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Originally posted by Wine&SilverBlue
ditto! I haven't heard of anyone being pinned or lavaliered by their boyfriend at my school -- is it more of a southern thing?
we *DID* have a candlepass this year because a girl got engaged...
I would say that the majority of sorority girls at my school wear their own letters on a lavalier. Chi O colonized last year and their nationals gave the founding members each a lavalier on a mini ball chain (along with chi o bags, keychains etc) to try to get their name out.
I have seen loads of Pi Phis, Kappas and Alpha Phis (and of course Chi Os) with lavaliers... but strangely enough no AEPhis or DGs with them.
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There were definitely a handful of DGs that got lavaliered by fraternities when I was at Wash. U. ( I graduated in '02). I think I remember a couple of Kappas as well. I've never heard of anyone at Wash. U. getting 'pinned'--I was always under the impression that doing that was out of style, especially since lavaliers are pretty cheap to buy and don't necessarily have as much sentimental value if the relationship were to break up and the guy doesn't get it back.
As for DGs wearing lavaliers--again, I haven't been an undergrad for a couple of years...but I know a bunch of girls had lavaliers. I got one from a senior when I was a freshman and wore it constantly when I was in school (never at a bar though
). It was a more modern looking lavalier, however, and had the letters going horizontal instead of vertical, like the Kappas and Pi Phis tended to have. A lot of my sisters had the same ones--they were labeled 'lavaliers' in the Anchor Trader (fraternity-run store) but weren't traditional, as I said. It may just be that you're not thinking of their necklaces as lavaliers--but again, it may be that not many girls are wearing them anymore. Completely possible.