There is another reason that organizations like Zeta Phi Beta use only the official colors (although black and khaki are also common) other than the mandate from our International office. Practically speaking, folks who are not greek often times only recognize NPHC organizations by our colors...often times non-greeks may not recognize the greek letters of ZPB, for example, but they will know "the women who wear Blue and White". Additionally, since the actual colors have meaning to our Sorority...it would be challenging for me to have purple and orange fabric with ZPB, as those colors have no significance to us.
Finally, it's not really boring, because NPHC greeks have many t-shirts (I have at least 15-20 different Zeta tees, baby tees, etc.), back packs, check book covers, umbrellas hats, prints and pictures, (I've even seen hosiery)--almost anything that can tastefully have letters has them, so we get our variety from the number of items available, rather than changing the colors of the letters/para themselves.
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