For various apparel articles such as jackets, baseball caps, and other products, as well as accessory articles such as backpacks and cinch bags, it may be desirable to have adornments, such as a patch, attached thereto. In certain applications use of a removable adornment (e.g. a removable patch) is advantageous as the indicia on the apparel or accessory can be changed by the user by simply replacing the adornment.
A removable adornment can be attached to apparel and other products and accessories (articles) via numerous fastening techniques. For example, a patch can be removably attached to an article of manufacture using Velcro® (a hook-and-loop fastener or attachment system), magnets, adhesives, snaps, buttons, and pins. However, such attachment techniques often result in the patch protruding away from the surface of the apparel or product, which can look low-cost, unprofessional, and/or permit the patch to be unintentionally or accidently removed. In addition, the entire surface of the patch including its borders may not be flush with the surface of the apparel or accessory thereby causing wrinkles or other unevenness of the patch and its borders, again resulting in a low-cost, unsophisticated look.
In certain designs, the patch can have a border such as a stitched border around the patch. The stitched border can be a merrowed border or a satin stitched border. Although such borders on a patch can improve the look of the patch on the apparel or accessory, similar issues can be present for removable patches with borders as with removable patches without borders (e.g., patches having hot cut borders).
Thus, there is a need to improve the removable attachment of adornments to apparel and other products and accessories, which attachment can include patch receptacles for removable patches, such that imperfections of the adornment cannot be readily seen and/or the resulting combination of the adornment and the article can present the look of a bordered adornment on the apparel or accessory, despite the adornment being borderless.