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For quotes on custom letterman jackets, please review the Custom Book Jacket option in the Custom tab and provide the following information:

  • The title of your chosen book

  • Which character you'd like the jacket to represent 

  • Your timeline

No two jackets are alike. Each requires approximately 6-9 months to complete. Price upon request. 

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Custom letterman jackets inspired by your favorite works of fiction.

Lolita

 “LOLITA” BOOK JACKET

2016

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” 
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

This was the jacket that started my obsession. A project borne of a broken heart, a fragment of a t-shirt and a belief in divine timing.

I met a man and knew instantly that he would play an important role in my life. We didn't start dating right away but a series of serendipitous events reconnected us. We decided to cut apart a t-shirt that we won at a Valentine's Day screening of Kubrick's Lolita. The last time I saw him, he gave me my portion- that recognizable red-orange title font. When things ended, I knew that creating something with this memento would be the best way to close out that chapter of my life, not realizing at the time that it would open a new one. Ever fascinated by retro youth culture, and struck by the similarities between varsity script and the distinctive "L" of what would become my focal applique, I decided to make a varsity jacket.

This event coincided with the dissolution of an online vintage business I was operating with a friend. She left the city and I inherited our inventory. The print of one of the shirts we had sourced felt ideal for this story. There was something bizarre about the color choices; taupe as the peach flesh reminded me of rotting fruit. The story’s themes of lepidoptery, drama, and games informed the patches and trims.

I fell in love with this creative process. The immersion into the text. Uncovering and dissecting the themes. Rendering them into hidden messages inside the jacket's design; secrets that could only be decoded by those in-the-know who were curious enough to seek them out. And it was an excuse to reread my favorite novel! This was the perfect project and I intended to expand upon it. I had just begun conceptualizing the next jacket when by another twist of fate I met Tavi Gevinson, Editor in chief of Rookie Mag, on a subway platform. This set a new ball in motion. She posted a photo of my shoes on Instagram, I offered to make her a Book Jacket and here we are!