T-Shirts
 

What is the most embarrassing/horrible/geekiest/ugly t-shirt that your fraternity/ sorority has ever given out? what's the best?

where do I start?

One in particular- from our formal, was our Mardi Gras themed formal shirt- It was bright orange and had a lobster on the back and it said "I partied my tail off at Mardi Gras 2000!"

Ugh.

Every Beach trip t-shirt my chapter has ever made. Usually all our shirts are good except the beach trip ones. It is cursed so we stopped making them.

First off, I need to clarify that this was NOT my sorority!!! lol But the T-shirt is tacky enough that I remember it 14 years later so I figure its worth posting.

Homecoming '87, Pitt was playing Navy in football and XY sorority wore shirts that showed a big fish about ready to chomp down on a submarine and underneath it said,
Swallow the Seamen !

My favorite T-shirt, by the way, was worn by Phi Delta Thetas and it said Phi Delta Theta: Chicks Dig Us . I just thought that was cute :)

derby days or greek week
 

Its a tie between greek week last year and derby days this year. Last years greekweek shirts were "abercrombie" orange with blue writing and they were/are UGLY its one of the only event shirts that I refuse to wear. The other is this years derby days shirts and theme was Derbie Grais which was okay, but the shirt is like a horrible 80's flash back with flouresent colors and everything. Both of those shirts are now 8 dollars rags for washing the car now.....

Bid Day 1999 shirts- they were an awful green color, everyone said they looked like hospital scrubbs! They showed up okay in pics though.

we were this close ::puts fingers together:: to having a tshirt showing wally and the beav in mayberry and having the shirt say

"rush TKE, where the beaver comes to play"

Another round of horrid shirts actually happened. We got Move In shirts for helping the new freshman move in. They're international orange, and have TKE is huuuuuuuuge blue letters on the front. I'm tellin ya, on orange shirt day, we could line up the brothers in two rows and land airplanes between us. The things are that bright.

I love my old advisors but I would have to say the WORST t-shirt is the one my pledge class got for bid day. All they had were like XL and 2XL, so they shirts were hanging off us, and they were Green with our letters ub Red with yellowing lining. We looked like huge traffic lights and you could see a sister all the way across campus.

The best were probably the Alpha Glam red baseball jerseys we got with Alpha Glam and the dash under it in red glitter writing.

My chapter hasn't had any ugly shirts since I've joined. But some of our cutest ones would have to be our Bid Day 2001 shirts that look like the Cheers thing, but says ChiOmegas.."where everybody knows our name." Or our intramural tshirts that look like the superman symbol with our letters in them instead of an "S":D

The t-shirt that ALWAYS gets passed down it a purple Planet Holleywood one that says Sigma Kappa instead of PH and underneath says State College, PA...they're all HUGE though! Someone finally told us they were from the 1st pledge class at PSU, though so now, even though we don't wear them, we have a little more respect for 'em.

The most embarassing is this year's hayride. It has a pic of a hotdog w/ sunglasses and a smiley face and says, "We'll bring the buns, you bring the weiners." We all thought it was hysterical, but noone really wears them around.

We have had some pretty awful ones. Last year's homecoming shirts were BRIGHT ORANGE (what is up with that color, seems like everyone has it on here) and the design on the back was "Survivor." It had this awful picture of a Bull (our mascot) in a Hawaiian shirt ...:rolleyes:
This years homecoming shirt was a little crude, our theme was "Heaven and Hell" and our shirts said "If you're not a Bull, go to Hell!"
Our IM shirts are my favorite, also a little risque. We were IM Champions last year, and they say "Doesn't it feel good to be on top?"

Ok, we've had a few "questionable" shirts on elon's campus....
"Smile, you love us!" Greek Week 1999
"If you can't be the one you love, love the one your with"
"Bow down to the crown"
"I'm an XYZ and You aren't"
"got game" (my sorority did this and i still don't get it!)
"XYZ Fraternity, what are your other two wishes?"
"Only the Elite get invited to something so sweet"

Those are the only ones I can think of . AOTTLALA probably can add to them!

<roots through drawer full of sorority shirts>

Ugly shirt: Bid Day '95. We were still a small colony at this point, and didn't have a lot of money. Another AEPhi chapter had had these Bid Day shirts made up, but the printers forgot to print one of the colors. The chapter had the shirts reprinted correctly for themselves, and let us have the bad ones at cost (like $5 each). They had the Looney Tunes characters on the front, with "Alpha Epsilon Phi Bid Day 1995", and on the back was Porky Pig saying "Th-th-th-that's all folks!" Would have been cute if it weren't for the garish colors and the one missing color. I had the opportunity to buy one, but passed it up. Yuck.

