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Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl
You just go to Greek101.com or something. Mine looks just like my Alpha Gam lavalier, only with Delta Chi on it instead...he just ordered it online. I don't wear mine with my own letters.
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I understand how/where someone can get a lavaliere now in this day and age. However, back in the late 1970s there wasn't the internet or the proliferation of 800 phone number centers, about the only place to get anything like this would be at the local college bookstore's Greek Life department. (Which, for you kids, is an actual physical place.) And if the bookstore didn't carry it - and few if any carried necklaces with fraternity letters at the time - you might be able to order it through them. And then get it six to eight weeks later. This is why the whole necklaces with fraternity letters (or charms what have you) was not something done as a spur of the moment thing. And perhaps why the giving of a lavaliere was often skipped and the guy went right to pinning. He didn't need to wait six to eight weeks because he already had his badge.
And perhaps it is (was) a Southern thing. A gentleman just did not give a lady jewelery unless they were in a serious relationship.