Profile: Lapel Pins – 1984 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Regina, Canada Figure skating pin collectors usually could always count on events held in Canada to be commemorated with at least one lapel pin, often being unique in some way—whether in design, shape, size, or a combination of these attributes. The pins made for the 1984… Continue reading 1984 Canadian Figure Skating Championships Pins: Shape Shifting.
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Highly Irregular. 1986.
As figure skating pins go, by and large, the pin made to commemorate the 1986 Skate Canada International is striking. Not so much because it is beautiful or even well-produced. But because it is different. In a world where pins are routinely round or rectangular in shape with little creativity, a pin with an irregular shape and angles is a welcomed changed. The familiar Skate Canada logo is used to good advantage in a strobe effect, something not seen before on Skate Canada pins.