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Also known as Souvenir jacket

A , also known as souvenir jacket or tour jacket, is a type of satin blouse jacket often embroidered with orientalist motifs that originated in post-World War II occupied Japan.

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  • History
  • 1950s: Post WWII origins
  • Embroidery
  • 1960s: The sukaman
  • 1970s: Vietnam war
  • Cultural impact
  • See also
  • References
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A , also known as souvenir jacket or tour jacket, is a type of satin blouse jacket often embroidered with orientalist motifs that originated in post-World War II occupied Japan.

Modeled after varsity jackets, they were originally a souvenir created by Japanese craftspeople for American servicemen stationed in Japan. The sukajan was later adopted by Japanese working-class youth culture as an act of rebellion, and has since endured in popularity both in Japan and abroad.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sukajan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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