creative ways to wear your badge

MereMere21 · #1 03-03-2003, 12:07 PM

Since today is Badge day I was wondering if any alums (or collegians for that matter!) had any ideas on how to wear their badges after college? besides the usual way of setting into a pendent, any ideas?

I'm actually wondering about this because I would like to have mine set into a ring but I haven't seen this and didn't know if it would come out right. I would love to wear mine more often but with a 4 month old anything hanging around my neck gets yanked! so any ideas would be great

AGDLynn · #2 03-03-2003, 10:57 PM

When I went to TLC this weekend, one of the alumnae had made a neat design.. Think of a gold bar with a badge hanging down..sort of like those that have a lady's watch on it. It would be shorter than the necklace.

I don't know if they still have the ring thingie but I didn't really like it all that well. The center pearl stood up too high and I was afraid I would knock it off. If my finger ever gets down to whatever size it was then, maybe I'll put a plain badge on it to wear.

MereMere21 · #3 03-03-2003, 11:22 PM

well my original badge is just the plain one - no frills

I actually have petitioned IHQ for a turn of the century lost badge from maybe the Alpha or Beta chapter to have made into a ring - I thought that might work out better and besides I love the idea of having a piece of our history like that

do you think the ring idea would work if its just the plain one? I still think the edges might get caught on things, but it might still work? ideas? thoughts? opinions?

GtownGirl98 · #4 03-04-2003, 02:55 PM

Well, I have mine on right now and it is just placed around gold necklace like a slide. I can take it off and pin it on still but I wear it alot like this. I am not ashamed of wearing it, but when I wear it on my suits to job interviews and meetings, it looks better on my necklace, rather then my lapel.

winnieb · #5 03-05-2003, 12:52 AM

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Originally posted by GtownGirl98
Well, I have mine on right now and it is just placed around gold necklace like a slide. I can take it off and pin it on still but I wear it alot like this. I am not ashamed of wearing it, but when I wear it on my suits to job interviews and meetings, it looks better on my necklace, rather then my lapel.

This is exactly what I have wanted. Another alum told me she tried this and could never get it to hang correctly. What kind of chain are you using--and how long is it? I am heading to the jewelry store this weekend.

Thanks,
wendi

GtownGirl98 · #6 03-05-2003, 01:12 AM

Think of a slide necklace with just a solid gold hoop as the chain and that is what I have. I found it at Goodies in Lexington this past summer. I would recommend that you use a more expensive badge because they make the claps (the pin part) better on those then the less expensive ones.

I also have two badges (one from my initation (the plain, starter addition and the other is the Diamond and 14 pearls that i was given on my 21st.) I think I am going to go have them both engraved with my name and stuff. I can decide if I want to allow the first one to cont. on from sis-mom, sis-dot like it has or take it with me when I leave Georgetown in May. I think it would be cool to have it continue on but I am worried about it getting lost or forgotten about. I don't know... what do you all think?

ilovemyglo · #7 03-05-2003, 10:03 AM

Hey, maybe you could have your initials engraved and every sismom/sisdot from then on could add there's on there... eventually it would get full, but think how neat it would be to be pinned with a badge like that!

GtownGirl98 · #8 03-05-2003, 02:12 PM

That is a great idea! I guess, only problem is that I now have two branchs started from my little (she has two sis/dots, now) one will initate on Sat, along with my great-grandsisdot. But that is a great idea.