When leather fantasy meets classic Americana, the result is a bandana that functions as both accessory and visual code.
Featuring imagery from the Dom ‘Etienne’ Orejudos Collection, Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago.
This hand silk-screened cotton bandana reimagines the traditional paisley through a queer lens, centering Dom “Etienne” Orejudos’s iconic leather figure in each corner of the field. The repeated composition quietly echoes the “clone” — the hyper-masculine archetype that emerged in the late 1970s as both identity and aesthetic system — turning a single body into a rhythmic pattern of recognition, confidence, and coded display.
Designed so the figure reads clearly when worn bandit-style around the neck or flagged from a back pocket, the layout merges three visual languages: the bandana as a historic tool of queer signaling, the clone as cultural symbol, and Etienne’s illustration as archival touchstone. The result is a graphic that operates simultaneously as ornament, portrait, and message.
Printed in small batches in New York City, each bandana preserves the bold linework and tonal restraint characteristic of archival erotic illustration. Whether worn, framed, or collected, it functions as a portable fragment of leather-bar visual history and underground graphic culture.
Available in multiple colorways, each variation nods subtly to the traditions of flagging, where placement and hue once carried layered meaning beyond decoration.
Details
- Hand silk-screened in NYC
- 100% cotton bandanas
- Permanent black acrylic ink
- Image area: approximately 17" × 17"
- Full bandana size: approximately 21" × 21"
- Ultralight cotton weave that softens after the first wash
- Minor ink and fabric variations reflect hand-pulled production
