JACKETS

JACKETS

Over decades, Jackets has had an important function in clothing for men, women, and children. Jacket was created centuries behind and it has been altered through time by cultures, religions, genders, and more. Therefore, Jacket has become a basic clothing for many styles, for instance, sports jackets and blazers. Because the jacket is a fundamental clothing for all styles and ethnicity, it is made by many kind of materials. Originally jackets were a formal piece of clothing made by wool and cotton, but current styles included leather, nylon, and suede.

Depending of style and ethnicity, people have incorporated new accessories, cuts, purposes, and colors to jackets. An example is the punk culture. The punk culture has adapted the jacket such a way that they can be identified with it and it represents in some way their philosophy. A hypothesis could be that they use spiked clothing and the black color in the jackets as a representation of rebelliousness and rudeness. Those characteristics in the jacket make punk culture more comfortable with the self-culture. Besides it could express for them to be against stereotypes such on ideologies, lifestyle, music, and clothing.

Another culture which has modified the jacket to customize it according to its ideas is the metal culture. They use to add many imagines in their jackets to express their likes for some God, things, beliefs, or any. And each person has his own perspective and likes of draws and imagines about the general ideas of the metal culture. Therefore, even if people have the same figure of anything on the same jacket, each one has a different jacket because each person put the figure on a specific place.