Quilted nylon vest remade with hand-applied patches, activist ephemera, and stitched textile interventions.
Category: Remade
File Under: #EcoActivism, #PoliticalHardcore, #StraightEdge
Description
Surplus quilted vest in deep green nylon with synthetic fill and blaze-orange lining, reworked through layered appliqué and stitched additions. The base garment dates to the late 20th century and retains its original structure, zipper, and pocket configuration.
The back features a large Earth Crisis patch, hand-cut and appliquéd with raw-edge stitching left visible. Originally the name of a 1990s straight-edge hardcore band, the phrase has since circulated widely as shorthand for environmental urgency. Here it appears without attribution or amplification, functioning as both reference and residue.
The front carries a hand-cut black Kokopelli motif stitched directly to the shell. The symbol, widely reproduced across late-1990s and early-2000s mass-market graphics and youth culture, is used here as a record of that period’s folk-symbol circulation rather than as a claim to origin or meaning.
Additional elements include a hand-painted round text patch reading DON’T REPENT JUST TRY TO SURVIVE THE FUTURE MAYBE IN TIME WE WILL PROSPER, a removable pink ribbon, and an original 2004 “I Support the Sitters – Red Hill Valley” pin referencing the Hamilton-based environmental action opposing highway expansion through protected land.
A small Chains artist label is stitched at the lower back hem. All elements are secured for wear, with the exception of the ribbon, which remains detachable.
Quilted nylon vest remade with hand-applied patches, activist ephemera, and stitched textile interventions.
Category: Remade
File Under: #EcoActivism, #PoliticalHardcore, #StraightEdge
Description
Surplus quilted vest in deep green nylon with synthetic fill and blaze-orange lining, reworked through layered appliqué and stitched additions. The base garment dates to the late 20th century and retains its original structure, zipper, and pocket configuration.
The back features a large Earth Crisis patch, hand-cut and appliquéd with raw-edge stitching left visible. Originally the name of a 1990s straight-edge hardcore band, the phrase has since circulated widely as shorthand for environmental urgency. Here it appears without attribution or amplification, functioning as both reference and residue.
The front carries a hand-cut black Kokopelli motif stitched directly to the shell. The symbol, widely reproduced across late-1990s and early-2000s mass-market graphics and youth culture, is used here as a record of that period’s folk-symbol circulation rather than as a claim to origin or meaning.
Additional elements include a hand-painted round text patch reading DON’T REPENT JUST TRY TO SURVIVE THE FUTURE MAYBE IN TIME WE WILL PROSPER, a removable pink ribbon, and an original 2004 “I Support the Sitters – Red Hill Valley” pin referencing the Hamilton-based environmental action opposing highway expansion through protected land.
A small Chains artist label is stitched at the lower back hem. All elements are secured for wear, with the exception of the ribbon, which remains detachable.
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