Give Peace This Christmas

Maybe it's those Barney's Christmas windows that have made it popular this holiday, but the peace symbol has become the unofficial symbol of this holiday season (according to our local paper).

The peace design was the creation of a British textile designer named Gerald Holtom. Holtom created the image by melding the semaphore signals for the letters "N" (both arms down stretched at 45 degree angles) and "D" (arms parallel, left arm down, right arm up) to represent the words "nuclear disarmament." It made its public debut at a ban-the-bomb march in London's Trafalgar Square on April 4, 1958. Ten days later, Life magazine ran a photo from that march, which was its first appearance in the U.S.

Here are a couple of fun peace-inspired items from Barney's, Neiman's and Nordstrom.com that would be fun to get or give this season!

Just search for Peace on their sites and you'll find these goodies...