JACKets 2023

Christmas 2023

During 2023, I fell in love with making custom panels for the backs of my jean jackets. After receiving compliments from strangers and friends, I decided custom jackets would be a cool gift to give my siblings and friends for Christmas.

It started with pictures

Using what I know about large format printing, albeit not much, I ordered the smallest print with the most amount of photos I could possibly order. I think I paid a total of $40 for 35ish images printed on a heavy duck cotton!! It was a great deal!

I printed a series of artwork, photos, and other media that I thought would be cool on a jacket. There wasn't a ton of criteria to make it on the print file.

I took these photos and curated them into collections that each of my siblings and friends would appreciate. I wanted to keep the vibe faceless and mostly genderless. I think they feel sort of biker jackety and all have a different vibe which I really appreciate. As my Highschool art teacher would say, it makes my heart sing!

Hannah's Jacket

Sizing The Panel

I used some random lid to a bin to figure out what size I wanted the panel to be.

Picture Layout

Scrapbookcore but make it permanent and wearable! The pictures are all from Hannah's Instagram!

Sewed Up

Final patchwork pictures are in black and white sewn with varrying thread colors.

Ruthie's Jacket

Sizing it Up

Different jacket style for Ruthie but same panels size.

Laying it Out

The photos I took from Ruthie's Instagram and contracted her husband to send photos from Montana.

Finishing Touches

The final jacket layouts. Both also included iron on patches as well as enamel pins.

In scrappy Jack Schutz fashion...

things were just sort of thrown together, no measuring, no seriousness, just plain old playing and fun!

Sarah's Jacket

The Layout

Again very scrappily layed out but the vision was there!

Test Driving Sarah's Jacket

I only really had 3 pictures from Sarah's jacket and one of them was a thirst trap of me wearing it to "test it out"

Final Jacket

I love love love this jacket. Selfishly, it makes me so sad that I gave it away. It's cool as fuck for so many reasons. But that also means that my best friend is fitted up and I can't argue with that!

Briana's Jacket

Briana's Layout

This jacket was special because it features pictures from our adventures together.

Little Details

I love finding weird little pins and patches around.

Scubana's Vest

The layout changed a bit during the development of the patch but overall, I'm proud of the way it turned out.

Extra Jackets

Alex's Jacket

My sister, Ruthie, commissioned me to create a JACKet for her sister In-Law. I printed photos from her Instagram and drew inspiration from what Ruthie told me.

Chicken Jacket

I spilled tattoo ink on the front of one of my favorite shirts. Being that the front of the shirt was totaled, I sewed the back graphics onto a sherpa lined denim JACKet.

Wrapping it Up

Overall, this was a really great way to challenge myself. I wasn't expecting the sheer amount of elements that had to come together in order for these jackets to turn out. The ordering of printed media was challenging because I had to imagine how big the patch was going to be and then plan accordingly for the scaled picture size.

All in all, I'm impressed with myself for the quality of product I was able to produce. The jackets came together so nicely and all feel like a finished product. I like that each one has some scrappy/scrapbooking elements and no two jackets are ever the same.

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