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Your post remind me of a time that I was talking to my neighbor about greek life because her son is in college. I told her I'm a DPhiE, and she said, "You had the yellow jackets."
One of my sisters had a white jacket with a front similar to yours and our crest on the back. It was a wool jacket so it was warm for the winter. I thought it looked cool. :cool: |
I'd like to make a quick disclaimer.
What you see in this thread does not apply to every school in PA. I've never seen one of those jackets at Penn State ever. |
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Oh and Ali, tell them to make sure they get bright blue or royal blue NOT NAVY. APO got navy ones and well, how do I say this, they were megafug. |
Thanks so much for the pictures and the explanation. I love to learn about greek culture in other parts of the country. They may be ugly(not saying yours is ugly) but what a great way to look unified(sp) on campus and also great for PR. Thanks again.
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We had jackets just like those when I was a collegian. Of course, that was 20 years ago. It was awesome because each group had their own color: Tri Sigma= purple with white trim, Alpha Xi Delta= Dark blue with yellow trim, Sigma Kappa- Maroon with lavendar trim, and Alpha Gams were yellow with red trim. When I was going through recruitment I would get sooooooooooo excited when I saw a yellow coat walking across the street! "Oh my gaw, there's an Alpha Gam!". In fact, I used to sit in my boyfriend's dorm room and stare out the window, watching for the yellow coats.
I'm not sure which year they got rid of them. Probably the year after I wasn't an advisor anymore..lol. Us old alumnae fought those young girls about the tradition of the yellow coat. Now though, they all have different stuff, nobody has anything the same and they don't even use our colors. What kind of branding is that? Those coats were especially great during the Grease recruitment skit And, by the way, my coat still hangs in my closet today, the coat closet, so I see it every time I open the door. Our sister-mother's used to give them to us on Initiation Day and it was so special. So, I have my coat, embroidered name and all. Those coats are great. Dee |
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I am actually surprised that sororities still wear jackets like that, no offense, but they seem very 80's.
Every school that I have known of in Jersey wear the basic lined windbreaker type jackets with the front pouches. Unique Impressions was the best place to get them. No particular color was really associated with any org, except I do remember that DPhiE always had black jackets with purple letters and gold trim. Every other org usually pick their own fabrics for their letters, the way you would for a shirt. It's rare to see an org (at least in the tri state are here) that all have matching jackets. |
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Those jackets were awesome. In Michigan, we could only wear wind breakers for a week or two out of the school year. We pretty much go from no coats to winter coats. These jackets were warm enough, with a turtle neck and sweater, to get away with during most of the winter! You had to haul out the heavy duty parka in January, but most of the school year, those nice jackets with the quilted linings were perfect! |
OMG.
I'm embarrassed to say baseball jackets are a WI thing too. Well at least until the APhis started the windbreaker trend on my campus then EVERYONE followed suit including the sports teams. But heck, we gave the local sports-shop guy good advertising too running around in our burgundy windbreakers with the big-ass Alpha Phi letters on the back. He hung two of them in the window of his shop across the street from the union and had a stampede. We wore them every day, everywhere. We'd get them two sizes too big and wear them over our parkas in January. You Michiganders have no imagination.:D |
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no brown helmet, though
wouldn't it be nice to send Tom Earp a pair of brown tights,
those with the feet? he would look good modeling pink tights, too just a thought. |
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I know at Slippery Rock all the sororities had them as Shelia mentioned...Delta Zeta wore pink, Phi Sigs were blue (a nice shade not navy..they actually looked nice), Tri Sigs wore white with purple, ASAs wore white with red trim but the letters on the back had all four colors..they were the bomb but I'm biased, AOII had white with red as well I think..I dont' remember what hte Alpha Xi Deltas wore, I think KDs wore white with green trim, ASTs wore white with green and yellow trim...I'm an AI and this might be lame but I still want one. I wanna show off my letters..I'm proud of them and I think it's a great display of solidarity for the chapters and greek life as a whole...that's my two cents... hugs to all Jamie PS check out greek life at SRU..if you look in the pictures for the individual chapters, the girls are still wearing those jackets...at least I noticed the Phi Sigs and ASTs were! http://www.sru.edu/pages/9413.asp |
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