fight jaket KONOTOP WITCH

The Witch of Konotop is now associated not only with the story by Kvitka-Osnovianenko, now it’s more about the power of spirit and resistance of the Ukrainian women. The women of Konotop not only dared to stand up to armed muscovites, but also threatened them, and with nothing other than magic and curses. 🙂 This subject just had to be reflected in our Buntarky (the Rebels) series. That’s how this women’s bomber jacket came to be.

The jacket is military in form and meaning. It has the khaki color and the silhouette of a flight jacket (and quite right too because witches are basically an Air Force). The bomber jacket is elongated, it has an elastic bottom hem, collar, and cuffs. The sleeves and sides have additional fabric layers sewn over, a sort of wings, to give the bomber jacket more swiftness. It looks like the jacket is being blown by the wind in flight. On the front, there are two large pockets with side and top openings. Safety flap underneath zip fastener and a contrasting lining. Just like the true flight uniform, and even more.

As for decorations, this bomber jacket breathes rich in patches. Besides our traditional decorations – an embroidered logo, patches from the Buntarky series, and Independence war, it has more theme-based patches. We tried to fantasize what the actual Witches of Konotop combat squad would look like. Here are the Konotop Special Forces patch with traditional embroidery elements, a Witch forces UA patch, and Freedom Fighter with a black cat, and a patch with the PPZR Piorun missile. This MANPADS launcher with a missile is also present in the large image on the back. The large print shows the witch of Konotop in uniform riding a PPZR Piorun with a missile in her hand (because broomsticks are in the past).

Composition puts her in the center of a roundel, and besides a “Witch of Konotop” inscription, there is also a motto, or rather a warning for the enemies — “Jinxed in Ukraine”.

On the back below the collar, there’s a large UA. On the front, a quote from the same-name story is printed in matching color: “she is a natural witch, that doesn’t drown in the water with stones, that steals rain from the sky, and befuddles people with her charms”.