Are there coats & ties that you can just throw in the wash? I'm not being smartass, honestly asking. Even if you didn't get food or beer on it, I'm assuming that in the sun you'd get sweaty (ew). And I hate to think of the dry cleaning bills.

LOL, HuskyAlum, I don't know why but I was thinking you were a guy so I was quite amused to read that I wouldn't find you in a sundress.

Bow ties are harder to spill stuff on. And most guys in my chapter (myself included) have an old blazer specifically for football games and the racetrack where it is likely to have bourbon spilled on it.

I went to UGA's homecoming football game last year and I felt horribly underdressed. J didn't tell me to wear a dress, so I showed up in a red t-shirt and jeans. At GMU, we wore lettered shirts in GMU's colors with jeans and sneakers to show our support for our school and for our respective GLOs. I mean, they're sporting events, so it seemed odd to me to dress up for them... I wouldn't wear a dress to any other spectator sport, what makes college sporting events any different?

It all comes down to campus climate. Where I went, letters were big, Greeks dressed up for meetings and certain events but basically just wore party shirts and letters to show pride in our orgs or whatever we felt like wearing that day. But then again, GMU is still considered by many to be a "non-traditional" and "commuter" campus....

Why do I feel like this has all already been discussed...? :rolleyes:

I haven't heard anything from our Texas schools (Especially the old Southwest Conference schools). I have a feeling it is much more casual than it use to be when we wore our very best dresses ( "Fall Cottons" as they were called) and we were decked out. I think all that has changed but would like to hear from someone in the know. I think SMU still dresses up but am not for sure of the others.

But if it's old & crappy, is that really "dressing up"?

I don't know man, I'm still trying to get past that red shorts comment.

I am not a student, but go to a bunch of UT games, and the fraternity guys wear jeans, boots, and burnt orange Longhorn shirts (either buttondown or polo). I would post a picture of a tail gate, but don't know how. It is a sea of orange.

Many girls wear orange sundresses - these cheesy, jersey things are popular now, or a cute top with a short skirt and cowboy boots. For the most part it is casual, but all UT related.

The OLD SW Conference is now a member of The Big XII:)

Dress is casual today more so than ever before in classes.

Tailgating is very casual, if you go to special functions, coats, slacks, shirts and ties.


Dress like a slob, you will feel like one!:(

Tom Earp, Don't rub it in!! I so miss the SWC

My experience at a game in Austin: UT men in Khaki Shorts/Polos, women were in shorts or UT pajama pants and orange tank tops. Not as formal as SEC.

Let's face it, if we were to dress up for football, we would freeze our asses off. Except for the first few games, it's either rainy, windy or cold and who wants more skin exposed to that.

Now, in saying that....I'm done and hopefully this thread is too. I agree with NittanyAlum. Why are we rehashing this again!

I have two pairs of red shorts, a pair of red pants, and a pair of seersucker red pants (only can wear 'em to one game because there's only one before labor day usually).

Correction Tom Earp - one of the schools in the old SWC is in the SEC now - Arkansas, where the tradition to dress nicely at all social event - be it a football game or a night out - is still very much in effect. :)

EW - I sometimes gasp audibly when you make statements like the one (and I know this is not verbatim) where you said, "Greeks dress up because it is the way we were raised. " I have to disagree with you since I was born and raised in Arkansas (LR, Heights area) and was Greek on that campus. Not every Greek comes to campus from the circles you are implying they come from...but they dress appropriately due to the tradition and social customs of the environment they have entered.

Let's see, on my campus...

meeting: clothes (sometimes with letters)

formal meetings: nice clothes

everyday: clothes (sometimes with letters) colors may vary

sports events: we don't go to those at our school, no one cares. if you are greek and do go, either it's homecoming and you're in your letters
OR you're in a certain fraternity (that goes to many games) you wear paint and pants at games.

so let's see it would appear that clothes are popular (and paint). :D

I am from the south (SEC country) and chose to go to a northern school. Many (almost all) of my friends who go to SEC schools are in GLO's and I see the photos of them in dresses and such at games and i'm suddenly glad I go to school where I do. I would be terribly uncomfortable cheering and such at a football game if I was in a dress and just..all dressed up in general. Its a football game..

I don't know . . . I can remember some games wearing a Harris tweed blazer; it could a bit uncomfortable -- but the Bourbon made it all better.

Well, when I think of "red shorts" I think of tomato red baggy Dickies that 15 year old wannabe rappers wear. Those are the only "red shorts" I've seen in years.

But I just had an official preppy handbook moment and I'm thinking (actually praying) you mean Nantucket Reds. I like those, I would totally wear a pair.