as being more versatile in application, followed by a slightly wider uneven stripe such as the one NJS originally posted:
If evenly spaced bar stripes, I'd vote for something narrower than a "guards stripe" width. Here's the Kansas State University tie done by Sam Hober for "Ask" Andy:
As you see this is not too far from our proposed colors (I'd hope for a paler and bluer lilac). One hopes that if commissioning from Benson and Clegg or Smart Turnout, they could check for existing regimental, club, and old school patterns to help us steer clear of exact conflicts. Having the lilac pencil stripe on a white field would be gorgeous, but would soil easily and be hard to wear with a white or largely white shirt, so I envision the lilac as the field with the stripe in white.
NCW is correct about the labor cost of "proving" arms, and I don't see that a trademark would help much if we were registering an escutcheon, since to be defensible ethically and legally it should still not infringe on known arms. I'm with dopey that we should simply name ourselves, our motto, and our club mascots, do without the heraldic device, and equip ourselves with a tie and/or rosette. I confess that I'm keen on the rosette partly because it's so much less commonly seen than a club tie, but I'd be delighted to own both.
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