Wearing your letters?

[Sig624EI]

When I was at my undergraduate college we used to wear our letters like once a week, some fraternities we thought the guys only had jerseys, cause that's all they'd where.


I had to laugh today though, cause at my summer job I wore my jersey on casual day and my boss said "you're a Sigma Chi, man we hated those guys when I was in college, I am a Phi Kappa Tau... we laughed about it for a while and shared some interesting stories....

[PM_Mama00]

At UofM-Dearborn we wear our letters as much as possible, well at least I do! One of the chapters has a thing where they wear them every Monday (our meeting nites), and my chapter wears them every 3rd Monday. The fraternities wear them all the time. We're not allowed to wear them when we drink, so you never see sorority letters at parties, and rarely ever at the bar.

[finest_alum]

Illinois State (shout out to gammazetagirl at NIU We wore block letters on Wednesday, and party t's and stuff ALL THE TIME. Heck, when you have events every weekend and t-shirts for all of them, how can you NOT have one for every day of the week! LOL! We had a pretty casual campus (read: flannels, jeans were dressing up) so t-shirts were the norm.

[sigtau305]

at cleveland state university, most of the greek organization ( both bglo's and glo's ) wear their letters on a fairly consistant basis. while I can't speak for my Chapter, I wear my letters All the time

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Garth J. Lampkin
Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity
Beta Upsilon Chapter
Cleveland State University
Cleveland,Ohio

[SLOTheta]

I go to school in San Luis Obispo (Southern California) and I know a lot of greeks in SoCal, and it seems that we don't wear our letters as much as other regions. I know at Poly, we wear our letters on Thursdays, most greeks do, and for bid day, revealing, and other special greek days. Most guys don't wear block letters, only girls do, the guys think they are gay. Thetas like to wear their letters a lot, because we are proud!!! You will always find a Theta with her lavalier on. Most Greek girls have decals/license plate holders with their affiliations. The only guys that really wear a lot of lettered stuff are Pike and Lambda Chi's...most guys just wear t-shirts from sorority/fraternity events.

In general, people wear Cal Poly logo items above Greek ones...at UCLA, my friends that are Thetas just don't see the need to wear letters all the time, which I guess is the sentiment of the campus.

[Butterfly419]

Down here, in Miami, FL, you'll find greek letters everywhere. On campus, mostly everyone who is greek wears their letters on event shirts, tote bags, lavaliers, jerseys (with "block letters", which are the stitched kind), baby tees, and any other thing you can put letters on. The frats are pretty good about wearing their letters, but most of the time, you'll see them wearing shirts from rush or events. Whether you're at the gym or at the mall, chances are you'll see some sort of representation of Greek life. Car window stickers and tag frames are also really popular (You'll find them on the road all the time.)The point is, you earn your letters so you should be proud to wear them.

Alicia
Phi Sigma Sigma
"Damn proud to be a Phi Sig!"

[Dragon92]

At Southern Ill. Uni. - Carbondale we all wear our letters. The school is a meager 6-8% greek so its not that many ppl. My house isn't allowed to wear letters while drinking though.

[TPARose]

People at Pitt wear their letters like its going out of fashion Its a sign of a proud greek, and I know for me, a sign of achievement. We call them billboard letters because your basically advertising your sorority. And at least, in my chapter, we have one day a week when we wear our letters. I remember being so proud when I was able to actually wear my letters as a NI. Most people have the whole she-bang: Lavileres, letters, letters on bags, letters on windbreakers, even butt letters. Plus for my birthday I got and ultracute bracelet with engraving. To bad I have to disiffiliate to be a rho chi!! Im gonna go into letter-withdrawl!!

[James]

Have any of you noticed that a lot of the more popular Greek Stores seem to be putting out Greek Para that we would have worn in high school? Or as KDChick said more stylish in the 80's.

Although a couple of places seem to be putting out some nice tasteful stuff. It seems that people are even more style conscious than ever in the new milennia, maybe that has something to do with the wearing of Greek Para?

[Miami1839]

Yeah, it sure is. Isnt it awesome. Our administration is pretty anti greek also. Some Fraternties are more solid than others. I remember Sigma Chi, Pike, and Sig Ep having the biggest numbers. My chapter was really strong for 10 years and we had to close unfortunately. But hopefully we'll back back to George Mason sometime in the future. I dont think anyone should go through the feeling of seeing their charter pulled. It was pretty disheartening. But anyways, I'll give you a low down of the chapters at my school when I graduated. (1997)

Fraternities:

Beta Theta Pi
Kappa Sigma
Alpha Chi Rho
Pi Kappa Alpha
Sigma Chi
Alpha Kappa Lamda
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Phi Kappa Sigma
Pi Kappa Phi
Kappa Alpha
Sigma Nu
Theta Chi
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Chi Phi
There might have been a few others but these are what I remember

Sororities:

Chi Omega
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Gamma Phi Beta
Zeta Tau Alpha
Phi Mu
Alpha Xi Delta(came on campus after I graduated)

Originally posted by SSS1365



Wow, 22 GLO's is a lot for such a young school! I didn't know GMU had that many.

[TechAPhi]

At Texas Tech, letters are a big thing. As is the Greek system. We don't wear the sewn/embroidered letters. That seems to have fallen by the wayside here.

Party shirts and Rush shirts are really popular. Letters on gear is also popular: backpacks, windbreakers, drops, etc.

Attire on campus is pretty casual, so the party t-shirts are super popular.

Jen

[AOPIHottie]

Well, I am in Ft Worth now, but when I was in Denton, home of 2 fairly large schools, University of North Texas, and Texas Woman's University, you saw Letters EVERYWHERE!!! And even now in Ft Worth, with TCU you really see Party and rush shirts. I kinda think Greeks are a big thing here in Texas. Judging from the replies from the Ladies at Tech and Southwest TX(I think that was the other school mentioned, sorry) But hey, Go Texas Greeks!!!

[GtownGirl98]

Here at GC we wear our letter shirts everywhere, but mostly only on campus. I know that I put away most of my letter shirts in the summer and only wear my party tees. All of the GLOs on campus have their meetings on Monday nights, so that classes don't get put on this night. Then on Tuesdays my chapter has letter day. This shows all the freshmen who we are (we rush in the Spring) and how awesome we are too. So yes we wear letters!

[GatorsWearJorts]

Wearing letters is cool Freshman and Sophmore years, after that, no-one really does, unless it is a beat up sorority hayride shirt

[broomstick]

People wear their letters quite frequently on the University of Minnesota campus. I'm graduated and I still wear my letters.

Our house, however, has made the rule that we aren't allowed to consume alcohol or be drunk while wearing our letters outside of our chapter house.