Gilet With Badge Attached

Object/Artifact

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Museum of Transology

A black gilet with several pockets on a wooden clip hanger. It has a yellow badge (with a cat in the trans colours on it) pinned to the left breast pocket and is held together near the left shoulder with safety pins

A black gilet with several pockets on a wooden clip hanger. It has a yellow badge (with a cat in the trans colours on it) pinned to the left breast pocket and is held together near the left shoulder with safety pins

Name/Title

Gilet With Badge Attached

Entry/Object ID

MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/049

Tags

Memorial, London, National Day of Trans Collecting, Clothing, Fashion, Family

Collection

National Day of Trans Collecting

Category

Memorial, Fashion

Dimensions

Height

700 mm

Width

63 mm

Depth

40 mm

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Notes

Bishopsgate Institute, London

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Tag Transcription

Notes

Black gillet with safety pins and badge, of the late Thalia Tamari, 1998-2023. She died in her family home wearing the gillet, the safety pins were placed by her mother who pinned it back together after it was cut off by the emergency medics. Gillets are a form of body armour as it hides the shape beneath. Her mother gave it to me a few days after the death. [Text continues on the read of the tag] Thalia wore gillet most days for the last few years of her life. They protected her body from others. There is a yellow badge with a cat with the trans flag on top of it. She loved cats and had a cat called Katniss.