How do you feel when people who are not in your Frat/Sor. wear your letters?

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by lonestaradpi
I am married now and my husband went with me to several date parties. He still wears some of the date party shirts to the gym. We live in an area close to the school we attended and I think that he wants to show off that he went to these date parties.

Aww, that is so cute!


Now, I do have a problem when other women (non greek or other sorority women) are wearing my letters. This would usually be acquired as a "shack" shirt. It would totally make me mad b/c the person had not been given the shirt by a member of my sorority and really had no right to wear the letters. This didn't happen very often at my school.

What is a "shack" shirt? I've never heard that term. I thought maybe it meant that the shirt was borrowed by a girl after shacking up with the shirt's owner but if "shacking up" means the same thing it did when I was in college I seriously doubt if that is the case!

BTW, when I talk about letters, it can be the letters written out in english or greek on t-shirts or even stitched on letters. I have two fraternity shirts that have stitched on letters and that wasn't a problem. I guess that norms and standards are really set by each campus and it's greek system. What is totally acceptable at one school, is so wrong at another school.

I think that is so cool that it was acceptable at your school. My best guy friend lent me a letter shirt one time when I stayed over at his place and didn't want it back because it was too small. But I never wore it again because it was very unusual to see a sorority woman sporting fraternity letters and on the rare occasion that someone was spotted doing so everyone assumed she'd banged half the fraternity and finally some brother was dimwitted enough let her sleep in a letter shirt and forget to get it back

I no longer wear most of my sorority shirts (been out a few years) but I will NOT throw them away or give them away. I admire the statement above about someone being glad that someone had something to wear, but I guess that I'm not that nice. I donate tons of my nongreek clothing to charities. I will take my GLO shirts and have them made into a quilt. The ones I don't use for the quilt I will just keep until they rot.


That is such a great idea; I love it!