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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
So you managed not to lose the tons of stuff from your alma mater in all of your moves but lost your lettered stuff?
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I think she means she didn't keep her T-shirts and stuff. When she mentioned the badge(s) and the ring with the crest that would be the lettered stuff that she expected to have forever.
This is a little random, but it's kind of connected:
How important were/are particular items of clothing to your group, especially ones that you would save and have forever? Which items are they?
In my chapter at the time I was an undergraduate, we wore sweatshirts with letters in beautiful fabrics and we had a lot of event T-shirts, but we didn't do official jerseys with nicknames and bigs and littles names. I've heard folks talk about those kind of jerseys on GreekChat, and I would think that you'd save them forever. Would you wear that as an alum, or would it be weird?
I can see that if you had a line jacket, you would save it forever. And it seems to me that D9 groups are much more likely to display letters with pride throughout your whole membership. (and to stay more active in all aspects of the group.)
In NPC and IFC groups, it seems that what you would wear as an alum would be much subtler. Is that true everywhere, or just in my head?