Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

On my campus every chapter has an official jersey in their colors. Then most orgs. have "families" with their own specidific jersey colors and then you can make t-shirts however you'd like or with various patterns or random favorite colors. But a lot of people do their favorite fraternity and do shirts: Ex: a "Sammy Girl" would get a Sammy colored jersey or shirt or whatever. Ex: My "big brother" is a TKE (so is my BF and Big Sister is the Sweetheart of '06 and her BF is a TKE, etc. etc.) so I have a TKE colored jersey with my letters.

However, it would be in poor taste for me to have a DPHIE (purple, gold)colored jersey as I'm not a DPHIE or an AOII (red & white) jersey, or whatever (now I can have a red jersey [for example my TKE colored jersey is red w/ silver letters and a white background], but I wouldn't go out and get a red jersey with white letters and black background because that is the AOII jersey here).

It's confusing from the back and yes people would take offense for another girl to be wearing my jersey/jersey colors that's not a member. It does kind of grind my gears that a lot of people (I will not name names) have a tendency to use Pink and White (not at my school necessarily, but elsewhere). Pink is the only color Phi Mu has technically, and for someone else to use it excessively can become a problem for PNMs (who are easily confused).
(Plus as Kevin from BSB once said "Find your own identity!")

On my campus, we're "the pink ones" to most of them and if some other group busted out with pink jerseys, non-Greeks would not get it. And just out of respect to the colors we have, why would someone else go and make that their "official" colors when it's not theirs or what their founders or decision makers put in their ritual?

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

On my campus every chapter has an official jersey in their colors. Then most orgs. have "families" with their own specidific jersey colors and then you can make t-shirts however you'd like or with various patterns or random favorite colors. But a lot of people do their favorite fraternity and do shirts: Ex: a "Sammy Girl" would get a Sammy colored jersey or shirt or whatever. Ex: My "big brother" is a TKE (so is my BF and Big Sister is the Sweetheart of '06 and her BF is a TKE, etc. etc.) so I have a TKE colored jersey with my letters.

However, it would be in poor taste for me to have a DPHIE (purple, gold)colored jersey as I'm not a DPHIE or an AOII (red & white) jersey, or whatever (now I can have a red jersey [for example my TKE colored jersey is red w/ silver letters and a white background], but I wouldn't go out and get a red jersey with white letters and black background because that is the AOII jersey here).

It's confusing from the back and yes people would take offense for another girl to be wearing my jersey/jersey colors that's not a member. It does kind of grind my gears that a lot of people (I will not name names) have a tendency to use Pink and White (not at my school necessarily, but elsewhere). Pink is the only color Phi Mu has technically, and for someone else to use it excessively can become a problem for PNMs (who are easily confused).
(Plus as Kevin from BSB once said "Find your own identity!")

On my campus, we're "the pink ones" to most of them and if some other group busted out with pink jerseys, non-Greeks would not get it. And just out of respect to the colors we have, why would someone else go and make that their "official" colors when it's not theirs or what their founders or decision makers put in their ritual?

Glad someone agrees with me then...I don't know, I guess I just don't like putting my letters in someone else's colors. Alpha Gamma Delta's colors do not include pink, for instance. The guys colors is cool...I couldn't, though, since my boyfriend is a Delta Chi. We have Chi O on campus, and we are always careful to "never forget the green"...most, anyway. It's kinda of a way to be respectful to our letters as well as to Chi O.

It's usually just an individual basis thing...the only big problem is the DG jerseys...though in their defense they are probably cheaper in pink and white and the whoever came up with the idea probably assumed that no one could get the letters ΔΓ and ΦΜ mixed up...and that's a legitimate point when we're talking about Greeks, but PNMs do use color, because I know I did, to differentiate. I think in the long run it doesn't hurt during Recruitment because the DG's become the "pink ones", and the Phi Mus have these baseball jersey shirts they wear that are distinctive as well...but it leads to some confusion. Didn't mean to call them out, that's just the only chapter wide example on campus...it's just a pet peeve of mine no matter if it's a lot of people or only one person. My mom said her only jerseys were always green and white (KD) and when she'd give me one for a present it would always be red, buff, and green in some way. I think it's a respect-your-letters thing. Maybe I'm uptight, though.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

I think it's a respect-your-letters thing.

I respect ASA whether it's ASA ASA or ASA.

They mean the same thing, regardless of color.

It's like Sheila likes to say - respect the letters themselves, not the fabric sewed to a sweatshirt.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I respect ASA whether it's ASA ASA or ASA.

They mean the same thing, regardless of color.

It's like Sheila likes to say - respect the letters themselves, not the fabric sewed to a sweatshirt.

It's the principle of it. I realize the colors aren't the most important part of the organization, but they're still a part of it...kinda like being on the USA Olympic team and showing up wearing Russia's flag on your shirt. Yeah, you're on the USA team and you're in your uniform...but you're wearing someone else's flag because you think it's cuter. Doesn't scream "team spirit". It just seems like a little thing to do to be supportive...I mean I like skull and crossbones designs and I love anchors, I miss the color pink, I love the combination of blue and white, and I like pink and blue together...but I make the small sacrifice of not incorporating them into my sorority paraphenalia because they aren't mine...and dressing Alpha Gamma Delta in, say, Phi Mu's colors doesn't seem right.

[LaneSig]

I hate when someone calls me a "Sig Chi". Our nickname is "Sig". Just "Sig".

I was wearing a shirt with the letters on it one day. Someone asked me why I had "ex" on my shirt.

[cuteASAbug]

It's just a t shirt. Besides, considering that there are 26 sororities in the NPC, people's colors are bound to overlap. On my campus we have both ASA and AOII, and we both use red and white as our colors.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

It's just a t shirt. Besides, considering that there are 26 sororities in the NPC, people's colors are bound to overlap. On my campus we have both ASA and AOII, and we both use red and white as our colors.

I don't view anything with my letters on it as "JUST a..." because it also has my letters. Overlapping of official colors is one thing...making a pink and white AGD jersey is another.