You do sound like a Daily Mail reader.

...like a woolly-Guardianista with a sense of humour by-pass, I actually think it is quite important to protect the Red Cross emblem.

In this case, it does actually protect and save lives to wear that emblem. It's easy enough for the theatre to change costumes, it seems to me.

...when it comes to their image. I did some work with them at their Global HQ in Geneva many years ago and they did have a department whose job it was to 'protect the brand'. I imagine the UK end are merely "following orders". (Oops!)

... did a Google image search for "naughty nurse" costumes and found that a lot of them used white crosses on a red background; maybe the Red Cross people have been trawling round fetish clothing websites and contacting the manufacturers, warning them off so as not to "dilute the brand"?

Edit: the Ann Summers version has a white cross with red trim on a white background and is marketed as the Ooh Matron Costume. I find myself strangely unmoved...

the presence of Jim Davidson was the reason the pantomime was breaking the Geneva Convention.

on white backgrounds flying from cars during the next world cup?

I'd better take my daughter's pretend first-aid kit back to ELC as well, in case she is mistaken for a non-combatant medic in a nearby war.

Loads of examples of these (and I'm sure the designers on the board know of more).

T-Mobile claimed ownership of the colour magenta. When easyMobile launched, they got into a barney with Orange, because both companies were using similar colours of orange (Pantone 151 and Pantone 021, fact fans).

should sue

.. the deft hand of a theatre marketing manager hard at work trying to boost awareness and ticket sales during the post-Christmas panto slowdown.