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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
Fair enough. It may not be worth it in this case. I just think she'd get the value of it even where another middle-aged professor might find it meaningless or stupid.
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Right, and I think she'd understand the value, too. My point (or at least one of them) was that appreciating the gesture and the value of that gesture and following through on it do not necessarily correllate -- one can deeply appreciate the gesture of being given letter attire and still not want to wear that attire simply because it's not your style.
Though the OP has clarified and said she has on occasion worn the tee shirt she was given, I still think the best advice for giving lettered attire to someone in her position is to either give something you know she'd feel comfortable wearing or give something that clearly you have no expectation she'll wear. The value of the latter is that the clothing, whatever it is, is symbolic of the underlying gesture of making her entitled to wear the letters, and that underlying gesture is the main message.