Nice shirt: That would be a toss-up between:
- Bid Day '96 - front: an American Express card on the front, reading Alpha Epsilon Phi, with a giraffe in the middle where the centurion's head is on a real Amex card, and "Member Since '96"; back: "Membership Has Its Privileges"
- Rush '96 - navy blue shirt with the Greek letters Alpha Epsilon Phi in white, in the same font the Gap uses for its logo.

We NEVER did orange - thank heavens :) It just doesn't go with green and white :)

My GLOs colors are red and green and my school's colors are orange (bright orange) and black. You can imagine with orange and red some of the shirts that we got.

Our worst shirts were the ones we got for last years date party. Theyre this hosptial blue grey, and they would be kinda cute, but on the back theres this ring of girls, and in the skirts, there are other sorority names, like KKG and others we dont have... plus Tri Sigma and DZ, which we have... Prographics wouldnt replace them or take them back, so we wear them to bed. Theyre horrible!!! :(

A terrible (but I can see the humor in it) one, thats not exactly greek related is the t-shirt a couple of guys in XYZ fraternity decided to make for Welcome Week/Move- In. It was something to the extent of

Freshman Girls (on the front)
Get Em While They're Skinny (on the back)

It made headline news in the school paper and people talked about it for months. People started blaming the whole XYZ fraternity, even though most of the members had no clue about it.

I have a friend that is in a fraternity and one of his shirts said his fraternity letters on the front xyz and then on the back it said and I quote "Don't hate me cause you ain't me" I think it is a horrible shirt.

Yikes! That's where I was lucky. XO and Southern Cal have essentially the same colors. (Cardinal and Straw for XO, Cardinal and Gold for USC)

Worst shirt was Bid Day 1988-- white T with red cartoony looking 1950s style woman on it with a bubble abouve her head that said "I always dreamed I'd be a Chi Omega" They were just ugly/cheesy.

What were we thinking
 

Before I pledged I have seen our rush shirts. If I was a rush at that time I probably would have chosen another house. They were that bright orange, that everyone seems to love, and they had a 40's pin up type girl on the front and it said, "We may not be the cutest guys on campus but..." and on the back it said, "but atleast we've got your momma's cookies!" I have been a brother for almost two years, and I still don't understand them.

Our this fall were just navy with white letters and it said on the front, "Rush Sigma Tau Gamma, we've upped our standards" and on the back it said, "so up yours" not that bad.

We also had ones before that had a really seductive lady on the font, and it said, "You know you wanna" and on the back it said, "Rush Sig Tau" Those werent that bad either.

We had one this fall at our school that said, "XYZ Fraternity Construction Company" and had a picture of a hammer and a nail, under that it said, "We Screw, We Nut, We Bolt" the talk of the campus, for how crude they were, not for how well they worked.

Rush T-Shirts
 

I don't think anyone rushes because of the the t-shirts, it just gets your letters out there and protrays an image. We looked like idiots with those "cookies" t-shirts, and those guys looked like tools with "XYZ Construction." I dont think anyone has ever rushed because of a t-shirt, but it does make an impression of freshman, and helps or hurts a house's image on campus.

I think that rush shirts have the hugest impact on rush. I know at my school they did. For example Delta Gamma had shirts that were black and on the front it just said RUSH 2000 but the back said, I dream of DG and had a genie on it. All the girls wore them and so did a lot of fraternity guys. Alpha Phi had a different shirt for every day of the week and all of their girls wore them. It made their house look huge and their shirts were really cute. ADPi also did the same but I dont think our shirts were as cute as the other houses, but still during rush the girls knew who we were from walking around campus. Also, a lot of the sororities decorated the cars with things like XYZ Hottie or Sexy XYZ. It was really a fun rush.

I also wanted to say that the guys also had really cute shirts. Kappa Sigs said Go Big, Rush Kappa Sig, Sigma Nu had something with a sexy cartoon drawing. Theta Chi made shirts for girls to wear that said, If I were a guy, I'd be a Theta Chi. Kappa Sig did the same but there's said, The Guys I dig are Kappa Sig. It was really fun. Greeks really stand out at ASU. I really dont understand why you all dont think that T shirts are effective. Whats wrong with your schools. They seem to not be all that fun!

