Stitch Work (2) Disco Pants !
Among my creation hence the possessions, the most bizarre item
must be my Disco Pants. — It was a BR rail worker’s hi-vis uniform.
But, because its size was too big for me, I’ve cut the length and used
that cut-off to make the back pockets. = So, the pants was customized
to a flashy Disco Pants with x5 blue LEDs running light on the thigh
and slow on-off pink and red LEDs on the back pocket.
To make the pocket, I designed it like a stuffed relief of a nude torso.
In fact, such design was an excuse to put the LEDs. As the figure
was made upside down, it was a puzzle to comprehend what it was.
= all for the fun on the club night. (If it was ordinary geometric
pattern kind, it would be too boring = nothing fun and the others
wouldn’t notice it at all.)
On that time I was an almost the fixture of the club called Fridge in
Brixton. — Good (or bad ?) grown-up in a club, it’s better to have a
fun, and gone to be crazy. (Anyway, it sound everything crazy =
I was the top dancer there, receiving free entry and the free drinks
— still, never drink alcohol, not mention any drug. Never mix with
cloud still keep talking with all the staffs, manager, owner. = So that
the cloud mistook me a special security kind or even a real owner /
financier behind. 😀 )
To make the pockets, the material was the cut-off of the leg’s end
and the thread was the thread which I de-threaded from the cut-off.
(This story, use old thread horrified the professional machinists !)
Because, it’s there and the easiest to use — though it needed to pull
out from the cloth. —– So, the supply of the thread was limited.
On the end, I had to save the thread = no return stitch. = You can
see from the photo above. 😀
Without draw the line on the cloth, stitching was made direct on the
cloth while deciding the shape. = I think, the result wasn’t too bad.
(but I wouldn’t say the stitch work was anything near to perfect).
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You might say, what an effort, and a waste of the time, just for fun ? !
But, I would only answer, why not. And I’d ask back, spending the
same length of time, what can you do something worthwhile and fun,
on yesterday or whole of your life. ? —– soon you may realize
that what you been doing was just follow the situation to survive.
Was that only the life what you can have ? Open your eyes !
What preventing you to be free was your small pretense to be a
“Respectable decent man” — can you ? —– Really ?
(Though, I wouldn’t guaranty you to get a free entry even if you get crazy. )
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Yoshi – your trousers are a legend! I think they prompted me to speak to you the first time we meet back in Peckham in the early nineties.
Good memory, Duncan ! That pants IS really hi-vis, once before a guy spoked to me in Brighton “I saw you at a club in London” 😀
It’s not just the pants that people remember you by Yoshi. It’s just your very being in the world.
Thank you Dancan. In fact that was what the Zen all about.