Stowe Vermont Snowflake Patch (Round) — c. 1970s

A vintage Stowe ski patch, estimated to date from the 1970s, round with a red merrowed border — a pale blue six-arm snowflake with a red hexagon at its center on a cream ground, STOWE and Vermont curved through the middle in navy. The same drawing as the die-cut one, put inside a circle.

This is the Stowe patch. Not the rare one, not the gondola or the church or the Octagon — the one they sold by the hundreds off the rack by the register for most of a decade. It ended up on more parkas than every other design in this catalog put together, which is the argument for it, not against it.

Every one of these was bought by somebody who had just had a good day and sewn on badly that night by somebody who loved them. Nobody kept the lift ticket. Everybody kept the patch.

Embroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.