Sundevil, thanks for the OX shirt idea. Tshirts actully do have a big impact. The ones last year said rush theta chi-no gimmick needed. But that is for the good idea thread.

the worst one i have ever gotten, is actully the first one i got. Its from our Mid Year leadership conferce. It is in butt ugly orange and on the left chest it has a magenta jesus fish with our letters inside of it. It wasn't suposed to be a jesus fish but that is was it turned out as. ON the back is a green spiral :confused: and a buch of other jesus fish that have the FISH philosophy points on there. The FISH philosophy is some mangement therory that can be applied to recruiment i guess but god, the shirts are awful. I wear it to chapter meettings ;)

We just got a pale yellow philanthropy shirt with teal writing. On the front it just says "Sigma Sigma Sigma" above a picture of a sailboat, and below the sailboat it says "Robbie Page Memorial." Ok, nothing wrong with that, it's kinda cute. The back, in HUGE underlined letters says: "We helped cure polio... What have you done?" I do not like this shirt, and every time we wear it, people ask us how exactly we helped with that.

The other shirt I dislike is a long-sleeved black one with purple lettering. The front says "Some people are born leaders. Some people are born followers." The back says, "Look who's reading the back of my shirt" and then our letters are under it. Ok, a person can only see one side of my shirt at a time, so the back would make NO SENSE!!! :rolleyes:

I almost fell on the floor laughing when I read your post. I can't wait to share that one with my sisters!!!!

Oh my gosh--SSS1365--the Sigma Sigma Sigma's at Elon did the same kind of shirt, but they put the whole thing on the back. I think it was
"in a world of leaders and followers, you are reading the back of our shirts"

That is to funny with your shirts, though.
I think my least favorite AOTT shirt was for semi formal my junior year. It had this STUPID looking donkey on it and the back said "It was an asskicking good time". We were so pissed because we wanted this really cool sunrise design and the shirt to say "Ain't going down till the sun comes up" or something along those lines, but we had bad seniors that year and they outvoted us. Oh, and one year, Tri Sig had bid day shirts that were DARK purple and read "Idolized, Envied, and Adored". They were really cute but were a little hard to take at times.

This year we had a rush shirt made by our President and had it done at a local company in town (bad idea already...). The shirt came out being a very very light blue (almost powder) when we wanted a navy-ish color. The front design was perfect, however the back design was yellow text with a white border...you can't even see it! I've never worn the shirt, so I think it will definately get passed down to a very *lucky* associate next year! ;)

I'm a Sig at Sam and we always make fun of other peoples shirts, Theta Chi's: or theta cries we call them "You ain't gotta lie everybody needs a little Theta Chi." very gay and then the TEKES put top ten reasons to go TEKE they named all ten frats and put us as the number one reason to go TEKE, appreciate it.

The worst shirts: Our formal shirt (Beaus and Arrows Ball) which had a cute idea...on the back it said "Don't cry because it's over..."
"Smile because it happened." But then it had this wussy picture of a little boy and a little girl. I can't believe boys will actually wear this for us.
Another cute idea that just didn't come out right: our philanthrophy is a flag football tournament for fraternities called Down N' Dirty. On the back it said "If you're gonna play Down and Dirty, use protection." But the picture killed it. It was just a cartoon of a player in orange and blue.
The best shirt: Our long-sleeved black shirts from our fall date function, Pi Phi Arrested. On the back it has a great graphic of handcuffs and it says "Frisk me, love me, and chain me to an angel." (I helped with that tagline!) The front has the date of the event look like prison numbers. Very cute.
The other best shirt: this year's recruitment shirts. They're baseball tops with a red collar and red sleeves, and on the front in red baseball-style writing, it says Pi Phi in the swirl and then recruitment 02. On the back it says "In a league of our own."

My favorite shirt that I have is our Fall 2001 bid day shirt. The only thing that was wrong with it was the timing. September 11th had just happened and they were camo with D*E*L*T*A*G*A*M*M*A on the front in tan. On the back it said "DID YOU GET DRAFTED??" Bid Day 2001. They were one of the best but we got a little slack about it.

One of the worst that i've seen is the TKE shirts from i think 2000? it's got a beer can on the front with a pile of books and on the back it says...."You can retake a class but you can't relive a great party" RUSH TEKE....

You get good ones and you get bad ones.....thats all you can do. :)

Our worst was an Uncle Sam T-shirt that says "I want you to Rush Sigma Nu Fall 2000". It's horrible because of the greyish purple color that the shirt material was. It looks bad no matter what you wear with it.

Best in my opinion is from our St Paddy's Day party in '01. It looks like one of those Lucky Brand shirts but has our letters on it and the party's name and the name of the party of course "Get Lucky"

I was purchasing coordinator for a year so I'd like to think that no ugly shirts came out of the time period; however, our Panhel Recruitment shirts last year were this nasty bright, bee yellow...yuck! My two favorite slogan shirts are: 1) "All women are created equal, some just make better choices" (My bid day shirt - 1999) and 2) The front said "The most incredible women at EMU wear..." and the back had all our campus' sororities listed.

