https://www.shsu.edu/thennow/1960/pictures/2sor65.jpg
Sam Houston State - The first annual Derby Day saw an egg race, a balloon race, and even musical buckets. The intersorority competition was sponsored by the Sigma Chi fraternity. - Alcalde 1965

http://media.collegepublisher.com/me...s/u1415772.jpg
In the 1950s, women had to adhere to a strict dress code. Sigma Chi Derby Day was an event where women could wear Bermuda shorts. - The GW Hatchet (The George Washington University)

Looking at pictures of collegiates in the 60's and earlier, I always think that they look so much "older" than the collegians of today esp. when it seems like the guys and girls always look like they are ready for church.

This is from Alpha Delta Pi's Loyally, Vol. I. I know we discussed whistles at one time, and I mentioned that I had seen a list of them from 1907. Here it is - sorry the resolution isn't better:



http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...tywhistles.jpg

If anyone objects to this, as being part of ritual, please let me know. As it was published, I figured it was no big secret.

Ah yes. Then you, too, would know the joy of girdles, long-line bras, garters and thigh-high stockings (and garters that pop off when you sit down).:eek: Ever try to sit down in a hoop skirt? There's an art to it!
Give me jeans and pantyhose ANY day!:D

Everytime I see a woman try to sit down with a hoop skirt for the first time, I really wish I had a camcorder!

I didn't know the garter belt/hose part. Hmmm...

(in regards to the whistles)
Ahh I can't read music well enough to figure out how that goes! I can only read it if someone can play the first note! Why didn't I pay more attention?!

http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umh...ges/LG0182.jpg
[Miami of Ohio] Rush Week: When classes moved out of the Shacks, UM's sororities used them until the Mary B. Merritt Panhellenic Building was completed in 1956. Rushees sign up for a 1950s "Rush Week." [Parks, 2001]

Love it! I wish AOII's was on there....only a few people even remember ours. Do you know how to do ADPi's, honeychile?

Oh My Fricken God! That is SOOO Miami!

I absolutely LOVE the polka dot dress! Fashion was so awesome in the 1950s and early 1960s.

i'll bet the squatting down to register was actually the first evil test to make sure the rushees were ladylike. indygphib, that polka dot dress is stunning!

On a random Google search, I turned up this picture...
http://www.phiredup.com/files/admin/rush-1950.jpg

And a picture of someone named Ellen in 1972
http://members.aol.com/drdavies/el72.jpg

Here is a picture from 1927 at Miami University of a group with the letters "HIM"


http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umh...ges/LG0102.jpg

The letters were an acronym for The H I M (Happy Independent Maidens) Club, an organization of non-fraternity women. This was a precursor to GDI.

According to the MU website:
"Each pledge wore "a blue stocking on one leg and tan one on the other, a high heel and a low heel, dress on backwards and hair in pigtails with blue and tan ribbons in the end." H I M stands for Happily Independent Maidens."

The Northwestern Deltas in 1971. I'm really loving the boots.

http://www.northwestern.edu/gogreek/...atheta1971.jpg

http://www.lib.montana.edu/digital/o...ll1507/936.jpg
Chi Omega - 1920 Montana State University

http://www.ams.ubc.ca/clubs/greek/ag...tory_helen.jpg
1939 -- Canadian Convention Delegates at the Essex & Sussex Hotel, New Jersey (our Helen Hann Belkin is the first left). -- Source: the "History of Delta Zeta Chapter [University of British Columbia] of Alpha Gamma Delta"

Wow! You know Greek Life really dominates campus when the non-affiliated women form their own official social group!

http://www.sc.edu/carolinian/feature...r_01b_side.jpg
[South Carolina] - Introduced by the Sigma Chi fraternity in 1947, Derby Day featured sorority sisters competing in the Miss Venus pageant, wearing high heels, short-shorts, tight blouses, and paper bags over their heads.

http://www.frenchquarter.com/s_image...irls-large.jpg
LSU Kappa Deltas circa 1940s

http://www.archives.upenn.edu/img/20040206002x250.jpg
University of Pennsylvania - Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, 1930

http://pr.utk.edu/etorch/2007/03/images/packard-car.jpg
"It was taken in front of one of the girl's sorority houses on the day of the UT-Auburn football game in 1936. The car was a 1928 touring model and was owned by Kappa Alpha students Tom Cannon; John Kemmer (deceased); Bob Miles, later a distinguished surgeon in Memphis; and C.B. Arnette, later an antiques dealer and auctioneer and writer who has published four books. The KA partners hauled students to campus for a nickel each way and rented the car for $2.50 per night. It was the conveyance that hauled KA member Admiral Richard Byrd in the parade when he visited the university in 1937."

Actually, I'd be a little surprised if every ADPi doesn't know ours! If one isn't familiar with it by sight, I'm sure she'd recognize it by sound. ;) I wish there were more, too!

As for the "Go Greek" button, we had "I'm a Greek" buttons. When I was a PNM, I saw one on a Kappa I knew from high school, and thought to myself, "I know Paulette's French!" Obviously, I hadn't connected Greek to Fraternity/Sorority yet.

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...07/WER1226.jpg

University of Wisconsin Kappas -1875!

Says GPhiB on cap.

LOLs... I have an old picture of Earpus from the interweb. It's definitely a retro pic.

Well, the one post I didn't see until after I posted. LOL

That's so cool!

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc, Kappa chapter
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/...931d97.jpg?v=0

Wilberforce University 1924

I really can't get over the hair from the different eras! I can't wait to hear what my (future) kids have to say about the fashion choices of my generation.

This is my new favorite thread. Can we move it to Greek Life?

Tippie Chick- OMG- I'm going to have to use this at a Gamma Phi event in the future!!!:D

What a thread!!! To think all these women with such different lifestyles went through the same rituals as you ladies! This really emphasizes the connection we have in GLOs! Haha I'm hoping for a vintage Alpha Phi picture obviously, but keep them all coming!

Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Chapter...found it from The Archives of Ontario website.
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/englis...ority_1020.jpg

Delta Zeta from some chapter in FL....love the dress!
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/commerce/c036364.jpg

Paper bags over their heads?!

I love these!!!!

When I was rushing, the DZs had a photo of their Founders - it really impressed me!

OMG that dress is sooo pretty!

Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority members at UPenn, 1930
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/img/20040206002x180.jpg

Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority members at graduation at UPenn, 1930
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/img/20030828002x180.jpg

This is so much fun!!