GARDEN PLAIN – The “Top Gun” movies helped inspire the design for this year’s Garden Plain Fourth of July button and T-shirt.

Abbygail (Wells) Brown submitted this year’s winning entry, which was chosen by the Garden Plain Chamber of Commerce, the organization that puts on the Independence Day celebration. Brown, who is a marketing specialist for Rainbows United, Inc., is a Garden Plain native and graduate of Garden Plain High School. She also is a former graphic designer for Times-Sentinel Newspapers, LLC. She lives in west Wichita with her husband and their two children.

Her design features a pair of Aviator-style sunglasses, with white stars in a blue field on one lens, and red and white strips on the other.

“I originally had a few other designs in mind. But with two young children, my time got away from me. I had to improvise,” Brown said. “That’s the vibe of what everyone likes lately.” Wells has seen the original “Top Gun” movie, but not its 2022 sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick.”

She submitted her design in mid-April, but found she had won just a day or two before the public announcement last week. Chamber president Seth Pauly notified her by text.

Brown has not entered many design contests. She said she was a second-place finisher in the Sedgwick County Fair button design contest when she was a student in Garden Plain.

Buttons and T-shirts with the design will go on sale ahead of the Independence Day celebration, which will take place on Tuesday, July 4. Follow the Garden Plain Chamber of Commerce on Facebook for more information.