Lapel Pin on an Argyll?

[Riverkilt]

So cold weather's here and I'm finally getting to wear my argyll jackets more and like them a lot.

Wondering if it'd look too tacky to wear a lapel pin on them, like on a regular business suit jacket. Not sure what, have lots of choices, but wondering if it'd make it look too business-like.

Maybe a simple Saltire pin...

Also, think it'd look too tacky to put my big embroidered clan crest deal with the three pins in the back on an argyll pocket. But have seen some pics of guys who've done that and it doesn't look that bad on them, just think it would on me.

Any thoughts, advice, suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,

Ron

[JamieKerr]

I think it would look nice. I wear a pin from my graduate school on the collar of my Argyle jacket, people have told me it looks good.

[McMurdo]

I say that's personal taste, I do not like the look of them personally, but to each their own, just please don't over do it.

[Sionnach]

If you do overdo it, could you post a picture?

[Mael Coluim]

I wear a pin of The Colmcille on my Argyle. I've seen a few of Crest badges on the pocket, also. I'm hoping to get one of them from the Tartans Museum for Christmas. But then again, I wear bow ties with my Arygle.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Pins, buttons, jetons, the rosettes of order, etc. are correctly worn in the button hole of the left lapel of a gentleman's jacket. If the lapel lacks a button hole the pin, etc., should be placed where the botton hole would normally be found. No more than one pin, etc., should be worn.

"Blazer patches", if worn at all, should be centered on the left breast pocket of the jacket. They should be stitched down, not pinned on. "Blazer patches" most definitely should not be worn on formal attire (Prince Charlie coatees, etc.) nor should they be worn on tweed jackets. Generally speaking "Blazer Patches" are worn (at least in the UK) by servants and employees.

Clan "Blazer Patches" are worn far more often in Canada and the USA than in Scotland. While they may be useful in identifying members of yacht clubs, or military "commemorative" societies (Military Order of the World Wars, etc.) most people find them out of place with highland attire given that a clansman would normally be wearing a clansman's badge in his bonnet, or as part of the design motif of a kilt pin.

Rather than wear a clansman's badge as a "Blazer Patch", a more elegant option would be to wear a miniature clansman's badge in sliver on the lapel.

[Riverkilt]

Thanks for the mini idea. My mother had one but I gave it to my little sister after she died. Should be easy to score one next highland games.

Ron

[macwilkin]

Pins, buttons, jetons, the rosettes of order, etc. are correctly worn in the button hole of the left lapel of a gentleman's jacket. If the lapel lacks a button hole the pin, etc., should be placed where the botton hole would normally be found. No more than one pin, etc., should be worn.

"Blazer patches", if worn at all, should be centered on the left breast pocket of the jacket. They should be stitched down, not pinned on. "Blazer patches" most definitely should not be worn on formal attire (Prince Charlie coatees, etc.) nor should they be worn on tweed jackets. Generally speaking "Blazer Patches" are worn (at least in the UK) by servants and employees.

Clan "Blazer Patches" are worn far more often in Canada and the USA than in Scotland. While they may be useful in identifying members of yacht clubs, or military "commemorative" societies (Military Order of the World Wars, etc.) most people find them out of place with highland attire given that a clansman would normally be wearing a clansman's badge in his bonnet, or as part of the design motif of a kilt pin.

Rather than wear a clansman's badge as a "Blazer Patch", a more elegant option would be to wear a miniature clansman's badge in sliver on the lapel.

Spot on, Rathdown!

Let me just say one more to time -- only wear one lapel badge at a time!

T.

[Jack Daw]

I wear a small lapel pin in the button-hole of my left lapel. The lapel pins that I have are representations of two clan affiliations.

[macwilkin]

Rathdown mentioned lapel rosettes in his post; for everyone's information, the following company produces rosettes for a number of organisations in the USA:

http://www.dexterrosettes.com/History/

Regards,

Todd