Not a huge LP buyer here, can you order items made from their print? For example if a chapter wanted to order their print for a pair of shorts for recruitment, could they? I know Vineyard Vines does custom orders.

I'm not really up on my Lilly, but...
 

Haven't they already done the 3 largest groups?

I meant the 3 largest that haven't got a print yet

Per comments on FB, the winners are:

AOPi
AXiD
Phi Mu
Pi Phi
Sigma Kappa

Congrats!

I'm confused. I thought they were picking three more groups? I might not be a math wiz, but that looks like more than three groups to me...

To be fair, I actually like that the letters/symbols are camouflaged into the pattern. There are 10,000 places you can get a tote or whatever with big ol' greek letters on 'em, but as an alumna I'd like to represent without seeming LOOK AT ME I WAS IN A SORORITY IN COLLEGE AND I NEVER LET GO OF IT!!!! (which, like it or not, is how most of the populace views a non-collegian sporting letters.)

Plus, if you're on the kind of campus that recognizes Lilly, you've got the best PR possible ("Don't you want to join? WE HAVE A LILLY PRINT!"). I wondered if being the only chapter not to have a print on my Lilly-centric campus would hurt us in recruitment, but it doesn't appear to. Although I can guarantee all the other chapters probably mentioned their print at some point during recruitment.

But now we have one, and I'll probably buy a scarf or wristlet, and everybody's happy.

The end.

Yup - they picked 5 groups. The video of the announcement is up on Lilly's FB page.

I agree. I love my colors, and I hope they focus the print on the double blue and gold and the quill, maybe the XI minus the other letters for a more geometric slant, and less on the rose because that is already so common in prints. But if it's a big old I heart A Xi D thing, I probably would feel like a woman who has to tell you she was a cheerleader in the first 5 minutes you know her.

Anyway, yeah us and the others! Now we can wait to see if they're all winners or gacky.

I just watched the FB video and the gal said they'd announce on FB when they had the prints ready to unveil. Who knows when that will be.

I cringed when the lady doing the announcement said "Alpha Zie Delta". Seriously? If you know ahead of time who you're going to be announcing, have the courtesy to make sure you're pronouncing everyone's names correctly. Sheesh.

I agree. I always wanted something that was discreet enough that I wasn't shouting about my sorority, but something other greeks would still recognize and potentially ask me about. We've been down the "professional use of your greek affiliation" path several times, and I don't want to go down it again, but for me, personally, in my particular industry, I wouldn't advertise to everyone and sundry that I was wearing sorority jewelry/scarves/whatever. Like, a lot of NPHC groups have stuff in their colors with the founding year.

I swear i'm not bitter (I can't really afford Lilly right now anyway), but it's just weird to me that they said ZTA was "leading" and then we didn't even get into the top 3/5.

Seriously? I'm surprised we made it. AOII IHQ did make a huge effort to get out the vote, but I am really surprised. We'll see what this thing looks like. I was not impressed by the last set.

Per the FB comments, it sounds like everyone is eventually going to get a print.

I would also like to say that although I didn't LOVE all the last sets of prints, I thought ADPi's was both beautiful and understated -- I hope that's what Pi Phi's will look like (I also like Tri Delta and Kappa from the first round). But I'm afraid it will just be ARROWS!

Kind of like the use of anchors on the DG print? IIRC a fair number of women who weren't too fond of it.

I'm interested to see what they do with the AOII print (obviously) but I really wish I could get a hold of one of the "Pandamonium" travel mugs they had sometime over a year ago.

ohmigosh so so so so excited for this! i really hope our sheaf of wheat makes it in the design though

It better. I think the panda is out since they already have Pandamonium. How's your FB ban going?

lane swerve-I wear lots of non-lettered para often, even working on a college campus. I break out my jacket and 6" lettered tote less and less. Most recently wore a gold poodle pin (which believe it or not is hard to find!) and two co-workers instantly recognized the meaning.

also, while i'm not all "OMGZ LAHVE LILLY!!!!11!!1!" I would definitely like one with my letters/mascot.

I would think they'd have to make a print for all 26 sororities. Well, not HAVE to, but I think it'd be in Lilly's best interest. I wouldn't want to make thousands of sorority girls mad by not making a print for half (or even just a fraction) of the organizations.

I think them deciding themselves the next group of prints to be made (rather than simply relying on the number of votes) is a good indication that all of the sororities will eventually get one.

Last time some angry snitches threatened to boycott Lilly. I'm sure they're scared, LOL.

I'm just going to work on not caring one way or the other - the whole "vote" thing strikes me as manipulative and leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

Even though it's my job position, I had to reprimand a sister last time for bad mouthing another sorority. Ridiculous.

If it strikes you that way, then you do care. It's a print. I'm excited Phi Mu is one of the winners, but who cares if we didn't win? Like everyone said, eventually everyone is going to get one. Voting just adds a fun aspect to it and apparently GREAT PR for the company. (proven so, we could care less here in Michigan but everyone is posting about it)

Note I said I was going to WORK on not caring. That's because of the bad taste in my mouth. Obviously, I cared enough to vote. But the whole voting charade? I don't like it, and it has turned me off the whole thing. So apparently they lost me, but gained Michigan. I would love to know how the sales track.

There's such a long gap between the voting and the release of the patterns, I'd be curious as well. Not only that, but then there is another big gap between the pattern reveal and the time when there is actually stuff for purchase.

Someone upthread speculated that they try to do a mix of big and small groups each time, to be sure they build buzz, and the more I think about it, the more it seems that may be their strategy.

