Anyone else not really head over heels with their GLO's colors/symbols?
 

Don't get me wrong--as an initiated member (now alumna), I love and respect the symbolism and significance of my sorority's letters, badge, symbols, colors, etc., but honestly, on an aesthetic level, our colors and main public symbol just aren't my cup of tea, and I have trouble finding things with our symbol that I also like on a visual/non-symbolic level. I remember kind of being turned off by our colors and symbols during my COB open house, actually, although thankfully, I didn't let such superficial thing keep me away from what turned out to be a truly wonderful sisterhood.

Anyone else feel the same way?

No.

Well, good to know you speak for everyone else. :rolleyes:

I'm speaking for myself. I don't know what others think. Dumbass.

I wish that we had a cute symbol that popped up often, like a crescent or a key or something like that. I do get jealous of some of the more common symbols.

That's how I always felt about that.

I have had NPHC members tell me that before. I understand, but it is not easy to wear red and purple together, even if you add gold!

So yes, I do sometimes wish that we had colors that we could wear all together, but I'm fine with what I have. It's not like the colors ever turned me away or anything and I happily wear each color individually. :D

I actually find this interesting because on one side you shouldn't join an org because they have pretty colors, but on the other side you aren't a fan of the colors, but love the mission of the org.

Or for some actually have the ability to wear their colors.

Pink and green isn't my favorite color combination.
Nor is the turtle my favorite animal.
Roses and diamonds are my favorite though.

I think it's kind of fun to talk about. Doesn't affect my love for my org anyway.

Then bang-up job quoting a question that says, "does anyone..." before your reply.

I quite like our symbol as it is portrayed on our badge (in a stylized/symbolic way) and in smaller doses, like on a charm bracelet or necklace, and I love it in terms of its meaning to me as a member, but I don't think it will be my favorite decoration aesthetically. I do love the look of our letters, however, and love having them around (as well as loving their meaning, of course). I also love, love, love our flower.

Even though our colors aren't my favorite combo, it seems weird or almost disrespectful to see official stuff in other colors, as they do, as others have pointed out, have meaning to us.

So when you respond you're speaking for everyone too?

You're being dumb.

As an active I was NOT thrilled with brown and mode. Love the symbolism - but dressing in brown and beige during the 80s? Not so much. Luckily, they've grown on me, and it does help that brown became popular - it's great accented with pink, and I love the fact that our colours are ours alone.

I like the symbols, but the colors are really hard to combine, and as they don't really suit my complexion I tend to stick to the symbols.

i am happy with ours.

Yep, she's a dumbass not because she took my post too literally but because she tried to be a smartass.

There have been threads over the years in which people talked about what they like or dislike about their org's colors and symbols. This thread is nothing new.

Arrows? Wine and silver blue, and wine carnations? I love them!

Though I can see the difficulty for some groups. My son prefers not to wear red and purple per se but, say, gray shirts with maybe his crest in the corner or on the back. I've heard Betas and Lambda Chis say the same and I get it. With Auburn shirts, I prefer not to wear a blinding orange and blue shirt but rather, gray or natural with orange and blue accents somewhere else.

I love the wine & blue, and arrows, but I'm not fond of the angel. Angel merchandise tends to either look kitschy, childish, or porn-y.

I'm kind of envious of Kappas, because I find keys/fleur-de-lis everywhere. But I think Pi Phi colors are pretty striking together, and unique.

Yeah - I love my GLO's colors & symbols, but when it comes to my school's colors, that's a different story. (I still refuse to buy the pink crap they sell now, though. I may not look good in gold, but school merchandise should not come in "regular" and pink "girl" versions. Gross.)

No.

Bronze, pink and blue translate in the real world to yellow, pink and blue. That has a baby shower feel to me so I rarely ever wear our colors. Anchors are easy to find and very popular all the time so that doesn't seem outdated. I don't think they wore colors and symbols back when we all were founded like we do today so that wasn't on the founders' minds. And I too like the values the colors stand for...but that wasn't why I pledged.

I bet the Red Hat Society can help you out. http://www.redhatsociety.com/index.aspx

OMG yes. Granted, my school's colors are purple/white (or is it silver?) but then they make stuff in pink, green, orange, all sorts of other stuff. I can understand neutrals (greys, black/white, even earth tones) but sheesh.

I do have a long sleeved t-shirt in navy though, but that was given to me *shrug*

I love my sorority's colors--blue and white, and black and red. My high school was blue and white, and so the carry over was easy. Then Glasgow's colors include blues too, so yes, very partial.

The only problem is finding non-terrifying versions of our mascot, the Siamese Cat. It has become a running pledge class tradition to give an "ugly cat gift"...but the ease at which these are found is somewhat concerning.

Ha ha ha, are you my sister who coined the motto "Down With Dot" on Facebook? I explained to her that a lot of adopting an official mascot was to give ASA a more cohesive identity - in the same way that you see keys and think of Kappa. Personally though, I'm a bigger fan of the Phoenix than Dot or Raggedy Ann. I guess because it's so not-cutesy.

