This incredible, one-of-a-kind denim jacket vest from the 1980s was hand-crafted and designed by Hollywood and Broadway Costume Designer Robert DeMora. Includes patches from The Stud (San Francisco), a button and patch from Ramrod (one of NYC's most popular leather bars in the 1970s), an armband from the Helfer der Volkspolizei (a German auxilliary police service), a patch from Silver Stars Motorcycle/ Leather Club from the 1970s, a dog tag from a party of the Regiment of the Black and Tans from 1979, US Army Aviation school pin, a bullet cartridge case on a chain, among countless other unique pins and patches.

This would be the most incredible jacket to wear to any pride parade/event.  It can certainly be considered a collection of history, and a historic piece itself. 

From Bob's obituary in the New York Times:

Robert DeMora was a witty costume designer and art director whose fantastical, mischievous creations embellished Bette Midler on stage and screen, as well as the casts of “Risky Business” and “Marathon Man” among other films. 

For more than four decades, Mr. DeMora amplified and often art directed Ms. Midler’s ever more elaborate stage extravaganzas with rigor, scholarship and a Dadaist’s sense of the absurd. He was responsible for, among the other things, the ruched pink sequin gown of her “Divine Miss M” days and the sparkly spangled tail and sheathe of Delores DeLago, Ms. Midler’s bawdy, wheelchair-riding mermaid.

Mr. DeMora and Ms. Midler met in the early 1970s in New York when she was just starting out and “he was already part of a certain coterie of people all living in the Village and trying to have a big effect for very little money,” Ms. Midler said in a phone interview.

“The first thing he did that really knocked me out were these waitress costumes that opened up and became the American flag,” she said. “Every bead had a meaning and a history behind it. His eye was impeccable, and he was a genius at doing things on a shoestring.”

In addition to his work for Ms. Midler, Mr. DeMora had a successful career as a costume designer for Hollywood. Besides “Risky Business,” the 1983 teen sex comedy with Tom Cruise, and “Marathon Man,” the 1976 thriller with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, he created costumes for, among other films, “Cruising,” William Friedkin’s 1980 police drama starring Al Pacino, and worked with the costume designer Ann Roth on “The Birdcage,” Mike Nichols’s 1996 comedy with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.

In 1997, Mr. DeMora was nominated for two Emmys, for art direction and costume design, for “Diva Las Vegas,” a documentary about Ms. Midler’s tour of the same name.