DG At UGA
 

1st round- Solid Red, White, or Blue dresses; strappy sandals

2nd round- black pants with solid bright colored tops(purple,pink,yellow,green,aqua,orange); strappy sandals

3rd round- Red and Black(and White) outfits- "Gameday Outfits", strappy sandals

Prefs- Black dress and strappy sandals!

I have a dumb old-lady small school question. :) How do you know in advance how many t-shirts to get for the new girls? I assume it's a bit more complicated than running over to the bookstore and screen-printing them up the afternoon of bid day. :)

That's what we do order the chapter plus quote from the year before and if we end up with too many we sell them at founders day or E-board training... anytime we see ladies from other chapters (they usually bring shirts as well)

For Formal Recruitment:

Day One (Saturday) - Open Houses: Our recruitment chair just changed the house 'uniform' that we've had for several years and I'm really excited. It has always been a wine colored top and gray bottoms, but that was getting out of hand - it seems nobody really knows what the color 'wine' is really supposed to be! Anyway, the new outfit is - white, long sleeve, collared button-down shirt; black dress pants (no cargo pockets, may have a cuff), and black close-toed shoes. In addition, we are provided with a wine or blue scarf to wear as a little belt thing. Although this isn't usually my style, I think it's going to be way cute. :)

Day Two (Sunday) - Skit Day: Everyone wears their shirt from Fall pick-up with jeans. It's a tee shirt, so it's cold in January, but we suck it up. This past year, for example, pick-up was in September and our shirts had the Pepsi logo on them, but said "Pi Phi" instead. Everyone was in the skit, so we all changed eventually, but when welcoming the girls and escorting them out, we all looked unified.

Day Three (Monday) - Formal Desserts: Black dress. Period. With nude colored nylons and shoes that match your dress. And our pins. :) I think our recruitment chair is going to be a little more "regulatory" about this, because people have gotten slackedy in the past year - wearing navy or gray, having stripes on their dress, etc.

Day Three (Tuesday) - Pref. Parties: Also black dresses, with nude nylons and shoes that match. Again, we're not too strict about it, as long as it's plain black, classy, and flattering. We ask that it not be a long dress, but cocktail length, so we have some regularity.

Pick-Up (a few hours after Pref.): Pick-up shirts and jeans.... and coats, hats, gloves because we stand outside of Central Halll waiting for our girls for nearly an hour (we are a bit overzealous)! We get the shirts that night - the recruitment chairman picks them out and nobody else has seen them, so it's super exciting. :)

For Informal Rectuitment:

Day One (Sunday) - Open Houses: Same uniform we wear during formal recruitment.

Day Two (Wednesday) - Progressive Dinners: Black dresses, similar to formal desserts during formal recruitment.

Pick-Up (Friday): Again, pick up shirts with jeans, or shorts if it's warm.

Also during informal we have several "coke dates", usually on Monday and Tuesday, to invite the girls to hang out with us. For these, we are just asked to wear something Pi Phi, like a letter sweatshirt with jeans or shorts. We're pretty informal like that.

I don't believe our PanHel has any rules against matching outfits; however, I don't think any house has ever required their members to purchase a certain top form a certain store. I'm sure that if one house started doing it, the rest would, also, and PanHel probably wouldn't have a problem.

Well, rush just ended for my girls, and they wore:

DAY 1: Jeans, nice black boots or sandals (toes must be painted if you wear sandals!), and the recriutment T-Shirts.

DAY 2: Nice going out outfits. Black pants or a skirt with a colorful top, no boobs, no strapless tops, no spaghetti straps. Same shoe rules from night 1.

DAY 3: Philanthropy round. Jeans and the Philanthropy T-shirt.

PREF: Black dresses or black dressy outfits (we relaxed the rules so girls could wear what they look good in). There is no strict rule on hose, but if you wear open toe shoes, you have to paint your toes, and you can't wear hose. And badges!

We went by quota from the previous year and always added on about 5-6 extras, just in case. That way, if/when we held COB, we could give our informal NM the same thing the rest of their pledge class got.

Day one: "Go Mean Green"
Green and white or blue and white baseball tees and jeans or jean skirt(that aren't light or dark), brown belt, brown sandals and our silver drop necklace.

Day two: Philanthropy
Black scoop neck shirt, black pants, black stilettos, silver adpi jewelry and either a red, blue or yellow sash belt (ronald mcdonald house colors)

Day three: Pref Night
black dress or black pantsuit, same shoes as day two, and silver adpi jewelry.

Bid Day: Purple&Pink bid day shirt, jean skirt, brown belt, brown flip flops.

those shoes are going to be a problem though, for me, they don't make stiletto heels in size 1.

Oh my gosh, if our chapter made us wear stilettos we would look like idiots. We have a few girls in our chapter (including myself) who are infamous for clutziness. We have to practice over and over down the front steps in normal heels, stilettos would just spell out disaster!

University of Texas, Austin

Round One (Meet and Greet): khaki shorts, matching tennis shoes, t-shirt provided by Panhellenic with individual sorority name

Round Two (two days of Philanthrophy):
Day One: black and white flowered sundress, black sandals with a small heel, matching jewelery
Day Two: off white sundress with flowers sewn near the bottom, off white sandals

Round Three (Skit Night): costumes assigned during workweek by the rush captains

Round Four (Pref Night): all white; white halter-style dress with white shoes

Round Five (Bid Day): cute sundress/nice skirt-shirt combo

Oklahoma State

Open House -- denim capris, white shirt with letters in rhinestones (like the Bebe shirts), and stacked sole black flip-flops

House Tour -- black capris, bright solid colored tops, and stacked sole black flip-flops

Skit Day -- Solid colored dress (not red, black, or white) and shoes that go with it

Pref Day -- red dresses with black shoes

Bid Day -- bid day t-shirts with whatever bottoms and shoes you want

The craziest girl we had come through was wearing her panhellenic t-shirt (which was required). She had cut the neckline so it hung off one shoulder. The funniest part was that she had parted her hair into one-inch by one-inch sections and made each section an individual bun. She looked like a martian. One of the members looked up and saw her and guffawed so loud you could hear her over the welcome song. She got griped at by the rush advisor but didn't even care because it was so funny.

Rush clothes
 

Hey yall, Im a pnm about to go through rush in august and i have a few questions. at my school, they provide t-shirts for us on 2 days and the other days we wear dresses( i have a sundress picked out but not a pref dress yet.) anyway, my question is: i was planning to wear a denim skirt on one day and khaki shorts on the other( or denim capris) with the t-shirts..how long should they be? i mean, i know that if i have to question if theyre too short they probably are, but i am around 5'8, so a LOT of things are short on me that fit other girls fine, lol. so what is acceptable?? also, my dress i have picked out for skit day is spaghetti strap but it falls about to my knees and it looks pretty classy...is the spaghetti strap style a problem?? please let me know, b/c im pretty clueless right now:) thanks! megan

megan
 

if you think that your shorts are too short, then they probably are.a good rule of measurement is that shorts be no shorter than when you have your arms by your side , fingers relaxed, the hem of the shorts should reach the tip of the middle finger.

i think that your spaghetti strap dress sounds pretty. just make sure that it is not too dressy for that round of parties...if you decide it is, maybe you could wear it for prefs!!

best wishes for a terrific recruitment!! keep us posted.