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Originally Posted by Blondie93
To the bolded: maybe a regional/school thing? I believe you and I are of the same generation and I assure you that we had a stinking shirt for pretty much every time someone sneezed. Three date parties a semester, chapter retreat, rush, bid day, any greek wide contest (Derby Days, etc), homecoming, supporting the athletic teams, generic shirts (I <3 Theta, etc) and on and on and on. And yes, everyone pretty much bought them all- it wasn't just the freshmen.
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I'm in my early 40s. We all had multiple letter shirts and sweatshirts and of course the big thing was
jackets. But as far as event shirts were concerned...we had shirts for Derby Daze and Greek Week, and a one-off for one year when Theta Chi had an all-sorority mixer. That was IT. We never thought of getting shirts for date parties...why would we? They were semi-dressy affairs that lasted one night, at the houses or very near campus. Formal favors were usually glasses or squeeze bottles.
When I go back now everyone has homecoming shirts, but the thing is they have a lot more places to get them from nowadays. We only had the campus bookstore or the sporting goods store in town. And neither was exactly cheap.
Honestly, I think wiser heads before us probably evaluated the Clarion weather (cold and rainy for the majority of the school year) and decided jackets were a way better investment than a bunch of t-shirts we'd be wearing under sweatshirts anyway.