Beads, jewels and other adornments on M/C jackets

[Blackadder]

The beads look nice. I have on route a jacket with leather strings closure. I am now tempted to find some beads myself. Studs on the other hand are too much and worst still they are irreversible.

 

[ton312]

I like these beads too, little more subtle. God, is this what happens when it's too damn hot to just wear the friggn thing???

 

[ton312]

Nice thing is they are easy to change out so when I decide this odd obsession has passed I can easily pull them off!

 

[Edward]

There must be a whole lot of intersting things you could hang on there, too. Skull beads. Old Chinese coins. Anything with a hole in the middle, basically...

 

[Peter Bowden]

Celtic beads are widely available

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Now those...I do think would look cool on a MC jacket, Peter. Nice find.
HD

 

[ton312]

Celtic beads are widely available

Oh I love those. Off to Etsy I go.

 

[ton312]

There must be a whole lot of intersting things you could hang on there, too. Skull beads. Old Chinese coins. Anything with a hole in the middle, basically...

Totally. I like the idea of giving the laces a finished look!

 

[Blackadder]

Celtic beads are widely available

Need to get me some of those for my new jacket.

 

[ton312]

Need to get me some of those for my new jacket.

Yeah you do!

 

[tropicalbob]

There must be a whole lot of intersting things you could hang on there, too. Skull beads. Old Chinese coins. Anything with a hole in the middle, basically...

Defeated enemies' ears, etc.

 

[ton312]

Defeated enemies' ears, etc.

Now you're talking

 

[tropicalbob]

Now you're talking

I think this thread's getting back to the true meaning of leather jackets.

 

[Edward]

I've always wanted a shrunken human head for mine...

 

[Monitor]

I've always wanted a shrunken human head for mine...

That would be... The best thing ever!

 

[2wheelgrplr]

ton312 - I like those beads, pretty neat!

Edward - shrunken human heads - my late father had a story or two about his days as a young Gurkha officer patrolling the Naga Hills in the 1960s (far northeastern corner of India bordering Burma/Myanmar). Headhunting was officially outlawed but was still a common enough practice amongst various Naga people back then. Heads of enemies you took in a fight was a point of pride, displayed outside your house, or shrunken and worn as necklace. I know ... gruesome stuff ... sorry ...