The other day I was watching the news when a story about a Colorado teenager and her prom dress came on. Apparently this enterprising young lady spent two years creating the dress of her dreams made almost entirely out of tabs from soda cans. Most of the dress was silver, but she used colored tabs in strategic places to give the dress a few splashes of color. It was rather impressive. But then I found out through a Google search that this young lady is not alone. There have been dozens of others who have done the same thing.
That got me to thinking; why not create some unique clothing entirely out of embroidered patches? Just an example, The Cheap Place has an inventory of thousands of stock patches to choose from -- and they are only one company! Imagine all of the different pieces you could find spanning everything from sports teams to the military to biker patches. You could make a vest out of skull and cross bone patches, a shirt from flags and other similar pieces, and a jacket made entirely of rectangular patches with funny and/or crude sayings. The possibilities are limited only by the imagination and the budget.
What would be the purpose of such clothing? Well, it would probably be a single-use item similar to the young lady's prom dress. But from there it would certainly become both collectible and a way of displaying all of your favorite stock patches. Imagine hanging up the pieces of clothing in your basement bar or wherever you keep your patch collection. It would certainly be the talk among your friends, that's for sure. And if you're a collector that goes to shows, the clothing could be the centerpiece of your display.
Don't you love it?
