For me, it's not even an issue of taste or respect.

It just looks silly.

You know? Honestly this doesn't bother me. There are butt shorts with every other thing on them. Schools, sports teams, etc. I just can't get that worked up about it for some reason.

Thongs, for me, cross the border into the ridiculous. But butt shorts are OK.

i have a pair of pants that say Lambda on the butt, but its not the whole sorority name or anything it just simple says "Lambda"

NO LETTERS FACING BACKWARD!!!!! none on your back, your butt, if you have a hat on it better be facing FORWARD!!! and quit with the letters on your shoes, too... they get muddy, stepped on.... is that what you think of your GLO????

I guess thongs are ok, because they face front! :p
Couldn't resist! Just playing! :D

(read my post about letters on the kitty)

As far as I care, they can be on your back if it is tasteful.

what about a hoodie sweatshirt with your letters on your back? or a backpack with a pin w/ your letters on it? wouldnt that technically be "backwards" too?

i think butt pants are ok i guess, but i wouldnt want shoes w/ your letters on the bottoms of them or a tissue with my letters. i also think glo thongs are not tasteful.

ok, so i came off a little strong there, but thats the way i was educated. but i simply believe that your letters are something you shouldn't put behind you. we don't wear our letters on our back/behind us at all. but thats something we do. and i agree with it, y'all don't have to, cuz if you feel that its tasteful, then do it. i just wouldn't put my letters behind me. and no, the thong letters aren't cute, either..... (i know you were playing :) )

LOL, I have letters on the back of my car, so they're behind me and backwards when I look in the rearview mirror. ;)

What have you been smoking? That is just whack. Are you a psycho ex-pledge like me?

At Bama, the only popular "butt shorts" are the ones that say "BAMA" on the butt. A lot of girls have those and they're pretty cute.

But GLO "butt shorts" are not big here. Soffee shorts in cotton or nylon with the letters on the front of one leg are popular though-- I have two pairs.

My chapter doesn't allow us to wear Gamam Phi Beta sweats or to drink in our letters-- not even a lavaliere. And we can't walk and smoke at the same time either-- we must sit down or stand in one place. It's just more ladylike that way.

Ha ha ha!!! Apparently Princess Margaret was guilty of this in that book "A Southern Belle Primer...or why Princess Margaret will never be a Kappa Kappa Gamma"......

Where am I? Oh yeah, that's right, ALABAMA. ;)

I know, I know, us Southern chapters and our rules. But to me, they make perfect sense. :p

My chapter is the same way. Except we're DG's ;) :p

Ha! I'm in Indiana and not only do we have to sit down while smoking, our letters cannot be showing (preferably you should not be wearing them, but I know some people just turn things inside out or turn their bags around) and our legs must be crossed. Luckily I do not smoke, because it seems like an awful lot of trouble for one ciggarette!

At UK the "butt shorts" are very popular. There are now "butt skirts"! :p Also, the flip flops are very, very popular!

I don't really see much wrong with it - I have shorts with TBS written on the bottom. I gotta lot of male support that day during camp. :p

So if some of you believe that footwear, backwards, etc is wrong - what about working out in your letters? IT is very common here to walk into the Johnson Center and see "XYZ" on somebody's butt and a "XYZ" tank top running on a treadmill.

I don't really like anything written on the butt of shorts or pants. And I'm definitely not a fan of sitting on my letters because I have one too many times sat down in something gross. I also think you should look classy while wearing letters and I don't think sweatpants make you look classy.

That said, I think I'm the only girl on my campus without a pair of butt pants. Although when I mentioned why I don't want them to some sisters, they said they never had thought of it that way.