What Does Your Basic Badge Look Like?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Titchou

But then again, we women......

Well, there is that to factor in.

[WCsweet<3]

Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

I can't speak for all the NPC sororities, but Delta Zetas are required to order their own Badge even if they don't choose to wear it in favor of a relative's passed down Badge.

As for the heavy jeweled badges vs. the plainer ones, I think it is all a matter of what the sister or brother likes and can afford at the time.

Anyone else care to weigh in?

Ditto. New KD sisters are (perhaps were, it's been a while) required to order a badge as part of initiation. You can order a fancy one, but most order plain. I ordered plain and was then given a bejeweled one. I'd love to have one passed down.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

I can't speak for all the NPC sororities, but Delta Zetas are required to order their own Badge even if they don't choose to wear it in favor of a relative's passed down Badge.

This post caught my eye just now ...

An AEPhi alumna can gift her badge to a legacy (sister, daughter, or granddaughter) upon the legacy's initiation into AEPhi. It's the legacy's choice whether to wear her sister's / mother's / grandmother's badge or buy one of her own. This is the only situation where a new member is not required to buy her own badge.

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by badgeguy

Quick question: if ones son or daughter is in school and gets initiated, which kind of badge is better, an antique badge passed down in the family or a brand new plain pin?

I had just the standard plain pin, but then bought the "top of the line" badge with all pearls and was very large....the other guys in the house really didnt think anything of it and thought I was trying to show them up.....

I am curious if the old heavy jeweled badges were more for alumni or current members?

Thoughts?

BG

Most of my chapter got fancy badges. Specific family lines sometimes had specific badge patterns, ie. one family line always bought all pearls and one always bought pearls with emerald points. Other family lines were just "whatever." I didn't get a fancy badge until much later.

I volunteered as alum at another chapter after I graduated and they mostly got plain badges. A few got fancy badges. The chapter also owned a few very old, fancy badges that were worn for specific offices or officer positions and then passed on to the next person to get the scholarship or position.

[Sciencewoman]

I initiated at one of our oldest chapters. Everyone got blinged out badges...that was the culture. At this chapter, our pledge class spent a whole Saturday afternoon on "Labor" day polishing the copious sterling silver collection. I transferred and affiliated at a younger chapter. Almost everyone at that chapter got the basic silver badge. That irked me, because I felt like they were "cheaping out." They didn't have any sterling to polish. What each group valued was different, but I loved both chapters equally.

[sigmagirl2000]

Here's what our current "basic" badge is. When I was initiated (12 years ago, ack!) we didn't have a silver option.


The scroll work I don't find as lovely as the older scroll badges (My second rescue, a 1938 gold scroll):

[pshsx1]

As I've mentioned, this is our basic, basic badge option which we receive at (or around) initiation/Epsilon.



It's super cheap. Like. $12. I really want to upgrade to a gold/pearl badge when I have extra money to blow.

ETA: Here's our new member badge:



This is the 10K gold upgrade, but usually it's just a cheap (and very fragile) version.

[aephi alum]

All AEPhis wear the same badge. 27 pearls, letters set in sequence on a yellow gold bar. The sister's initials are engraved on the back of the bar. Our only option is guard or no guard.

Here's a pic of my badge. I posted this to the "badge trends" thread a while back. The picture includes a dime for size comparison. Subtract the guard and dangles and you've got our basic badge.



One of the really nice things about our all having the same badge is that they almost always arrive in time for initiation. NMs fill out a form with their initials and "guard or no guard" and cut a check early on in the NM period, and the NME sends everything off to nationals. Provided that this happens in a timely manner, the badges are shipped to the chapter in time for initiation. This way, each new sister is pinned at initiation with the badge she will keep for life - not a "loaner" - and big sisters don't have to do without their badges for any length of time, or worry that their little will lose their badge.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

One of the really nice things about our all having the same badge is that they almost always arrive in time for initiation. NMs fill out a form with their initials and "guard or no guard" and cut a check early on in the NM period, and the NME sends everything off to nationals. Provided that this happens in a timely manner, the badges are shipped to the chapter in time for initiation.

It may work that way for y'all, but not for us, since we order badges later in the probationary member period.

Originally Posted by pshsx1

Okay, it seems that it's standard in the sororities that everyone pays for their own badge or they don't go through initiation. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Based on what has been said in some other threads, I think that in some sororities (or some chapters of some sororities), the basic badge is included in the initiation fee, while in some others, everyone pays for the badge of choice separately. And some sororities don't require members to purchase badges at all.

For SigEp, all of our standard pins are covered by our dues and come out of the Chaplain's budget. Does anyone else not have to pay for their badge?

For us, the basic badge is included in the initiation fee.

[pshsx1]

Okay, it seems that it's standard in the sororities that everyone pays for their own badge or they don't go through initiation. Correct me if I'm wrong.

For SigEp, all of our standard pins are covered by our dues and come out of the Chaplain's budget. Does anyone else not have to pay for their badge?

[SilverTurtle]

Here's our most basic badge:



The only upgrades available are either 10k gold (the standard is a gold gloss or maybe electroplate I think) and/or pearls.

Our badge is an included part of our initiation fees. We price it separately, though, since the price of gold/jewelry fluctuates and we don't have control over when/if that happens.

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by SilverTurtle

Here's our most basic badge:



The only upgrades available are either 10k gold (the standard is a gold gloss or maybe electroplate I think) and/or pearls.

Our badge is an included part of our initiation fees. We price it separately, though, since the price of gold/jewelry fluctuates and we don't have control over when/if that happens.

That is a lovely pin!

[generallygreek]

This is our most basic badge.



I couldn't find a picture with the guard. My badge has a diamond in the arrowhead, and many of the girls in my chapter choose to get badges with stones inlaid in the shaft of the arrow. The chain has twelve links, to represent our twelve founders.

[AGDee]

Our basic badge. Every member must pay for a badge and it is ordered right after Initiation. New members can select other badges right from the start at most chapters. Some just get the plain one for everybody though, it seems. I've met women who didn't seem to realize they could have gotten a different one.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Our basic badge. Every member must pay for a badge and it is ordered right after Initiation. New members can select other badges right from the start at most chapters. Some just get the plain one for everybody though, it seems. I've met women who didn't seem to realize they could have gotten a different one.

Somehow your AGD plain badge seems a little too plain; much prefer your letters in their jeweled varieties.