Originally Posted by GammaPhi88 (Post 2053866)

While I was disappointed that I will not be sporting a pink and brown Murfee with crescents and carnations, I'm over it! The best part of the whole thing was I spread the news to my entire chapter, and many of them were not Lilly fans. As a Lilly lover, I'm thrilled with my converts :)

In other news, the gals who want Lilly letters should check out jennabenna.com. They have a great selection of Lilly fabric, and the prices are pretty reasonable! I'm not going to pretend I won't order a shirt for law school, since I willed down all my t-shirts to younger girls in my chapter.

Originally Posted by IrishLake (Post 2053869)

omg, i'm in love with jennabenna.

Originally Posted by IrishLake (Post 2053858)

AzTheta, if you look at all of the Lilly sorority prints, they all have letters on them (Tri-Delta, KD, DZ and Kappa). A friend of mine has a Kappa tote, and it's stinkin adorble.
I don't know if the next sorority prints will just be accessories, like what's available now. I'll get myself a tote, and my sister something smaller in the DG print.

http://www.lillypulitzer.com/accesso...dgift,sorority

(Zuma is my addiction!!!! I didn't think I'd beat you this time. lol, I'm still not even in my top 5. I blame it on having a laptop!)

Originally Posted by AzTheta (Post 2053911)

OK, I went and looked & found the tiny letters for DZ, KKG, and KD. The Tri-Delta print has "Delta Delta Delta" written out and worked into the print. Now I'm really curious to see what Lilly will create for all the sororities selected!

Here's what I know about the use of our letters:

The words "Kappa Alpha Theta" and "Theta," our Greek letters, and the coat-of-arms are registered trademarks of Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity.

I'm searching for the document that specifies where and how our letters can be used, and not having any luck.* The active who's designing t-shirts for the chapter asked me about appropriate use of our letters, so I know there's a document somewhere that specifies this. I wonder if Lilly will do something for Theta like was done for Tri-Delta in terms of working our name into a design.

*I'll come back and edit this post to add the information as soon as I find it (which may be a while, crazed day ahead).

[there are a few days left in this week's Zuma Blitz challenge, so it ain't over yet, IL, I still have a chance to overtake you.]

Originally Posted by AzTheta (Post 2053850)

I saw IrishLake's comments on the Lilly thread and was just tickled. At least we can agree on something, when she's not giving me a beating on Zuma Blitz.

Personally, I wonder just exactly what Lilly can do with black and gold. I'm hoping for a black on black shift of some sort that women of any age can wear. Pansies, not so much. Kites? *shrug* I'll just be interested to see what the design team creates. I wouldn't mind a purse or tote bag or something of the sort.

Some of the disgruntled comments were ludicrous. For the love of Mike, it's a clothing line. It's not brain surgery or a Rhodes Scholarship.

Kappa Alpha Theta restricts the use of our greek letters to a very limited number of applications/contexts. So, I was surprised to read above ^^^ that Delta Zeta letters were incorporated into a print. Then again, each GLO has its own policies.

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB (Post 2053966)

I was kinda disappointed my GLO urged our members on our Facebook page to vote in this contest. It's a for-profit enterprise, and I guess I just felt like something was "off" in having the GLOs lobby their membership to urge a company to have products available in special prints for us...as a competition. This was nothing but a publicity stunt for LP, and the only reason they aren't issuing prints for all of the GLOs now is because they know they can re-run this contest later and get more publicity. In the meantime, sore feelings are created as sororities battle other sororities over something as ridiculous as a scarf or makeup bag. I just think it's kindof a crappy move, if you ask me.

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06 (Post 2053967)

I'm sorry, but if someone has ACTUAL "sore feelings" toward a brand because her sorority doesn't get a print, they have bigger issues. Really.

Would it have been cool for Sigma to have one? Sure. But at the end of the day, they're just scarves and handbags, folks.

That's why I posted those crazy comments from FB (see page 2 of this thread), because I found it hilarious that people were REALLY upset over this.

