Wearing letters in colors other than your GLO's

[PhoenixAzul]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

I've heard a lot about getting letters in patterns or colors that match for your littles so your "family" shares a common theme. Is this a relatively new thing?
I have a photo of me and my big and her big...etc. going up to 5 of us but other than that, I had never heard of "families" within a chapter before.
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Because I'm in a local, and we were refounded in 1988, we all go back to one of five founding member trees. Each of the trees has a sort of "theme" or even a very specific pattern that they use...it's a way to keep everyone straight! Some girls are in 2 or 3 different trees, so it can be confusing. Don't know how this would work in a national organization, unless you went back to chapter founder trees?

[carnation]

One of my Chi O daughters had a family who all had bumblebee letters for their sewn shirts. Really cute!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul

Because I'm in a local, and we were refounded in 1988, we all go back to one of five founding member trees. Each of the trees has a sort of "theme" or even a very specific pattern that they use...it's a way to keep everyone straight! Some girls are in 2 or 3 different trees, so it can be confusing. Don't know how this would work in a national organization, unless you went back to chapter founder trees?

Which is easy when your chapter's a few decades old or less, but go back much further than that and your screwed Even 20 years would be nearly impossible without having intended to do so in the first place. And that's assuming meticulous record keeping. I'm quite impressed!

[bejazd]

So, BabyPink FL...just curious...a jersey is not a sweatshirt, right? is that like a football jersey? not sure I have the right idea exactly. I know Gamma Phi and Phi Mu have not been on a lot of the same campuses, but we are expanding in the South...and we Gamma Phis have always used pink and white for the pink carnation...and also because brown is tough to come by in greek letter fashions!

On campuses where the jersey color is a tradition, would Phi Mus take exception to Gammies wearing pink and white?

Sat next to a Phi Mu on a plane coming from TN to CA once...she was so adorable!

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Originally Posted by bejazd

So, BabyPink FL...just curious...a jersey is not a sweatshirt, right? is that like a football jersey? not sure I have the right idea exactly. I know Gamma Phi and Phi Mu have not been on a lot of the same campuses, but we are expanding in the South...and we Gamma Phis have always used pink and white for the pink carnation...and also because brown is tough to come by in greek letter fashions!

On campuses where the jersey color is a tradition, would Phi Mus take exception to Gammies wearing pink and white?

Sat next to a Phi Mu on a plane coming from TN to CA once...she was so adorable!

Jersey link:http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i6...chapterpic.jpg
I won't lie, I'd have problem with it. Gamma Phi has brown and mode. I don't know how they do some campuses with both, but I don't think it would go over well at my campus as an official jersey color. I notice a lot of GPB chapters adopt pink and white. I've seen only one adopt pink and black. Granted, you can use whatever colors you'd like honestly. But I personally wouldn't care much for it. We (NPC) all have for the most part, different colors and we chose (historically) these colors for a reason but I will admit that brown is not the easiest color to rock, so I do understand . Notice I said personally as in speaking for MYSELF (just so no one gets mad. Please no one have a fit!) And some groups do have the same basic colors Blue/Gold/Silver tend to get used up a lot but at my campus we've never dealt with it before either, so I guess we'd have to just adapt if that were the case.

[guardedbystars]

I wear colors other than blue and white all the time

I have pattern ones too, like most other PHA sororities do.

[BlueNYC2]

as a BGLO member, that is a no no. that shit will get you fucked up by members in your own org, especially them old school ones...SP91 and b4...

i've seen pics b4 of a few bglo members that did that, and i just smh. i know their founders are spinning in their graves...or in the iotas case, bout to put someone back in the cut.

i would NEVER put my letters in any other color but ROYAL BLUE & PURE WHITE...if i ever did, i deserve to get thrown back in the cut for that shit, and have my para ripped off me...

i always wondered why the non-NPHC orgs do that tho. i was at the March of Dimes Walk America a couple of weeks ago, and i seen a bunch of non-nphc orgs and they had their letters in different colors...i was shocked & dumbfounded...all i could do was smh...

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by BlueNYC2

as a BGLO member, that is a no no. that shit will get you fucked up by members in your own org, especially them old school ones...SP91 and b4...

i've seen pics b4 of a few bglo members that did that, and i just smh. i know their founders are spinning in their graves...or in the iotas case, bout to put someone back in the cut.

i would NEVER put my letters in any other color but ROYAL BLUE & PURE WHITE...if i ever did, i deserve to get thrown back in the cut for that shit, and have my para ripped off me...

2. i always wondered why the non-NPHC orgs do that tho. i was at the March of Dimes Walk America a couple of weeks ago, and i seen a bunch of non-nphc orgs and they had their letters in different colors...i was shocked & dumbfounded...all i could do was smh...

Stop

When I saw it, I was confused also, because I am so use to NPHC only wearing their colors so when I saw non-NPHC GLOs doind such I was

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by BlueNYC2

as a BGLO member, that is a no no. that shit will get you fucked up by members in your own org, especially them old school ones...SP91 and b4...

i've seen pics b4 of a few bglo members that did that, and i just smh. i know their founders are spinning in their graves...or in the iotas case, bout to put someone back in the cut.

i would NEVER put my letters in any other color but ROYAL BLUE & PURE WHITE...if i ever did, i deserve to get thrown back in the cut for that shit, and have my para ripped off me...

i always wondered why the non-NPHC orgs do that tho. i was at the March of Dimes Walk America a couple of weeks ago, and i seen a bunch of non-nphc orgs and they had their letters in different colors...i was shocked & dumbfounded...all i could do was smh...

Personally I agree with you. Maybe I'm more "hardcore" about it than most people...(is that the right word..."into it"? I don't know.)

I sometimes wish that NPC sororities were as "hardcore" as NPHC orgs...but it'll never happen, so be it. Love it though...I guess respect comes in different levels and is taken with different levels of severity depending on the council or organization.