Tailor Toyo TT14651 Reversible Sukajan, Alaska Bison and Bears, Quilted Green Eagle Reverse, Black, Size L
Tailor Toyo TT14651 Reversible Sukajan, Alaska Bison and Bears, Quilted Green Eagle Reverse, Black, Size L
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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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Condition report
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- Honest Wear
- As Found
Frontier wildlife in thread
Place name jackets are the root of the souvenir form, and this one swaps the Japanese landscape for the far north: bison, bears, eagle and peaks. The black and cream face reads crisp and graphic, while the quilted green side is a genuine cold weather jacket. An unusual subject from a maker usually associated with dragons and tigers.
Best for: Collectors of place name sukajan; wildlife motifs; cold weather wear
Condition notes
Light signs of use; soft soiling to the cream sleeves near the cuffs. Embroidery complete on both faces.
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A reversible Tailor Toyo sukajan, reference TT14651, devoted to Alaska: black acetate with a great bison beneath ALASKA and the line America's Last Frontier, and a quilted green reverse where an eagle spreads its wings over the same words. Tagged L.
The Piece
The black face leads with the back. ALASKA arches in orange capitals over a snow capped range; below, a cream bison stands broadside beside a pine, with America's Last Frontier stitched in script beneath. On the chest, two cream bears rear up on their hind legs under yellow lightning bolts, above arrow tipped pockets. Cream satin sleeves carry a black stripe, and navy and cream rib closes the collar, cuffs and hem.
Turn it inside out and the jacket becomes a winter piece. The green body and blue sleeves are diamond quilted, the back carries an eagle in brown, orange and white diving with talons forward beneath ALASKA, and the chest repeats the pair of bears and lightning bolts in pale thread.
The label carries the Tailor Toyo mark with Mount Fuji, cherry blossom and torii gate and the words Hand Embroidery. Tailor Toyo is the line of Toyo Enterprise, the house most closely tied to the souvenir jackets of postwar Japan, and place name designs like this one belong to the oldest strand of that tradition.
Details
- Maker: Tailor Toyo (Toyo Enterprise)
- Reference: TT14651 (per care label)
- Style: Reversible souvenir jacket
- Shell: 100% acetate (per label)
- Lining: 100% acetate, quilted, worn as the reverse face
- Interlining: 80% cotton, 20% polyester
- Embroidery: 100% rayon thread; rib 100% acrylic
- Colour: Black and cream; green and blue reverse
- Size: L (per label)
- Shoulder: being confirmed against our archive records
- Chest width: 52 cm (20.5 in)
- Length: 62 cm (24.4 in)
- Sleeve: 82 cm (32.3 in), centre back neck to cuff
Measured flat by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in). For the shoulder figure, please write to the Desk.
Condition
- Light signs of use and wear, with no notable damage recorded.
- Some soft soiling to the cream sleeves near the cuffs, visible in the close photographs.
- Embroidery on both faces is complete; every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade B (good, 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 rayon embroidery keeps its sheen.
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 from the maker in Tailor Toyo and the wider sukajan collection.
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