As far as our colors, jewels, flowers, and symbols (different from the mascot) I dig them all, although I know there are some sisters out there who hate red because they look crappy in it.

Same. Love our colors, love our symbols. I'm always happy to have a big pot of black and gold pansies on my front porch every summer, and I'm tickled pink anytime I find something with a kite on it.

This is exactly how I feel. I like our symbols, colors, etc., but sorry I'm not gonna wear something with Teddy bears on it.

My wedding colors are a variation of our colors (didn't pick them because of my sorority, they just look good together! )

I should say I love, love, LOVE our crescent - as long as it's waxing!

Oh, and *you* know nothing about being a smartass on GC. Come the **** on! :rolleyes:

Heh. Our national mascot can be really creepy to some people, so I hear you there! (I'm okay with it, although my chapter never used it much).

I've always loved Pi Phi's colors and also Alpha Phi's, incidentally, although I'm a member of neither org. I think they go really well together. I also think ASA's phoenix just looks awesome--as does Phi Sig's sphinx--and that AXO's lyre is really pretty. Also, *all* the badges are gorgeous.

I really like black and gold together in 90 percent of the ways I have seen it put together.

On casual paraphernalia, it doesn't matter much. But recently the powers that be have been pushing us to purchase gold blazers with our fraternal design on it. I don't like it.

I LOVE purple and white. I seriously own 5x as many purple shirts as I did before I was an active and it's wonderful. Purple looks great on my skin tone though, in any shade (although a jewel tone would look good on anyone). I also love sailboats and the symbolism behind them. Next jewelry purchase will likely be a small sailboat necklace.

The only thing I'm not crazy about is the skull and crossbones. Again, love the symbolism of it, but I doubt you'll ever catch me wearing it unless it's on a tshirt (which our recruitment shirts this year are set to). But I won't do a necklace or anything like that. Screams punk rock/goth to me.

My geologist officemate, who is an APhiA, saw the gold blazers on your website and said "ARUGH! That looks like boogers." He ordered one anyway, and said he doesn't care for it. We've been debating on how to decorate our office in black and gold. We're the only geologists around, and the only greeks. We're nerds like that. :D

Ha! I love it!

You're much dumber than I suspected. Much.

Fail.

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I love our colors, but find them hard to wear, that's not the same as not being head over heels with them though.

I care less for my school's colors, or lack thereof. Blue and white are boring, particularly in collegiate block letters.

Yeah colors or symbols can be difficult to wear, or not look good on everything, without darn near making you frown or cringe.

There are BAD mixes of maroon and lavender but there are very pretty mixes as well.

Hearts and doves are pretty easy, snakes slightly less so, but more ideal for jewelry.

/what you said

Because I'm the big sports fan that I am, I HATE when I see girls wearing pink versions of a Patriots, Bruins or Red Sox jersey. However, funny story...

When I was in college, I had a Penn State shirt made in pink and black, the school's original colors. Everyone at school thought it was awesome, but when I wore it back at home in New England, a couple of my friends said, "Ugh, why did you get one of those 'girly' jerseys?"

And when you tell people that Penn State's original colors were pink and black, it usually leads to a look of disbelief and a Google search. :p

The fact that you are a Penn State Alumna and you KNEW that makes me really happy! You are pretty awesome! Can you believe those were our old colors? I remember my sorority once had shirts made up in black and pink (pink for obvious reasons) and it said something about bringing it back to PSU old school style. I'll have to find that shirt.

Before going off to college, I tried to go for the grunge look and before that the hippy look (what was I thinking?) so, pink was NOT one of my choice colors. After joining I learned to LOVE pink and now incorporate it into my every day life. I love our symbol the quatrefoil because I see it all over: hotels, fountains, jewelry, churches, cemeteries, etc. I will def. be incorporating the quatrefoil and color pink into my wedding! I have to say that I LOVE our symbols--to include our mascot, the lion!

Agreed. While I love our colors, I rarely wear them in combination b/c the mixes I've found aren't the best. I usually will wear one of the colors in isolation though I did find a gorgeous maternity dress in maroon with a very pretty lavender print that I'll be wearing in Orlando next week at our fancy dinner celebrating our upcoming baby girl. :D

As for jewelry, I have a LOT of pearl jewelry & though the amethyst isn't an official jewel, it's my birthstone & there is a lot of Sigma Kappa jewelry decorated with amethysts so it works for me. I don't particularly have jewelry with hearts, doves or snakes but I'm ok with that.

I think I'm fairly lucky how mine turned out- green is my favorite color, and I dig the whole dagger/skulls thing. Teddy bears are ok, but the whole katydid thing is a bit weird. I know a lot of people that really love the nautilus shell as well.

And even though the colors are officially olive green and pearl white, I see stuff with all sorts of different versions of green on it. I'm not one for that bright, light green, but everything else looks great, I think.