Gamma Phi has adopted pink as an "unofficial" color - this last convention. Basically, it is used in our new official logo and they specify certain shades of pink. It is acts as an accent color to our brown and mode. So, if Gamma Phi chapters are using pink, they are in compliance with their IHQs dictates. I will say the Gamma Phi pink is "hotter" than most Phi Mu pinks I've seen - but then Phi Mu HQ has a hot pink golf cart that is as cute as a bug!

This might be straying, but how does everyone feel about having the letters on the butt?

P.S. The drawstring trick straw thing is SUPER smart -- I had to do that with a sweatshirt and I sat there for like 30 minutes trying to pull it through because I didn't know about the straw trick. :(

Vera Bradley
 

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this before. One of my sisters has a sweatshirt with Vera Bradley letters. She said she bought a cheap "ditty bag" ($15) and had the Greek Store cut the bag and use the fabric from it. I thought it was such a cool idea and a lot cheaper than buying the fabric by the yard. I think its something like $100+ per yard.

Oh yes, I have seen the new logo, but prior to that I noticed a lot of chapters adopted pink and white. The new logo is very cute, but I like it because it incorporates the brown which is an official color. I understand a bit better now since as someone said, they took if from the flower, unfortunately for both of us, it happens to be the same flower! LOL! Yes, I'm a huge fan of that hot pink golf cart, many of my chapter sisters have been in it. Hoepfully I will one day get the chance.

Okay, funny story! At my chapter, some girls decided they wanted butt letters to wear during intramurals (it can be hard to identify who is who when people tend to all wear black). One of the alums got very heated and asked them if they were planning on sitting and farting on their letters since they were so conveniently placed! Of course they promptly answered no! Their intentions were great, but at out chapter butt letters are frowned upon.
Another big no-no. is your letters with another org.'s name embroidered on top. Some one showed up with a Phi Mu/Phi Gamma Delta jersey and well...the reception was poor... after that it was everything but said that you are not in some other group, so why should their name go on top of your own? I guess my chapter is pretty "hardcore" for being so non-traditional...never thought about it before!

I would never wear my letters, or any of my other sorority gear, in a different color. Even if I did a patterned background, the pattern's coloring would have to be consistent with my sorority's colors.

As far as wearing the letters across the seats of pants goes, I don't think LADIES should wear any kind of writing across their behinds, period. But, that's just my old-school, Bible-belt, South Carolina upbringing, LOL. :p

Gamma Phi has had a tradition of chapter colors - for example, my chapter colors were red and blue - so it is possible a chapter had the colors of pink and white (although that would not be advisible on a campus with Phi Mu!). Everyone in my chapter had to have an official jersey in the chapter colors.
I like having my letters in various colors - my favorite shirt right now is dark gray with pink letters.
And I hate the letters on the butt.

I for one would hate to wear the colors of another sorority since the colors for my sorority have special meaning and I am sure the colors of Delta, Zeta, and SGRho have special meaning so I would NEVER put my letters on their colors!

I think it is horrible!!!!!!!!!!

as a fraternity member, my viewpoint might be a little different but I see guys all the time in my chapter with t-shirts have different colors for TKE and there's not a problem with it. However, I haven't seen anyone yet with sewn-ons in a different color...

In Alpha Gamma Delta, we don't have "bigs and littles." We have sister-mothers (our equivalent of a "big") and sister-daughters (our equivalent of a "little").

I pledged in 1992, and our chapter "families" were a pretty big deal. You had your mom, grandma, great-grandma, etc, and we kept track of them pretty diligently. It was fun at Homecoming to meet an alumnae, recognize the name, and say "hey...you're my great-great-great grandma!"

my chapter wears our letters in other colors other than our own. i just ordered a new shirt with plaid red letters on a black shirt. and my first set of formal letters was light blue and navy blue instead of blue and gold

Thanks for being honest, Baby Pink! I can understand where you are coming from, if that is that tradition on your campus! My own GPhi chapter did not have chapter colors, we always considered our colors to be brown and mode, but we had letters in every color. Most Gamma Phi merchandise that is "manufactured" is pink...and we Gamma Phis def consider pink to be an important part of our identity...brown and mode have ritual and historical signifigance.

As for letters are your rear end...its a no no according my new age, hedonistic Southern Calif upbringing too! Keep your letters close to your heart!

I like my butt pants, they're comfy :( The funniest butt letters I've seen were SDT's. No offense to SDT at all, but you already know your letters spell EAT. Imagine seeing that on someone's behind.

I've never had butt letters for fear of one of those letter wedgies. I've seen them on other girls on campus, and my friends and I decided that if you don't have 3 letters, butt pants/shorts are a bad plan. :p

Personally I agree with you. Maybe I'm more "hardcore" about it than most people...(is that the right word..."into it"? I don't know.)

I sometimes wish that NPC sororities were as "hardcore" as NPHC orgs...but it'll never happen, so be it. Love it though...I guess respect comes in different levels and is taken with different levels of severity depending on the council or organization.

Our chapter keeps track of it pretty well...family trees are a popular gift to sis-daughters. Unfortunately I don't know anything past my great-grandma, but I'm making sure my family will keep track from now on, so they'll know for generations to come!


