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In high school, our daughter was a 3 sport, all 4 year varsity letter earner so we bought her jacket for Christmas of freshman year. It was the kind with the hood that unzipped so the high school's name could be embroidered on it. I sewed on all the applique but the store did the embroidery. It was expensive but no worse than buying a decent coat...and she did wear it all 4 years. Our school system here does not have middle school athletic competition although there are plenty of kids who run around in travel team paraphenalia during school.

When I was in jhs, our school competed against other junior high schools in our school system. We did earn varsity letters based on specific criteria. However, we had them sewn on nylon windbreakers. The nice wool jackets were for the high school kids.