Political Badges and T-shirts

WorldbyStorm

Jul 2

Anyone a fan of political badges? Not only for collection - and IEL has a remarkable collection of same - but for wearing? Back in the day the WP did a nice Starry Plough enamelled badge but I don't know where my one got to. Going through some old badges I discovered a Hammer and Sickle one which I have no memory of wearing. Red Stars were ubiquitous, but a bit too ubiquitous perhaps? But badges were such a 1980s thing, or at least so they appeared, with music and political ones very popular across the decade.

Here's a nice example a friend sent a link to...

Then there are T-Shirts. Many many years ago I had a hammer and sickle tee-shirt which I think I bought in the famous lefty bookshop in London down off Leicester Square whose name escapes me. Given it was 1990 or so that was almost an historical item by the time I actually wore it. I've a nice Vietnamese yellow star on a red background one, but that's the limit of my political T-shirts and rather like the music T-shirts I don't have a real use for them outside the house.

What of others?

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