Back before my time, it was common for rockers to wear denim jackets covered in studs and patches. Now a days it’s near impossible to get studs anywhere but the strange world of the internet, however, if you’re lucky you can still find patches in some smaller shops that sell alternative clothing, here in Swindon I’ve been lucky enough to stumble across two such shops, The Little Rock Shop and The Trinket box. Unfortunately these shops didn’t have a huge range of patches but their proximity to me made up for that and I able to make a start patching my jacket (see the picture to the right). If given a larger choice of patches I might not have chosen to have Green Day or “Parental Advisory” patches, but this is what I had to work with, they were only £1.50 each and I secretly quite like Green Day.My good friend Chris (who wrote the Blaze Bayley live post) had patched his denim jacket months before me (you can see it below here), however he had risked delving into one of the dark recesses of the internet, eBay. Here he came across a huge range of patches that were only slightly more expensive than the ones I had bought from the shops at £2.50 not including p&p.
It seems to me that the best place to find the best patches would be online, even if this means spending a little bit more, and in hind sight I probably should have gotten mine offline. But what ever your preference, I would strongly urge you too patch your denim jackets and show your support for your favourite bands, or at least ones you can get patches for.
