What if you used painted cardboard letters (or pink fabric covered letters) which you then glued onto the purple epilettes? I believe in the original the letters tended to pop (3D) more than lay flat.
VirginiaR.
"On the long road, take small steps." -- Jor-el, "The Foundling"
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"clearly there is a lack of understanding between those two... he speaks Lunkheadanian and she Stubbornanian" -- chelo.
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