Lapel pins and buttons

[fluteplayer07]

Permanently?!? And I can't even load the store webpage! I wanted to grab a few more of them, too.

 

[StetsonHomburg]

Permanently?!? And I can't even load the store webpage! I wanted to grab a few more of them, too.

Nope, still for sale: http://makeupmag.com/products/cPath/161/item/1020/

 

[Hereward]

I have one and they are fine.

 

[John in Covina]

Got one for my collection of pins!

 

[GBREAL]

Question: Wearing a Lapel Pin

Hello

I recently started to wear pocket squares with my suits and I really like the look. I thought about accessorizing further by wearing a lapel pin on my jacket as well. However, I am not sure if that would be overdoing it.

Thanks

 

[Methuselah]

No, not at all. I alternate between a YHA one & various BSPB pins. Go for it.

 

[Edward]

Depends on the pin, really. I currently wear this one quite a lot:

Also wear a politically oriented one that's quite brightly coloured and about an inch square, on and off. I need to get a new New Sheridan Club pin after I lost my last one. The one thing I'd be careful of is whether it is in danger of leaving a mark on a good jacket - most shouldn't.

 

[kyboots]

I always wear one symbolizing the fight in HIV disease.--John

 

[tealseal]

My alma mater gave us all pins when we graduated. I stick it in my lapel once in a while.

 

[Doc Smith]

I don't see any problem with lapel pins. My AIAA senior member pin gets moved between my lighter-weight sport coats; my bronze eagle (for 10 years of Federal service) stays on the winter-weight blazer, while the Red Cross 6-gallon pin will stay on the PoW check suit until I've earned my 7-gallon pin.

Great stuff for that little added bit of authority in the lecture hall.

 

[Widebrim]

I almost always wear one, with or without a pocket square. (For the former, see avatar photograph.)

 

[GBREAL]

Okay this is very good to know. I thought I ask beforehand because I have a tendency of being over the top when it comes to style. (Very cool forum by the way discovered it a few days ago).

 

[GBREAL]

I almost always wear one, with or without a pocket square. (For the latter, see avatar photograph.)

I have seen your avatar pic before on other posts and I thought to myself "man that looks sharp, whats on his lapel?"

 

[dhermann1]

Most lapel pins are pretty modest in scale, shouldn't be a problem. BTW, there is a very nice Fedora Lounge lapel pin that I hope is still available.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

There are lots of great vintage lapel pins out there. Wendell Willkie's various runs for office are particularly fun hunts for ludicrous pins.

"Eleanor? No Soap!" is my particular favourite. Along with my Strom Thurmond for President pin from his 1948 run, and the one FDR put out suggesting Willkie was working for the Japanese (not just screwing around with Chiang Kai Shek's wife while pretending to be an ambassador).

bk

 

[Two Types]

I have a rather old 'Darby & Joan Club' pin (for those outside the UK, it's a club for retired people) that I used to wear regularly. I suppose it's appropriate - I wear clothes that belonged to that age group!

 

[Widebrim]

I have seen your avatar pic before on other posts and I thought to myself "man that looks sharp, whats on his lapel?"

Wow, thanks for the compliment.

 

[Methuselah]

Charity pin badges are easy to come by, I wear one like this:

 

[Tango Yankee]

I often wear the Fedora Lounge pin or my USAF Retired pin.

 

[tealseal]

I often wear the Fedora Lounge pin or my USAF Retired pin.

There's an FL lapel pin? Can you post a picture of your USAF one? My grandfather had one from the Army, but it has been lost