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Originally Posted by ggforever
I guess this proves I am from the dark ages. All greeks wore their pledge pins and badges to class regularly.
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Originally Posted by honeychile
Join the dinosaurs!
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Then I don't qualify as a dinosaur.
Jeans and t-shirts were the norm in class.
I've probably seen the pledge pins of most of the orgs that were on campus when I was there, as fraternity pledges were required to wear them at all times minus the 4 S's, and sorority new members were "highly encouraged" to wear them similarly, even if you were in a t-shirt and jeans.
As for badges, I've seen the badges of all five NPC sororities represented at my school at the time: Alpha Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Kappa, Kappa Alpha Theta, and (obviously) Alpha Epsilon Phi. During rush, even if the actives were wearing letters and jeans or whatever, the alums checking us in were in badge attire. As for fraternities, I have seen my sisters' formal dates wear their badges - I can't give an exhaustive list but AEPi and ZBT were among them. I've also seen APO service pins as one of my AEPhi sisters is a brother and I briefly dated a brother.
My grandmother-in-law is a Kappa Delta Pi and always wears a pendant with letters. I don't know enough about the organization to know whether that's their official insignia in lieu of a badge or if there's a badge as well.
Does Masonic insignia count? My FIL gave my husband a Masonic ring on the occasion of his third degree. My husband gave it to me when he proposed. (Actually he proposed with his class ring, but it was too big even for my middle finger, so he gave me his Masonic ring (a pinky ring) which fit my ring finger just fine. I wore that until we picked out my diamond engagement ring and it came back from being resized.) For a while, DH drove his father's old car, which had a Masonic emblem. He has not placed an emblem on his current car, as I've threatened to put an AEPhi bumper sticker right next to it - but I digress.