Northerners don't even dress up for football games...how are we expected to take them when they don't know how to dress appropriately?

It's only appropriate to dress up for football games? I think sitting on a bleacher for 3 hours in a dress and heels sounds uncomfortable.

Especially because it is COLD here in the fall. Those fall nights are terribly chilly, even if the day is warm. Heels+dress= hypothermia...or at least crabby and unpleasant.

Yup, we dress up for games, and Ole Miss recruitment of "northerners"
 

Well, I am new to this thread...and GC for that matter...but I'd like to put my two cents in. Ole Miss is notorious for overdressing for football games--and that's the way we like it! It's hard for me to think about going to an Ole Miss game without my pearls and a (red, of course) sundress. I personally don't wear stillettos (they sink into the grass), but I know plenty of people who do. A lot of people think Sports Illustrated said it best: "It seems that 97% of the world's really really ridiculously good-looking people go to Ole Miss. We'll check out the campus tailgate party on the Grove, where the gents sport coats and ties, toting their bourbon highballs in one hand and their highly decorative dates in the other. Chandeliers even hang in tents, providing a light in September in Faulkner country."

But anyway! At Ole Miss, Greek life is probably dominated mostly by southern girls simply because most PNM's come from MS, AL, LA, TN, GA, etc, and many of those places have alumnae groups who send lots of girls to Ole Miss. HOWEVER, there are always girls from "random" states that make quite a stir. The keys are the same for everyone, "southern" or not:

1)have a good, personal, glowing rec from an alum in the general area and 2) get to know people whenever possible! I am surprised by girls who don't really go and put themselves out there and meet girls from the chapters--in bars, on campus, in class, etc.
I know our sorority, has lots of southern ladies (we WERE founded here!), but we definitely want a good mix of girls--if she's a great girl and we learn about her through recs or through personal contact, then we want her!
Rush isn't just about your hometown, it's about getting to know people. It's joining into a group, not just wearing some Greek letters. But that's easy for us to say, because Ole Miss Greeks have recruitment midway through the first semester, and we get to meet girls during their first few weeks. I imagine it'd be really different if we had recruitment before school started.

:D

LOL! I have to admit that when I attended a Vanderbilt football game a couple of years ago I was taken aback by all the young ladies walking around in Lilys (Lilies? What's the plural for a Lily Pulitzer dress, anyhow?) and strappy sandals. I thought maybe they were planning to attend church afterward!

That look wouldn't have worked at my college where it was cold and rainy on most game days, but I did think they looked really cute.

Like KR said, we are dressed appropriately FOR WHERE WE ARE.

Believe me, any of the Ole Miss girls in heels and Lilys would be running to the college bookstore for sweatshirts and blankets halfway through the first quarter if they went to a game up here.

We once had a chapter consultant from the Midwest who wrote on her report that our dress was "very casual" - well, when you are on a campus with hills everywhere and where it rains or snows or mists 5 days out of 7, you're not going to be sporting heels and dress pants or a dress to class.

At my alma mater (LSU), fraternity pledges were required to dress up for tailgating and the game. I personally thought this was pretty cruel as these boys were often in suits and it was HOT HOT HOT outside. IMO, it borders on hazing! But that's not the point...If a new member of a sorority was going as the date of one of these boys, she was expected to dress up as well.

That was several years ago and now it seems like dressing up for the games has become more common for all students, whether they are Greek or not. However, the majority of the students still seem to prefer their "Game Day Casual" look :D

Personally I think it's just as comfy to sit at a game in a sundress than in shorts and a tshirt. nice sundresses are made of lighter material, so they're cooler. Lol we're playing Kentucky tomorrow and I just got a memo saying we were expected to wear orange sundresses (b/c Kentucky's colors are blue and white) and look recruitment ready! lol! They don't make too many gator blue and orange dresses, or orange high heels! I love how nice sorority girls look at games though.

Can't wait for the game tomorrow! Football season has to be the best time of the year!!!
GO GATORS!!!

I think if our Rush Chair sent us a memo telling us to wear a purple or gold sundress (or any sundress for that matter) we would have sent her a memo back that she was f*ing crazy. Anything nicer then letters and jeans would stick out like a sore thumb at WIU.

Honestly, Arkansas isn't good at dressing up, but at least the top-tier greeks do to a degree

If at all possible, could y'all try to keep the score under fifty. But if y'all can't help yourselves, then at least wait until the forth quarter.

Go Cats!

If we had enough school spirit at my college, and it were warmer, it would have been fun to dress up once or twice. But everyone seemed to wear a school shirt/sweatshirt at our games. When I went to my boyfriend's games at Pitt, it was the same thing-but more spirit of course!

lol well at UF not EVERYONE dresses up for football games. I think we dress up more for tailgating (especially if we love the frat!). I would say that a polo shirt is the most casual I've gone though.