POLL: How often do you wear your badge?
 

I wear mine to chapter meetings but being the chapter adviser I don't wear it as much as I probably should. I like to wear mine though to AOII weddings...fun times!

Not as much as I'd like to. I forgot to pack mine for the Founder's Day celebration, but I borrowed one from a sister. And I wore it when my little sis' mom got initiated as an alumnae. I will definitely wear it when I help my chapter with recruitment!

When I am officially a teacher I will probably wear my quill to work from time to time, when I am appropriately dressed. However, I wear my AXiD lavaliere ALL the time.

I only get to wear my Badge a couple of times a year; Founders' Day, Officers' Installation and a formal tea my Alumnae Chapter does. I wish I had more opportunity to wear it, though.

On a semi-related note, my sister, a Kappa, got married last week and several of her sisters got together and gave her a luncheon a few days beforehand. I saw the pictures, and they all had their Badges on (except for my sister, who says she forgot to wear it!).


ETA: Thanks for starting this thread, Jocelyn! It makes me want to run to my jewelry box and put on my Badge! Of course, I can't do that since I'm wearing "gym attire", not Badge Attire ;)

I wear it at least once a month, when I attend formal chapter as an adviser. More when we have Founders Day celebrations, ritual events or alumnae meetings.

Haha...
The answer is never. Our alum meetings are very casual, so no one dresses up & I felt totally ridiculous everytime I dressed up...

I wear mine any time I dress up just to be dressed up. In addition to chapter, and other Theta events. I'm just really proud of my badge, so I wear it as much as I can.

Almost never. :( Appropriate occasions just don't seem to present themselves.

Not enough.

Twice a year for H C and Founders Day!


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Banquets, Founders Day, Badge Day, & any formal meetings I attend (which is few & far between). When I get married in January, I'll be wearing my badge underneath my dress as well as pearls & my Pref ring.

Some of our sisters wear their badge on their garter belt. One of our alums a couple years back, gave white embroidered hankies to her graduating class, so they could put their badge on it at their wedding.


As for me - I wear my badge when I am dressed up for meetings and sometimes church and other events.

Now that I'm back in school I don't dress up as often, so I only wear my badge now and then. However, I do like to get it out whenever I'm in Badge Attire.

Anytime I'm dressed appropriately, which unfortunately isn't too often. Life is pretty casual these days, but I wore it at Convention and meetings/alum events in the past year.

Almost all the chapters wear badge attire on Mondays or Tuesdays... so once a week.

once a month

At least twice a year... on the anniversary of my initiation (April 6) and on Founder's Day (December 6). Other times as necessary to show off the pride I have for my fraternity!

I will probably be pilloried from post to post for saying this, but I'd rather see someone who is nicely dressed while still in jeans or khakis wearing her pin than watching it collect dust or on ebay.

I have pin-ring, so I wear mine fairly often. :)

You're lucky, Honey! We're not allowed to wear ours any way other than as a pin or I'd definitely have mine on a pendant.

I've decided that being an alum kind of sucks on the "pin wearing". ;)

I only wear my pin 2 times year (on average). Once on Founders Day and the second on Desert with Gamma Rho (which is held on the same day the chapter has chapter, so therefore pin attire is pretty much a requirement).

Though, this year I got to wear my pin more because of convention.

Oh yeah and if I remember, I will wear it on National Pin Day in March (although I didn't this year because I'm a teacher and I don't want to take the chance that it will get lost, which is why I won't wear it next year).

I should wear my lavaliere (spelling issues right now, I'm really tired) but that requires me to purchase a new one b/c mine is missing now.

Once my ring in made, I'll wear mine often! I can't wait! I'm excited because I've not worn mine at all in the past year! I forgot on Founder's Day (a very hectic week) and don't wear it when I teach.

i wear my badge a few times per year (founder's day, npc badge day, alumnae chapter kick off, and maybe a few more times). being a teacher, i really don't have times to wear it regularly.

i do have a quatrafoil ring which i wear frequently, although i can't find it right now.

I agree - with dress being much less dressy than it was back in the day - it seems there aren't many times you can wear your pin.

I try to wear mine at least once a week when I'm in school, along with my Order of Omega pin. I'm the photo editor of the paper, so I end up going to a lot of conferences and things where it's a "slacks, heels, and button down" type of thing (although us photographers can be a bit slovenly...myself included). I usually have to dress up at least once a week for something. Usually Fridays are the "best" pin days..Of course initiation, pledge induction, and a couple of our other rituals throughout the year are important pin days. But the emphasis is more on color , not so much on the pin most of the time.

Oh! and I'm very jealous of some of the cool pin related jewelry you NPC ladies have. I remember someone posted a pic of a pendant that was the diamond outline of the ADPi badge in..well..diamonds and I thought it was absolutely gorgeous and simple. My brother being the man of good taste he is bought his AXiD girlfriend a very neat ring of the quill wrapped around in a ring.

Since I am active as a grad (alumna) member, I get to wear it fairly often. I wear it for inductions, Founder's Day, formal events that I attend for the chapter / region / nationals and any formal GLO event where it seems appropriate. On average 3-5 times a year.

I think you mean this:

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My good friend wears hers almost every day - and yes, she sprang for the diamonds, not the CZ (she has that nasty CZ allergy, too!).

I also love that Phi Mu quadrfoil ring that's the outline of the pin in diamonds!!

As do I.

Although, I guess I could wear it more.....

I'm wearing my badge today... I have it as a pendant. It looks like this: http://www.mastersofdesign.com/image...t/img1-589.jpg

But it fits onto a necklace like this:
http://www.mastersofdesign.com/image...limage-550.jpg

I wear it often and get lots of compliments.

Since our meeting are all formal i wear it 4 times a month for that and any ceremonies, speakers, or other dress up stuff. Also all day on Mondays (required by chapter bylaws).

I've seen someone wear their Gamma Phi badge as a pendant. I love the look

BTW, it has been a long time since ya been on here, GammaPhiBabe! Good seeing ya! :)

Thanks! I don't have as much time (or, honestly, as much inclination) to read/post here as I used to. Hope things are going well for you!