Liz Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 What's your favorite solution for this? I'd love to replace with the new BSA logo embroidered on the shirt or something, although I can also pull the embroidered patch off an unused uniform and sew that over. But that leaves me with an unused uniform that can't really be re-gifted to another Scout or Scouter, so it's not my favorite solution. Just looking for some ideas. I'm sure I'm not the only one with a couple of shirts that look like this. In case it matters, this is the shirt I'm planning to graduate my daughter to when she crosses over to Webelos in a few months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSScout Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Yep. Failure to Communicate (in glue). I have been told that if you return it to the local Scoutshop, they will replace it with a new shirt. I've not tried this, as my shirts are all old enough to have sewn on "BSA " patches... Another possibility:: at our local shopping mall, there is a custom embroidery shop. I have often been tempted to go there and have'm embroider some Scout stuff on a heavy green shirt I have... If the Scoutshop won't exchange, you might consider that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted March 19, 2019 Author Share Posted March 19, 2019 I actually bought these shirts off eBay knowing full well that they would have this problem... at a deep discount. It would not be honest and trustworthy for me to take it for exchange. The whole reason I own the shirt is because I was trying to be thrifty. I do have a couple of spare adult uniform shirts I could take the embroidered patch off of and sew onto these shirts. That was my original plan. I just hate to sacrifice perfectly good uniform shirts that someone else might want, if there's another good solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotteg83 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 it used to be that if you contacted national supply, they would mail you a strip to sew over 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwazse Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 (edited) I like @scotteg83's suggestion if the strips are still available. If they aren't ... I met one troop who had really sharp embroidered name name tags. They sacrificed one shirt for a seamstress to use for material to make the tags. This made the background an exact match to the shirts! Doing something similar for these letters sounds like a good idea. You could talk to your seamstress if it's worth the trouble to try and lift as many letters as you can salvage so that she can sew/glue them on the material from your sacrificed shirt, or if it's just as well to embroider new patches or just sew them onto the shirts directly. There are probably other modern solutions like digital-to-cloth printing/transfer, but I'm not sure they would be cost-effective. Edited March 19, 2019 by qwazse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted March 19, 2019 Author Share Posted March 19, 2019 41 minutes ago, scotteg83 said: it used to be that if you contacted national supply, they would mail you a strip to sew over Would that be through scoutstuff.org? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotteg83 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 23 minutes ago, Liz said: Would that be through scoutstuff.org? yes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle94-A1 Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 My wife embroiders. She did mine and two of the hoodlums shirts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HashTagScouts Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Anyone else find it odd that the spruce Venturing shirts are actually embroidered, but the khaki were glue on letters?I wonder if the new Scouts BSA khaki shirts are actually embroidered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeS72 Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 I haven't checked the Scouts BSA shirts, but the current khaki shirts being sold are embroidered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted March 20, 2019 Author Share Posted March 20, 2019 The Scout shop is mailing me some patches to sew over the missing letters. This seems like it's definitely the easiest solution and doesn't require replacing the whole shirt or sacrificing another perfectly good shirt for the fabric. I actually have a friend with an embroidery machine who would have made the patches for me if they were no longer available, but I'm glad they are available. Due to the placement of the new logo on the new style uniforms, I don't see replacing the old logo with the new one as feasible, unless there is some way to get all the red residue from the old letters off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleveland Rocks Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 This was recently discussed on a forum on Facebook, and someone from the Supply Division on there said that if you contact them (I believe at the 800 number) they will mail you patch strips for free as replacements for as many shirts as you need them for. The patch strips have embroidered lettering instead of the iron-on type they had on these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred8033 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I had this and several other issues with the centennial uniform. I did returns and received new only to have similar issues. It really killed my excitement for uniforming sharpness. It's hard to be enthused to show a quality uniform when the source doesn't provide a quality product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSScout Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I like the idea of the sew on embroidered strip. Scoutshop is on the ball there. I had not heard of that fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomm99 Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 So glad I found this. I just joined the site and ran across the post. Already called to get a replacement patch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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