I thought the tissues would be for tears of happiness, like at Preference, Bid Day, or a candle passing :)

That would make sense.

You can add FireSide and Senior Farewell/Rededication to the list.

I personally don't like:
tissues
undergarments
tattoos of the crest or letters

I love my letter pants (on the butt) and I don't think there is anything wrong with wearing them. I also think that it is okay to get a tattoo that is a symbol of the sorority, like a family line symbol or something like that.

My mom got me the KD thong as a gag gift. It's a little more tasteful than the ones y'all are talking about--it only has a green bear on the front, not actual letters or a crest. Still, it was kind of funny.

Anyway, I don't really see a problem with any of the items listed here, except for the dirty-sounding event shirts and things not worn in a classy manner. The tissues, as mentioned before, are probably special-occasion things, and the shot glasses? I have one because I thought it was kind of funny (even though I don't drink and we'd be in biiiiig standards trouble if one came out at a drinking party). Besides, shot glasses are happy little collectable things that you can get almost anywhere--might as well have one for my sorority, eh? I guess my biggest complaint are people wearing things with letters that just don't look good on them--belly rings on flabby bellies, four-sizes-too-small t-shirts, lettered thongs sticking up over your pants, or lettered tank tops with bra straps hanging out, etc.

I think everyone is reading into this too much.
"sitting on your letters" sorry but its a piece of clothing and its showing your pride by WEARING the letters....

let me get flamed for this, but i feel like people overreact and make big deals just to have something to bitch about

I completely agree with the last two posters...Ironically I am sitting here in my AXO butt shorts...I work out, I have a nice butt if I do say so myself, might as well let everyone know that this this girls nice bum belongs to an Alpha Chi, right? Where I went to school (Arizona) everyone wore UA butt shorts so it seemed only natural to have a pair of Alpha Chi ones as well...it isn't disrespectful at least not any more so than wearing your letters across your breasts...

That's insane. I never heard such a stupid comment. I'm sure that was her personal opinion, not AGD's, because I've seen plenty of them in jackets.

Absolutely! We have nothing against jackets!

Probbbly an old-fashioned viewpoint, but
 

I try to use this rule of thumb:

Would I be upset if I saw the item on another sister?
Would a Executive Officer be upset if she saw me in it?



If I can answer no to both, I'll go for it.

And as for those "miniture flower pots", I bought one on ebay - because I'm going to smash the darn thing! :D

When I was an undergrad, one of the academic advisors in the office I worked at was a FIJI alum (I believe he was one of the founders of the BG chapter from the mid-eighties). I was wearing a letter shirt one day, and we started talking, and he showed me the Phi Gamma Delta tattooed on his ankle. It cracked me up, b/c he was about the most conservative person I'd ever met.

Re: Probbbly an old-fashioned viewpoint, but
 

They're votive candle holders!

Or toothpick holders.

Most inapropriate place for letters - and I know some disagree - is any place applied with a branding iron.

Re: Re: Probbbly an old-fashioned viewpoint, but
 

:D

BTW, I agree with the branding iron bit.

I first saw lettered belly button rings on E-Bay, and I was like who would wear that. But, I also go to a very conservative school. It's not that I have anything against it, it is just that I don't know anyone that would wear it.
We were told when we are pledging that wearing letters on the back of shorts/pants was disrespectful and looked down upon. There are a couple girls in a different sorority on campus with those shorts but not many.
We have a basketball court behind our dorm with our letters on it. One of my friends that is in a fraternity said that he thought that was disrespectful because you are walking on your letters.

KillarneyRose: I'm pretty sure that the FIJIs all have their letters tattooed on them because that is the only way they are allowed to wear them. I heard they can wear them when the letters are permanant (a tattoo) or when they are dead. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

What's wrong with branding? Just make sure you heal okay and everything so that the letter doesn't look like something else. That's love. And no letters on your back/ass. It's plain disrespectful. I can't talk too much though about decency, I have an Alpha bottle opener and a shot glass with the crest on it. For special occasions of course... thursday's are special. 1-1-1-1-1-1-9....06!!!!!!

What's wrong with branding? Only cows and cattle get branded.

And I ain't no fucking cow. :rolleyes:

Not to mention my sisters who hold office at IHQ/International would probably go apeshit if she found out any member mutilated their skin like that.

There are other ways to show your love for the org. Branding's not one of them.

OTW, U Dont Look Like a Fucking Cow!!!!!:)

But actually When They Used to Brand, it was The Calves or Newbies!;)

I just dont agree with getting pain on My Tired Old Body! To many scars as it is. Shot, Cut, Dog Bit, Car Wrecked, and what the hell ever! It all Hurt at the time!:rolleyes:

Humans are Stupid!:mad:

Lower Animals have enough sense that when they get their noses burned in the fire, they stay the hell away from it!:rolleyes:

Phrozen~ I feel you on the no letters on a$$ or back thing. We don't do that mess either. We just had a fight with a vendor who thought it was cute to print our letters on the BOTTOM of some sandals. I don't think I'll ever be okay with WALKING on my letters, especially if its not okay with me to sit on them or put them behind me.

