Teen Gothic

This is my first post as a babybat, hi! About two weeks ago my mom got this jacket for a dollar and it occurred to me to make my first battle jacket, all the patches were made and sewn by hand (sorry for the bad english, it's not my native language)

Here is the back of the jacket

Spiked necklace I painted silver and put the rivets + applied the chain and this pretty rose embroidery sewn into this jacket (still wondering if I add one band backpatch or leave it like that)

8 yearsish of daily wear, but the jacket was from a charity shop, so the material itself is probably older.

I wanted it to look sort of whimsigoth, like something you'd pull out of a wizard tower, or the back of an old occult shop.

I used leather paint, acrylics and poundshop nail polish. The badges are from gigs, online, charity shops and vendors elsewhere, I don't really remember now tbh. Same thing with the metalware, from all sorts of places.

The lining is also added by me, the original was disintegrating, so I sewn in this red-black silk on top by hand. It surprisingly wasn't too hard.

On the back is Siouxie, the sleeves are Virgin Prunes, Faith and the Muse and the Cure. The logos on the front are Corpus Delicti and Einstürzende Neubauten. It been also heavily inspired by Gustav Klimt and Dave McKean's paintings, especially Klimt's tree of life on the sleeve.

Don't ask me how long it took, this was done bit by bit over the course of years. Now I'm at a point where I'm happy with everything, don't plan to add new stuff, just keep touching up or mending as needed.

Took a little over a year to complete!

I plan on making the super part a bit thinner and add some details inspired by this visual