Wearing your letters?

[ZTAMich]

Am I right in assuming that party shirts are the ones that are made up for certain events, etc bid day or whatnot?

[Leslie Anne]

yep!

[KDCHICK]

I think that more people wore block letter's in the 80's than they do now. Think about they had more greek movies, so greek life was more in pop culture. However when I was at spring break, in panama city alot of people wore their letters. Personally you should want to wear your letters you earned them.

[kjalvey]

Originally Posted by KDCHICK

I think that more people wore block letter's in the 80's than they do now. Think about they had more greek movies, so greek life was more in pop culture. However when I was at spring break, in panama city alot of people wore their letters. Personally you should want to wear your letters you earned them.

When I was in college in the 90's we all wore bloch letters, too. Think it must just depend on your school and area you are in?! I still wear mine and that was 10 years ago! HAHA :-) I earned the right to wear them, so I do!

KIM :-)

[ufdale]

Here at U Florida EVERYONE wears letters, especially on those navy and orange windbreakers (every sorority girl just about has one). The entire greek community wears letters on Wednesday. It's "Letters Wednesday." I figured it was the same everywhere, but I guess not.

My sorority even has a tshirt chair because we have so many tshirts that we make. Not that many girls wear block letters (especially not me because the shirts are maroon which is too close to FSU's crimson for comfort) but all the guys have them.

[KSUViolet06]

Here @ Kent, everybody wears letters. In fact, Wednesday is designated as Letters Day by Panhellenic.

The big thing here is hoodies though, since it snows 6 months out of the year. You're more likely to see girls wearing lettered hoodies as opposed to baby tees because it's too cold most of the time.

Lettered tote bags (aka "Bitch Bags") are a big deal here also. Big sisters usually give them to their Littles for Revealing or Initiation. EVEry sorority girl has one.

Something everyone does here that I really can't stand is DOUBLE LETTERING. Double lettering= wearing 2 lettered items at once (like wearing a shirt & carrying your bag). I think it's tacky, but that's just my opinion.

[PeppyGPhiB]

At Pepperdine in the late 90s-early 2000s we wore block letters every Wednesday, plus any other time we wanted. Might be different now, but I doubt it.

[KatieKate1244]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Something everyone does here that I really can't stand is DOUBLE LETTERING. Double lettering= wearing 2 lettered items at once (like wearing a shirt & carrying your bag). I think it's tacky, but that's just my opinion.

I'll admit, I'm very guilty of this.

My chapter usually wears letter 2-3 times a week. We wear both block letters and bid day/party shirts. Letter hoodies are really popular around here.

[SigKapSweetie]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Something everyone does here that I really can't stand is DOUBLE LETTERING. Double lettering= wearing 2 lettered items at once (like wearing a shirt & carrying your bag). I think it's tacky, but that's just my opinion.

I did this a lot in college, mostly because my sorority tote bag was the only bag/backpack I owned, so if I wanted to wear a lettered shirt and bring my books to class, I had to double letter. It's very common at Florida.

[USFSDTAlum]

Every Wednesday has been unofficially designated as wear your letters and represent, so most Greeks have letters on on wednesday, also at philanthropy events you'll see almost everyone in letters. People wear letters around campus, or at the least party shirts or whatever. As far as off campus I don't just hang around in my letters for 2 reasons. 1, I have more respect for them then to wear them to clean my house or do the laundry or whatever. 2, When I am off campus among the general population I don't care for people commenting on my personal behavior and chalking it up to "those greeks". If I say a swear word in public its not because I'm Greek...its because I felt like using an expletitive to express my emotion. I hate when people are wearing their letters and are doing something stupid/acting like a moron...its like, I know you're not in my sorority but you're still representing Greek Life on my campus. so go home or shut the hell up but just stop being stupid.

[SSS1365]

On my campus, you'll see people wearing their letters all the time. In most GLO's here, however, block letters are not worn until after initiation.

[RUgreek]

At Rutgers University, everyone is falling apart and the everyday students dislikes greeks, so you'll hardly see anyone wearing letters on campus. It's kind of sad that no one has any pride for their letters, but then again there is no greek unity so nobody would even notice each other if they did wear 'em...

[ilovemyglo]

At WKU everyone wears letters, whether it is block shirts which are popular (we can get them made at the local greek store) and usually they say something on the back like "Sarah's Big Sis" or "Katie's lil" or "Jackie's Dot" etc (Dot and Mom are AGD only I think!). There is also a lot of "Tonya's ALS" as in Adopted little sister or "Jackie's ABS" adopted Big Sis. Things like that. The guys don't do this, but they do wear their block shirts. It shows what org you are in and that you are proud of it. We have letter days on Mondays for my chapter and we wear badge attire on Thursday, but each chapter picks a day!


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[shadokat]

Everyone on our campus wears letters proudly. Our sorority has a letter wearing schedule, where certain sisters wear letters each day of the week. It's great to keep your name out there.

[Tara Archer]

As a local soriety on a campus of all national chapters, we need to wear our letters to keep our name out there. When I got into my soriety I wanted the letters so badly. I would never dream of not wearing my letters as much as possible. It used to be a joke with my pledge class that when we got in we wanted to staple the letters to our chests...gross sounding yes, but we all know whats its like to be a pledge