I totally get where you're coming from. While I love Lilly Pulitzer, I wish they would get ride of this teasing and "voting" nonsense and just go ahead and release the prints. Especially after the last round, when they claimed that the winning groups were the ones who were "loudest and proudest" in proudest. Many current college women feel that sorority=life, and not getting a print can feel like a slap in the face to their sorority.Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the groups that have won so far as I love seeing new greek prints, but I really wish they would cover just cover the whole NPC already.

There's the text of the announcment at

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/2869...rities-won.htm


(The winners are:
- Alpha Xi Delta
- Alpha Omicron Pi
- Phi Mu
- Sigma Kappa
- Pi Beta Phi)

Zowie, I sure like the "four-year vacation" reference to college. Oh yeah:

"We fully believe that college is your first four-year vacation. And we want you to be wearing Lilly the entire time."

I think the whole voting nonsense will eventually backfire on them. I especially disliked the tease about who was in the lead a few days ago. I think it caused even harder feelings for some. The negative comments this time around seem even more vitriolic than the last time. I wish they'd just announce a schedule and stick to it. As the number of groups gets smaller, it seems pretty ridiculous to continue the charade.

I found this comment to be in extremely poor taste.

I'm a longtime Lilly fan, but I'm also tired of the voting and teasing, and agree that a schedule would be best, perhaps like they did the state quarters. Stuff like this only brings out the worst in people, as evidenced through many of the comments, as the "winners" will cheer and then tell the sororities that didn't get a print that it's not a big deal, and the "losers" will either 1) be openly bitter 2) tell the "winners" it's easy for them to say, because they have the print. While I understand the excitement, I don't think comments like these are great PR for anyone involved.

I think it would be nice if Lilly could create a "Panhellenic" print, maybe with Ivy and green designs, for all sorority women to wear. It's not the same as having your own, of course, but I think it could be great PR for Lilly and allow the sorority members "waiting it out" (since, of course, some collegiate women will take this seriously) to have something.

Now, back to important things, like watching the State of the Union.... :)

I would definitely buy a Panhellenic print! I know they created a limited edition print for the Junior League a few years ago, so it could happen. :)

;) I'm just giving you crap. It's funny how the trends change from region to region. I'm sure there will be hype with the Michigan Phi Mus once the pattern is revealed, then it'll die, then again when it's released, and then no one will give a crap. I didn't know who Lilly Pulitzer was until Greekchat!

I can't be alone in thinking that Lilly could interpret Alpha Gam as a Rastafarian chipmunk or double roses with a fern the same color as stop lights. Honestly, I can't envision anything that is going to not make me cringe.

I have the same thought for AOII. Everything we have is red. I'm picturing a fabric that looks like you sopped up blood. :eek: Maybe wheat can break up the monotony of red roses and rubies.

thats true. i did like the pandamonium print. the fb ban is going ok. its hard though not being able to stalk my family back home. i got a twitter to cope with the lack of fb and to keep in touch with non-greek friends, my family refuses to join the dark side lol. :D

It's funny that I didn't catch her saying the Xi wrong. I guess I was focused on the image. In her defense, the "real" way to pronounce the Xi is difficult at best. It should actually be something along the lines of xsee and nobody but the seriously old ladies say it that way. What I did notice was the pregnant pause when she couldn't decide for sure if it was omega or omicron for AOII. My guess is she guessed right and not that she said it with any confidence. And yes, who doesn't just practice them once or twice to make sure she's got it right?

And the whole voting and dragging it out thing? I'm SURE it's to be able to have something to hype in another year. And my guess is that's why ZTA was denied. When they finally make the cut there will be a HUGE interest in buying the stuff right about the time every Kappa and Theta has said been there done that.

But I think it is nice for some of us mid-sized sororities to get a little love every once in a while. Name recognition is an important part of expansion, and this sort of promotion might be manipulative, but it still gets some of us out there in ways we wouldn't otherwise be.

I had never heard of Lilly until Greekchat either. This whole campaign is a great marketing strategy but I didn't vote either time because, honestly, I don't care. It's not like I'm going to suddenly like Lilly's style because there is an Alpha Gam print. Her prints aren't anything I'd wear or use no matter what. They just aren't "me". I look at them and think "South". I feel that way about Vera too. I don't wear many floral prints at all. I wear hounds tooth, pin stripes, glenn plaid, business wear. I can't imagine walking into my job with anything but a conservative, business like, leather type bag. To add to that, other than tennis shoes, I avoid clothing that advertises itself or the store that it came from (and with tennis shoes, there is really no choice, they all have their mark on them). I kind of cringe when my son wanted shirts that said Old Navy or GAP on them. Really? I'm going to pay money to advertise for them? Ack. It rubs me the wrong way. That's pretty much how I feel about Lilly and Vera too.

Brilliant marketing campaign because they got everybody to advertise for them. Ultimately though, it's divisive.. another way to separate "haves" and "have nots". And those comments? Unreal. It's kind of shocking to me that people care that much.

It is no secret that I dislike the Theta print. And when I saw the "pandamonium" print, with lots of BLACK, I was then convinced that the Lilly designers had something against Theta. Using blue for our print, and a weirdly ugly blue at that, coupled with garish yellow and the ugliest pansies ever, was all the evidence I needed to support my claim.

So, I have bought ONE wristlet as a gift for a Theta active, for her birthday. She was thrilled. As for me, nothing in the Theta sorority line tempts me. I do covet some of the other sorority prints, as I previously posted.

I don't blame them...it is annoying.