letter shirts

[kristun999]

My boyfriend dosen't have any letters, and I was planning on making him some for christmas. I've called a few places looking for templates or patterns to trace the letters with backgrounds, but can't find any anywhere. I don't have the money to go to a place that makes the shirts, and I have the ability to sew my own.

Does anybody know where I can find the templates or patters or whatever to cut out the letters so they are all the same size and shape?

[33girl]

Did you check Jo-Ann Fabrics or Michael's? They used to have them.

[kristun999]

i've called a jo-ann, but all they had were some iron on stuff that was on clearance. they didn't have anything with the backgrounds.

[LatinaAlumna]

As an undergrad, I once used a set of letters on one of my sweatshirts to make "templates" of letters to sew on a scrapbook cover. It took me a long time (because I was trying to trace them exactly right) but it came out nice and everyone thought I bought a set of letters just for the scrapbook. You might be able to try this if you can borrow a set of his letters from someone(?)

[indygphib]

Try the link posted in post #2:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=81517

As alum said, you need to enlarge the letters to 107 percent to make letters exactly four inches tall. Good luck!

[PhiGam]

Are you talking about one of those gaudy lettered Tshirts? You actually want your boyfriend to wear one of those?
Buy him some RL and Brooks Brothers.
People should know that you're in a fraternity because of the way you act and conduct yourself, lettered shirts are unneeded.

[Xidelt]

www.localsororities.org

Click on "resources"
They have letter stencils for every letter of the Greek alphabet there.

[SthrnZeta]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

Are you talking about one of those gaudy lettered Tshirts? You actually want your boyfriend to wear one of those?
Buy him some RL and Brooks Brothers.
People should know that you're in a fraternity because of the way you act and conduct yourself, lettered shirts are unneeded.

Lettered shirts were and still are popular on my campus and they show pride in your organization. Nothing gaudy about that. I think your comment was "unneeded."

[rufio]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

Are you talking about one of those gaudy lettered Tshirts? You actually want your boyfriend to wear one of those?
Buy him some RL and Brooks Brothers.
People should know that you're in a fraternity because of the way you act and conduct yourself, lettered shirts are unneeded.

Do you say those things because FIJIs aren't allowed to wear actual Letters?

[kristun999]

I'm in a southern arkansas school. I don't have the money to afford RL or Brooks Brothers. And lettered shirts are VERY popular on my campus. He is one of the few people in his fraternity that dosen't have a letter shirt. neither does his little brother cuz he can't afford them.

[SthrnZeta]

If letters are popular on your campus, then I think it's a great gift idea. I always love getting letters, even as an alum. Heck, I wore 'em on Saturday (they even have "Alumna" stiched below the letters). I can completely understand not being able to afford them, as they can get pretty pricey, especially the hoodies. Unfortunately, I've never made any cuz I'm not that crafty, so I just scour e-bay

And yeah, maybe that guy said that since they don't wear letters at all since they're FIJI. Good call rufio. And if she can't afford to buy letters, then she sure won't be buying any Ralph Lauren or Brooks Brothers. The labels on your clothes shouldn't define you as a fraternity man EITHER. That's kind of the point of letters, of any organizational t-shirt, is to show your membership in that org and the fact that you're wearing it across your chest shows your pride. I don't wear Ann Taylor because I want to show I'm a sorority snob, I wear it because I like the styles, the clothes don't make me a sorority woman.

[33girl]

It has nothing to do w/ Fijis not being able to wear letters - his chapter doesn't even go by Fiji, they go by Phi Gam - it's that at some schools there's a sort of reverse snobbery about not wearing them, that it supposedly makes you look more "elite." Whatever.

[ForeverRoses]

Hmm. I see FIJIs (or Phi Gam or Phi Gamma Delta or whatever you want to call yourselves) wearing letter-shirts. They just say "FIJI" on them instead of the greek letters. But they are the regular, double-stitched with a background shirts.

[nittanyalum]

Same at Penn State (when I was there), you'd see FIJI on sweatshirts and tshirts all over the place. I think what 33girl is saying is that campus to campus, certain houses may not wear letters for whatever reason they have, and on some campuses it's more campus-wide that wearing letters is "looked down on". When I was in school, Betas didn't wear letters on our campus. They said you would "just know a Beta" when you see him. I had a guy in several of my classes the last couple years, he finally wore something that identified him as a Beta right toward the end of spring semester senior year. Great guy but I never had any clue he was a Beta until that moment (and yes, I did tell him ).

[tld221]

i dont know where yall are shopping for lettered items, but ive never paid more than $30 for a hoodie. and around $20 for a lettered t-shirt.

is that "expensive?" i figure with buying the supplies and the labor put in, the cost is worth it to have it professionally done.