Inappropriate Letter Items?
 

I was looking through E-Bay for a present for a friend who is an Alpha Xi....and I saw a navel bar charm with AxiD on it! I don't know if I'd want to have my letters in my navel piercing.

belly button rings
 

I LOVE the belly botton rings with letters. They are SO cute. I personally don't have my navel pierced but some of my sisters do, and one of them has a Phi Mu belly button ring. I think it's a nice way to carry something that you love around with you all the time.

I saw a Phoenix navel ring once that made me want to go get mine pierced (OK, Shelia, I know what you're thinking but it really was an awesome looking ring with a ruby in the center)...but that was before my stomach looked like I swallowed a basketball whole... oh well...any day now (they're already estimating she's over 7 lbs!)

I don't know, but I've seen inappropriate "official" GLO items found on International websites. Personally, I don't really agree with something such as GLO tissues, no matter how cute they are. Wiping one's nose with one's letters doesn't sound all that appropriate to me.

The thongs with the GLO's letters spelled out in rhinestones seemed a tad inappropriate to me.

Special mention to the thong with not only APO letters, but the APO crest!

I must have a ton of inapporiate items then.

Ya'll should have seen the DG bikini I saw down in Daytona.

I do too.

I may be old fashioned...I premising this...

But I have always disliked seeing my letters on an active's rear end....I feel like sitting on my letters is a sign of disrepect...

But again, I may be old fashioned...

was getting a shirt yesterday and stumbled upon panties you can have letters put on. seemed a little weird to me.

I don't think I'd want my letters on my crotch.

Co-sign. I can just imagine Stella's reaction if she saw the AOII thongs! For DECADES, the letters, AOII, were not allowed on ANYTHING related to jewelry or clothing.
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I personally don't mind letters on shorts or belly rings -- as long as the person wearing them looks good. Maybe that's shallow of me, but it's true.

I personally am not a big fan of the belly button rings and I don't like butt shorts/pants but to each her own. I really, really, really CANNOT STAND lettered thongs and bras. Joe Toga even makes "sorority granny panties" (yup folks, that really is what they call them). And what sorority girl wouldn't want to have granny panties with her letters on them?:rolleyes:

LOL!!! Grannys with your letters! Thats just a scary thought!:eek:

I really dont think that its all that serious. I mean if I saw a girl with a nail file/tissuses/thong with her letters I wouldn't think "OMG her letters are on her CROTCH!!" I'd think cool shes so into her GLO that she has everything with her letters on it.

And I think that its much worse to have your letters on a tshirt that says "Cum ride with us-XYZ frat's Hayride 2004"

But I still been there done that and got the tshirt.

Condoms
 

I remember when some vendor hit the FSU campus trying to sell condoms with letters on it. They were clueless. Not only did they try to sell these to the fraternities, but they tried to sell condoms with letters to the sororities. I'm sure the ladies had a good laugh about it, but FSU is in the South. It just wasn't going to happen.

One of the fraternities on campus has the AIDS foundation as a philanthropy...so they passed out condoms with their nickname (most fraternities on campus prefer their nickname to their letters...ie, Alphabet to ABC) and a random saying on the wrapper.

What do you think of letter tattoos? I know a couple people have them on campus.

I don't have my letters tattooed on me - but I do have a sun (our symbol) with my pledge class letter X in the middle. We have no rule against letter tattoos, but I personally wouldn't want to see any of my sister with one. Not because I think it's inappropriate, but because we were not created to be permanent but to affiliate with a national. Alot of my sisters have Phi Chi related tattoos with our flower, symbol or mascot.

i've seen some violet tattoos, but not ones that actually have any form of alpha delta pi on them. during my new member period, i recall told that the greek shot glasses that are sold in the bookstore are not to be used for doing shots

I thought letters on the clittoris ring were pretty daring . . .

It makes me think how interesting that standards hearing might be if the she had to show the evidence.

Right. They're not really shot glasses. They're miniature flower pots.

I always wondered about that. The crest shot glasses. Like why would nationals allow companies to make them.

