Lettered Shirts

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Originally Posted by Cheerio

(this is observed-in-the-Midwest guessing) Early 1960's university yearbooks feature women and men wearing long-sleeved Greek-letter sweatshirts. Relaxed fashion attitudes between decades (50's into 60's) should explain the inclination.

Recalling from previous GC threads: Indiana State University yearbooks are available for perusal online. The 1959 edition reveals Greek women in group photos wearing vests, ties, blazers, or short-sleeve blouses bearing their Greek crests and/or letters. Perhaps a natural progression onto sweatshirts for the letters?

During late 1980's and early 1990's Women wearing Men's Greek-house letters on shirts, and Men wearing Women's Greek-house letters on shirts, existed as a very common trend. This was not necessarily due to any Big Brother/Big Sister group affiliations, just a fun thing to cross-promote Greeks.

By 1997 it was hard to find Greek-affiliated students wearing their letters OR placing Greek stickers/platecovers on their cars. Perhaps someone here from that collegiate era could explain how/why that occurred. It lasted ten years, and IMO has not recovered to the high-point of Greek letters worn by students seen 25-30 years ago.

Maybe it was just my school or the region I lived in, but I was in college from 94-99 and letters were worn EVERYWHERE and plastered all over cars. :-) My favorite were our homecoming sweatshirts that were the homecoming design and then you flipped them inside out and they were just regular letters. And our moonball t-shirts that glowed in the dark. Awesomeness!