BIP, the reason I go with the type patches I make, is that this is the way they would have looked when first made/issued/ordered, the only reason they get beat up of course is from use during the war, I like the "aged" look too, but how far do you go with that , some I've seen done that barely have any of the design left , others just enough , would be hard to know when enough is enough so person would like/dislike the aging ..........