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THe second one looks like the sweater is eating her from the neck down!

AlphaFrog, where did you find that first one? I love it!

Anyone who tells me no turtlenecks during recruitment has never experienced a Northeastern winter recruitment, have they?

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Originally Posted by Buttonz (Post 1419629)

AlphaFrog, where did you find that first one? I love it!

GIS = Turtleneck

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Originally Posted by susan314 (Post 1419535)

This whole idea of Southern schools wearing sundresses to football games is so foreign to me - I actually had never heard of it until a year or so ago, and when I did I was like :confused: :eek: :confused: ???

Regional differences are so funny. If someone wore a sundress to a football game at my university or any other schools near me, they would be looked at like they came from another planet. (Went to a Big 10 school.)

Me, too...Big 12 here (actually Big 8...dating myself!)--I never wore anything but jeans and sweatshirt or sweater under my parka :D

But at the big SEC schools where it's hot until Thanksgiving, it's sundresses in school colors for girls and coat and tie (or at least a buttondown and tie) for guys.

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Originally Posted by LOVEinZTA (Post 1416873)

However, assuming your mother is more like me and doesn't know the difference between a surger and surgery, I see absolutely no problem with Old Navy, Ross, TJ Maxx, and cute tops and stuff from target. I always get Old Navy's perfect fit tees and pair them with dress pants. One of my best friends (who could afford to buy couture gown with the change in the seat of her car alone) gets a TON of her jewelry from Target, they have some really cute stuff if you know how to pair it. My pref dress I found on the super clearance rack at Dillard's on black friday for $40 and I got a rediculous number of compliments on it! My NUMBER ONE piece of advice though is pick reeeally comfortable shoes for the first 2 days (or two rounds, whatever) because by the time you get to the dressier nights and you HAVE to wear those adorable stilletos, your feet will hate if you've already been building up blisters on them and you won't be able to walk at all!

I find that the perfect fit t's with a pair of nice dress pants a staple in my wardrobe too. I just hate to spend too much on tops, because I am a total klutz and I wear my food on my shirt half the time! (I always keep an extra top at work to change after lunch.) Even a simple plain fitted (read fitted as not skin tight) T can be dressed up with some simple pearls or classic jewlery.

That being said, if you have a nice necklace, bracelet or ring don't be afraid to wear it with something not so nice. You would be amazed the number of people I work with who wear jeans with pearls these days and look amazing.

Ditto on the shoes... shoe hell can be a bad place to go!

I got my black dress at Dillards on major clearence at 7$ (marked down from $189). No one who saw it would think cheap, but it was. Also it had a classic cut and the shape flatters me. I can also dress it up or down as I need to. I have even worn it to open houses at school with a colorful cardigan over it. No one is none the wiser.

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Originally Posted by susan314 (Post 1419535)

Even though I don't go to school in the Deep South, I'm still in the South and it's beginning to catch on here. A lot of people still go in shorts and t-shirts, but sundresses can be perfect for the weather...here, our football season is STEAMING hot (even thru November) and sundresses are light and comfortable. Of course, there are some schools that go all out in formalwear-I don't think we will ever go that far in Florida, but I think it's cute.
I'm from up north originally and I still don't find the sundress thing foreign...maybe it's just becuase I'm always looking for an excuse to wear a dress! haha :)

To the original poster: like everyone else said, a big NO on the business suit.
Also, you don't have to shop someplace like Sears to get affordable clothing. Forever 21 is incredibly cheap and also incredibly cute most of the time...even Lindsay Lohan admits to loving Forever 21, so I'm sure appropriate outfits from there would go over well in recruitment. It's okay if you're not loaded...just have style. You can put together relatively inexpensive outfits. Forever has amazing sundresses for about 25 bucks...at my school, you can wear sundresses 2, if not 3 out of the 4 days of recruitment leading up to Bid Day.
Good luck! :)

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Originally Posted by Buttonz (Post 1419629)

Anyone who tells me no turtlenecks during recruitment has never experienced a Northeastern winter recruitment, have they?

Ok I guess I can understand turtlenecks if you're up North. I go to a school in the South, so it's like 1,000,000 degrees here during fall recruitment, and about 60 during winter.