GDC Varsity Jacket GD0558, Black Wool, Leather Sleeves, Rosette and Great Invocation Back, Size L
GDC Varsity Jacket GD0558, Black Wool, Leather Sleeves, Rosette and Great Invocation Back, Size L
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- Prepared and sent from Tokyo within 7–14 days, often sooner, or as arranged
- Arrival
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- Import
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A guide for this piece: about $131, based on the 10% US charge on the declared value of goods made in Japan.
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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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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 meditation worn on the back
Where most lettermen carry a team, this one carries a proverb and a prayer around a single grey flower. The palette stays monastic, black and grey only, so the words do the decorating. A thoughtful, unusual take on the varsity from a Tokyo label that likes ideas.
Best for: Graphic outerwear collectors; quiet monochrome wardrobes
Condition notes
Light signs of use; no conspicuous marks or damage noted.
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A GDC varsity jacket, reference GD0558: black wool body with black cowhide sleeves, and across the back a grey rosette inside a ring of lettering that reads A rolling stone gathers no moss, with lines of verse set beneath. Tagged L.
The Piece
The back is where the jacket speaks. A many-petalled rosette, rendered in soft greys like a succulent seen from above, sits inside a fine circle, and the old proverb curves around its upper edge. Below, under the heading The Great Invocation, short lines about light, love and return are set in a book face, so the panel reads like a page from a private manuscript.
The front is held back: a small GDC mark at the chest, snap front, slanted welt pockets trimmed in leather and a small leather tab on the left sleeve. The cowhide sleeves have a pebbled grain, the rib is plain black, and the lining is padded and quilted for real winter wear. The cut is roomy, with a dropped shoulder.
GDC, founded in Tokyo in 1998 as Grand Canyon, folds graphic ideas into everyday clothes; here the letterman becomes a carrier for a meditation.
Details
- Maker: GDC
- Reference: GD0558 (per label)
- Style: Varsity jacket, snap front
- Shell: 60% wool, 40% polyester; cowhide sleeves (per label)
- Lining: Polyester, padded and quilted
- Decoration: Rosette, proverb and verse to the back
- Colour: Black with grey
- Size: L (per label)
- Shoulder: 56 cm (22.0 in)
- Chest width: 61 cm (24.0 in)
- Length: 64 cm (25.2 in)
- Sleeve: 60 cm (23.6 in)
Measured flat by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in).
Condition
- Light signs of use, with no conspicuous marks or damage noted.
- Back graphic, leather and quilted lining present cleanly; every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade B (very good, light wear) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Checked and photographed in Japan before dispatch. Specialist clean only for wool with leather; do not iron over the back graphic, and store on a broad hanger away from direct light.
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.
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