For those of you who don't understand the no letters on back/butt thing, its very prominent among HBGLOs and LGLOs, maybe MCGLOs as well, but I'm not sure. Many of us feel that our letters should be worn near our hearts, never behind us, as something to forget, and certainly not where we could sit on them. I feel this way, if your org is okay with it, do you. My org isn't okay with it, and I wouldn't do it even if they were.

So I guess my thing is DO YOU.

I agree with your list. I'd like to add: floor mats, or anything that can be put on the floor. I really don't get the whole wearing letters on your butt thing. Who thought that was a good idea?

Branding and tatooing is illegal in Delta. The letters are copyrighted and owned by the sorority and therefore cannot be permanently placed on your body.
We had to deal with that thong thing too.

Maybe I imagined it, but I could swear I've seen crossing jackets with letters on the back. I don't think of it as putting my letters behind me and forgetting them, rather that from any angle people can see what I am part of and support, whether they are in front of me or behind me. :)

I've seen jackets with everything on the back. Unfortunately members have their own interpretations of what is appropriate. I've seen Gammas with their shield on the back of their jackets.

***edited***
I don't know the para rules for all NPHC organizations but I've seen our orgs with shields/letters on the back.

Ummmm....most GLOs have had their letters trademarked/copyrighted.

i can't speak for all of my sorors, and though i wouldn't wear my shield on my back (because it has my letters on it) i've seen it done. and nothing i said before is a cut and dried rule, just something that i have noticed and often discussed with members of LGLOs and HBGLOs. as far as letters being trademarked and copyrighted, not all GLOs have that done.

No, it's usually E-Bay that carries the sketchy or off-colour stuff.

I would think that lettered toilet paper would definitely be a miss (Note: I've never actually seen lettered toilet paper...I merely thought of it as an inappropriate item).

I'm not crazy about seeing letters on sandals, maybe that's because I'm grossed out by feet.

How does one put letters on toilet paper anyway?

I personally like inappropriate letter items.......it makes people on GC go nuts :p

Anyway, I have plenty of "bad" items w/my letters (and my fiance's) on them.

Ya know, this is a question for anyone who has the letter Omicron as a "middle" letter. So, do you have enough guts to put your letters on the butt?

I think the important thing to remember is to follow your org's protocal. If you org thinks it is ok to have letters on butt, sandals, thongs whatever, then do that.

In general, I don't put my letters on anything that can be stepped on (like floormats.) I do have a poodle doormat, and I won't even step on that. I do have my letters on the back of my first crossing jacket, and I wear it proudly.

We don't put our letters in places where they can be sat on or stepped on. I personally feel like that is highly appropriate because I have too much respect for my letters.

I don't have a problem with branding and/or tatooing. I say it's your body so rock it if you want too. Personally, I wouldn't do it, but it's more about the pain threshhold I seem to not have. My daddy aka Mr. Que has about 3 brands. Rock on daddy, lol.

All in all..I agree with TheEpitome and JoscelynC. I don't understand the letters on the butt thing, but whatever rocks your world i guess.

People need lives. They find too many things to focus on that aren't really THAT big a deal.
Why not do something productive with your time instead of whining about what clothes you think are inappropriate.
World hunger & AIDS...not thongs & sweatpants.

That's what the world hunger thread and AIDS thread are for.

This is the Inappropriate Letter Items thread.

If you don't like the discussion, it's really easy to get the fuck out. That's all.

I just love you! :D

oh wow, how did i miss this last night?

TOO FUNNY! And very true

I really don't care either way. As an alumna, the only thing I really think is important is my pin.

It's the chapter's responsibility to educate new members on the responsibilities of presenting themselves as ladies, and up to the exec board and initated members to lead by example and continue this method.

So? Delta Sigma Theta specified that tattoos and brands are against policy and have strictly enforced regulations regarding our official symbols. Some organizations are more lenient regarding those things and that's their business.

Most of the stuff people have listed in this thread are against Delta protocol. My Sorors know that and they understand the possible results of violating protocol. This is why my Sorors are often instructed to patron Delta licensed vendors only. When I was in undergrad, a Greek vendor came to my campus with some inappropriate 'nalia that the NPC sororities often bought but the NPHC sororities usually did not. We informed the vendor that the stuff was against our protocol and that NONE of the Deltas on (at least) MY campus would purchase it. He said that he noticed he had a hard time selling the items on every college campus and agreed not to display and reorder them.

Shut up.

I don't know if it's this fuckin weed in me, but pinksigma's comment, albeit very irrelevant to the topic, made me think. There are a few billion people in the world who really don't care what our letters mean, let alone where somebody wants to put them. Personally, I will follow my fraternity's protocol regarding para, but it's much more important to aid the downtrodden. Now I'm hijacking this thread. my bad.


wait, one more thing... to be honest, if I was hanging out with a girl who had her sorority's letters on her thong, I probably wouldn't say anything until the next morning. And I'd probably start cheesin pretty hard. My mind wouldn't be on greek life at the moment.:cool: