A girl who lived across the street from me pledged Tri-Sigma in '66 and I remember her dressing a lot like you described when she was in college. She had beautiful black hair that she wore in a flip with bangs a la Marlo Thomas in "That Girl" and drove a red convertible with a white top ... I wanted to be her when I grew up!

LionTamer: I simply had to laugh when I read your post. I too went to a school with a large (95% or more) Jewish population. We wore more trendy things..with a bit of Europe.

As I mentioned my school had until recently before my rush worn St. John suits to recruitment. I had never heard of St. John. Gucci...yes, St. John, Villager...not on the radar. Everything turned out fine. I wear St. John today, but you can always tell tourists in the neighborhood: the men are the gentlemen in madras or seersucker shorts..even when it's in the 70s! (I had to explain seersucker to my kids when they were little.)

I thought I would pass this along from a woman I know who rushed back in the 1950s. Back then on her campus, rush was a "meet and greet" first round for all rushees, an invitation only event (or maybe two) at the sorority houses and then the preference night dinner.

A bit of a back story: my friend is a Catholic and this was before Vatican II. Also back then colleges asked religious preferences so the students from the same demonination would be first year roommates.

For the second round invitation events, the PH booklet for rushees suggested the women wear their "Sunday best" which back then meant conservative suit, conservative shoes, hose, hats and gloves.

When my friend's roommate, who wasn't rushing, saw the suggested dress code for the event, she turned to my friend and said "Do you plan to wear a chapel cap or a mantilla.?" My friend said that she realized that she didn't bring a hat with her to college, all she brought was some mantillas; she was planning to bring some hats backs to college with her after the Thanksgiving break

Also, back then, a lot of the sororities -- including the one she was hoping for a bid -- had a quota for Catholics and Jews or didn't accept them at all. There was no way she was going to wear a mantilla or a chapel cap. Luckily, one of the other women in the dorm had a hat that matched her suit and lent it to her.

My friend did get her bid to the sorority she wanted.

While my friend says it all so quaint today, in 1953 it was a crisis for a 17 year old on her own for the first time.

Why does tha that mannequin have back hair?!

While my time was in the early 2000s the reason I am putting this in is because my sister went threw the same thing 8 years before me. She in my mind was my personal fashion model at 6'0'' with blond hair and blue eyes she was a drop dead beauty (now compaire to kid sister barley 5'6'' with black hair and grey eyes I didn't feel on par with her glamor) but I remember watching her pack for school with a special bag to hold all her clothes for rush in 1996.

When I went to rush in 2004... I modeled my look after my sister which could have gone TERRIBLY wrong. Thankfully I Tim Gunned that! (Made it work).

Round 1- 1996(sister) had worn a soft grey colored loosely tailored suit with a vibrent blue blouse that brought out her eyes and a pair of grey and blue kitten heels with her hair in a French Twist and small hoops.

Round 1- 2004 (me) thank you men's fashion! A tailored, well groomed dark grey pinstripe suit with matching vest (before these were super in but I'm VERY curvy so it worked) but no shirt under the full vest. So when you took off the coat it was chic, but I wore dark purple high heeled boots. My hair was in a chignon with a purple ribbon running threw it and amethyst earrings.

Round 2 (1996) Oh, the Gap. Brown suade boots over a pair of eggplant colored cords and a short sleeved blouse in eggplant with brown stitching. [I sniped this outfit in 2001. I thought I was soooo cool... worst day of High School Fashion EVER!)

Round 2 (2004) A pair of dark green well fitting cord slacks and a rose colored blouse with a strand of rose colored and green faux pearls with matching earrings and I'm pretty sure the same boots Kerin wore in 1996.

Round 3 (1996) a brilliant turquoise velvet dress with boat neck but short short sleeves and a white cardigan left open with a pair of white pearls, a white head band and turquoise boots with white tights. Ooooh yeah. The Hilary Clinton Headband!

Round 3 (2004) dark sapphire blue wrap dress with a cream colored chiffon scarf with sapphire water like splashes painted onto it. Navy blue heels and nude stockings. It should be noted I say stockings. These were silk stockings my mother bought in London in 1972 and a garter belt that was my Nana's in WWII (navy lace). It flashed a little when I sat down and one of the alumnae noticed and complimented me on my ability to keep my seems straight.

Round 4 (1996) Black dress with a small amount of soft pink piping in a very classic Audry Hepburn sort of way with a pair of pink tights and black shoes with a pink and black handbag.

Round 4 (2004) Same dress. On me it was tea length with a pair of black open toe pumps and nude hose and a pink ribbon in my hair.

What a difference 8 years makes.

BTW- we went to different colleges and are with different organizations.

Seriously, you remember everything you and your sister wore that long ago? And since I was there: by 1972 everyone was wearing pantyhose made of nylon. And if you wanted stockings, they were nylon, in the USA or in England. (Remember Carnaby Street? They made stockings obsolete.)

Thanks, ellebud...i was about to post "Are you for real?" I smell one of our trolls...miss etiquette?

I just read the part about her wearing her sister's suede boots for one day. Right...you wore your 6'0" sister's boots 8 years later. You are 5'6" but you wear the same size as your 6'0" tall sister, and she saved a pair of boots for you to wear for recruitment for 8 long years. Okay...

Seriously, who says "kitten heels" anymore? That's straight out of the '50s and 60s. I guess the same person who would wear a garter belt to a recruitment party.

