roundly indefensible ... is indeed ancient history. I already addressed it back in November of 2012.

ahhh .. say his name 5 times ...

Told ya!

But did he have a battle jacket with a Killing Joke patch?

http://i.imgur.com/aYJj6EX.jpg

skillz.

how many of these were done by the mums ..

(and yes, i know there is a chance that the dads may have done them, but you just know they were done by the mums .. )

nah what else do you think they did during the home economics lessons they forced on us first two years of high school

that last one is very organized

exactly upper mississippi ..

a hormonal spotty 16 year old would never have arranged them like that.

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well most battle jackets i see now are guys older than i am. and im pretty sure the great majority of jackets were bought from someone else. Im damn sure a lot of ppl wore patches by bands he'd never heard (my old mate from school had one he wore to donington in the 90s and he had only heard the black album by metallica nevermind the other patches on it

That last one looks like the patches were all sewn on at the same time, i.e. a poser's jacket

I was told (by someone that knew them well) that a slightly renowned retro-rock band of a few years ago actually paid someone £600-odd to make up patch denims for them.

do they not have punx in UK?

2 jackets actually, £600 each

i want to be very clear here. that Saxon jacket is. fucking. mint.

s'pose i shd confess i'm not a big fan of punker leathers tbh, unless it is 1983 and you are in the Anti-Nowhere League

Again i used to see punks with discharge/gbh/crass leathers but not for ages (unless im in glasgow shopping)

Another patch always on jackets round here early 90s was Hawkwind.

I used to see loads of these battle jackets with Public Enemy patches alongside Anthrax/Slayer/Megadeth etc I keep forgetting how much Public Enemy crossed over to the metal crowd

There's a bit in Whiney's Nation of Millions book saying that Chuck D and Hank Shocklee admired the way Megadeth and Maiden gave their album covers an identity by using the same logo/font every time, and how PE did the same.

http://i.imgur.com/8NUsPsr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WjN0DLa.jpg

where did people get hold of metal patches? Places like Affleck's Palace I guess, but also mail order? I seem to remember back pages of Kerrang! would feature mail order ads for them.

used to be shops/market stalls that wd have big displays of patches for sale back in the 80s

Music t-shirt shops seem to have disappeared in recent years, except in a few places like Camden Market. Thx internet!

yeah free with albums, record shops (you can get them still in a 2nd hand record shop in Glasgow along with drug paraphernalia and those big band flags you put on yer wall and tshirts ) and yes mail order. Was never into it but had a few nice patches with records over the years.

NV and others what mark out of 10 for
http://i.imgur.com/3XKt7W9.jpg

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/battle-jacket

Too many of these have bright new patches on them - not showing any wear or signs of battle on them. Also, if you don't devote a large part of the back to your favorite band, I think you're doing it wrong.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/dc2eaecee41f76f9c43197c301a2f78d/tumblr_msue450Uoj1rl0o1yo1_500.jpg

1/10 for the coors/pilsner/ass patches

http://25.media.tumblr.com/2e27e3a5a9d67e826e819720a016321f/tumblr_msh2llHB0N1sbzmbxo1_1280.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5g2q9hu.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/6c62193e6b3a16b74a2ac0426765e637/tumblr_mse9r1Oeop1r3bomio1_400.jpg

woah Mournful Congregation!

10/10?
http://i.imgur.com/CPPbmvj.jpg

hah that is amazing!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/17563e15edbecc983e4b5e402d89757d/tumblr_ms1vwzcPwd1s8b49ko1_250.png

peace, anarchy... ecstasy?

docked 2 points for the pink floyd and offspring patches

http://i.imgur.com/nC6LYUE.jpg

who would put an offspring patch on with those others?

Saxon jacket above - 6/10.

Battle hardened - 7/10
Mild asymmetry - 7/10
Sewn on by his mum - 8/10
Bands that don't suck - 6/10
Variety - 1/10

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