Lilly Pulitzer Anyone?

[GTAlphaPhi]

Unfortunately, the comments following each video announcement of the "print class" are often shockingly rude and un-Panhellenic.

[SWTXBelle]

I'm just going to work on not caring one way or the other - the whole "vote" thing strikes me as manipulative and leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by GTAlphaPhi

Unfortunately, the comments following each video announcement of the "print class" are often shockingly rude and un-Panhellenic.

Even though it's my job position, I had to reprimand a sister last time for bad mouthing another sorority. Ridiculous.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I'm just going to work on not caring one way or the other - the whole "vote" thing strikes me as manipulative and leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

If it strikes you that way, then you do care. It's a print. I'm excited Phi Mu is one of the winners, but who cares if we didn't win? Like everyone said, eventually everyone is going to get one. Voting just adds a fun aspect to it and apparently GREAT PR for the company. (proven so, we could care less here in Michigan but everyone is posting about it)

[SWTXBelle]

Note I said I was going to WORK on not caring. That's because of the bad taste in my mouth. Obviously, I cared enough to vote. But the whole voting charade? I don't like it, and it has turned me off the whole thing. So apparently they lost me, but gained Michigan. I would love to know how the sales track.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Note I said I was going to WORK on not caring. That's because of the bad taste in my mouth. Obviously, I cared enough to vote. But the whole voting charade? I don't like it, and it has turned me off the whole thing. So apparently they lost me, but gained Michigan. I would love to know how the sales track.

There's such a long gap between the voting and the release of the patterns, I'd be curious as well. Not only that, but then there is another big gap between the pattern reveal and the time when there is actually stuff for purchase.

Someone upthread speculated that they try to do a mix of big and small groups each time, to be sure they build buzz, and the more I think about it, the more it seems that may be their strategy.

[glittergal1985]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Note I said I was going to WORK on not caring. That's because of the bad taste in my mouth. Obviously, I cared enough to vote. But the whole voting charade? I don't like it, and it has turned me off the whole thing. So apparently they lost me, but gained Michigan. I would love to know how the sales track.

I totally get where you're coming from. While I love Lilly Pulitzer, I wish they would get ride of this teasing and "voting" nonsense and just go ahead and release the prints. Especially after the last round, when they claimed that the winning groups were the ones who were "loudest and proudest" in proudest. Many current college women feel that sorority=life, and not getting a print can feel like a slap in the face to their sorority.Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the groups that have won so far as I love seeing new greek prints, but I really wish they would cover just cover the whole NPC already.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by glittergal1985

I totally get where you're coming from. While I love Lilly Pulitzer, I wish they would get ride of this teasing and "voting" nonsense and just go ahead and release the prints. Especially after the last round, when they claimed that the winning groups were the ones who were "loudest and proudest" in proudest. Many current college women feel that sorority=life, and not getting a print can feel like a slap in the face to their sorority.Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the groups that have won so far as I love seeing new greek prints, but I really wish they would cover just cover the whole NPC already.

Meh. I know and work with Sigma collegians on a daily basis (and have tons of collegiate Sigma friends on FB and twitter) who, not gonna lie, were all OMG LILLY PRINT VOTING, but when we came up without a print (which is no surprise, we're not that big of an org) I didn't see one comment about it. Why? Because I think we know (and I should hope that other sorority collegians know) that they're just bags and clothes. Nothing to be offended over.

And re: people saying they're going to "boycott" Lilly, that's silly.