ITS OCTOBER!
Who can believe that it’s October already? This time of year is one of my faves. I LOVE the change in weather from sweating every time you step outside to feeling that first chill which makes you reach for another layer, I LOVE IT! Another reason I love this time of year is HALLOWEEN! I love that the UK has more recently jumped on to pushing the festive seasons earlier and earlier, I am ready for the Halloween stuff come mid-July haha. Everywhere now has a pretty exciting offering of Halloween stuff which makes me very happy indeed. I think because last year Halloween was pretty much a write off because of the first and second lockdown so this year it seems the shops are pushing it harder to make up for 2020.
One of my many loves in life is collecting patches. I love to collect things, like everything LOL, and patches are the most perfect things to collect. They CAN be reasonably priced, they are readily available and do not take up much room to store. Since 2015 I have been creating the most perfect patched denim jacket and had started to build a small collection of horror movie offerings and thought a Halloween patched jacket would be a dream. I already had this oversized MA bomber jacket for months and thought it would be perfect for the Halloween patches. I love to go for a more oversized jacket as there is more fabric to stitch more patches to LOL!
Some of my favourite patches in the collection are the Cereal Monster ones. I found these on an amazing UK based site called Ghostly Goods. This website offers the most amazing and fun Halloween/horror movie clothing, accessories, homeware and oddities from classic movies and TV series such as The Munsters, Friday the 13th, Beetlejuice to Jaws. I have managed to find many a monster-themed goodie from this site, all VERY well priced too. The Monster Cereals are a line of breakfast cereals produced by General Mills Corporation in North America. They were introduced in 1971, and at various times have included five brands, each featuring a cartoon version of a classic horror movie monster; Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry, Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy. These patches are by an American brand called Retro a-Go-go and only cost £12.99 each and since they were bought from the US brand no import charges WHOOP WHOOP! I slowly built the collection of the past year and as soon as I had them all I was itching to get started making this jacket. I really wanted the jacket to feature patches from the classic Universal Monster movies but most of them looked pretty cheap and nasty and you couldn’t make out whether it was Dracula or The Wolfman LOL. I managed to find this large Frankenstein patch on eBay for £14.99. As soon as I saw it I had to have it. Frankenstein is probably one of the most iconic (and my favourite) Universal Monsters so he takes pride of place on the entire back of the jacket. I have mentioned before but La Barbuda is one of the BEST places online for incredible movie-themed patches. Anything from Disney to Lord Of The Rings and Jurassic Park to the Simpsons. They somehow just make patches of some of my all-time fave films. I had seen this Hocus Pocus themed patch a while back and finally made the move and purchased it. This company is based in Spain and sadly, because of Brexit you have to pay a pretty high delivery charge which usually amounts to the same price as the patches. They are always worth it though as the quality of the patch is 👌 I found the other patches either on Etsy or eBay and were all pretty well priced. I do love a mix of more expensive patches mixed with cheaper versions as it keeps the cost down and helps you to fill the jacket. On the zip of the jacket, I decided to put a silver skeleton earring hanging off. I found these earrings at work and since I don’t yet have my ears pierced I knew I had to find a way to feature them on this jacket. I just curled the post gently around the zip and it hung there very nicely! Obviously, I love the diamanté eyes LOL!
As a kid the movie I was the most TERRIFIED of was A Nightmare on Elm Street. Back in the day the entire family used to go to my Grandparent’s on a Sunday dinner time and when my uncle still lived at my Grandparents they would sometimes watch scary movies which I was obviously FAR TOO young to watch. I once walked in on the adults watching A Nightmare On Elm Street and it scared me for life haha. Even in my early teenage years I could watch pretty much any Horror but Freddie Kruger knocked me sick. For this reason the films hold a special place in my heart and when I seen this t-shirt on the Zavvi website I had to have it! I loved the ringer style with it having a nod to the 1970s and all those scream queens that made the horror movies to iconic such as Jaime Lee Curtis, Linda Blair and more importantly Marilyn Burns, who played Sally Hardesty in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. Team this t-shirt with some wide-legged or flared jean and Converse and your challenging Ms Burns perfectly.
When I was a child I always had a LOOOOAD of different toys because I would lose interest in collecting a series because I discovered a lot to fiduciary my attention on. Monster In My Pocket was the one thing I managed to collect EVERY one before moving on to something else LOL. I used to love the bright and sometimes neon colour of the characters and the iconic monsters made them even more desirable to me. I used to adore the female characters as they were always stood in a glamorous pose in a floor-length gown reminding me of Jessica Rabbit. I managed to get my hands on a handful of the characters from eBay and plan of featuring them in my Halloween series of blogs this year. Can you spot the Hunchback hanging from the front zip?
Cap - H&M
Jacket - BooHoo Man
Necklace - Etsy
T-shirt - Zavvi
Belt - Zara
Jeans - Collusion-ASOS
Bag - Primark
Trainers - Feng Cheng Wang X Converse - Off Spring