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Originally Posted by Eirbear
At least on my campus (it's probably on other campuses too), we have a thing we also call "pearling" which is the equivalent to lavaliering. The difference is that pearling happens when the boyfriend isn't affiliated with a GLO. With pearling, all it is is he gives his girlfriend a pearl to wear on her lavalier chain.
But, as far as I know, with affiliates to GLOs, lavaliering with a lavalier is really the only thing (pinning, of course). And, yes, the guy has to go out and buy a lavalier with his GLO's letters on it, but pretty much every Greek Store would have those, so it's not really that big of a deal to find or buy.
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Thanks. Now that I think about it - yet some more - it may be something that was done "way back when".
Back in my day, few guys lavaliered (gave a token etc.) their girlfriends. Pinning seemed to be a bigger deal. As I recall, necklaces with her sorority letters were quite popular with the girls. And some guys might give their girls some sort of charm to be attached to her necklace. She would then wear her letters (called a drop as I recall) along with some sort of symbol of her boyfriend's fraternity on the same chain. But I just don't recall guys giving out necklaces with just his letters on it. So maybe it is the "charm" that may have had his letters on it that was part of her lavaliere. Then again, it was the late 70's and I'm sure things have changed.