Motorcycle Jackets

My dad was telling me the other day that when he was younger, many motorcyclists including himself would customise a denim or their motorbike jackets with badges to show where they have been (concerts and stuff) and what they are into. Apparently, they would also put a heading or title of some sort on the back which would present either them as an individual, their favourite band or singer, or their motorbike group. My dad says that his jacket had 'Ozzy Osbourne' on the back of it.

Unfortunately, we weren't able to find any pictures of the jacket, but I managed to find similar stuff on the internet.

 My dad told me that wearing the jacket helped start conversation, as other bikers would look at your jacket and realise you went to a certain concert or that you're interested in the same thing.

It's typical for the customised jackets to have the main heading or title on the back and in large compared to other writing.

The jacket can have sleeves or no sleeves, depending on what the individual prefers. However the most popular style is to have no sleeves - could be the sign of being rebellious.

The jacket above is punk based, therefore has a raggedy appearance to it. However, it seems extremely personal as it has many badges, and also a signature.

The jacket is also very scruffy and worn, and my dad told me that bikers wanted the jacket to look old as they didn't want it to be new and clean looking. He said that sometimes they would of tried to scruff it up by driving over it, or dragging it across the floor when ridding.

It's badges like this they would of collected when they went to concerts and places.