Originally Posted by victoriana (Post 2053968)

Yeah, I agree. I think that doing it by popular vote may not have been the best idea, since obviously bigger groups have more votes. Nobody complained when they arbitrarily selected the first round of prints. I think that's what they should've done, personally.

Originally Posted by victoriana (Post 2053968)

Yeah, I agree. I think that doing it by popular vote may not have been the best idea, since obviously bigger groups have more votes. Nobody complained when they arbitrarily selected the first round of prints. I think that's what they should've done, personally.

Originally Posted by katydidKD (Post 2054050)

While I understand people are upset with voting and the way it turned out, Lilly Pulitzer is first and foremost a business. They make decisions based on what will give them the biggest profit. So groups that likely have a lot of members/a lot of members who will buy the merch is obviously what they're going to do. I think people went into this with the mindset we usually have for a greek competition. Obvi it was a publicity stunt, and they aren't doing this to make everyone happy but to make money. They aren't going spend money producing something that won't make $$$. I think the angry people don't realize that.

Originally Posted by sweetmagnolia (Post 2054052)

True, but it's not like the only GLOs that were left out were small. I'd dare to say that every group that made it to the top top 9 has 100,000+ collegiate members. That's a lot of buying power. I think it would have been prudent for them to produce all 9. While not every member, collegiate of alumna, will buy a Lilly product, there are a lot of people who would buy more than one.

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB (Post 2054057)

You will see this contest again. Like you said, it would make sense for them to produce a print for every NPC. But why do it all now if they can use the NPCs to do all the PR for them for a while. They could do this contest once a year for several years.

Originally Posted by sweetmagnolia (Post 2054058)

I feel like it's only PR for them during contest-time. The fans they got on facebook or the people who started to pay attention to them and did not get a print will probably not care much about Lilly again until the next contest.

i also want them to do this more than yearly- i'll hold my breath until they give me a SK print!

Originally Posted by als463 (Post 2054095)

I agree with this. I'll be honest and say that I was really thinking about it and if I ever wanted to start a business-I would most likely connect whatever I am marketing to Greek life because you know there will always be people who will buy it. Look at some of the ugly Greek items they sell out there-and people buy it! I think you commented about the vast amount of Alumnae and Collegians-that's so true. Even if I don't buy a print, I have sisters at other schools who will make up for me not buying any by buying up the entire line of LP (should they make one for my GLO). That's why I think LP will be def. doing another promotion like this and eventually open it up to all the 26 NPCs (and possibly other councils).:)

Originally Posted by sweetmagnolia (Post 2054123)

I could see them opening up to maybe NPHC, because they also have so so so many collegiate and alumnae members. I don't, however, see them making prints for professional GLOs. From a business perspective, making a print and products that 100,000+ women might be interested in is much smarter than making one with 10,000+ women.

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000 (Post 2054341)

http://www.lillypulitzer.com/accesso...ndgift,jewelry

This cuff is very DG-like....

Originally Posted by thetaj (Post 2054363)

Anchors (and owls) are on everything right now. I've always envied DG and XO for having such trendy symbols-- It's hard to pull off kites, and stars on anything just brings us all back to middle school :p

Originally Posted by Shellfish (Post 2054508)

Whoa there on that estimate of 100,000+ collegiate members for each of the sororities that have Lilly prints--or any sorority for that matter. That number would mean, for a sorority like KD with about 140 chapters, an average of 700 members per chapter. Not even Ole Miss is that big.

Originally Posted by sweetmagnolia (Post 2054511)

I was basing my numbers off of NPC wikipedia pages, which had SK listed at over 156,000 collegiate members, ADPi with over 220,000 collegiate members, and ChiO with 300,000+ collegians. My bad for not actually doing the math. I realize, now, that this might be an 'all time' number of members, not active collegians.

Originally Posted by honeychile (Post 2055028)

Seems that everybody is trying to jump on the Lily Pulitzer Bandwagon:


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg


I still don't know if vegetarians morally eat animal crackers, though.

Originally Posted by thetaj (Post 2072420)

Idk how well-known this is, but one of our sisters emailed the company and was informed that the prints are not expected to be released until closer to the holiday season. :(