{"product_id":"mkt-the-punk-effect-mark-gray-public-image-limited-dress-shirts-buttondown-shirt","title":"Public Image Limited Dress Shirts Buttondown Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Gray hand-painted this shirt for Public Image Ltd sometime in 1978, during the summer he first started working with John Lydon and the band at their Gunter Grove headquarters in Chelsea. Four watercolor portraits of PiL's founding lineup sit across the front in quadrants of pastel color: Keith Levene at upper left in green, John Lydon at upper right in pink beneath the phrase \"Sod In Heaven,\" Jah Wobble at lower left in purple, and the band's PiL logo at lower right floating above the tagline \"A Product of Your Society.\" The reverse continues with three more portraits set into blocked pastel fields alongside \"There's A… God In Heaven!\" and a hand-drawn pink inverted cross, both referencing the \"Religion\" tracks Gray had heard the band discussing during recording sessions before \u003cem\u003eFirst Issue\u003c\/em\u003e was released that December. Loose cross-hatched watercolor patterning covers both sleeves. The base garment is a Chard of London button-front, sourced from an Oxfam on King's Road — Gray's standard practice, since he didn't have access to a silkscreen and painted every element directly with a brush and fabric paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGray was sixteen when he started making shirts for PiL. He had previously supplied Vivienne Westwood at Seditionaries before beginning to work with Lydon after the Sex Pistols split. Between summer 1978 and 1980 he produced approximately thirty shirts for PiL, alongside armbands, ties, and hankies, all hand-painted from his own studio. Lydon wore Gray's shirts on the cover of the 1981 \u003cem\u003eFlowers of Romance\u003c\/em\u003e single, in Caroline Coon's photograph of him on the roof of Gunter Grove, and across the band's earliest press appearances. Gray's pieces are documented as the primary wardrobe of PiL's first working period, and they exist today only in the tight number he made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe consignor acquired this shirt alongside its companion PiL piece in 1988 through a London flatmate, whose friend — a former Vivienne Westwood model — had owned both shirts. This is one of a very small number of confirmed Mark Gray PiL shirts still in circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Gray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49031221575929,"sku":"JP-18974-MUL-0ONEM","price":5900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/2783\/5385\/files\/9a6ef8ba-9c67-4874-a204-03571b1057ef.jpg?v=1788961777","url":"https:\/\/shop.joopiter.com\/products\/mkt-the-punk-effect-mark-gray-public-image-limited-dress-shirts-buttondown-shirt","provider":"Joopiter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}