I wouldn't have any problem with a phoenix, everyone would just think you were a big Stefano DiMera fan LOL. I think that's the way to go if you want to have things like tattoos or piercings - a symbol or mascot that other sisters/brothers will get but not your letters. I think belly button rings are fine, although I think it would look a little silly to have letters dangling from your navel. Thongs are just nasty.

As far as the crest toothpick holders, a lot of times companies make things with no input from the national. That's why the crest sweatshirts I have are not our "real" crest - there are too many sections above the shield and instead of a phoenix, it's an eagle with fire coming out of its butt.

And I think that its much worse to have your letters on a tshirt that says "Cum ride with us-XYZ frat's Hayride 2004"


seriously.... or, "wake up under an XYZ... XYZ formal 2004" etc... i think those crazy frat tshirts are a zillion times worse than nail files, etc.

or how about this one i just saw... on the surface, its not bad. but when you think about it, it reinforces bad greek stereotypes:
(on a sorority tee) "i came to college to find my husband... but instead i found my bridesmaids!" ummm... i dont know about her but... i came to college to get an education!!! not to find a husband! sheesh.

Ewww, I don't like that one. I like the "some girls go to college to find their husbands, I came to find my bridesmaids" one. This reminds me of a girl in my High School who senior year told me that she didn't care that much where she went to school because she was only going to college to meet a husband. :eek: I was like "that comment just singlehandedly set the women's rights movement back by like at least a hundred years."

I can remember a Standards Hearing for a woman who had done something seriously stupid, and seeing that she had our crest tattooed on her ankle. After the hearing, we all discussed, "what would have happened had her membership been cancelled? Who would pay for the debrasion?" It started out as a joke, but it quickly became not so funny.

As for the shot glasses, I think this is a classic reason why you'll see more and more GLOs lean towards stricter licensing for their letters, crests, etc.

I'll allow it ;)

KS 361 dreams i have about hooking up with a girl in a DG thong ;)

The FIJIs at Pitt all used to have the Greek letters Phi Gamma Delta tattooed on their ankles. This was way before everyone and their mothers got inked. Does anyone know if this is something FIJIs tend to do throughout the fraternity, or if this was just a Pitt thing?

As for the letters-in-bellybutton debate; I think it's adorable provided, as Valkryie mentioned, the belly in question is in shape. In fact, I would probably have a DZ bellybutton bar if I still had my piercing.

I think the thongs, bras, etc with letters are geared to the newly iniated who want letters EVERYWHERE!!!

But I like the letters on the butt

lettered thongs are great gag gifts. one sister got me the thong w/the rhinestone letters, while it still has its tag on it, it is pretty funny. Yea they mean something but they are great for jokes and stuff.

I really do think tho that the dirty party shirts are WAY worse than your thong/granny panties. After all...how many people see your t-shirt versus your panties...

There really must be a market though because this stuff is EVERYWHERE!

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There are some people that don't even like the idea of wearing letter jackets. They feel it is like "turning their back on their letters". I heard that from an AGD I think. I think that is a bit extreme. I have no problem wearing my jacket, in fact I'm proud to.

Lettered tissues. You really don't want to be wiping noses and possibly dirty hands on your letters. What's interesting was that they actually sold AGD tissues at convention last year. I think that's wrong.

Did they have the letters printed on the tissues themselves or just on the box?

They weren't in boxes but in plastic wrapping. I recall seeing letters, but I'm not sure if it was the wrapping or on the tissues themselves. If it was the latter, then it's just plain wrong. Any AGDs who remember seeing it at the shop, please clarify!

ETA: Fratrow.com definitely sells lettered towels

I could see people have a problem with the lettered soap they make now. It could be seen as washing your letters down the drain!

I know the purpose of tissues is to wipe noses and clean dirty hands, but I don't think I've actually seen anyone use a tissue with the AGD letters.

I know a lot of people who buy them just because they look pretty.

I see it this way, most people would seek toilet paper or other wiping implements before they'd rip that AGD tissue pack open.