Those and the sorority-name-written-in-Coca-Cola-font rugby shirts. I distinctly remember our red-and-white, Coca-Cola-themed party (with the whole ceiling covered in red & white balloons, how do they decorate without covering the ceilings in balloons these days? :p)

OH MY GOD. Is this in the back in the day thread?

There was a girl I knew who owned NOTHING I swear but Coca-Cola shirts (the real ones, not the sorority ones).

That wasn't a horrible fashion trend, as in ugly or embarrassing (rugbys are pretty timeless) but it was a "why in the HELL did we think this was so cool??" one.

LOLOLOLOLOL

And no, I don't think it's in the back in the day thread, we all must have been suppressing the memories... ;)

Are you not allowed to use balloons as decorations anymore? Did balloons go the way of real candles?

We had one sorority that every year did AGD-TV with tee shirts that looked like the MTV tee shirts. They even said "I want my AGD" across the back. I never was confused between Mtv and the Alpha Gams.

Western Carolina limits balloons during formal recruitment to 100...

unfortunately our large group of alumnae didn't realize that and went out and about about 500...then we were stuck placing them upstairs and where ever we could...haha:D

I am a huge fan of balloons! I was recruitment chair for a year and you better believe there were atleast 50 balloons in our room every night. I say room because we don't have a house, so for recruitment we have to reserve rooms in the University Center.

Anyways, balloons make parties look pretty and fun! :D

I feel like the Tiffany thing is so played out now. 18-19 year olds may be more market driven than earlier generations, but they digest things quickly, and spit them out even faster. A T&Co theme may be "impressive" to a girl from a small town, but to any semi-sophisticated city girl, the theme is laughable.

Re: balloons, I guess I figured the use of hundreds of them like we used to do must have gone away with the other "frills" (that we used to just call decorating).

I say we go back to the Wizard of Oz theme that was perfectly fine when I rushed in the early 1970's!!!!!!!!!!!:p

seriously! if i had to see one more "XYZ And The City" themed ANYTHING @ NYU's rushes, it would be too soon. Same case, to any small-town girl, that's "impressive" but to anyone within the tri-state who is familiar with the "city" life, its like snoresnoreSNORE.

I generally agree with this statement, although we did have a informal party that we called the Sex in the City desert party, where we watched the show together and ate deserts. It worked because it gave us something to talk about when the conversation would lull, but we didn't have skits or t-shirts that were themed this way.