A Puzzling Home Reversible Sukajan, Skeleton and Spider Web, Twin Skulls, Red and Black Acetate, Size 3
A Puzzling Home Reversible Sukajan, Skeleton and Spider Web, Twin Skulls, Red and Black Acetate, Size 3
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- United States · usually 4–7 days after dispatch, insured and tracked Check the Shipping Flowchart here
- Import
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Every piece is measured by hand, in centimetres as Japan measures. Please allow 1–2 cm (about ½ inch) for the give of the material and the hand that held the tape. すべて手採寸（cm表記）。素材のゆとりや採寸の個人差により、1〜2cm程度の誤差が生じる場合がございます。あらかじめご了承ください。
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Sukajanスカジャン
Widths are taken across one layer with the piece laid flat; double them for the full circumference.幅は平置きの片面を採寸しています。周囲は2倍してください。
Condition report
Very Good
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- Good
- Honest Wear
- As Found
A dance with the dead
The skull has stalked the souvenir jacket since the post-war years, but here it reclines rather than glares, a skeleton at ease in its own web. Repeating the drawing on both faces lets the wearer choose the mood: crimson for the bolder evening, black for the quieter one.
Best for: Collectors of memento mori sukajan; wearers who want two colourways in one
Condition notes
Light signs of use; no conspicuous marks or damage noted. Embroidery full on both faces.
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A reversible souvenir jacket from A Puzzling Home, cut in acetate satin: crimson on one face, black on the other, and on both backs a reclining skeleton tangled in a spider web beneath a hand-script Japan. Tagged 3.
The Piece
The crimson face leads. Across the back a skeleton lies propped among scattered bones and a grinning skull, one arm raised beside a spider web worked in fine white thread, under the word Japan in black script. Two ivory skulls sit on the chest. The sleeves are black satin, each run through with a crimson stripe.
Turn it and the same drawing reappears on black satin, the script now in red, the skulls again at the chest, white piping tracing the raglan seams. Cream and red striped rib closes collar, cuffs and hem on the crimson side; cream and black on the reverse.
A memento mori reading of the souvenir jacket, drawn with humour rather than menace.
Details
- Maker: A Puzzling Home
- Style: Reversible souvenir jacket, zip front
- Shell: 100% acetate satin, both faces (per care label)
- Rib: 100% cotton
- Colour: Crimson with black sleeves; black reverse
- Size: 3 (per label; fits about L)
- Chest width: 58 cm (22.8 in)
- Length: 63 cm (24.8 in)
- Yuki, centre back to cuff: 86.5 cm (34.1 in)
- Shoulder: being confirmed against our archive records; please write to the Desk
- Hardware: Waldes zip
Measured flat by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in).
Condition
- Light signs of use only; no conspicuous marks or damage noted.
- Satin shows the soft creasing of a worn jacket; embroidery full on both faces.
Condition grade B (light wear) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Checked and photographed in Japan before dispatch. Dry clean only; store on a broad hanger away from direct light so the acetate keeps its lustre.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
Considered offers are welcome through Send an Offer, and each one is reviewed personally. More in the sukajan collection and across Amekaji and wagara fashion.
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