I am going to have to agree with the people on the fact that if a selection of sizes of a shirt arent sent, then it is better to be sent XL's. And speaking of general sizes, people have joked about my chapter and say we would make a great football team. Being that we have some very tall girls, including myself at 6ft (not being the tallest), and other girls who are just about 5ft.

As for ugly shirts, a few years back for a date dash the chapter did ice skating with a theme of crossdressing. So these shirts have this guy in a tutu spining around on ice skates on the back. That shirt was just really horrible.

A just bad time we had with shirts was last fall recruitment they decided to get this baby-tee that was really small even in xl...Of course then smaller girls were grabing bigger sizes than they ordered...so the next thing I know someone trys to get my to wear even the large, and i end up running up and down the hall in a shirt that showed off more than my middrif.

I think I've gotten off light! :)

The worst t-shirt I ever had was the shirt that one of my sisters designed for us when we became a new colony of AEPhi. The front design was cute, a little spray of lily of the valley... but the back was an adaptation of the columns (our crest) with giraffes and such. It came out really badly. It was long sleeved, and we only had XL's made, so while the shirt itself was ok, the sleeves just bagged on my arms (I'm short). I wound up cutting off the front design and sewing it onto another shirt. (My sister was less than thrilled.)

The worst t-shirt my chapter ever produced was a bid day shirt. The front showed several of the Warner Bros. characters; the back had a picture of Porky Pig saying "Th-th-that's all folks!" (Our rush themes that year had absolutely nothing to do with Warner Bros. cartoons.) The screenprinters left out one of the colors and there was no time to reprint them, so we got them cheap, but they looked awful. Sisters had the option to buy a shirt for themselves. Um, no thanks.

Pit Stain Shirt
 

My worst shirt is the one I had to wear for rush last year..Dear Lord,talk about some serious pit stains...It was a red fitted Chi Omega shirt and it was hot in our room but the sleeves were weird length and all up in my pit..neway,I was sweating like crazy and it was embarrassing talking to rushees with it.I was covering it with my long curly hair but you can only keep your arms down for so long:( ..I looked like an idiot.

My sister cut her shirt to look like a tank and I'm gonna do the same.They were free anyway so I shouldn't of expected much.

Here's a tip for ppl..If you have a shirt like mine.You can safety pin shoulder pads inside the shirt(small ones of course):D but that would look funny...but it keeps you dry.

oh the memories--- senior wills are the best. Most of my ASA stuff I already gave away since I am transferring schools, but one shirt that was given out had a space theme and was from the early nineties. I thought there were bleach stains on the shirt--- no those markings are part of the shirt-- they represent stars or something. ALL the shirts looked like this and that is how we figured out they weren't bleach stains.
Block letters used to be really ugly!!! The material and they way they were cut out!! Bubble letters!!!!

there's this one shirt passed down in our chapter every year(thank god it's not in my family tree)...it's to be worn once a year and the rule that comes with the shirt is that it CAN NEVER BE WASHED

ive started this thread for the LOOK of the tshirt and NOT the size!!!! please by any means, give into to the "stereotypical" attitude about sororities. like the saying goes "No matter the letter WE are all GREEK TOGETHER!!!"

I would have to say that the worst shirt I wore had to do with the coloring and nothing else. It was an adorable saying... "It's not what you've just become it's who you've always been.... Be who you really are in Gamma Phi Beta" It was a light purple shirt with a dark purple crescent moon, which was fine, but the writing on it was done in a teal color....you can't read the shirt unless you're standing only a few inches away from it. We all still wear them, but they are hard to read.

ha ha. i've got a grey tank top with an olympics design for an "alpha gam olympics philanthropy". here's the kicker. we never had that event. so i've got a tank top now for an event that never took place. guess that's okay since i don't go to school there now. nobody down here knows that the event never took place...

marissa

Mine is a Chi O formal shirt...it says "the bond of sisterhood is a circle" which may be cute for girls, but it's not something a guy is going to wear....

Oh, I just remembered the actual "worst" t-shirt I ever had to wear... not my sorority's, but Panhel's.

Panhel produced a t-shirt that all sorority members were supposed to wear between the official start of rush and the start of sorority rush parties.

The shirt for my freshman and sophomore years was navy with bright peachy-pink and orangy-yellow printing. The front just said "Panhel Rush" or some such thing. The back had a picture of 5 girls wearing different outfits, with the names of all five sororities surrounding them in a square shape. One of the girls in the picture had a yellow sundress with pink polka dots, and another girl had a yellow top and pink shorts... ugh.

During my sophomore year, my local became a colony of AEPhi, so Panhel had to redesign the t-shirts. The new ones were much nicer, green and white printing on a navy shirt... at the time, I joked that we joined AEPhi so that Panhel would have to create a new rush shirt :D

And then we start threads wondering why people have such a NEGATIVE perception of Greek life. :o

BTW, I do wear a large or XL... but I also consider there to be more to me than being a "sorority girl." If that's the primary way you classify yourself, you may want to re-evaluate your priorities. And anyway, the last I heard, you could do community service no matter what size shirt you have on. ;)

An apology
 

I'm SOOOO sorry that I offended so many people. I didn't mean to! Maybe that was just a stereo-type that I had made, but these extra larges were HUGE. Like, even our biggest girls couldn't wear them, and that was my point. They WERE ugly because they hung down to our knees. And I'm not saying that every sorority girl on my campus is my size (I'm a size 4, I'll admit.. but a big size 4), but most are around the medium/large area. We do have a girl who's around 6 feet tall and a little heavier set, but even she couldn't wear the shirt. Once again, I'm SOO sorry that I offended people. The point of my message, and the point of this thread was who had the ugliest shirts. I should've left it at "We once had ugly shirts because they swallowed us all whole."

And, while we're talking about people being offended, I'm offended by the remark "girls with normal eating habits wear an XL." Are you calling me anorexic? Excuse me, but I eat a LOT. Ask anyone who works with me, I sit down with about three plates for lunch.

CarolinaDG has a point, sometimes the XL can be very, very bigAnd when you onley get shirts in XL-XXXL, it's just as un fair to the smaller girls as it is to the larger ones if you only get S-M, I wear a size large, andam usually pretty unhappy when I pay for a t-shirt that is either way to big, or way to small.

But back on topic, the worst T-Shirt I 've had was our Bid Day shirt last year, when we ordered them we thought that they were very cute, they said AXiD, if you're not wearing these letters you might as well be naked. Well we didn't anticipate some of the unappropriate remarks we recieved in regards to those shirts. We have since started calling them "the naked shirts", and almost everyone is to embarassed to wear them in public, for fear of what will be said!

When I was in college, we always bought XL sometimes even XXXL. It was the fashion and everyone was swimming in their clothes. ;)

The worst t-shirt we had was for our philanthropic event which was a spring break theme. It was a peachy pinkish shirt with blue letters which were raised and puffy. The picture on the front was a male lifeguard in a blue raised puffy bathing suit. You couldn't help but stare at his :eek: ! Hee Hee. We had to wear those shirts everyday for a week. I thought that lifeguard was going to take his :eek: and walk right off my shirt. Now that was a bad shirt whatever size it was! :p