30,000 square feet

I know that I tend to be a traditionalist, but that just ticks me off!

Oh My, Arkansas starts tomorrow!

YEAH! Let's call the Hogs!!!!!

Wooooooooo, pig! Sooie!
Wooooooooo, pig! Sooie!
Wooooooooo, pig! Sooie!

RAZORBACKS!!!!!!!!!!

Don't forget about Kentucky! All those gorgeous PNMs at one of my favorite places on Planet Earth! Let's cheer for yet another successful SEC recruitment at UK. :D

GO BIG BLUE!

Yay! I'm so excited for tomorrow-the first full day of recruitment! I'm just helping out & I spent most of the day securing my own outfits! :D

AOPi will do well there. They're building a 4-5 million dollar house, and will haveit done in a year or two...Pretty impressive.

Speaking of CHEER :D I wonder if any of the Kentucky girls from the show Cheerleader Nation are going to UK and rushing?

I almost blew this in my complacency. After seeing so many dresses in the spring, I waited too long. Nothing at Ann Taylor or even at that White/Black store. After a diligent search over the last 6 weeks I found 2 hopefully appropriate white dresses for deferred winter recruitment. Daughter doesn't need both so I appreciate input on the more appropriate of the 2. The students involved in Greek Life tend to be very preppy if that makes a difference.

One is somewhat summery but to me seems like the epitome of a bid day dress. It's a classic white eyelet sundress with wider shoulder straps (as opposed to spaghetti straps or none at all) and hits right below the knee. Fitted bodice, fairly full skirt. It is very traditional and to me screams sorority (in a good way :) )

The other is a white linen shift that can be worn with or without the white jacket that has cutwork on it. It also has fabric that covers the shoulders. This is probably more appropriate for winter although it is also a summer dress.

I'm afraid if we waited until Christmas Break, we weren't going to find anything....

since she has deferred recruitment, you daughter might be able to find out during her first semester which dress is the more traditional(on her campus) of the two-they both sound lovely, and since she will be wearing them for rituals thru out the entire school year, either should work.

I still have flash backs to the day after my Bid Day. Nearly all of the chapters conducted their new member ceremonies within the first 24 hours of bidding, and we all needed white dresses-- it was just after Labor Day and even in Florida those white dresses were hard to come by at that date. I remember being in a department store dressing room with a bunch of other UCF sorority new members that I didn't know and throwing whites over the dressing room doors to one another as we frantically searched for a decent fit!

One of my alpha class sisters (teeny tiny girl!) ended up buying a children's size 12 white dress for our ceremony--- she looked like a doll in that little white dress!

(We have a very Panhellenic campus, so lots of ladies would lend their whites to friends in other chapters.My alpha ceremony dress has seen 5 ADPi "alpha ceremonies," a KD initiation and 2 Alpha Xi initiations!)

(We have a very Panhellenic campus, so lots of ladies would lend their whites to friends in other chapters.My alpha ceremony dress has seen 5 ADPi "alpha ceremonies," a KD initiation and 2 Alpha Xi initiations!)[/QUOTE]

That is a TOTALLY Cool idea, lol.

Another idea is for chapter members to pass down their white dresses, red dresses or whatever else is needed when they graduate.

I had a mom ask me if her dau needed a white dress for pledging. I emailed the other CA's and found out that 2 of the 6 did. :)

i think that i left mine to the chapter-i surely wouldn't have been caught dead in it outside the chapter house!!!

Oh my!!!!! Did this bring back memories! We had to wear white dresses under our high school graduation robes. Girls had white robes, boys had red. Well, I was small too! 5'2" and maybe 96 lbs. I am so embarrassed to admit this---but here goes----my mom bought me a ladies x-small or small (I can't remember now) knit shirt, short sleeves. That's it! I wore a shirt! Also, this was when mini skirts were in fashion, umpteen years ago. The length was perfect. SOOOO, on pref day, I wore that same white dress (shirt)! With a summer tan and blonde hair (bleached to white by the sun) it worked well! Then initiation-----the shirt was worn again!!! Yes, and at convention every two years---it's back to hunting for white suit/dress again! No shirts this time!!!!!!

Not that this is directly related to SEC Rush, but I was writing the UF recommendations last night. I was AMAZED at how great the girls going to UF were, academically speaking. All AP/IB, graduated in the top 3% of their classes, no ACT score below a 30. I imagine that nearly every rushee is going to be very similar!

When I was applying to college, UF was most definitely a safety school, and now it's a reach for Florida kids. I wonder how this is going to impact Rush now and in the future...