Wearing letters in colors other than your GLO's

[REE1993]

I know I have seen this topic before, but I cannot find what I need via the search feature.

I keep reading about wearing ONLY your GLO's colors when it comes to letters, but back in my day, we used to get shirts/sweatshirts of any color with cute fabric for the letters themselves.

Is there a new trend in not allowing or discouraging members from wearing letters in colors that may belong to another group? For example, I have an old yellow sweatshirt with red and green plaid twill letters. I know that at least one sorority has these official colors. So would that be disrespectful?

I have seen sisters (NPC and non-NPC) wearing different combos of colors and patterns. FOR EXAMPLE: Is is inappropriate for an AXiD to wear a pink sweatshirt patterned fabric letters of, let's say, pink and white hearts (Phi Mu has pink and white)? I mean, it would be cute, but is it inappropriate now? Greekwear sites still offer patterns.

I am not speaking of chapter jerseys (which they didn't do in my era), I am talking about letters we buy each other or ourselves.

What's the scoop here?

[cuteASAbug]

If your sorority doesn't have any rules against it, I say do what you want.

[AlphaFrog]

We determined last time we had this argument that there are two factors:

1) Campus culture - if everyone else only wears their colors, you look odd wearing something else

2) Branding. When you think XYZ, you think Orange and sea green, for example, and it helps PNMs remember which is which.

I came from a campus where it didn't matter, and I have plaid letters, zebra letters, blue & purple letters, purple & white letters, green letters, navy & maroon letters, etc...

[susan314]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I came from a campus where it didn't matter, and I have plaid letters, zebra letters, blue & purple letters, purple & white letters, green letters, navy & maroon letters, etc...

Same here - I have letters in a variey of colors. It wasn't a big deal on my campus.

As a redhead, there are certain colors that just don't look flattering on me...at all. (Everyone has colors that don't flatter them, of course, but I think most redheads have a longer list of "bad" colors.) I guess I lucked out that, with our colors being red, buff, and green, I can at least wear something that has green as the main color. (I'd look god awful in a red shirt w/green and buff letters though. ) If I had ended up in a chapter that had primarily pinks or other colors that don't work for me...eek, I'm not sure what I'd do if we "had" to wear letters in our colors.

(As a side note - GPhiB's brown and mode would look awesome on me. )

[violetpretty]

I've only really seen NPC sororities wear letters in colors other than their own when I think about it, at least on my campus. I've never seen anything D9 in colors other than their own, and I don't think that even the NIC fraternities really wear other colors.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by JessSigKap

I've only really seen NPC sororities wear letters in colors other than their own when I think about it, at least on my campus. I've never seen anything D9 in colors other than their own, and I don't think that even the NIC fraternities really wear other colors.

D9ers DO NOT wear colors other than their own. (Unless they're clowning other groups.)

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

D9ers DO NOT wear colors other than their own. (Unless they're clowning other groups.)

YOu beat me to it.

Also in the event we, D9, were trying to clown another org by putting on their colors (like in a stepshow) we will not put our letters on those colors. EX. AKA will NOT be on Blue and White, or ZPhiB will not be on Red and White. See this thread.

[BlueNYC2]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

D9ers DO NOT wear colors other than their own. (Unless they're clowning other groups.)

shit, even this is a no no...i never understood why you spend money on para to rock some other orgs colors...thats just not smart...

[klplovely]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I came from a campus where it didn't matter, and I have plaid letters, zebra letters, blue & purple letters, purple & white letters, green letters, navy & maroon letters, etc...

Exactly! I'm wearing music note letters right now =)

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by REE1993

Is there a new trend in not allowing or discouraging members from wearing letters in colors that may belong to another group? For example, I have an old yellow sweatshirt with red and green plaid twill letters. I know that at least one sorority has these official colors. So would that be disrespectful?

I have seen sisters (NPC and non-NPC) wearing different combos of colors and patterns. FOR EXAMPLE: Is is inappropriate for an AXiD to wear a pink sweatshirt patterned fabric letters of, let's say, pink and white hearts (Phi Mu has pink and white)? I mean, it would be cute, but is it inappropriate now? Greekwear sites still offer patterns.

Last time I checked, I never knew of any NPC sororities that had rules that you could only wear letters in the sorority colors.

If there were those rules, then all kinds of people would be getting into trouble at my old school

I also don't consider it disrespectful to have your letters in some other sorority's colors... the groups don't own the colors, and some groups might even have the same colors.

[SoEnchanting]

Our letters are only worn on our colors, black, or white.

[adpiucf]

On my campus, it didn't matter and people wore letter shirts and jerseys in all colors and patterns. Some "families" had family patterns to their jerseys.

[REE1993]

Regarding letters on the butt, I think that it is disrespectful. I cannot imagine sitting on my letters. Or sHitting on my letters, either.

[AGoDdess]

Originally Posted by REE1993

Regarding letters on the butt, I think that it is disrespectful. I cannot imagine sitting on my letters. Or sHitting on my letters, either.

Hahaha thanks for that one, I laughed aloud.

Glad to see there are other people out there who are cool with random patterns...I go to an orange school in Georgia, and I just ordered a white jersey with red cuffs and NC State letters...and NC state doesn't have an AGD chapter! How many offenses is that in one jersey? Ha!