Bosozoku Bellett Clothing
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 6:57 pm
I stumbled across something today that seems to be old news to everyone except those outside Japan.
There is a clothing company in Japan, catering to the bosozoku retro car and motorcycle segment, that has taken the Bellett GT as one of their more favorite graphics or logos.
The names the company uses are "Kamanari69", "Old School Showa Modern" and "Japanese Badboy Kulture".
One of their most popular earlier items (from around 2008?) was a set of dress-wear coveralls, medium blue with white pin stripes, with large embroidered Bellett GT silhouette on the back, and various company logos on the front (parodies of repair shops, tire companies, and car manufacturer logos with the clothing company name in place of the original). These sold for somewhere around $300 USD, and they sold out of the original design with the Bellett. They then made coveralls with several different 1969 era Toyota and Nissan car silhouettes.
Coveralls are apparently the cool thing to wear to car club gatherings and shows, not to work in, more for show.
They seem to have some other items with the Bellett on them, a lower priced solid blue coverall with less elaborate decoration for around $200 USD, shirts for around $90 USD, and hats starting around $60 USD.
I can't find the company website, the links are all dead or wrong. All I find are retailer pages, usually saying the item is sold out, or available only in some tiny size.
There is a clothing company in Japan, catering to the bosozoku retro car and motorcycle segment, that has taken the Bellett GT as one of their more favorite graphics or logos.
The names the company uses are "Kamanari69", "Old School Showa Modern" and "Japanese Badboy Kulture".
One of their most popular earlier items (from around 2008?) was a set of dress-wear coveralls, medium blue with white pin stripes, with large embroidered Bellett GT silhouette on the back, and various company logos on the front (parodies of repair shops, tire companies, and car manufacturer logos with the clothing company name in place of the original). These sold for somewhere around $300 USD, and they sold out of the original design with the Bellett. They then made coveralls with several different 1969 era Toyota and Nissan car silhouettes.
Coveralls are apparently the cool thing to wear to car club gatherings and shows, not to work in, more for show.
They seem to have some other items with the Bellett on them, a lower priced solid blue coverall with less elaborate decoration for around $200 USD, shirts for around $90 USD, and hats starting around $60 USD.
I can't find the company website, the links are all dead or wrong. All I find are retailer pages, usually saying the item is sold out, or available only in some tiny size.
