I do that all the time!! :D

And here I thought the hats were part of the Kappa ritual. :)

I don't know - they look like mortarboards with padding around them, and I thought the tassels meant they graduated.

I wonder if it's the presentation or one of the usings of the Ware candlesticks.

I inherited a set of silver candlestick holders EXACTLY like those from my Chi Omega mil.

zI love this thread. I think this pic is so cool. LOVE THE AFROS!!!

They look SHARP!!!

I'm late to the game but I absolutely love this thread. All my sororities "old school" pics are from the late '80's. Lots of big hair...LOL!!! :D We're still babies...:)

I just love looking at these pics. I think for the most part they were so much more formal and I love that!!

The pics from the 1800's are AMAZING!!

They're all over my campus as well. (And I LOVE them.)

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I like the SHORTS... but its coldd and windy in Lubbock right now, and seeing them with UGGS and leggings is annoying... almost as annoying as them without leggings and with UGGS. to each his own i guess.

FYI, in Colonial days, women who had the money to have a good dress (as opposed to just having their one everyday dress) DID sit with their knees as far apart as possible! It was their way of showing that they had the wealth to have several yards of fabric for a good skirt, along with their everyday clothes. (Thank you, Rev War Reenactor Friends!)

All I know is, if I ever sat like that, my mom would have screamed "CLOSE YOUR LEGS, WE CAN SEE YOUR UNDIES!" at me, even if I was wearing pants or a long skirt. ;)

You guys have coasties at Texas Tech, too? :D

The wide-spread legs bit was a shocker for me, too! I got told, "Honey, knees together, please," which meant "Put those knees together or you will be in the next handbasket to Hell!" :p A tad overstated, but it worked - my mother believes that one only yells in the house if it's on fire!

About the banana - I'm assuming a banana was a much more difficult thing to obtain in the 1800s? I mean, I've read enough 19th century American children's novels to know that an orange was considered a delicacy/awesome Christmas gift back in the day in many parts of America. So surely a ripe banana was even rarer? At least in Illinois?

Just guessing and wondering then what the context for the banana might be.

Historian much? lol

See, my mom would've just blurted out the "next handbasket to Hell" stuff- probably accompanied by a sharp "Ah-ah-aaaaaaaaaaah!" She would remind me to be ladylike in a not-very-ladylike manner at all... so I learned my manners as quickly as possible to prevent her from feeling the need to declare anything, LOL!

I still just love this thread! It's one of my favorites on this board!

My favorite is the woman in the center holding the banana, and the other woman who is looking like she's going to take a bite![/QUOTE]

That reminds me of the ZTA mystifying photo.

http://www.zetataualpha.org/images/MystefPic.gif

Which was taken in 1899 and is the first offical ZTA photo, with the 9 founders and their first 3 pledges.

Looks like those ancestors were quite the cut-ups in their salad days...kinda like today's "crazy" pix! 112 years' difference...girls are still the same!

Well my mom did it kindof as a joking thing. Not the close your legs part, but the yelling part.

That reminds me of the ZTA mystifying photo.

http://www.zetataualpha.org/images/MystefPic.gif

Which was taken in 1899 and is the first offical ZTA photo, with the 9 founders and their first 3 pledges.[/quote]


I was thinking the exact same thing! You beat me to the post! :D

That's what I was thinking.
ETA: I got to see them at convention!

Florida State Bid Day 2004
 

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(Bold mine)

I don't know how I missed that, but it reminds me of a soccer game I attended. I met some friends there, and one of them brought another friend, let's call her Amber. I had heard of her, but didn't know her.

Just before the game, we all stood for the National Anthem and Amber noticed that a young boy (8-9 years old) in front of us did not remove his baseball cap. She knocked the hat off of the kid's head, yelling, "You take your f***ing hat off for the f****ing National Anthem, a$$***e!"

I'll be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that he never leaves his hat on for the Star Spangled Banner again!

My chapter, 1985. I'm in the bottom row, second from the right. My sister-daughters are on either side of me. My sorority sister, Suzette, right behind me, passed away late last month.

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OMG, the Hairstyles!
OMG, the Clothes!

Thanks, Dee. You just put a huge smile on my face and gave me ammunition to say, "see, we weren't the only ones that looked like that"

Same beautiful smile:D

Aww, thanks :) That was the year the TKEs were calling me Adrienne.. saying I looked like Adrienne Barbeau. I was kind of shocked when I first found these pics because, in all honesty, at that age, I thought I was massively obese. I look at these pics now and think "If only I looked like THAT again..." lol.

It is interesting to look at these pictures from the 80's and then look at the pictures of current Greek women. If women had gone through rush in the late 80's with pencil straight hair, it would have been perceived as laziness. Almost no one wore their hair straight. :eek: Even the women with long hair would have put some wave in it or used hair accessories.

And twenty years from now all the current collegians will look back at their pictures and people will say "The hairstyles! The clothes!" LOL! :D

Really enjoying this thread! :)

Except most women with pencil straight hair these days work hard to get it that way!;)

You know how many flat irons I go through and how much I pay for relaxers?

were you running around braless? LOL My roommate got called Tiffany because she did look exactly like her, but she didn't consider it a compliment.

I went thru a thing junior year of making my hair straight (I think I was in between perms and broke) and everyone was making fun of me saying I looked like the 1970s composites.

In the early 80s, we were still living through the "feathered" bangs and "Farrah Flip" of the 70s. At least Poodle-Perms quickly went out the window. We had one girl in our chapter that wore what we called "sausage rolls" for bangs. And boy, did she douse it with Hairspray.

I'm sure it was well worth it. :cool:

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We had a sister who won a Farrah Fawcett Look-a-Like contest!

Zeta at SMU in 1952

http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images...e132ba_landing

This thread makes me want to go to college when my grandma did. She was a Pi Beta Phi, c/o 1946 at Duke :) And all of her pictures of her and her friends are gorgeous. Everyone just looked so much more sophisticated back then!

How could we forget this?........













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Anthony Edwards made an awesome Tri-Lambda.

Haha! Nope, I always wore a bra. I was pretty self conscious about that! I think I went braless one halloween when I was dressed in flashdance attire (the sweatshirt cut up so it fell off one shoulder) and I was totally paranoid about it all night!

What a feelin'!

She's a man eater, and a maniac on the floor.