"Dropping" your girlfriend (with a twist)

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

Okay, so someone help me out here. Given my feelings about letters, why do I think it's okay for a girl to wear her boyfriend's letters? I hate it when I realize I have double standards.

I think the hang-up is that when it is a female wearing a guy's letters you know she isn't really a member. You can't tell when it is another female.

And I know this might open up the whole double stitched block letter debate, but I don't have a problem with a girlfriend wearing a sorority lavalier or a date party tee-shirt or something, but a block letter shirt is something different. I guess if it is something that might be given to a non-member to wear it would be okay, but a member's only thing (like a block letter sweater) I might have a problem with.

Then again, I didn't really like it when my sisters wore their boyfriends letter sweatshirts around either. I guess it seemed TO ME like they were putting their boyfriends letters above thier own (by wearing someone else's letters).

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

Then again, I didn't really like it when my sisters wore their boyfriends letter sweatshirts around either. I guess it seemed TO ME like they were putting their boyfriends letters above thier own (by wearing someone else's letters).

I know exactly what you mean - it always kind of got on my nerves when girls wore their boyfriend's letters ALL THE TIME but only wore their own letters when they HAD to (i.e. rush, Greek week events etc).

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

Then again, I didn't really like it when my sisters wore their boyfriends letter sweatshirts around either. I guess it seemed TO ME like they were putting their boyfriends letters above thier own (by wearing someone else's letters).

Thanks, that put it into perspective for me. I didn't think of it before, but I just realized that even though I was lavaliered in college I personally never wore his letters while other lavaliered girls did. Looking back I think it would have felt strange and wrong somehow. (Although they wouldn't have actually been his letters since he's a Fiji.)