Ritual Clothing
 

Hi all I know ritual is a secrete matter, how ever I was just trying to get an idea for my own house. We wear all white, and I know some houses wear maybe white gowns ( like graduation gowns).

What does your house wear, if you can say, or can you write an idea of what a house might wear.

I want ritual to be more uniformed and I was looking for idea or suggestions. and I thought Clothing might help with unifying a house more during ritual if we were all in the same attire

Thanks!

QFP

Are you kidding me? I bolded part of what you wrote. If you know it's secret, why even ask?

Seriously. Even if your inter/national organization doesn't have specific guidelines (which I highly doubt), it's very inappropriate to be asking a question like this on a public forum.

The only public uniform wearing of something that is worn to Initiation I can think of, comes from our Delta Sigma chapter at the University of Hawaii. My sisters have the most beautiful mu'umu'u dresses worn the day of Initiation.

If we had an Alaskan chapter I hope they'd wear white kuspuks.

I'm totally plotting this all now.

Delta Chis wear this at initiation:

http://i.somethingawful.com/u/petey/...pons/armor.jpg

With a battle axe and scimitar, of course.

Awesomeness. That beats the traditional Greek Goddess gowns and diadems that most of the sororities wear.

Or the togas most fraternities wear.

But honestly, of what I can say about ritual dress, the general rule is a dark suit with your pins on. That's also what we all wear at most public ceremonies.

You mean its not lingerie for ceremonial pillow fights?!?!?!?!

::dreams, crushed:::(

Those aren't part of Ritual! That's just bedtime routine at the sorority houses!

You all know too much about sororities!!!

Well, you know, you just have to get them to a fraternity kegger for them to tell their whole ritual!

You just said you already wear all white

That reminds me. I need to get my chewbacca costume cleaned.

Damn, yall use chewbacca? Thats a lot cooler than our ewok attire...

Haha, that seems like an OU Triangle thing. I think their President wears a Captain Kirk outfit to ritual.

Ok ok, I'll give you a sneak peek. Our outfits look kind of like this, but the president's has sequins on it:

http://www.costume-shop.com/images/products/22244.jpg

We actually do all our rituals in the nude. ;)

Im pretty sure Chi-Os wear the same thing.

The thread here may help you.

Honeychile..you are such a peach! I wanted to also say that while this girl may not have had the best question (or the best way of asking this question), we've all said some rather "stupid" or "weird" things at one time or another.

To the OP, everyone here is just joking with you. I think you may have asked the question in a way that people thought you were attempting to give away ritual information. It seems as though it gets harder and harder to find white dresses/ shoes in the winter (for good reason, I'm sure). You should attempt to buy up all the white items you can in the spring/ summer.

I hope you find what you are looking for. Just check out some online stores like Macy's, JCPenny's, even Target. You could check out Overstock.com, as well.

I was going to suggest Chadwick's, but their website is sucking big time.

Don't wear graduation gowns unless someone's really in a pinch. For the most part, they're REALLY thin and you still have to wear something suitable under them.

At any rate als463 is right...try ordering dresses all from the same place and as girls graduate, they can pass them down to the chapter. I know it's crazy hard to find an all white dress that isn't whorey or beachy looking. Oh, and don't look in the juniors' section. Look in women's.

The OP's username sort of sounds like she is a Tri-Delta... shouldn't their EO/HQ field these questions?

As for us, our catsuits can be bought year-round on costume websites:
http://www.hirethings.co.nz/photo/im...large/lion.jpg

we wear something similar, but made out of natty light boxes.

So do we. And since we are coed, it's even more interesting. :D

This is what our President wear during initiation.

http://www.ofb.net/~epstein/sl/0401/...1b-closeup.jpg

Our VP of Finance's Ritual outfit:

http://www.hollywoodtoysandcostumes....15FW112694.jpg

It's not really your place to be modifying the ritual requirements of your organization. Ritual is one place where there is very little room for a chapter to "do their own thing"

If there are not guidelines for ritual attire, and you are asking for ideas of matching outfits, perhaps you should look to other chapters in your org.

If there ARE guidelines, you should really follow them.

Either way, this nonsense doesn't belong in a public forum.

The OP is a Sister so I am going to be as Sisterly like as possible...

Please do not post things that even tell remotely about our Ritual including dress and what color. It may be "common knowledge" but it is still not your place to be telling. As long as everyone is in proper Ritual attire, what should unify you is the fact that you are all going through the Ritual that other Tri Deltas have gone through for over a century. The Ritual unifies us as Tri Deltas; NOT whether or not the attire is identical. There are guidelines, you should know them. As long as those guidelines are being met, that is that.

She didn't put it very well, but I think that's kind of what she's going for - that to get identical, appropriate clothing is easier than calling people out for not meeting the guidelines. To which, I completely agree. If you have to stress about whether your outfit is proper and will be approved, or if you get reprimanded about this or that - well, it kinda makes you dread ritual.

Kind of like when we switched our composite pics from regular clothing to drapes. Some people thought it was making us look too clone like, but not having to worry about what to wear, if someone else would wear it, what color the background would be and if it would clash - it took a lot off people's minds.

moe.ron, don't forget about the Chaplain!!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...ide_maggie.jpg

He's one of my chapter's alumni from 1997. It sucks that it only comes in that size, though.

I just bit my lip a little because I was not ready for any of that.

If you are allowed to tell, does the purse hold the chapter's check book and credit cards?

Regardless, that gives a whole new meaning to y'all's Balanced Man Program.

SigEp FTW!

I bet there's at least one ritual outfit from Dr. Seuss stories, a song by Manilow, and they eat Wendy's food.

Frosties, and the Cat in the Hat for sure.

Hey, don't worry about it! :P

(The VP of Finance's hoes hold them actually...)

Damn it.. you Googled our Ritual, didn't you?!

The bolded items are in the purse. ;)

Seriously, my SigEp fantasy includes your Grand President taking me to Wendy's for a spicy chicken sandwich before a Barry Manilow concert, then having John Goodman and Carroll O'Connor read me Dr. Seuss bedtime stories.

lol my total at Wendy's came to $19.01 (our founding year) and I nearly crapped myself :P

Will DJ Scrilla be there too?

I see... Tri Delta has "things" for people to wear if they do not have appropriate attire or are not dressed in appropriate attire at the Ritual. If you have nothing to wear, there are articles of clothing for you to wear provided by the EO. Maybe that is just the chapter I advise, but in 2 different places where I have seen/been involved with Ritual this has been the case. I get that making things identical would make life easier though.