In either case, any card is readily identifiable by its face. Students participating in academic clubs can also be given this award if the requirements are met, what academic clubs this award can be received from are at the discretion of the school. This term is not gender-specific; a qualifying participant in women's basketball or other women's sports is properly referred to as a letterman, as would be a qualifying female participant on a co-educational sports team. The letter jacket derives its name from the varsity letter chenille patch on its left breast, which is almost always the first letter or initials of the high school or college the jacket came from. This process is known as whiskering. A jerkin is a man's short close-fitting jacket, made usually of light-colored leather, and without sleeves, worn over the doublet in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The stock phrase buff jerkin refers to an oiled oxhide jerkin, as worn by soldiers. Leather jerkins of the sixteenth century were often slashed and punched, both for decoration and to improve the fit. Jerkins were worn closed at Jacuzzi corner jetted tub the neck and hanging open over the peascod-bellied fashion of doublet (as worn by Martin Frobisher)

      In either case, any card is readily identifiable by its face. Students participating in academic clubs can also be given this award if the requirements are met, what academic clubs this award can be received from are at the discretion of the school. This term is not gender-specific; a qualifying participant in women's basketball or other women's sports is properly referred to as a letterman, as would be a qualifying female participant on a co-educational sports team. The letter jacket derives its name from the varsity letter chenille patch on its left breast, which is almost always the first letter or initials of the high school or college the jacket came from. This process is known as whiskering. A jerkin is a man's short close-fitting jacket, made usually of light-colored leather, and without sleeves, worn over the doublet in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The stock phrase buff jerkin refers to an oiled oxhide jerkin, as worn by soldiers. Leather jerkins of the sixteenth century were often slashed and punched, both for decoration and to improve the fit. Jerkins were worn closed at Jacuzzi corner jetted tub the neck and hanging open over the peascod-bellied fashion of doublet (as worn by Martin Frobisher)