Place badge in officer cut down ike jacket

[javimetal]

Hello

I have this two-piece Sterling CIB badge. I want to attach it to an officer's tailored cut-down jacket.

The problem with WWII badges was that the posts were too short. It's completely impossible for me to attach the pins.

I've started to spoil of the inside of the jacket at the first of the two holes and I don't want to continue.

 

How do you do it, or how did the soldiers do it on their uniforms?

 

Thanks and regards.

[javimetal]

Even trying this... (please don't judge me for what I've done)...

[Mr.Jerry]

Some of the officers jacket were padded, so that adds a layer.  Why not just use a 1 piece CIB? That would be more appropriate IMO.

[patches]

That's why a lot of  both officers and men modified these with pin backs to wear on dress coats and Ike jackets, even the standard one piece was a problem that's till the long clutch posts came out in the early 1960s,

[javimetal]

And until long poles appeared, how did they do it? How can I do it?

This is the CIB I have and I'd like to use it...

I've already "emptied" around and inside the hole, but nothing....

[patches]

This also pertained to the clutch back ribbon mounts, Wings etc, in may ways impossible to get the the clutch to "Bite" the clutch post through the thickness, both officers and EM Coats and or Jackets, EM ones not as bad, but still could be a pain.

 

I have to look around to see original coats, I drawing a dim memory of guys either cutting away the whole area where the stuff will get pinned, and or cutting a broad slit to be able to get at least a portion of their fingers to just pin insignia to the thin outer wool shell.

 

Perhaps others can share if this cutting was done.

[patches]

1 hour ago, patches said:

That's why a lot of  both officers and men modified these with pin backs to wear on dress coats and Ike jackets, even the standard one piece was a problem that's till the long clutch posts came out in the early 1960s,

With the pin backs, one could simply push the long horizontal pin though the thin outer wool shell, no need to try and push it though the thick padding.

[javimetal]

OK, something similar to what I did in the photo of the hole, but it's still almost impossible...

I'll probably keep trying since I quite like the CIB badge I have. Besides, I don't often find CIB badges with pin back; almost all the ones I see have clutch post, and even then I wouldn't know exactly if they're short or a bit longer, from the WWII era....