Under Where?
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on June 12th, 2007 at 12:32 am 
There are few fashion trends among youth today that annoy me more than the wearing of clothing in such a way as to show off ones undergarments. You all know what I mean. I really dislike it! In a manner of speaking, the idea of exposing what should be kept underneath and has crossed over into the patch world.
Recently I was sent some images of new issues from Gila lodge, number 378. One of them was a patch specifically designed to be worn on the underside of the uniform pocket flap, . It is intended to only be visible with the pocket flap is turned up. The donor believed this to be the first such patch. It fell to me to tell him that although this was certainly unusual, Gila lodge was not the first to do this. I remembered at least one other lodge having already done this.
The Gila flap was already on my site and tentatively catalogued by me as the “S40?”. (Please see image to the left.)
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