Quote:
Originally Posted by excelblue
If I recall correctly, my fraternity lets individual chapters make decisions about when and how to wear pledge pins, but anything that's not in the spirit of almost 24/7 is basically against unwritten rules.
I wish I knew about the awesomeness of good polo shirts when I was a pledge. I was forced to wear them daily as part of a uniform back in middle school, and I found those cheap ones so uncomfortable that I vowed to never wear one again when I got out. It wasn't until a month ago before I put on another polo.
I'm wondering if it's reasonable to push for a certain dress code with the pin just to get pledges used to dressing for success.
|
In both APO and ASA pledging, we were allowed to wear our pledge pins with casual attire (thank you, God). One of the sororities had a rule that they had to dress up when wearing their pledge pins - in effect, no jeans for 6 weeks, they had to wear 80s style dress pants or skirts and dressy shoes. And at a school where it rained or snowed 6.5 days out of 7. This was one of the things which caused me to mark them lower on my pref card and made me know I'd never really fit in with them.
If as brothers they will be dressing up regularly, then they should be doing the same as pledges. But forcing them to do it every day just because they have the pledge pin on can be a real turnoff for some people. How about designating one day of the week as dress up day?
I think aephi alum and I are kind of on the same page - pledge pin =/= the badge of the initiated member.
ETA: from what I remember, if guys were wearing t-shirts, they wore their pins over the heart. I don't remember guys putting it on collars of t-shirts. I think that's the part that looks bad, not that you're wearing a pin with a t-shirt.