Armbands

[Brekisonphilous]

I was wondering if anyone had ever made, or would know the best way to go about making armbands. Like one that would go one the outside of your clothing around your upper arm.
I wanted to make a few black armbands with a red star on each.
Any help?

[Gotro]

Use the material they use for BDUs and put a patch like this (http://www.retrorebels.co.uk/patches/redstarcirc.jpg) on it.

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 7 2006, 07:46 PM
I was wondering if anyone had ever made, or would know the best way to go about making armbands. Like one that would go one the outside of your clothing around your upper arm.
I wanted to make a few black armbands with a red star on each.
Any help?
In the past I have just taken some red cloth and tied it around my arm...

Do the same with black, but put a red star on it first :P ?

[bcbm]

Well, I've used the cuffs of old sweatshirts and long-sleeve t-shirts or turtlenecks as armbands in the past, which worked all right.

[Comrade_Clare]

Take a strip of black material (with hems) and make sure there is enough to go around your arm once and a little bit. Add some pop-studs where it overlaps. Add your patch. Tada.

It's a little hard to explain without demonstrating.

[kaaos_af]

http://nbp-info.ru/antikapitalizm/images/4.jpg

That's how the NBP does it.


Only NBP and AKM wear armbands.

[bezdomni]

I'd recommend against wearing armbands, especially red ones...people might think you're a nazi.

[bolshevik butcher]

Not if you put a hammer and sickle on it.

[Lord Testicles]

Originally posted by Clenched [email protected] 15 2006, 10:35 AM
Not if you put a hammer and sickle on it.
Then you will look like a nazbol. (see the picture a few posts up)

EDIT: I'd say a black cloth with a red star is your safest bet.

[bolshevik butcher]

I've never heard of a nazbol outside of russia.

[Lord Testicles]

Originally posted by Clenched [email protected] 15 2006, 01:24 PM
I've never heard of a nazbol outside of russia.
Well it is a Russian idea, so it would be a bit odd to be a nazbol outside of Russia mainly because it orbits around Russian nationalism, but then some people have stupid ideas take the nationalist anarchists for example.

So what’s stopping people making the assumption that you are an idiot craving attention?

[Huelguista]

I've looked into armbands like this....just take a look at the one Zach de la Rocha wears.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/895000/images/_899634_day3dread1502.jpg

I must admit...the ones you see that are red with a hammer & sickle do kind of look like the bands the nazis wear if its just a quick glance...and knowing some of the ignorant people around...they might mistake it as one.

[bezdomni]

Yeah, that's what I was talking about. A quick glance at a red arm band with some sort of "evil" symbol might make people think you're a nazi. Hell, I once wore a red tee shirt with a yellow hammer and sickle to school and no less than five people asked me why I hated jews! (they thought the h&s was a nazi symbol).

Let's face it, neither the hammer and sickle nor the swastika are too terribly popular in most countries. I think the red arm bands with hammer and sickles on them are a bad idea, at least for the time being, because you will encounter morons who think they know what the hammer and sickle means, but they don't...and because it just looks like a nazi armband.

If you really want an arm band, then do the Zach de la Rocha one...a red star on a black background.

Also, I have a red-star beltbuckle, several hammer and sickle shirts, a shirt with Lenin on it, a che guevara shirt, a shirt with a decapitated politician and a beret with a soviet pin on it. Those are all pretty inflamatory yet stylish. Most communist parties have shops on their site where you can buy these sorts of things to keep their funds up. That way, spending money on a Che shirt doesn't go to some gusano exploiting his image for profits, but (hopefully) to the worker's movement.

CPUSA has some cool shirts too. They are far from a worker's party, but they're (marginally) better than an outright capitalist organization.

EDIT: hehe, at first I thought Zach de la Rocha was the flying spaghetti monster. :lol:

[LoneRed]

im not let some punk ass nazbols stop me from wearing an armband

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2006, 06:14 PM
im not let some punk ass nazbols stop me from wearing an armband
what about rationally analysing the potention for other humans to ascosiate ideas with you that you actually don't espouse?

would that stop you?

[Red Polak]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2006, 07:14 PM
im not let some punk ass nazbols stop me from wearing an armband
That depends on your country.


In Britain armbands during marches are illegal (Public order act 1936) as they are classed as political unifroms.



Huelguista: loving that picture of Zach de la Rocha. :cool:

[silentprotest]

Originally posted by Red Polak+May 25 2006, 12:06 AM--> (Red Polak @ May 25 2006, 12:06 AM)
[email protected] 23 2006, 07:14 PM
im not let some punk ass nazbols stop me from wearing an armband
That depends on your country.


In Britain armbands during marches are illegal (Public order act 1936) as they are classed as political unifroms.



Huelguista: loving that picture of Zach de la Rocha. :cool: [/b]
Bloody tossers, I didn't realise that law included armbands. I wonder how long you would go to prison for...

[Renegade420]

As long as a person dosnt understand your ideas they will make miss conceptions. maybe you could make a smily face T-shirt with anarchy symbols for eyes or S&H for the mouth, turned so that the sickle looks like a sort of smile.