Question about sorority colors...
 

Currently I am a pledge of a sorority!!! But, their colors are very masculine, it's navy and hunter green. I know that they won't change the colors, but I was wondering when you buy shirts and stuff from like greek101.com, do you have to get the shirts in the sorority colors or could you just use the color of the sorority and add a bright color in for accent (for example, hunter green shirt with pink letters)?

Our colors are Azure Blue and White and I had letters in ever pattern and fabric imaginable. Whatever looks good on you I say! However, I made it a tradition to buy my little sisters a set of blue and white letters just so that they have those as well in their closet.
Letters are a fun part of being a collegiate, enjoy it!

Being the head smart ass on the site, did you pledge for colors?

I would say No, resoundingly so!

You Pledged for the Ladys that you met and the Ideals that their Soroity stood for!

I do not care for the Colors of My Fraternity, but when You put My Coat of Arms up against anyones, it is Fantastic!

I am working on Polo Shirts for My Fraternity and you put Hunter Green Shirt with Gold Letters, or Purple with Gold Letters, white shites with Purple Letters, or Yellow Shirts with Green letters they look fantastic!

Read Your History and find out why they picked those colors and maybe it will give you an insight as to why You have those Colors!

You Pledged for a certain reason, do not forget that!;)

Kappa's colours are sky and sea. At Convention I saw some of the ugliest sets of letters on the face of the earth, including a set that was hot pink and electric green. Holy 80s!

Also, I don't know that I'd classify colours as being of one gender or another. Look at Chi O's cardinal and straw. Those are what girls in my preschool referred to as "boy colours." I got made fun of 'cuz I liked to wear red. They said I dressed like a boy. I got over it. And I had a government teacher who loved pink. He always wore pink sweaters and pink ties that his wife bought him. He also didn't wear undershirts so we could see his hairy nipples, but that's a different story entirely.

Ok, tangent. Sorry 'bout that.

I'd enjoy your colours, but feel free to express yourself.

You can order whatever colors you want !!! I know my chapter gives each new member "chapter letters" after initiation that are the soror colors. (King Blue, I.E. navy sweater, with Gold letters) but that is just so we all have some sort of matching ones. Actually every NPC org at my school does that. Alpha Gam has grey sweaters with red green and buff (each letter is a different color) and the Alpha Phis have grey sweaters with bordeaux, so each chapter at my school all has matching letters...but other than that GO CRAZY get whatever fabric or colors you want I have a black shirt w/ purple leopard letters on it !

KD's official colors are olive green and pearl white.....I wasn't crazy about the olive green on t-shirts. Most KD shirts I see use some variation of green.

Get some cool Grateful Dead bear letters. I saw those in some magazine and they were so cute!!!

Much to the surprise of all the girls I know, and to the chagrin of new pledges, the colors of Beta Theta Pi are "Delicate shades of pink and blue." Definetly not the most masculine of colors. When ordering gear from websites and catalogs and such I can promise you that you don't have to order in your colors.

Basically, try to find times that your comfortable with to wear the colors. For me, wearing a light pink tie with a light blue shirt and a dark suit is appropriate. Maybe for you that time will be with a polo shirt or something else...but like you said the colors won't be changing. Gradually you'll develop an affection of some sorts to them simply because of the meaning they'll carry for you.

How many people think pink and green match????

I have lots of DZ stuff in other colors. At the University of Tampa, we have two jerseys: one that is a sister's jersey (green with pink letters) and a nickname jersey from our big sis. Mine is blue and silver.

Jen

Kappakittycat, what is so wrong with the 80s!?
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Funny that you brought that up, one of my panhellenic friends is a Kappa, and I was over her apartment this weekend, hanging out and doing some panhellenic planning for 2003. Well she was a collegiate in the dreaded '80s and she kindly brought out her beautiful scrap book, for us to pour over...her preference dress was sea and sky colors...yep both. With enormous puffy sleeves and a sash with a big bow in the back. I say yeah for the '80s we wore mutton sleeves with pride back then!!! She's coming over my place this weekend so she can look at how big my hair was in the early '90s!
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My favorite Phi Sig letters are my family's leopard print ones :) Theyre ghetto fab!

Like everyone else said, you dont have to have things in your orgs colors... frankly I get sick of blue and gold... cos its Clarion's colors, so Im wearing it for band etc, and its also Pennsylvania's colors... so I see it tooo much!

:)

I love pink and green . They are very preppy. :)
I love the 1980's. Many of us rushed and pledged in the 1980's when it was called rush and pledge. :p Many more on GC were born in the 1980's. :eek:

You can buy letters in any colors you want, but I suggest that you buy a set in your sorority's colors. :)

Go wild! You don't "have to" stick to your sorority's colors when buying letters. I have a few sets of floral-print letters, and the only green there is the leaves in the floral print.

Does your sorority have a symbol or mascot that you might find on printed fabric? For instance, if your mascot is the leopard, get leopard print.

Re: Question about sorority colors...
 

Hi pledge! Congratulations!

In another thread, you said you wouldn't yet state which local you are pledging, that's cool.

But since your org is local, I suggest you talk to your Big Sisters about this question. They just might have a tradition of only wearing shirts in the colors of the sorority. There are chapters and even entire organizations like this.

