A Hand Painted Vintage Worker Jacket in mid-green.

About the Jacket

This is an unusual green thick denim vintage French worker jacket with concealed button fastenings.

I hand paint all the jackets from my studio in Bath using low impact, water based inks. Each fish takes 1/2 hour to paint!

All of the jackets in this collection are vintage and have a couple of marks due to wear. They’ve been hand picked and collected over the last 5 months especially for this collection.

Sizing: All jackets are unisex. This jacket is listed as a L but vintage sizes are tricky to match up to modern sizing. Please check your measurements before purchasing to avoid disappointment. 

Pit-to-pit = 46”

Length (back of neck to bottom hem) = 29”

About the Design:

The treasure that is the Cabo Pulmo reef is situated on the East coast of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, it’s a very old reef (20 000 years old) and has a small village situated on it’s shore. 

In the early 1990’s, the reef was dyeing, coral was bleaching and fish were leaving and perishing due to overfishing and pollution. The residents of the nearby village realised what was happening, and decided to make a change.

The Castro Family were one of the five families who lived in the village, all relying on the ocean for food and jobs. Three generations of Castro’s gave up fishing to focus on restoration the reef. The people from the village, including the Castro family, lobbied the government until the reef was classified as protected in 1995 and declared a national park. By 2009, every group of fish had returned to the reef in the largest increase in biomass observed by scientists in any protected area! In 2005, the national park was declared a UNESCO world heritage site. The residents continue to enforce park regulations, beach cleans and strive to protect the marine life around them. 

Restoring the reef not only provided benefits for ocean life, it also meant that fishing just outside the national park became better than before! The abundance of life at the National Park has lead to tourism too - in 2006, $538 000 was generated from tourism, this has meant the income rate for people living in the close by village is higher than the national average as many jobs have been created. 

This jacket is adorned with a selection of intricate fish from Cabo Pulmo including King Angelfish (Holacanthus passer), Gulf grouper (Mycteroperca jordani), Spotted boxfish (Ostracion meleagris) and Porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus)..