London Japanese Sweatshirt

Navy Blue / S

$64

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London Japanese Sweatshirt

Strange Allies

$64

ColorNavy Blue

Size S M L XL 2XL 3XL

Same city, different alphabet, and somehow it still reads like home. Our London Japanese sweatshirt puts London in Japanese characters at a retro angle with London UK below, made for people who know the city from more than one direction. Wear it for uni runs between lectures, a karaoke booth night that ended at sunrise, a Sunday browsing Japanese stationery shops, or a long walk along the river from Greenwich to the Thames Barrier. Heavyweight, oversized organic cotton for drizzly London days. A gift for anime fans and language nerds who live in London, and a souvenir that reads different from the tourist stall version.

Colors may appear slightly different due to your screen and our printing methods. Due to our eco-friendly print process, prints may have a vintage look and feel.

USA & Global
• 80% organic cotton, 20% recycled polyester
• Oversized fit
• Fabric weight: 10.3 oz/yd² (350 g/m²)
• Side-seamed construction
• Hoodie: hood, kangaroo pocket, drawstrings

Europe
• 100% organic cotton
• Oversized fit
• Fabric weight: 10.3 oz/yd² (350 g/m²)
• Side-seamed construction
• Hoodie: hood, kangaroo pocket, drawstrings

Free USA and Europe shipping over $99 / €99.

Note that all orders take a few business days to ship due to the custom nature of our products.

USA: All orders ship from the U.S.
Europe: All orders ship from the EU.
Other: All orders ship from the U.S.

Wash cold, inside out. Hang or tumble dry on low. These instructions help reduce additional shrinkage and prolong the life of the print and the garment.

We automatically donate a portion of each sale to charities related to causes we support.

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EU representatives:
HONSON VENTURES LIMITED, gpsr@honsonventures.com, 3, Gnaftis House flat 102, Limassol, Mesa Geitonia, 4003, Cyprus

SINDEN VENTURES LIMITED, gpsr@sindenventures.com, Markou Evgenikou 11, Mesa Geitonia 4002 Limassol, Cyprus

2 year warranty in EEA and UK, established by Directive 1999/44/EC.

Hoodie & Sweatshirt: For adults. Meets the formaldehyde, flammability, lead, cadmium and phthalates level requirements.

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What's your deal, anyway?

Fair ask. We’ve been creating anti-fascist and progressive art for over 25 years. Chicago made us, but now we’re full-time nomads making art and products that espouse our beliefs in human rights and social justice. We design things for the communities we come from and the ones we fight alongside, with a portion of sales donated to causes we support. We’re stubborn, loud, and allergic to neutrality. No fascists. No excuses.

I don't see the style I want.

Most of our items are available in a wide range of sizes. Additionally, most items are available in various styles. If you see a T-shirt design you like and want it on a hoodie, check the hoodies section or use the search bar. You can also customize the style and color of most designs in the custom section of our website.

Feel free to contact us if you can't find what you're looking for, and we'll do our best to make it happen.

What causes do you give to?

We donate $1 of each item sold to non-profits and organizations supporting progressive, humanitarian, and justice-oriented causes around the world. All donations are automatically calculated and transferred to our charity partner every month to ensure compliance and timely processing.

What is your return policy?

We want you to love your Strange Gang goodies! If you're not completely satisfied with your purchase, you request a return for a refund or exchange within 7 days of receipt. Please note that all returns must be unworn and unwashed. Simply contact us at info@strangegang.com and we'll guide you through the process. Read more here. Important: Custom items cannot be returned for any reason, but damaged items can be replaced.

London All Day Every Day

Strange Allies made this for the people who love London without trying to romanticize every inch of it.

Because London is not just charming little terraces, museum gift shops, and tourists blocking the pavement like they have nowhere else to be. London is friction. Wet concrete. Sirens in the distance. A train delay ruining somebody's mood at 8:14 a.m. Chicken shop wrappers, expensive coffee, impossible rent, and one perfect night that almost makes you forgive the rest.

On the front, London appears in Japanese in a retro slanted layout, with London U.K. underneath in smaller type. That shift changes the energy immediately. It stops the design from feeling obvious. It feels like city pride filtered through a stranger signal, then dropped back into the streets where it belongs.

That matters in a place this overexposed.

London gets flattened all the time. People turn it into landmarks and red buses, as if the whole city is one giant souvenir mug. But the real London lives in the patchwork. Brixton pulse. Camden chaos. Peckham rooftop smoke. Dalston noise. Hackney movement. Kilburn routines. Soho at the wrong hour. Stratford in transition. Every area carrying its own weather, pace, and social code.

This piece is for the people who know that.

It is for the born-and-raised Londoner who has seen five versions of their neighbourhood and still refuses to leave. It is for the transplant who arrived for school or work and got swallowed by the city's weird magnetism. It is for people bouncing between UCL, King's College London, LSE, SOAS, Goldsmiths, and the rest of that student-worker-artist-caffeinated chaos that keeps London twitching.

And of course the sports blood is in there too. Arsenal arguments. Chelsea people pretending they are calm. Spurs obsession. West Ham loyalty. Crystal Palace pride from a little farther out. In London, football is not background noise. It is part of the city's daily temperature.

Buy it as a gift for someone whose version of London is deeply personal and impossible to fake. Keep it as a souvenir if the city got under your skin and stayed there. Strange Allies is for people who know place can rearrange your whole internal wiring, and London does it with rain, noise, nerve, and attitude.