Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Custom Lapel Pin Etiquette For Men

By Karina Frost


Human beings are total fools for beauty. People from all walks of life often give utmost importance to the outside appearance more than anything else. They are easily drawn by anything that is beautiful, which gives the aesthetically pleasing utmost power over most of the population. Beauty standards are also set, trying to give people an idea of what really constitutes beauty. This has often led to humans doing all they possibly could just to adhere to such ridiculous standards.

Well, ridiculous or not, majority of human beings still strive hard to be beautiful. They buy the trendiest clothes. They pair it up with expensive footwear. They carry fashionable bags around, and put on their jewelries. Women own matching sets mostly, while the fashionable men often choose custom lapel pin to look good in formal suits.

These relatively small pins are originally made for use of both sexes, though today the male population has successfully claimed the item for their own. They are often created with the use of vastly different materials and substances. Most of the time, the materials used for such things are often selected according to the planned design. Most often, soft enamel, cloisonne, gold, silver, and nickel are used in their creation.

Lapel pins go years back in the world of male fashion. These are small pins that men often wear them on the lapels of their jackets and suits, hence the name. They mainly serve two functions, ornamental and representational. Ornamental pins are of no significant meaning to the wearer and is worn only for aesthetic purposes.

A few only wear pins with no symbolic representation, though. Most lapel pins are worn as a sign of affiliation to a certain group. These symbolic pins, whether they are company logos, organizational symbols, or the national flag, are always worn with care and utmost pride.

These symbolic pins are worn mostly at the left side of a jacket, at the lapel near the heart. They usually come in really tiny sizes. Most of them only measure no more than one half of an inch from any dimension. Due to their really small size, they are often easily lost, so the wearer must always see to it that he has his pin safely secured at all times.

Some pins are even actually sewn into the buttonhole of the left lapel. But, if a detachable one is used, it is recommended that you pin it up in the close vicinity of the buttonhole. One way to go about it is to have it pinned at the outside seam of the said buttonhole, in a straight line from it.

Even though majority of the men wear those on the left, it is not a mortal fashion sin to wear one on the right. In the absence of a jacket, one can even wear it in the center of a necktie. There are only some organizations, however, who follow strict dress codes, even down to the precise location such things should be attached.

They are not required for use every time a man decides to don on formal clothing. Not every one also chooses to wear one, too, for their own personal reasons. Mostly, politicians and business magnates wear them when they meet up with other equally powerful people.




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