The store can make them however you want, but you should follow the rules of your org.

If you think that navy and hunter are not the most feminine colors in the world, try thinking of mine...brown and mode, or light and dark brown. Yet even with the double brown, that hasn't prevented us from reaching ceiling.

Your colors are there for a reason, but that's not what attracted you to that sorority. Keep that in mind, and have a ball making letters in every possible combination of every other color!

hehe, let's hear it for the stoplight colors of Alpha Gam! ;) :p None of the sisters in my chapter have red, buff, and green letters (although I personally would like to get some). Your letter shirts should be as individual as you are, so have fun when you order them! :)

By the way, I have hunter green and navy blue plaid letters on a white shirt, and I think they look nice.

Colors
 

If you are from a local or (especially) an ethnic GLO, you would be wise to check with the actives. Most ethnic GLO members NEVER, EVER, EVER wear paraphanelia that is not in the official colors. For some it is an official rule.

I was in no way insulting the 80s, nor was I implying that pink and green do not match.

However, when the neon pink & green shirt in question is on your advisor, who is sporting some fabulous Madonna-esque big 80s hair in the photo... you're gonna laugh.

Sky & Sea rule! Even Kate Spade thinks so. Of course she does-- she's my sister! She designed a blue & blue bag. It's cute.

I remember rushing for AGD and seeing the red, yellow, and green. At that time, I didn't know what "buff" was. And at the same time I thought..."Jaaaaah....RASTAFARI!"... I was kind of unsure about sporting the traditional colors of reggae.

I love my sorority's colors and I cherish their meanings, but I do have my letters in almost every color [even in that yucky teal tank that's collecting dust in my closet].

Speaking of rush colors:

My first impression of Delta Gamma was "Hello baby shower!" EVERYTHING was light pink and blue. (Sorry, Delta Gammas, but it was a little much at this rush party!)

As for 1980s DZ, I was looking through old yearbooks and saw one of their rush lines: white capri pants with canvas sneakers and pink jerseys. Right before I was a pledge, the tradition was to make one pledge class have green jerseys and the other have pink. Finally, someone revolted so that all the jerseys were green. Good for me because I'm not really a fan of pink.

I'm sure that some day, girls will be looking at the 2002 yearbook and think that we were wearing some funny stuff, too.

As for prints, there is turtle prints out there for letters. You just have to look. Best bet for cool stuff: QUILT SHOPS!

Jen

I love my pink & green!
 

Maybe it takes some practice to find out exactly which pink and which green look good together, but I think they look beautiful together. My sorors are on point with their colors.

A flower couldn't choose a better set of colors to be.

Gotta have at least one set of letters in the sorority's colors. After that.....go crazy and have fun!

Iris

THE DREADED BUTT-BOW!!! :eek: My poor bridesmaids were forced to wear big ole butt-bows at my wedding. I'm so, so, so, so, so sorry girls. Amazingly, I'm still friends with them after that.

NOW BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED THREAD

everybody that i know has at least of set of letters in the colors of their GLO.. but also at least 10 sets NOT in the GLO colors ;) get creative!

Thanks for all the info!!! I rushed the sorority to make new friends and to have fun, not for the colors. But, just b/c i'm apart of the sorority does not mean I have to love the colors!!!! I'm just use to bright colors b/c every school I have been too have had good colors. So, to go from that to some dead colors, it will be a transition, but im happy to know that I can just use the basic colors of the group and add in different color letters. That's cool!!!!;)

Alpha Theta Chi's colors are navy, hunter green, and maroon. Because we have three colors we are able to mix and match with a lot of different fabrics. We do not have to stick to our three colors. I recently made a leopard print lettered shirt for two of my sisters.

http://groups.msn.com/greekspot/phot...to&PhotoID=122

If you look at the following link you will see that my sisters have many different tastes.

http://www.alphathetachi.net/members.htm

Kappakittycat, hope you know I was only teasing! I just tend to hold the '80s close to my heart. And I also hope Kate Spade gives Kappas a discount!
Kilarneyrose, I think your wedding sounded great...I've been a bridesmaid 11 times...I had to wear a medieval princess outift for one of them (pointy hat with flowing scarf attached) so a bow doesn't sounds so bad to me.

First off, this is my 600th post, yeah!

Okay, anyways, as for AGD's colors being red, buff and green, I noticed the other day the the awning around Taco Bell is red, yellow and green, so needless to say, I now have a reason to eat there even more than the Chalupas!
Sarah

hehehe, I always tried to convince our social chairs that we should have a reggae mixer, but it never happened.

Okay, I think I'm alone in my adoration of pink. Does that really mean I'm hopelessly 80s??? I think the Phi Mu colors are fabu!
Sigh...at least I don't have 80s hair!:)

However, I think that navy and hunter green are beautiful! You can get a beautiful set of letters in black watch plaid...very nice.

Let us know what you buy!

violets

I still love pink, and I still love the 1980's!:) I think that I will go rent "Pretty in Pink" tonight! lol! :p ;)

Of course, I prefer royal purple and pure gold, the lovely purple iris, and the unicorn. :D

i love love love LOVE pink! i drive a pink car :) of course, BLACK AND GOLD ladies are so dear to my heart ;)