Collecting Badges

Tailor Blue

Tailor Blue

Tailor Felt Scout Badge Blue 1913 to 1928

First Issued in 1913,

This proficiency badge was worn on the right arm, starting from the cuff upwards in order of achievement.

To earn the Tailor badge*

Must cut out and sew, either by hand or machine, a Scout’s shirt and shorts to fit himself. Must also insert a patch, and darn a small hole, in a neat workmanlike manner, in either of the same two garments

* The requirements did vary through the years in POR.