A circular back patch sits differently to a square one. It draws the eye to the centre rather than filling the whole shoulder area, and it leaves the corners of the jacket free for smaller patches to build up around. Some people prefer that look. Once you’ve seen a jacket with a circle anchoring it, the squares start to feel a bit obvious.
Whatever shape you go for, the back piece is the decision that sets up everything else. It goes on first, and the years of smaller patches arrange themselves around it — picked up at shows, in shops, on trips — until the jacket is a record of where you’ve been rather than something you bought in one go.
Sewing it on is part of the appeal. An hour with a needle and thread, and it’s there for as long as the jacket lasts. Denim takes it well, leather takes it well, and a cut-off vest works just as happily.
Motörhead spent forty years refusing to change anything about what they did. A jacket you commit to and never take apart is the right kind of tribute.
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