ZETA TAU ALPHA BADGE ON EBAY

[ChildoftheHorn]

There are some badges that definately look better in the catalougue.

I had friends get the white gold with tradiotional blue or pink sapphires around it and they said it looked like someone took a sharpie marker to the edge of their badge. I even had a friend get the white gold with the alternating diamonds/sapphires and wished she had gotten something more similar to mine. Another girl got the all diamond in white gold and it just looks like the silver badge from a distance.

A lot of people have said that these combos seem to look the best:
- rubies/emeralds with diamond points in yellow gold
- alternating diamonds with rubies/emralds/sapphires in yellow gold
- crown pearl in yellow gold
- pearl with rubies/emeralds in points *yellow gold*
- *any gem (not pearl)* with diamond points in white gold

Personally, I have the 10K Emeralds with Diamond Points badge. It looks fantastic and I always get compliments on it.

[lilzetakitten]

I've got the yellow gold with pink sapphires... it's beautiful!

[Tippiechick]

Originally Posted by ChildoftheHorn

There are some badges that definately look better in the catalougue.

I had friends get the white gold with tradiotional blue or pink sapphires around it and they said it looked like someone took a sharpie marker to the edge of their badge. I even had a friend get the white gold with the alternating diamonds/sapphires and wished she had gotten something more similar to mine. Another girl got the all diamond in white gold and it just looks like the silver badge from a distance.
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Why ever would you say something distasteful about a badge? Any badge... I personally have a sapphire and pearl badge. It doesn't look like "someone took a sharpie" to it and it didn't "look better in the catalougue(sic)". I like it, thank you very much. Even if it doesn't match your or anyone else's taste it is MY badge. I would never judge your choice of badge. I find it tacky that you would even talk about the subject matter in such a way. Badges are meant to show your ZTA pride in a more personal way. That's PERSONAL -- meaning you don't have to like what someone else chooses for themselves.

[SthrnZeta]

Originally Posted by Tippiechick

Why ever would you say something distasteful about a badge? Any badge... I personally have a sapphire and pearl badge. It doesn't look like "someone took a sharpie" to it and it didn't "look better in the catalougue(sic)". I like it, thank you very much. Even if it doesn't match your or anyone else's taste it is MY badge. I would never judge your choice of badge. I find it tacky that you would even talk about the subject matter in such a way. Badges are meant to show your ZTA pride in a more personal way. That's PERSONAL -- meaning you don't have to like what someone else chooses for themselves.

Though I agree with what you said, I think I'll still give Child the benefit of the doubt. She's from a new chapter and is a newer sister - she may not have grown to love our badge in all its many colors and forms as we have just yet...

[radioZTA]

The process for making badges today is a bit different than it was many years ago which HAS slightly changed the look of them. Opinions as to whether this is a good or bad thing (or somewhere in-between) are entirely subjective.

The meaning of our little badge, and hopefully its preciousness to our members new and *old*, is still the same.

[SthrnZeta]

Originally Posted by radioZTA

The meaning of our little badge, and hopefully its preciousness to our members new and *old*, is still the same.

I think that's what Tippie was trying to say

[radioZTA]

Oh! I get it now. I thought she was jumping COTH's case so I was trying to defuse. My bad.

[Tippiechick]

Originally Posted by radioZTA

Oh! I get it now. I thought she was jumping COTH's case so I was trying to defuse. My bad.

I was not jumping her case. (I think we all know that would have been extremely obvious had that been my intention...)

I WAS trying to show her that insulting badges is not cool. There is no need to defuse the situation. A simple lesson on respecting others' choices of badges is nothing I consider to be inappropriate, though. And, if her sisters are not willing to teach her those values which bind us, who else will? A simple correction here and there is what makes us all stronger. I have been corrected in the past and it makes me a better sister. I feel it my responsibility to do the same for others.

Tact is not a gift with which I have been blessed. We all know this. Honesty, I can do.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by radioZTA

The process for making badges today is a bit different than it was many years ago which HAS slightly changed the look of them. Opinions as to whether this is a good or bad thing (or somewhere in-between) are entirely subjective.

The meaning of our little badge, and hopefully its preciousness to our members new and *old*, is still the same.

yes. i feel that the quality of the construction of our badge went down when i.o. switched to the present jeweler. nonetheless,as radiozta stated, it is the meaning of our badge which we all hold dearest.

[radioZTA]

co-sign, FSU!