The worst shirt I've probably ever seen on my campus was from Greek Week 2001. One of the fraternities got a shirt that said "XYZ Taxidermist...No one stuffs your beaver better." It was really stupid and had absolutely no point.

The ugliest ones I've seen came from Homecoming this last fall. I guess for some reason one of our patner's colors was blue, or a bluish. So, we got sweatshirts in their color, and they got theirs in one of ours, maroon. They were lucky, you can't screw up maroon. But ours came out TEAL. It wasn't a good teal either, it was the teal that looks horrible with everything! They looked terrible and they had maroon writing on them. I never see anyone wearing them except when they are really running low on shirts!

The best were our date dash shirts this year. They were maroon, with the adidas stripes on the sleeves in white and "Sigma Kappa 2002 Date Dash" on the front over the chest. On the back it has the WSU cougar logo in the middle and it says "All the good girls come out after dark" and all the writing is in white.

I am before the time of mass t-shirt making, but I do remember a BUTT UGLY Derby Days shirt we had. It had a cartoon face (like the 20's cartoons) in a derby - and bright gold (I know those are your colors guys, but a lot of people look CRAPPY in gold). The only good thing about it was that it said Stubler's Beverage on the back. :D

I am very ashamed to say that the ugliest shirts we have had since I joined in fall of 2001 is the one that was my first purchase as Purchase Fund Chairman. It is blue and has THETA in big letters on the front. And on the back it has a poem and I still cannot tell you what it says, because I am sure I have not read it all. It wouldnt be that bad of a shirt, but it is really really busy and hard to read the back of. It is a pretty color and if it just had Theta and then some cute saying on the back then it would be ok, but a whole poem? To tell you how much noone likes the shirt it has ended up in the Theta auction at the end of the semester that it was first given out. Is that bad? I usually just wear mine to work out in.

My favorite shirt was the Fall Bid Day 2001 shirt which was my first Theta shirt ever. It had Kappa Alpha Theta Bid Day 2001 with a kite on the front and then on the back it had a quote from Amy Grant who is a Theta. It is gray with blue and yellow lettering and I wear the shirt all the time!

These are so funny.

Anyway, I've seen a few winners. One of my friends is a Delta Upsilon at another school, and they got shirts that said on the front it said "Delta UPSilon" and on the back "We pack more box between 1 and 4 PM than any other house on campus" The administration banned them the first day the guys wore them. Another was "Delta Upsilon...tighter than your little sister" Pigs I tell you.

A funny one I saw had a picture of Homer Simpson on the back in his stonecutters robe and the slogan was "No Stonecutters chapter in your town? Join XYZ"

I agree with Leslie...the Panhel recruitment shirts were SO UGLY. And I ended up with an extra large as well. Not only is it ugly, it hangs down to my knees. My personal favorite is the Delts rush shirt from last fall:
"I'm a Delt.........so I've got that going for me!"

We had a really cute one for Hayride last year. They were navy and said Alpha Gamma Delta Hayride 2001 on the front in white, and on the back it said "ain't no closing time, ain't no cover charge, just country boys and girls, gettin' down in the hay!" So cute. Also, we were debating having a shirt for Greek Week that said "You don't like us, but your boyfriend does." LOL

I liked the taxidermy shirt! It's cool just because it makes absolutely no sense. You just look at it and go "what...?":D

Holly

um, i think the taxidermy shirt is implying things sexual in nature. i think its stupid that guys do that and think its funny-- its actually rather disrespectful if you ask me.

Hol, I totally forgot about that Delt shirt! It was very cute! What was a little disturbing on the taxidermy shirts was that the beaver looked suspiciously like a squirrel.

Also, the Sig Eps former house was condemed (twice) and last year they printed the notice on the back of their Greek Week shirts. It wouldn't make sense to anyone not from our campus, but it was cool that they had a sense of humor about it.

I've noticed that a lot of the fraternity shirts have been suggestive, and this occurs often on our campus. Recently our Panhellenic Council made up a compact for every sorority to sign that stated something along the lines that suggestive t-shirts and ones that are demeaning towards women will not be tolerated by Panhellenic sororities, and we will not participate in socials with the organizations that chose to wear these shirts. We discussed this matter in our last chapter meeting of the year, so it will be intersting to see if any of the other sororities signed this and if it will be enacted in the fall. What do you all think about this somewhat boycott of fraternities with risque shirts?

~Shae