Is it obnoxious when an adult wears an Ivy league college sweatshirt?

[Anonymous]

Threads like this are how DCUM makes me scratch my head.

[Anonymous]

My husband wears Penn gear because he has it from college and it still fits. He played a sport, so he has a ton of sweats, jackets, etc. and we toss them as they wear out.

I don’t understand people who wear vacation gear for a ski resort or beach town they went to once. College makes sense to me - you spent 4 years there. Vacation gear makes sense to me if you have a house there or have been going to the same place every year forever and it is part of your family’s culture / collective memories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband wears Penn gear because he has it from college and it still fits. He played a sport, so he has a ton of sweats, jackets, etc. and we toss them as they wear out.

I don’t understand people who wear vacation gear for a ski resort or beach town they went to once. College makes sense to me - you spent 4 years there. Vacation gear makes sense to me if you have a house there or have been going to the same place every year forever and it is part of your family’s culture / collective memories.

My kids always want to buy souvenir hats and sweatshirts from any random beach town we might spend a weekend at. I get why it seems strange, but they view that stuff as souvenirs to remind them of a fun weekend. It's usually only about $10-15, and more useful than a snowglobe or refrigerator magnet, so I don't fight it. Maybe that will help you understand.

[Anonymous]

Not if they went there and it's otherwise an appropriate time to wear a sweatshirt. If they wore it with a school hat and school socks, that would be a little too Andy from The Office-ish.

I attended four universities, two Ivy and two state. I have and wear stuff from all four.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I attended four universities, two Ivy and two state. I have and wear stuff from all four.

Wow, you got kicked out of a lot more places than I did. I want to party with you, Garth.

[Anonymous]

I literally care nothing about what anyone wears. As long as you don't stink, I'm fine with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I attended four universities, two Ivy and two state. I have and wear stuff from all four.

Wow, you got kicked out of a lot more places than I did. I want to party with you, Garth.

Hah! This includes grad schools and one transfer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not if they went there and it's otherwise an appropriate time to wear a sweatshirt. If they wore it with a school hat and school socks, that would be a little too Andy from The Office-ish.

I attended four universities, two Ivy and two state. I have and wear stuff from all four.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband wears Penn gear because he has it from college and it still fits. He played a sport, so he has a ton of sweats, jackets, etc. and we toss them as they wear out.

I don’t understand people who wear vacation gear for a ski resort or beach town they went to once. College makes sense to me - you spent 4 years there. Vacation gear makes sense to me if you have a house there or have been going to the same place every year forever and it is part of your family’s culture / collective memories.

Well, in my case, it's because I went somewhere and was out without a sweatshirt and it got unexpectedly chilly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I prefer college t-shirts, sweatshirts, and hats to those bragging about where you went on vacation. Why do people feel the need to buy an overpriced 1/4 zip just because it says "Jackson Hole" on it?

Don’t hate on my Jackson Hole quarter zip. I wore it yesterday! But I don’t wear gear from my Ivy alma mater. Not sure why.

[Anonymous]

I went there so I'm wearing it on occasion -- like on a lazy Sunday or out running errands so if you see me at the dry cleaners in my ivy shirt, oh well. Don't really care what you think. Reality is most people hate bc they couldn't get in -- that's the simple fact -- and then there's the sour grapes of oooohh my state flagship is just as good. I'm sure it is -- so you wear you're state flagship gear and let me do I want with my ivy gear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not if they went there and it's otherwise an appropriate time to wear a sweatshirt. If they wore it with a school hat and school socks, that would be a little too Andy from The Office-ish.

I attended four universities, two Ivy and two state. I have and wear stuff from all four.

+1

I'm not sure how anyone could argue with this completely reasonable response.

[Anonymous]

I stopped wearing college gear when the stuff I had from college wore out.

[Anonymous]

Well, it seems that people are mean.
My kid goes to Harvard and she sent me a shirt. So I will wear it if I want to the gym, to Giant, to go for a walk or anywhere else.
I really don't care what anyone else thinks.
I can't believe people are spending so much time thinking about this. But, of course, I just spent 60 seconds responding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not if they went there and it's otherwise an appropriate time to wear a sweatshirt. If they wore it with a school hat and school socks, that would be a little too Andy from The Office-ish.

I attended four universities, two Ivy and two state. I have and wear stuff from all four.

+1

I'm not sure how anyone could argue with this completely reasonable response.

I'm wearing the hat AND the sweatshirt when I go to a game to watch our admittedly terrible football team.