Lilly Pulitzer Anyone?

[angels&angles]

To be fair, I actually like that the letters/symbols are camouflaged into the pattern. There are 10,000 places you can get a tote or whatever with big ol' greek letters on 'em, but as an alumna I'd like to represent without seeming LOOK AT ME I WAS IN A SORORITY IN COLLEGE AND I NEVER LET GO OF IT!!!! (which, like it or not, is how most of the populace views a non-collegian sporting letters.)

Plus, if you're on the kind of campus that recognizes Lilly, you've got the best PR possible ("Don't you want to join? WE HAVE A LILLY PRINT!"). I wondered if being the only chapter not to have a print on my Lilly-centric campus would hurt us in recruitment, but it doesn't appear to. Although I can guarantee all the other chapters probably mentioned their print at some point during recruitment.

But now we have one, and I'll probably buy a scarf or wristlet, and everybody's happy.

The end.

[DubaiSis]

Originally Posted by angels&angles

To be fair, I actually like that the letters/symbols are camouflaged into the pattern. There are 10,000 places you can get a tote or whatever with big ol' greek letters on 'em, but as an alumna I'd like to represent without seeming LOOK AT ME I WAS IN A SORORITY IN COLLEGE AND I NEVER LET GO OF IT!!!! (which, like it or not, is how most of the populace views a non-collegian sporting letters.)

I agree. I love my colors, and I hope they focus the print on the double blue and gold and the quill, maybe the XI minus the other letters for a more geometric slant, and less on the rose because that is already so common in prints. But if it's a big old I heart A Xi D thing, I probably would feel like a woman who has to tell you she was a cheerleader in the first 5 minutes you know her.

Anyway, yeah us and the others! Now we can wait to see if they're all winners or gacky.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by angels&angles

To be fair, I actually like that the letters/symbols are camouflaged into the pattern. There are 10,000 places you can get a tote or whatever with big ol' greek letters on 'em, but as an alumna I'd like to represent without seeming LOOK AT ME I WAS IN A SORORITY IN COLLEGE AND I NEVER LET GO OF IT!!!! (which, like it or not, is how most of the populace views a non-collegian sporting letters.)

I agree. I always wanted something that was discreet enough that I wasn't shouting about my sorority, but something other greeks would still recognize and potentially ask me about. We've been down the "professional use of your greek affiliation" path several times, and I don't want to go down it again, but for me, personally, in my particular industry, I wouldn't advertise to everyone and sundry that I was wearing sorority jewelry/scarves/whatever. Like, a lot of NPHC groups have stuff in their colors with the founding year.