Word: insigniaed
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...Hermes' leather goods, the bags are saddle stitched by hand and finished off in melted beeswax in the workshops over its store on the Rue du Faubourg-St.-Honore. Each bag is made from scratch, one by one, by a team of two workers who stamp their insignia inside. If the bag needs repair, even 10 years after it is sold in Singapore or Seattle, it is shipped back to the original craftsmen...
...craze among young Japanese is for replicas of the sheepskin-packed flight jackets worn by U.S. pilots who bombed Japan during World War II. According to Master Inc. of Hastings, Minn., which makes the jackets and sells them for $400 to $600 each, the most popular models carry the insignia of the actual squadrons involved in the aerial attacks...
...ominous force behind the tensions is a white right-wing organization of self-styled commandos, the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, or Afrikaner Resistance Movement. Dressed in khaki uniforms, members wear a swastika-like insignia, salute Nazi-style and warn of a "holy war" if De Klerk succeeds in carrying out his program. The A.W.B. has launched a campaign of intimidation against Welkom's blacks and has been accused of nighttime beatings. In early May, when armed squads began strutting in the streets during the day, the civic association in Welkom's black township of Thabong declared a consumer boycott. Suddenly white-owned...
...competitors have also tried to complete by carving out their own market in the insignia business. Galt-Sands, for example, eschews the more common retailing route of college bookstores in favor of upscale department stores...
Larry E. Workman, controller at Russell Corporation, predicts that Harvard insignia products would be successful in Europe...