Government Pins

Government lapel pins are often characterized by a particular elegance that is both formal and appropriate to wear on official and casual clothing alike. Many different representations of government use lapel pins to give distinction, identity, and honor.

Military personnel wear lapel pins that identify their rank or office in the military. Lapel pins can also depict service in a branch of the United States Armed Forces, like the Air Force, Coast Guard, or Marine Corps. Many service men also wear lapel pins that show their accumulated distinctions in the army, or that reflect pride in service like veteran pins.

Politicians wear pins to show affiliation with a community, city, or party that they represent. Pins may also be handed out to community members to show, in return, support for political officials. Lapel pins are a mainstay in major political campaigns, where they are simple, but sophisticated platforms for promoting a candidate, and spreading campaign messages and slogans. Pins can carry great power, having great capacity for symbolic meaning and sentiment, such as in times of heightened patriotism, like the event of the September 11 tragedy and the subsequent wearing of American flag pins.

Sectors of the local, state, and federal government use lapel pins. Pins can show identification with the state court system or government-run community project. Law enforcement officials and firefighters use lapel pins to exhibit their pride in what they do, as forms of identification, and as recognition awards.

Lapel pins' truly attractive jewelry appeal combined with professional standards of design, make them very appropriate for official government wear. On the most formal of garb, they will fall right into place.