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I'm currently in-active (in the process of transferring to another university), but I still wear letters. I won't lend them out to anyone though, along with any shirt I have that associates me with a certain group, club, team or whatever. That is purely respect for the organization. Now, if someone was freezing and they needed a sweatshirt, I have tons of clothes the could pick from. My two best friends borrow my clothes all the time, they know better to never take anything with letters on it. They aren't sorority women and they do not attend college, so they don't know the extent of how important they are to most greeks, but they know enough to know that it is something special. Sure, it is just a shirt and wearing a shirt doesn't make you a member, but that is a priviledge of membership and it should be taken with much care.
As for party shirts, I see no problem with a guy wearing them, because the party shirts don't indicate membership as much as they indicate support for the organization. It's mostly block letters that really bother me.
What I don't understand is why girls wear fraternity shirts all the time! I may be some sort of a hypocrit, because I was given a shirt by a fraternity brother with his screen printed letters on it, but it doesn't indicate any sort of membership, it just says that I support the organization... idk. I just hate seeing girls wear their boyfriends block letters or whatever... not only is it tacky, but it's just not right, most organizations don't allow their associate members to wear their letters until they complete the entire new member process and for some girl to just throw on a hoodie one day is wrong in my eyes... I don't know...
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