Oh and butt-letters? I might be biased because I refuse to wear anything on my butt (I think it's a HEYHEYLOOKATME thing...I do not like these things.), but even if I did...that's disrespectful to SIT on your letters constantly. I mean really...sit, fart...NO. There's an easy solution, too...there are track pants with letters down one of the legs. If you must have letters on your pants, what's wrong with those? They're cute and at least they aren't being SAT upon.

Ladies do not fart, they exhale anally and their exhalations smell of cinnamon buns and roses.

Then I sure do not know many ladies...and I wish EVERYONE's anal exhalations resulted in roses and cinnamon buns. Then I would have been happier in my freshman math class...there was this ONE guy....

Can you describe a letter wedgie?

Again, I wouldn't put letters on my butt (frowned upon by chapter; not campus culture) but I am fond of my Victoria Secret "PINK" capris which have a huge rose colored PINK written on the bootie and the actual capris are white and they do match many of my Phi Mu recruitment shirts! They are a kinda great tool without being "direct". You can't get much bigger than that PINK (and they actually make my butt look great! I get TONS of compliments with them, they emphasize :D ).

Ha ha, it's when you get a wedgie in your letter shorts or pants and the letters are part of the wedgie. When faced with a letter wedgie it becomes extremely difficult to identify the sorority because the letters are smushed together or parially obscured by the wedgie.

And dude, some of those things got WEDGED. *shudder* So, for example ADPi works because the Delta prevents the wedgie, but SK doesn't because a wedgie could/would occur.

um... that sounds nasty, I asked cos I'm a two-letter too and I figured the info might come in handy. Boy! Does it!:eek:

That's why I really like the letters down the side of pants thing. But I'm like AGDSquirrelGirl in that I don't wear writing or whatever on my butt in the first place. :p

We had one group on campus that were butt-letter girls. My chapter actually had a by-law against them. And, I agree, if you MUST have your letters on your pants, get the kind where the letters go down the front.

I was having a discussion with one of my friends who is not in ADPi and she said her chapter was fine with having them (I'm not going to say who), but I think it's completely disrespectful to have your letters on your butt. You don't take your letters to the bar, to drink, to have sex...

I also agree -- I would hate thinking people are staring at my butt wondering with "A Triangle HUH?" is. haha.

Exactly! I'm wearing music note letters right now =)

My chapter has always had various prints, patterns, and colors. Now, if another sorority, say Alpha Phi, is using their colors for their recruitment shirts, the other sororities will be respectful and not use those colors at all on our shirts.

But, each 'family' in my chapter also has their own prints or colors for their 'family' shirts. (example, one has a black shirt, with a silver background, and a verigated green letters....another has a grey hoodie, with a rainbow colored foreground letter with stars and the background is purple with silver stars--looks cool). So, within the chapter, the girls respect those designs.

But, on my campus, no one only wears their colors, they were all kinds of designs.

On my campus, it didn't matter and people wore letter shirts and jerseys in all colors and patterns. Some "families" had family patterns to their jerseys.

Regarding letters on the butt, I think that it is disrespectful. I cannot imagine sitting on my letters. Or sHitting on my letters, either.

Hahaha thanks for that one, I laughed aloud.

Glad to see there are other people out there who are cool with random patterns...I go to an orange school in Georgia, and I just ordered a white jersey with red cuffs and NC State letters...and NC state doesn't have an AGD chapter! How many offenses is that in one jersey? Ha!

Opinions may differ, here's one:

When it comes to wearing our symbols, it is generally about the meaning behind the symbols and not violating most of our organization's written (and unwritten) protocol regarding patterns, colors, and so forth.

When it comes to just wearing clothes in certain colors (without the symbols), for ME it's about both the meaning and the identifiability as a member when I wear Crimson and Cream or red and white. But I usually don't wear my Sorority's colors or symbols when I go to Greek events.

I don't care if girls wear other colors in their letters. If guys wear other colors, plaid, paisely or dots it is extremly gaaaaay. I doubt Derek Jeter will ever be caught wearing a pink, green and paisley Yankee cap. A Rod probably has one though.

Why (if I may ask)?

This is coming from a neo who is trying her best to restrain herself from wearing colors/letters/pins all the time. :D

I don't wear my letters in any other colors but Maroon and White :D and all of my peri is in the same colors.
And letters on your azz is gross.

not to answer for DSTCHAOS, but it cames with age for me. ;):) I don't usually wear colors or symbols to greek events either. I stopped that around 5 years in the game.

Just you wait, Sugar. Once you're five or more years into the game, you won't even need to wear 'nalia. People will already know what you're reppin'. :D

That's true. I do wear a necklace from time to time, but I rarely wear shirts or anything. AKAtude comes from within.;)

I just got myself a set of letters that don't have a single national color on the letters...it's a white zip up hoodie with green letters and gold trim. Our colors are purple and red, and honestly I think they wouldn't look that great on letters. Our house letters are navy blue with white trim on navy blue and those look awesome. So in the end, it really doesn't matter as long as you're happy with reppin it in colors you like! And to add to it, its a zip up hoodie with the letters vertical, I've never seen Sigma Phi Epsilon vertical til...well my letters and I love it. :]

LOL... I can't wait. And already I've noticed that people generally guess correctly.

I agree with that Soror! :D