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Old 05-29-2010, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by 33girl View Post
NO. "Embroidery" has nothing to do with anything. I certainly would catch hell if I went down to the Greek store, bought a TKE shirt and started wearing it around with no connection to the fraternity.

Some fraternities do not allow anyone but their members to wear letters, and some don't even let their MEMBERS wear letters.
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Originally Posted by ree-Xi View Post
Gosh, there is so much wrong in this post.

My friend above already pointed out the misinformation regarding embroidery. A lot of people have said that couples who have lavaliered, often break up soon after. Your wearing his lavaliere does NOT mean you represent his brothers. It also does not mean that you "are at the same level as his brothers" (whatever that means).

Not to mention the fact that with just the info in the last line of your post, anyone can find your school, your chapters, both your names, your boyfriend's major, graduation date, the fact that he makes Duckface in his Facebook profile pic, and that you love Jesus.

I'm sure that if you shared this post with your boyfriend and his brothers, they'd agree with everything you said.
Agreed, there are rules that have to do with who can wear letters. As a Kappa Sigma, I can tell you that "embroidery" means NOTHING nationally.

As far as lavaliering, it depends on the campus. Each chapter has their own traditions: sometimes it's done at formal, sometimes it's done more informally. Sometimes the whole chapter is present, sometimes it's just the pledge class, etc.

Same goes for what it means to the chapter. I would hope that most chapters will be cool to a brother's girlfriend. However, I'm not sure that it will bring any "special" treatment.

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