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Whenever we order our shirts, it seems we do similar to most of yall and order 5-10 extras just in case! We either sell them to alumnae or we bring them to our annual Regional Conference and they have a big t-shirt exchange. We'll swap for t-shirts/cups/sweatshirts from other schools!

My chapter always got extra bid day shirts in each size (medium always seemed the most popular); we gave the extras to girls who joined thru COR during the rest of the year.

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Originally posted by AXWhoah
Well you always know your chapter best and to be honest there are chapters that do not take "fluffier" girls (Now there is no need to flame me for this comment because you know it is true) and so you know what sizes to order. Look around, what sizes do the girls wear now? But it is always a good idea to at least get a couple larges...cause from time to there will be that six foot tall girl who while isnt necessarily fluffy she's tall and needs a bigger shirt.
Another idea that I always liked, for the smaller girls like myself (I'm only 5'3"!) is getting the shirts in kid sizes if you can....now a kid large fits the same as a adult small except with shorter sleeves and it's generally shorter...so it doesn't fit like a baby tee but rather a regular tshirt that actually fits! Because an adult small on my always has longish sleeves and a long waist and I always hated that.

Thank you for pointing this out. Everything my chapter buys is usually too big (I'm 5'2"). They asked for my sizes this year for recruitment (I am an advisor but I'm in the room with them everyday of recruitment) and I said the smallest size you can get. Then I asked where are you getting the pants from and they said Old Navy and I told them well I only fit into kids clothes at Old Navy (their pants seem to run big on me) and they laughed.

As such a small chapter that we are, we order enough shirts that we think will cover us for fall and spring recruitment, and we put Bid Day 2005-2006 on them, so we'll know what academic year they are from. That way we dont have to order new shirts for everybody every single semester. Most screen printing places have a minimum requirement of 24 (though I did recently find out that Prographics will do 12) and as small as we are, we cant afford to buy 24 shirts every single semester. But for the whole school year, it works out for us. Maybe if our chapter grows to an awesome size in the next few years, we'll change, but thats what we're doing for now.

Oh! And FYI - bluecotton.com has some of the cheapest screen printing prices I've seen, especially if youre only doing 1 or two ink colors - and if that isn't good enough, prographics garantees cheaper prices. The shirts we wanted this year were 10.99 each for 20 shirts at bluecotton. We told prographics about the quote, and prographics decided to do it for $10.50 a shirt (when their original quote was nearly $13.00 each)

Last years rush chair for us was a small girl, who decided on baby t's for all of us. We have a few relaly small girls but most of us are a little bigger and we aren't small on top. I saw that shirt and I was like "no way will this ever go on me." I think I wore it two or three times and that's it. Please please please, if you have bigger girls do not do baby t's!

My chapter has been pretty successful with local vendors for ordering shirts - they normally order youth small through adult extra large, and that will fit just about everyone comfortably - and they'll always order extras for alumnae or COB bids.