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THE DRIP: The "Altamira Excelso" Varsity BomberThe fabric that was forced onto bodies is now a jacket worn by choice. The Altamira is the most radical garment in the collection and the most beautiful thing it has ever been. This is The Altamira Excelso Varsity Bomber a fully structured outerwear jacket built entirely by hand in Atlanta from a single Colombian Altamira Excelso coffee export sack. Named for the real farm whose identity is pressed into every inch of this jute body: Altamira Excelso
The fabric that was forced onto bodies is now a jacket worn by choice. The Altamira is the most radical garment in the collection — and the most beautiful thing it has ever been.
This is The Altamira Excelso Varsity Bomber — a fully structured outerwear jacket built entirely by hand in Atlanta from a single Colombian Altamira Excelso coffee export sack. Named for the real farm whose identity is pressed into every inch of this jute body: “Altamira Excelso” in bold brown script across the back, flanked by a full-color botanical illustration of the coffee cherry plant — painted onto the original sack in Colombia before these beans ever left the farm. You are not wearing a print. You are wearing the original.
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“The sack was never meant to be a garment of desire. It was assigned to people who were not supposed to want for more. I made it a jacket. That is the whole argument — made wearable.” Octavius Terry · Designer Statement · From the Sack to the Silk™ |
CONSTRUCTION · WHAT MAKES THIS JACKET
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SHELL Upcycled Colombian Altamira Excelso coffee export jute sacking — single-origin, full-body coverage |
ZIPPER Jumbo asymmetrical brass-gold zip #14— diagonal from left collarbone to right hem, the jacket’s defining silhouette line |
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LINING Full quilted black diamond-pattern lining — structured, warm, and clean against the body |
INTERIOR POCKET Raw jute welt pocket, hand-finished inside — structural detail visible only to the wearer |
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COLLAR · CUFFS · HEM Ribbed black knit — varsity silhouette anchor, soft contrast against the raw jute shell |
CLOSURE Jumbo brass asymmetrical zip + white snap closures at hem — intentional asymmetry, not incidental |
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SLEEVES Teal wave motif from the original sack — each sleeve carries a different section of the farm’s export markings |
LABEL Octavius Marsion Atlanta embossed label at inner collar — the only mark added to this sack |
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FINISH Raw, intentionally unfinished jute edges at the hem — a design statement, not an oversight |
MADE IN Atlanta, Georgia — entirely by hand, in-studio, by Octavius Terry |
THE GRAPHIC ORIGIN · WHAT YOU’RE WEARING
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“Altamira Excelso” |
Center back in large brown script: the farm name and coffee grade of the Colombian beans that originally filled this sack. Altamira is a real farm. Excelso is a real quality classification. This is a garment with provenance. |
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Coffee cherry botanical |
The full-color plant graphic across the upper back — pink cherry fruit, green leaves, brown stem — is the original farm branding, printed in Colombia onto the sack before export. It was never touched by Octavius Terry. It arrived exactly this way. |
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“EXCELSO · CAFÉ” |
Bold brown stencil across the front chest, flanked by hot pink and teal vertical stripe panels running the full length of the jacket. The stripe pattern is original sack construction — woven into the jute at the Colombian source. |
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Batch code 30·50·00045 |
Stamped across the upper front yoke. This is the specific export batch identifier of the beans this sack carried. Every marking on this jacket traces to a single shipment from a single farm. |
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Red geometric diamond |
Visible on the inner facing when the jacket is open: a section of export sack graphic that faces inward, seen only by the wearer. A private piece of the origin story. |
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Teal wave sleeves |
Each sleeve carries different sections of the original sack print, meaning the left and right sleeves tell different parts of the same provenance story. |
WEARING THE JACKET · WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JUTE ON SKIN
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THE ALTAMIRA IS FULLY LINED — BUT HERE IS WHAT JUTE FEELS LIKE IF IT MEETS YOUR SKIN The Altamira features a full quilted black diamond-pattern lining from collar to hem. When worn as designed — over a shirt, layer, or any undergarment — the lining is the only surface that contacts your skin. It is smooth, warm, and completely comfortable against the body. However, if worn directly against bare skin (open at the collar, rolled sleeves, or worn without a shirt), the jute shell will contact your skin. Jute is a natural plant fiber — the same family as linen — and its texture is intentionally coarse and raw. This is not a defect. It is the material. The roughness is the history. The scratching is the point. For those with sensitive skin, we recommend always wearing The Altamira over a base layer. The jacket was designed to be worn over clothing — the lining exists to protect you from the shell, and the shell exists to protect the story. |
THE FULL STORY
Somewhere in Colombia, on a farm called Altamira, coffee cherries were harvested, processed, and packed into this jute sack. The sack was branded with the farm’s name, its quality grade, the botanical illustration of the plant that produced it, and the export batch code that would track it through the supply chain. It crossed an ocean. It arrived in the United States, was cut open, emptied, and set aside.
Octavius Terry found it. He saw in it what nobody in the fashion industry had seen: a garment waiting to be built. He cut it, structured it, and built a bomber jacket from it — using the original farm graphics as the print, the original stripe weave as the design detail, and the original raw jute texture as the surface. He added a full quilted lining so it could be worn in the real world. He added a jumbo asymmetrical brass zipper — the defining silhouette choice that turns a commodity sack into a fashion garment. He added nothing else that the sack didn’t already carry.
The Altamira is the sack as outerwear. It is the argument that the fabric of bondage — the same class of material forced onto Black bodies for generations — can be transformed by Black hands into the most desired thing in the room.
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1 OF 1 — THIS EXACT JACKET WILL NEVER EXIST AGAIN The Altamira is built from a single Colombian Altamira Excelso coffee export sack. When this jacket sells, that sack is gone. The botanical illustration, the batch code placement, the specific section of stripe panel that runs the front zipper line, and the exact fragment of farm branding pressed into each sleeve are unique to this piece. No restock. No second edition. No reproduction. The Altamira is a garment and a primary document simultaneously. |
Colombia grew this. Atlanta built it.
Now it’s yours.
Ships from Atlanta within 5–7 business days. As a handmade 1-of-1 garment, all sales are final. For sizing questions, fit consultation, or custom sizing availability, contact @octaviusterry directly before purchase.
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✓ Will not be reproduced ✓ Handmade in Atlanta, Georgia ✓ From the Sack to the Silk™ Collection ✓ Ships in 5–7 business days · All sales final |
The Altamira · SKU: OM-JK-ALT-001 · Octavius Marsion · Atlanta, Georgia
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