#sukajan

It’s giving Tamagotchi variety jacket, and we need one. Bandai Namco has partnered up with Charajan, a Japanese fashion brand by Marushin that specializes in high-quality embroidered souvenir jackets known as sukajan.

Available in one design, featuring purple, pink, and white colors, the front has the Tamagotchi UFO and Tamagotchi Connection silhouette embroidered. The sleeves feature the word “Tamagotchi, along with another Tamagotchi Connection, and Mametchi.

The back is the show stopper! Featuring Tamagotchi in large font a the top, and some of your favorite Tamagotchi characters in modern pixel form accompanied by three Tamagotchi Connection shells embroidered into the fabric.

Modern printed obi by Gofukuya, with a dragon pattern inspired by sukajan embroidered designs.

Sukajan - or souvenir jackets - appeared after WWII when parachutes were used to tailor bomber jacket american soldiers brought back in the US. First mainly decorated with military motifs, they started to be embroidered with Japanese patterns. In the 60′s, sukajan were worn by bad boys but in the past decades, they've made a come back into mainstream fashion.

The listing also have a pic of the whole obi, might be of interest if you'd like to see how patterns are set on an obi lenght. Top of the pic is the te (part folded and wrapped around the torse), bottom is the tare (part used to make the back knot):

Fully funded on the first day! On to stretch goals!