Wearing your letters?

[ufdale]

Here at U Florida EVERYONE wears letters, especially on those navy and orange windbreakers (every sorority girl just about has one). The entire greek community wears letters on Wednesday. It's "Letters Wednesday." I figured it was the same everywhere, but I guess not.

My sorority even has a tshirt chair because we have so many tshirts that we make. Not that many girls wear block letters (especially not me because the shirts are maroon which is too close to FSU's crimson for comfort) but all the guys have them.

[KSUViolet06]

Here @ Kent, everybody wears letters. In fact, Wednesday is designated as Letters Day by Panhellenic.

The big thing here is hoodies though, since it snows 6 months out of the year. You're more likely to see girls wearing lettered hoodies as opposed to baby tees because it's too cold most of the time.

Lettered tote bags (aka "Bitch Bags") are a big deal here also. Big sisters usually give them to their Littles for Revealing or Initiation. EVEry sorority girl has one.

Something everyone does here that I really can't stand is DOUBLE LETTERING. Double lettering= wearing 2 lettered items at once (like wearing a shirt & carrying your bag). I think it's tacky, but that's just my opinion.

[PeppyGPhiB]

At Pepperdine in the late 90s-early 2000s we wore block letters every Wednesday, plus any other time we wanted. Might be different now, but I doubt it.

[Texas Beta]

Block letters are tacky.

At Texas you can tell who is in a fraternity or sorority pretty easily. If guys aren’t dressed smart (Polo, slacks), they're wearing either their fraternities shirt (pocket t-shirt usually) or a sorority event shirt. Almost my entire chapter wears a Beta hat. I switch between it and another organization I belong to. Girls are always wearing their letters, bags, purses, hats, ect.

Or the standard GLO letters, a Columbia or North Face jacket. :P

[alum]

When we were looking at colleges a couple of years ago, we visited Wake Forest on what happened to be one of their designated "Letter Days." There were definitely block letters galore worn by both men and women.

[Elephant Walk]

Guys never wear their letters as the block shirts, it just looks goofy. Mondays are always letter days for girls but they wear them whenever. It's clearly different campus to campus, but we never wear block letter shirts, whereas University of Central Arkansas wears them every day. Guys have their letters pretty much only on party pocket t's and such.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by Texas Beta

Block letters are tacky.

At Texas you can tell who is in a fraternity or sorority pretty easily. If guys aren’t dressed smart (Polo, slacks), they're wearing either their fraternities shirt (pocket t-shirt usually) or a sorority event shirt. Almost my entire chapter wears a Beta hat. I switch between it and another organization I belong to. Girls are always wearing their letters, bags, purses, hats, ect.

Or the standard GLO letters, a Columbia or North Face jacket. :P

Maybe at your school they're tacky. At my school, jerseys like some schools have would've been tacky. Most of the sororities and fraternity shirts were the letter shirts, usually matching. As for hats, not many guys at my school wore them, and they might have been asked to remove them in class.

Everyone in Seattle wears Columbia and North Face...it's certainly not a sign of a Greek here.

[Tom Earp]

Amazing! Simply Amazing?

You do not wear certain types of Letters representing YOUR GLOs?

WHY? You are not proud enough?

You will be happier wearing Symbols or Logos of shoes, beer, clothing stores?

We as GLOs Advertise OUR GLOs or not!

If you are not proud enough then why even join?

As an Alumni, I try and wear mine as much as possible, how about You?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Amazing! Simply Amazing?

You do not wear certain types of Letters representing YOUR GLOs?

WHY? You are not proud enough?

You will be happier wearing Symbols or Logos of shoes, beer, clothing stores?

We as GLOs Advertise OUR GLOs or not!

If you are not proud enough then why even join?

As an Alumni, I try and wear mine as much as possible, how about You?

Tom, if you need a shirt with letters on them to prove that you are proud of your fraternity.......you aren't doing something right. Frankly, I find that pathetic

Hahahahhahahhahahahhaha......That is truly sad. I'm sorry.....but there comes a time when wearing letters becomes unacceptable and pretty douchebaggish. No one gives a shit, especially in the business world, if you were in a fraternity or not. Wearing your fraternity's letters after you graduate makes you look like a complete loser that hasn't let go of the fact that he isn't in college anymore. The only thing, as far as i'm concerned, that is acceptable to show from your fraternity when you are older is your initiation certificate in a nice frame. My father has his in his office on the wall along with his UT graduation and Law school graduation certificates.

I don't show off my letters hardly every......because I think that is what it makes you come off like. Trying to show off. "Hey everyone, look at me, i'm an SAE." Why make it a point to let everyone know what fraternity you are in? If you are doing it right, people should already know who you are. I'll sport date party pocket Ts and sorority function shirts to class or around the house, but thats about it. Also, you're in college, time to start dressing appropriately......

[ufdale]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Everyone in Seattle wears Columbia and North Face...it's certainly not a sign of a Greek here.

But it is when you get your GLO embroidered with the school under it on the jacket. EVERYONE has one of these jackets here at UF. They're from Charles River, though, not Columbia or North Face. (and they are navy and have a huge orange stripe)

[CuriousWildcat]

Here the sororities are letter CRAZY!!!! EVERY and litterally every girl gets a tote bag on bid day with block letters (usually) and most girls get block tshirts on bid day. There are lettered hats, umbrellas, pants, flip flops, drink thurmoses, lavaliers, pen, stationary, bracelets and rain coats and even tshirts. It's crazy. (Not in a bad way). There are tons of car decals and people have decorated their windows in the dorms. As for double lettering, that happens alllllll the time. Today was wear your letters day for some sororities, and I saw a girl with a lettered hat, tote bag, shirt, umbrella, and flip flops (I know in the rain, but it was pretty warm today). And most girls have a hoodie too. As for the guys, they mostly have party shirts and a hoodie.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by ufdale

But it is when you get your GLO embroidered with the school under it on the jacket. EVERYONE has one of these jackets here at UF. They're from Charles River, though, not Columbia or North Face. (and they are navy and have a huge orange stripe)

That is not frat.....at all.

[AlexMack]

Block letters certainly aren't tacky up here. I need more hoodies come to that. Or to move to a place that won't require sweatshirts.
I also love my bid day shirts, but only because they've given me t-shirts to wear the gym and to bed. Joining a sorority means they'll practically dress you for free.

[Symbal]

It seems to me, at WVU, that only certain sororities are very vocal about who they are. Among them, AOPi, KKG, AXD, and Alpha Phi. Then they have individual trends. AOPi has their windbreakers. KKG has letter shirts. AXD has their totes. Alpha Phi has no trend that I've seen. I just always see Alpha Phi's wearing letters of some sort.

[PhoenixAzul]

Letters are EVERYWHERE at Otterbein. Not a day goes by when people aren't wearing them. Block letters, bags, tshirts, rush shirts, the whole nine. People wear their letters a.lot. I have a ton, so my PX period has meant that I need to seriously invest in non-lettered clothing (needed anyways for interviews...but it is nice to have another excuse) .