Wow, that is an awesome way to look at it!

hey
here at the University of alberta, Pi beta Phi has a tradition of only allowing initiated members whre the letters, sice you only find out the meaning of the words during initiations. But this is just us locally, I don't think this is an official rule.
peace,
C.

In my chapter, we definitely weren't allowed to wear anything with the CREST, or CROWN on it until after initiation, because obviously those have no significance to new members. Also, we were allowed to wear letters, but I *think* we couldn't wear stitched letter shirts (had to be iron-on or screen-print I think) until after initiation. I must have a bad memory b/c that was last semester LOL. :D I remember my Big Sis giving me a stitched shirt b4 initiation, but I can't remember as far as wearing it goes.

This is how my chapter does it:

At their first new member meeting, each pledge class votes on whether or not they want to wear letter shirts or not. We do tell them that it is tradition that you only wear letter shirts after being initiated, since you learn the meaning of the letter at initiation. However, they are still given the choice and vote on it as a pledge class.

Same here
 

That is exactly the way that our chapter would do it, also. Although Alpha Gamma Delta allows new members to wear the letters, as far as I remember, every single pledge class would vote to put off wearing the letters until after initiation. It just made them seem that much more special!