I'm sorry...I can't believe this. First of all, you wore your grandmother's fifty year old garter belt? That's underwear....that your grandmother wore.

And, speaking as the mother of two very fashionable young women: NEVER have they kept a dress (shared no less) for eight years. Unless they are (and I can hear you saying yes...they were) Chanel, Balenciaga, Worth, Lanvin...no kid keeps dresses that long. Unless they are hoarders or Rachel Zoe...and she doesn't collect Gap. (Rachel Zoe that is.)

I still think it's awfully fishy that she can remember everything she wore down to hairstyle, shoes and jewelry. Sounds like a Sweet Valley High recruitment. Did y'all wear matching lavaliers, too?

Was the older sister a commuter still living at home? Also, the "threw" for "through" (twice) makes my eyes hurt.

Everything my sister and I wore was bought on sale or at the outlets. A garter belt is worn over the knickers and not underwear in that sense it is no different than a corset.

I also wore my sisters junior prom dress to my senior prom. My mother was putting 3 children threw school on a nurse's salary.

knickers and silk stockings and garter belts from WWII and ... alligators in the sewers (Drew Barrymore at the dinner table in ET).

Knickers what what??? Do you mean British knickers (underwear) or these:
http://www.marktabor.com/Images/knickers.jpg

I think your mother needs to ask for her money back.

I sure hope you're from the UK and mean "underpants", otherwise I'm getting a very weird picture of a garter belt over these:

http://s2.thisnext.com/media/230x230...5_7D1E330F.jpg

ETA: Obviously 33girl and I were on the same wavelength.

If you can't tell the difference between through and threw I doubt you even went to college.

I really wanted to use the picture of C Montgomery Burns wearing knickers and rolling a hoop but I couldn't find it. :(

But were the hose pink and sequined? Jeez.

I don't like the word "panties" so I've always said knickers. I also pronounce "Mom" as "Mum" if you must know. I'm not the only person in the world who mistakes words that sound the same but are spelled differently, that however doesn't make me unintelligent. I was sharing something that meant a lot to me I thought people would find interesting about how quick fashion can change, but some staples are classic and stay the same. Apparently not.

I don't like the word panties either, it's gross and pornoriffic. But regular old "UNDERWEAR" works fine. At any rate, unless you're starring in Rocky Horror onstage, a garter belt IS an undergarment. So is a corset for that matter.

I didn't wear them to a rush party, but I went to an auction that was the estate of a woman who was one of the original shopaholics. The title of the auction was "Five Hundred+ Hats, and much more!"

Fifties parties were in vogue at the time, and I won several crinolines, garter belts, and hats. All had the tags still on them. I was a hit at the 50's parties!

And now that I think about it, I didn't find any of that at my mother's house. Hmmmm!

I'd be really embarrassed if I flashed my undergarments outside of a "Private Dancer" moment, even more so at sorority rush. Having an alumna comment on my seams would also make me really self conscious. Come to think of it, aren't most alumnae not speaking with PNMs at parties by 2004? Guess it depends on that school.

Wow, what an imagination! (I don't mean that in a good way.)

At least with the OP she is claiming faux pearls, as opposed to going to the docks and picking out the oysters for the matched strand of natural pearls.

Oh, ellebud... you didn't let me down!

:o:D

You'd better believe it, baby!! :D

Uh..yes!

....and Glamour and Mademoiselle.........

Teen Vogue all the way..

I miss Sassy. I'd probably still be a subscriber.

Sassy? I don't remember this at all, but I remember & read the other magazines mentioned. What was it?:)

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=9826498

While it was cool to see a magazine promoting alternative fashion/music/beauty, IMO it went too far - in much the way that the feminist movement did. It went from "here's a choice if you don't feel like you can ever be that perfect girl in Seventeen" to "if you for one second ever liked anything in Seventeen you must be some kind of loser and are in no way cool enough to hang out with us." In other words, it became just as cliquish as the cliques it was originally created to shun.

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

OK- now I understand- this magazine was "After my time." :)
I still get In Style, though.

I was in the 7th grade when that mag came out. My sister ordered it in a school magazine drive. She got one issue, and my dad was so offended that he promptly canceled her subscription.:rolleyes:

Ha! That's funny - I don't even remember the sorority article - clearly, it didn't impact me!

What I do remember is an article about what it feels like to be "turned on", and that it caused a huge stink with some parents, but my mother (a nurse and a hippie) thought it was honest and well-written and that's what prompted her to get me a subscription.

And yes, Jane Pratt definitely let it go to her head.

That said, Sassy had some great fiction, it was irreverent, and was a little less fashion focused than Seventeen.

I read it for about three years...

Didn't Sassy have a glossier cover than the other teen magazines or is my memory not serving me well?

Yes the cover stock was shinier than other magazines.

Another Seventeen junkie here! Does anyone remember a magazine that wasn't quite as flashy as Seventeen, I think its name was Teen? It was a sponsor of the Miss TeenAge America contest. I loved that one, too.

When I was going through rush (and that was 6 weeks long, with chat dates, mixers, and a LOT of non-NPC approved parties), I can remember a sister showing me some Adelpheans and one had a Miss Teen America from a few years before. I remembered her from Teen, and was SO impressed!! She still shows up in the occasional Adelphean for a charity.

Brandeis or Miller & Paine?

"... but it wouldn't hoit." God bless Gilda Radner. :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvObT3EFNUY