Jackets/Coats

[AngelPhiSig]

Thank you to my beautiful green rocking chair for being a model for this display...


Front - note the name on your left... letters on your right. Gamma Gamma, our chapter on the right sleeve. The left sleeve could have your 'number' if you wanted it to. Phi Sigma Sigma nationally frowns on numbers - just to let ya know! (mine is 499 though)

On my collar is a pickle pin and a ketchup pin - from Heinz - go Pittsburgh. When your collar is up we call that 'Elvis' - its a no-no. You look like a nerd. (note that even though you might think we look like nerds in these coats - we dont on our campus - EVERYONE has them - Us, DZ, ZTA, Tri Sigma, DPhiE, TPA, AST... Ask 33girl - ASA had them too. If your sorority was at our school - they'd have em. No one is above 'the jacket'.

Note the way its buttoned too - this is a no-no as well. Always button all buttons



The back. Self explanitory. Your butt patch kinda lets on when you joined. As well as the buttons on the front. If they're both yellow - you're old.

Depending on where you get yours says whether or not you have 'letters' on the back. We dont, Tri Sigma doesnt, ZTA doesnt - DZ used to not. (ZTAs says 'Zetas' Tri Sigma is 'Tri Sigma')
AST, DZ (new), TPA, DPhiE have letters.

Our jackets are yellow, ZTA is powder blue, DZ was pink... now white.

Everyone else has white.

As one of my education professors said:
I always think we only have three sororities... those yellow ones, those blue ones and that big white jacket sorority. They have the most members. There used to be a pink one, but they're gone.

So yea, jackets are a 'status' symbol on campus. Being a colored jacket gets you noticed... "oh I like that yellow sorority...' We also happen to live in a big yellow house with blue letters... coincidence though!

I hope that clues you in on the ways of PA...

[Phisigshawna10]

Originally Posted by AngelPhiSig

Thank you to my beautiful green rocking chair for being a model for this display...


Front - note the name on your left... letters on your right. Gamma Gamma, our chapter on the right sleeve. The left sleeve could have your 'number' if you wanted it to. Phi Sigma Sigma nationally frowns on numbers - just to let ya know! (mine is 499 though)

On my collar is a pickle pin and a ketchup pin - from Heinz - go Pittsburgh. When your collar is up we call that 'Elvis' - its a no-no. You look like a nerd. (note that even though you might think we look like nerds in these coats - we dont on our campus - EVERYONE has them - Us, DZ, ZTA, Tri Sigma, DPhiE, TPA, AST... Ask 33girl - ASA had them too. If your sorority was at our school - they'd have em. No one is above 'the jacket'.

Note the way its buttoned too - this is a no-no as well. Always button all buttons



The back. Self explanitory. Your butt patch kinda lets on when you joined. As well as the buttons on the front. If they're both yellow - you're old.

Depending on where you get yours says whether or not you have 'letters' on the back. We dont, Tri Sigma doesnt, ZTA doesnt - DZ used to not. (ZTAs says 'Zetas' Tri Sigma is 'Tri Sigma')
AST, DZ (new), TPA, DPhiE have letters.

Our jackets are yellow, ZTA is powder blue, DZ was pink... now white.

Everyone else has white.

As one of my education professors said:
I always think we only have three sororities... those yellow ones, those blue ones and that big white jacket sorority. They have the most members. There used to be a pink one, but they're gone.

So yea, jackets are a 'status' symbol on campus. Being a colored jacket gets you noticed... "oh I like that yellow sorority...' We also happen to live in a big yellow house with blue letters... coincidence though!

I hope that clues you in on the ways of PA...

I miss seeing these things everyday! I was so privileged to get my pass down. I wore it almost everyday while I had it. ANYWAY! They found a new place to order them so a lot of the older girls and new alumnae have them. I hope they keep ordering them because they're a great PR tool. haha Just thought id keep y'all updated.and Ali, I didn't know you were a Gamma Gamma alumna! <3

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Phisigshawna10

I hope they keep ordering them because they're a great PR tool.

PR, as in public relations? Wearing our letters has a public relations effect but is that the first thing that comes to mind when some Greeks wear their letters?

/just curious

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

PR, as in public relations? Wearing our letters has a public relations effect but is that the first thing that comes to mind when some Greeks wear their letters?

/just curious

At a school with a very small %age of Greeks, which this is, making people aware that you exist is pretty much essential to survival.

We do have a special "jacket ritual" that we do at every meeting, to make sure our jackets are purified to begin the week. It makes them kind of like Superman's cape, no harm can befall us when we have them on and they've been properly purified, nor will we veer in any way shape or form from our ideals. When the weather gets too warm to wear them though, we're kind of screwed. Thankfully Clarion only has 12.689 warm days during the year.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

At a school with a very small %age of Greeks, which this is, making people aware that you exist is pretty much essential to survival.

True statement.

At Penn State Behrend, we had jackets (the pullovers with front pockets and a light fleece-type lining) and jerseys, which everyone received at initiation. Each sorority’s jackets and jerseys were their “main” color… AST = Green, ASA = Red, TPA = Blue. Before I joined, I remember thinking “Oh, there are the red ones..” or “Those green ones always eat lunch together..” and many (if not all) of my sisters will admit to thinking the same thing. When on a campus where people don’t even know what being Greek is all about, where the majority of the people who join never had any intention of doing so when coming to college, and where chapters can be as small as 10 members, I think it definitely helps.