<p>I love the phallic looking geoduck on my windshield— EVERGREEN PARENT.</p>
<p>KAtwkittens - welcome to the South - you should see what people do down here for Alabama and Auburn! The biggest logo wearers are people who never went to the school. One of the earliest questions my son had to face on the playground (age 6) was - Who do you go for?.</p>
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<p>I’m a little surprised that NC State stuff is more prevelent than UNC in your neck of the woods. UNC hoops and specifically the retired, but amazing Michael Jordan rules!</p>
<p>and kity - my mother was a Bulldog…I was a Quaker</p>
<p>you went to Franklin?ooh arch rivals ( If I paid attention to that- which I don’t think they do any more-… too much anyway)
My mom went to Garfield- lived at the end of Yesler. Her house is gone now but my great aunts house that her husband built with teak from the Lake Union shipyard is still there.</p>
<p>" I’ve gotten used to seeing “Oxford” and “Harvard” on the most unlikely chests."</p>
<p>As one myself, let me tell you that an Oxford grad would never be caught wearing an Oxford sweatshirt (except maybe a member of Oxford Blues), but the one of their college. Now I have this black and pink striped scarf…</p>
<p>I have a friend who lives in Austin (UT grad), married to a VA Tech grad, daughter goes to OU. Rule at their house - whichever football team is ranked highest has their flag flown outside the house. Several years ago, when VA Tech was very highly ranked, they were flying the Gobbler flag. She said most people thought it was some kind of angry Thanksgiving turkey flag. :)</p>
<p>When my daughter and I were college shopping a few years ago a friend of mine and I, who also had a son the same age, would compare notes after our seperate college visits. After awhile our short cut question to ask if the last one was THE school was, “Well, did you buy the sweatshirt?”</p>
<p>Son has a friend who is going to Gettysburg College in PA. A week before his HS graduation the college sent him a t-shirt that said Gettysburg College Class of 2008. I thought it was pretty cool. Of course, with current college attendance going into 5 and even 6 years, that shirt might not be so popular in 4 years.</p>
<p>I was going to buy a Univ of Redlands sticker for my rear windshield but it didn’t seem worth $12. I still wear my BA USC ring every day-but it is very pretty and smooth-reserve the H’s grandma’s rings for special occasions. I have had a USC alumni license plate holder forever-gold is fading but too lazy to replace it.</p>
<p>Last yr I got tired of people (other parents waiting, attending kid’s events) talking to me only when I was worthy (wearing the Alumni shirts) that the clothes hang in the closet. Did run into lots of nice strangers that wanted to talk football.</p>
<p>Do wear my Univ of Redlands Mom sweatshirt-wish they had more variety in the bookstore.</p>
<p>LOL ag54. My S also hates logos. Once bought a pair of Tommy Hilfiger pants because he liked the style and color, but only on the basis that the very discreet logo was removable and I would do that for him. I did.</p>
<p>I wish his college logo apparel choice was as defining as yours and kathiep’s. We could tell he liked a school based only on whether he wanted a tee shirt from the bookstore, but for him that was about seven of them - making for a rather long “short list.”</p>
<p>Well, I’ve always been a booster for my daughter’s schools and teams, whether public or private. I’d put a sticker on my car whether she went to U of Penn or Penn State. I like feeling connected to where she is, even if it’s that tenuous, and I enjoy meeting other parents who also have kids at her school. It’s just fun.</p>
<p>Easier than embroidering “college” on a sweatshirt to make a silent protest of “vanity” gear–just cut the “college” part off of any school’s decal and put that on your car, as one of our neighbor’s kids did.</p>
<p>Yah jmmom, I have also had to remove many labels from pants pockets.</p>
<p>Driver, it’s one thing for my DD to wear her protest sweatshirt, but I am not putting any college decal on my car. The only decal I sport is a good old US of A flag.</p>
<p>I remember driving on a Kansas highway (during our grad school years) with H and having a car honk at us while passing. We looked at these strangers with puzzled looks on our faces as they waved enthusiastically at us and gestured toward the back of their car. Once they passed us, we realized that they also had an MIT sticker on the back of their car! I personally get a kick out of the Starfleet Academy decals!</p>
<p>After so many auditions and so many rejection letters, my daughter very proudly, and deservedly, put a Millikin University sticker on her car! In fact, when she left for college and officially gave her car to her almost-16-year-old brother, she announced that he could take off the “Drama Queen” bumper sticker, the “I Love to Dance” sticker, the “I only do what the Rice Krispies in my head tell me” sticker, but he wasn’t allowed to take off the Millikin bumper sticker.</p>
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<p>We live in University of Washington area. Imagine the looks we get when I wear my UCLA sweatshirt, my H has on his USC one, and our S proudly sports his UMich shirt. D breaks mood with her selective LAC’s gear - dagger eyes turn to “Huh? Where’s that?” question. She ends up attracting more attention!</p>
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<p>Exactly. Oxford sweaters are for tourists or people who buy them from ebay. No real studenst wear them.</p>
<p>Woodwork - my favorite is “Baby on Board!” They were HUGE for awhile! Like what the heck - will I drive any differently if I know that car might have a baby in it? What was the point? :D</p>
<p>My D wants me to wear a sweatshirt from the school that accepted her EA for next year. I am a U of Michigan grad and proud of it. I won’t wear anything but maize and blue. I didn’t attend D’s school - she will.</p>
<p>It’s funny about buying the T-shirts - my daughter was very superstitious about buying the shirts of any college she was the slightest bit interested in. When her younger brother ran out of clean shirts on the big college visit trip, he was “allowed” only to buy one at Williams, because she decided she didn’t like it. At Yale, where we were dropping her off for a summer program, we wanted to buy the new baby in the family a onesie as a joke, we had to sneak back to the bookstore after we left her in order to buy it (we let her brother get another shirt, too, out of the 5000 Yale shirts on sale, he buys a brown shirt?! - 13 year olds!). I knew Yale had dropped on the list when she came home with a pair of Yale sleep pants. Now we can’t get stuff for her ED school, it is all back ordered!</p>