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Anonymous wrote:My dad in his 80s still wears a shirt from my college.

That’s very sweet. My dad did the same. DH has a t-shirt from DC’s school and will probably wear that for many years, too.

To this day, he enjoys meeting the people who strike up a conversation about the school after seeing the shirt. To me, that’s the best part - meeting people.

OP- My kid gave me a hat and a sweatshirt for X-Mas freshman year. Buy/wear what you want...there are some strange answers on this thread that are against it but from my experience they are in the minority. There are many people that wear gear from their state flagship that didn't even attend college because they have pride in their state and the school that represents them and their is nothing wrong with that. Some of these people need to lighten up. Now if they go Greek and you start wearing that garb, you'd be weird.

A swim cap

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Anonymous wrote:I find parents wearing logoed college gear from their kid’s college to be super annoying and attention seeking.

Maybe they are just proud of their kid?

I'm proud of my kid, too. We'll wear logoed gear to her games (D1 at a good school), but not out and about for the same reasons I don't wear an hermes purse or a gucci belt. And I get invited to plenty of parties.

Amuse us with the reason.

Because we don't need to show off. Having our daughter play a sport at a school such as Stanford doesn't make her or us any better than the next family. We're proud of her, but we love her for who she is not what she's accomplished. We never wore logoed gear from our alma matters around our kids. We didn't want our kids to feel they needed to attend a certain school to be worthy of our love.

What on earth? Holy overanalysis. I don’t wear any gear from my kids’ college either, but simply because I am not a “spirited” person and it never crosses my mind to buy anything (plus I give the college plenty of dough via tuition …). But I don’t view wearing clothes with your kids’ college names on it as bragging. I see plenty of cars that have Yale and UMD stickers, or Syracuse and Stanford - the parents are excited for all the kids!

Fine for you. I grew up in a pressure cooker environment and decided not to do that to my own kids and I am irritated when I see others do it because it is still a trigger for me. I'm not a buzz kill and don't say this out loud to my friends, but this is an anonymous board so I'm sharing. We save our spiritwear for her games where we cheer loudly. We're just not the family that needs to post vacation pictures on social media, wear designer clothing with big logos or advertise where our kids go to school.

Kids not in college yet but my parents still use the coffee mugs from my and my sibs' alma maters, and college ornaments hang on the Christmas tree. Both of us went to basic state schools. They are in their late 70s.

I come from a family that tends to be sporty or have lots of team spirit so maybe that explains part of it. I fully expect we'll be similar to many posters here and end up with a coffee mug, a t-shirt or sweatshirt, that kind of thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I find parents wearing logoed college gear from their kid’s college to be super annoying and attention seeking.

Maybe they are just proud of their kid?

I'm proud of my kid, too. We'll wear logoed gear to her games (D1 at a good school), but not out and about for the same reasons I don't wear an hermes purse or a gucci belt. And I get invited to plenty of parties.

Amuse us with the reason.

Because we don't need to show off. Having our daughter play a sport at a school such as Stanford doesn't make her or us any better than the next family. We're proud of her, but we love her for who she is not what she's accomplished. We never wore logoed gear from our alma matters around our kids. We didn't want our kids to feel they needed to attend a certain school to be worthy of our love.

What on earth? Holy overanalysis. I don’t wear any gear from my kids’ college either, but simply because I am not a “spirited” person and it never crosses my mind to buy anything (plus I give the college plenty of dough via tuition …). But I don’t view wearing clothes with your kids’ college names on it as bragging. I see plenty of cars that have Yale and UMD stickers, or Syracuse and Stanford - the parents are excited for all the kids!

None! We also don’t own any HS logo items and plenty of parents do. I do, however, wear a T-shirt from my own alma mater that I received for free at a reunion weekend. Maybe DS’s college should give parents some free gear …

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Anonymous wrote:I find parents wearing logoed college gear from their kid’s college to be super annoying and attention seeking.

Maybe they are just proud of their kid?

I'm proud of my kid, too. We'll wear logoed gear to her games (D1 at a good school), but not out and about for the same reasons I don't wear an hermes purse or a gucci belt. And I get invited to plenty of parties.

Amuse us with the reason.

Because we don't need to show off. Having our daughter play a sport at a school such as Stanford doesn't make her or us any better than the next family. We're proud of her, but we love her for who she is not what she's accomplished. We never wore logoed gear from our alma matters around our kids. We didn't want our kids to feel they needed to attend a certain school to be worthy of our love.

Lol, way too deep.

sweatshirt and a car magnet

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Anonymous wrote:I find parents wearing logoed college gear from their kid’s college to be super annoying and attention seeking.

Maybe they are just proud of their kid?

I'm proud of my kid, too. We'll wear logoed gear to her games (D1 at a good school), but not out and about for the same reasons I don't wear an hermes purse or a gucci belt. And I get invited to plenty of parties.

Amuse us with the reason.

Because we don't need to show off. Having our daughter play a sport at a school such as Stanford doesn't make her or us any better than the next family. We're proud of her, but we love her for who she is not what she's accomplished. We never wore logoed gear from our alma matters around our kids. We didn't want our kids to feel they needed to attend a certain school to be worthy of our love.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so funny to me how much people on DCUM love to judge about silly things. I own a couple of sweatshirts and tees from my kid’s school. I’ve also been to sporting events for her school. Honestly, this seems pretty normal, and even low key, to me. I’m from Florida, and repping your school is an art form there. I can’t imagine how hard some of the DCUM posters would judge the displays of school spirit there!

I think the judgy-poking posts are by trolling teens, frankly.

Kid beat the odds and got into her dream Ivy, so we were thrilled. We have car magnets and fridge magnet. DD got hubs a tshirt and mug. Wish I looked better in clothes (gah, need to exercise), then I would get a tshirt or jacket too.

Sadly this is where it starts to get douchey. I went to an Ivy and have very little logo gear from the school because I feel like it is too much. Yet I will happily wear logo gear from my DCs colleges.

Anonymous wrote:It’s so funny to me how much people on DCUM love to judge about silly things. I own a couple of sweatshirts and tees from my kid’s school. I’ve also been to sporting events for her school. Honestly, this seems pretty normal, and even low key, to me. I’m from Florida, and repping your school is an art form there. I can’t imagine how hard some of the DCUM posters would judge the displays of school spirit there!

Go Gators!