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I agree that it seems strange to me because just wearing the letters wasn't that precious. But it's becoming apparent that to some groups the letters are more like something borderline sacred. And if that's the case, it's going to be more complicated. The only thing I come close to this level of concern about would be official badges on EBay, and even then, I'm not losing sleep.
This is apparently not a new issue: my dad has told me stories that at his campus they would give any old IFC shirts from OTHER organizations to bums in town intentionally, so that it might appear that the old drunk dude was a XYZ or whatever. It was a low grade prank. (I assume that they must have found them or gotten them from girls they knew because I'm pretty sure they didn't browse thrift shops for the purpose.)
I have to say I do think it's weird when I see high school girls wearing sorority lettered jerseys or carrying lettered totes where I teach. I assume they must belong to an older sister or something. Date night shirts, formals, all that makes perfect sense. But the actual jersey with fabric letters attached, where the whole point of the shirt is the letters, not an event; it seems weird. And I'm surprised that they do it.
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