<p>People should get over the whole school attire thing. Just let people wear whatever they want. Who knows, maybe the person wearing the harvard hoodie maybe just liked the hoodie or admires the school. I think the whole issue just mixed bad with alot of CC elitism. I have 3 pieces of college attire, all gifts save for my LSU cap.</p>
<p>btw. my LSU cap though a favorite of mine, brings me bad luck when I wear it to a test or quiz. i’m wondering if I were to buy a harvard cap…</p>
<p>hey, we got one of those christmas cards too…every kid wearing the prestigious school sweatshirt even though three of them were in state schools. A little weird…
No problem with people wearing sweatshirts with their or any other school on them. I have a Princeton sweatshirt from a family member…wear it sometimes. Never got a tshirt or sweatshirt from my school…not much spirit there. NO ONE wore them. But I do have a few shirts from my s’s state school. Lots of spirit there and the kids wear them on campus all the time.
I don’t see why someone would get offended by a person wearing an HYP shirt though. Who cares?</p>
<p>The Christmas cards sound very weird and tacky. Aside from making a bad impression on the recipients, I feel very sorry for the kids in the family who were made to pose in sweatshirts from their sibling’s college. It must make them feel terrible that their parents want to brag to all of the their family and friends only about the sibling, in the form of a photo.</p>
<p>yeah, you’re supposed to brag about your kids acomplishments in the attached letter. you’re just ruining the picture in my opinion, unless you are uberfanatical about that school and you do it every year… then i guess it’s ok</p>
<p>My son got my husband, his brother, and me school logo shirts to wear to the games. I would feel a little strange wearing his school logo around town (no problem with someone else doing it - my husband probably would). I would wear mine (but my old hoodie its past its prime), and believe me, nobody would get their “elitist radar” in a frenzy over my alma mater. (haha) </p>
<p>We were parking our car at a local store, and someone pulled in beside us and a sticker from our college. My husband noticed the sticker, said hi, and to their huge surprise they were high school friends, and he lived less than a mile from us. </p>
<p>So, put me down as YAY for college shirts…wear your own, your kids’, or random ones, because you like them, they’re comfortable, or it’s the first thing in your closet. Wear whatever school you want, and don’t worry about what others think. One of my son’s best friends goes to a community college, and he wears a t-shirt that simply says Community College. I love that kid! (okay, I think I covered all the bases…:))</p>
<p>Yeah…with the XMAS card, these are nice folks so I’m thinking they were just trying to come up with a theme for the year…and THAT year, their S got into a prestigious school after a long and tortuous stay on the wait list. Still think it was not so cool to put everybody in that shirt though.
We also get grad party invites - some with huge logos from a prestigious school… also think that’s a bit over the top…</p>
<p>My dad bought my husband a nice Stanford golf shirt, while attending a confernce there. The second time DH wore it, someone asked him if he was a graduate of Stanford and that was the last time he wore it.</p>
<p>Michigan shirts are very popular here, especially among a certain minority. It’s rare to see this minority wearing any Ohio State gear. </p>
<p>My son picked up shirts or baseball caps on all of his college visits. I think we’ll bring them with us to Panama on spring break and give them away. We’ve noticed a real interest in these items on past trips.</p>
<p>The family portrait in logo gear from ONE of their kid’s colleges when they have OTHER kids ALSO in college…yes, seems very odd indeed to me. If only one was in college, different story.</p>
<p>I don’t go out of my way to wear MIT shirts, but I do wear them from time to time. I also wear shirts from my dorm and hall, and from clubs that I was in. Why? Because I’m proud of it. When I was an undergrad, I was proud (and surprised) to have been considered worthy of such an institution. I was also proud of my living groups and clubs, since I chose them and they reflected something about who I was and what I did. Now that I’m an alum, I’m proud to have made it through…I never had to work so hard for anything in my life. :)</p>
<p>We got a hilarious card one year from a BIG UT alum’s family (3 generations, big donors, etc.). His oldest daughter had not gotten accepted to Texas (happening alot down here), so she was a freshman at LSU. The entire family was decked out in LSU gear, the dad was holding a big phony check to Texas in his hand with a match to the corner. It was really funny and expressed their feelings at the time. </p>
<p>They come up with some pretty ingenious cards every year, we always look forward to them.</p>
<p>How about the answer when asked “where did you go to school?” My nephew graduated from Stanford about 5 years ago, and still lives in northern Cal. I’ve never heard him reply “Stanford.” It’s always “in the bay area.” He says his Berkeley friends reply, “Oakland.” </p>
<p>It’s considered pretentious to say the actual highly prestigious name: The school that must not be named? </p>
<p>You can imagine, he never wears a Stanford shirt. He’s very proud to be a Stanford alum, but it’s not OK to wear the evidence.</p>
<p>Remember the song ''Girls just wanna have fun"?? This thread reminds me of that - '‘us parents (well most of us LOL) ‘just wanna have fun’’. With all the serious threads out there - this has really been a fun one…</p>
<p>well, I do have an orange shirt, but for Syracuse, since my daughter attends </p>
<p>As for t-shirts, I really only wear them for working out in; sweatshirts I wear when I want to be really comfortable and warm.</p>
<p>H has lots of UT stuff - it’s an easy gift for the girls to get him for gifts, because he loves wearing the stuff, especially on game days. He is also a huge Packers fan, living in Bears country, and proudly wears his Packers gear, yea, probably with a hint of pride this year that they’re doing so much better than the Bears did!</p>
<p>Both Ds have Favre jerseys and wear them at school on game days, too. Not too common on the east coast.</p>
<p>My 9 year old wears a bright orange Syracuse sweatshirt. We do not know, nor have we ever known, anyone who has attended Syracuse. He liked the bright color and is delighted with the shirt. I’m in the “it’s just clothes” camp.</p>
<p>riverrunner, I think it is common actually that those who attend elite schools to want to downplay them (in conversation…not talking about attire). For years, I hardly ever wanted to admit my grad degree was from Harvard. If I were to say that, I know I’d get certain reactions (from well, people like the OP here!). I have finally gotten over it and ya see, I just posted I went to grad school at Harvard! I’ve recovered! LOL</p>
<p>I have noticed many times that when people who don’t know my D are talking to her and college comes up, she often says she goes to school in RI. (she attends Brown) I think sometimes if one goes to an elite school, it’s like they feel they have to hide that fact because some will take it like the OP does. My daughter is NOT one to brag in any way, shape or form and so maybe she is worried how it would come off to say the name of her school, I dunno. But I notice her doing that a bunch, like I used to with my Ivy school. Not sure if subconsciously we feel a need to hide the school name because there are folks out there like the OP who ASSUME that any pride in our school is seen as “ego boosting,” “bragging,” or “superiority” because by chance, we have attended seletive schools (even though we love the school and deserve to love the school like anyone who loves their less known college).</p>
<p>We’ve only visited one campus. My son bought a t-shirt as a souvenir and I’m sitting here sipping coffee from a mug I bought which features a campus landmark close to where we stayed… Both remind us of the great time we had. It never occurred to us that people would view him wearing the shirt as claiming to be a student. No one at his school thinks anything of it (that he knows of). Now, if you’re going to wear a state university shirt around these parts, well, that’s like making a pledge of allegiance given local rivalries.</p>
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