Plegdes wearing letters???

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I would be interested in knowing when the question of letters became an issue. Certainly those NPC groups formed in the 19th and early 20th centuries could never have imagined their members wearing T SHIRTS as outerwear!!! The pledge pin and member's badge were really the only early insignia. And breathesgelatin, do you know when crests were adopted for NPCs? (paging oldu - I bet he'd know!)
It seems that lettered jerseys hit around - maybe the 50s? Late 40s?

Well, Pi Phi's was adopted in 1912, evidently:

http://www.pibetaphi.org/pibetaphi/aboutus.aspx?id=102

I don't have time to research all of the NPCs, but I would guess that for the earlier orgs the crests were created later (early 20th c.) and for the later orgs the crest was created at the foundation or soon after.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Even then, some orgs might have guidelines -- Fiji would not allow their letters to be used at all; and as described ad nauseum above, some orgs might allow their names to be spelled out in English but would not allow the Greek letters to be used.

Fiji at W&L put their letters on shirts...