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When the composite photographer tells you to turn that odd angle and look toward the corner of the room. You tell him, "NO!!"

I'm tired of seeing pictures of people looking up and at an angle. What the hell are they looking at over there? Look at the camera and smile--like a normal person.


*Air Supply sucks

Girls, if you've got long hair, please don't let the photographer put it over your shoulders in front so you look like two bunches of hair with a pair of eyes in between. Don't. Please. That's why I never bought any of my composite pics.

Our photographer always asks us to look straight at the camera, then changes the position of our legs. She'll take one with our knees pointing to the left, one to the right, and one straight ahead -- but always with us looking forward. Needless to say all three of the pictures always look EXACTLY the same and we're not really sure why she makes us move around so much.

Everyone, please remember this. If the photographer's form says for you to write

Last Name _________________, First Name________________,

PAY ATTENTION!!! Do not write your first name first and your last name second.

That is why, somewhere deep in the recesses of Amos Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, there is a composite from the 1980's featuring a beautiful young lady named "Munch Kathleen".

No, I'm not kidding and no, Honeychile, Dani, Cheyenne and Libby, I'm not saying which sorority it is! :p

THAT's funny.


*Air Supply sucks

That's why I ignore the photographers as per posing. Always have, even doing high school yearbook photos. I KNOW that I'm going to look dumb with my head cocked at some unnatural angle and all my hair pulled over my shoulders, so why should I let the photographer ruin my pictures?

Actually my composite pictures have turned out well, although I don't like it when he'll cock my head slightly to one side or something like that... I've always had one side of my hair behind my shoulder and the other in the front.

This does work well for your drivers license photo, however....very slimming.

Oh, and if the photog tells you to smile with your mouth closed and you never smile like that...DON'T. I had one proof where the photog made me do that and I look like I'm ready to beat on someone with brass knuckles.

LOL! I know what you mean, ML! We called it the "sorority girl" pose. The composite would be row upon row of girls with hair behind one shoulder and in front of the other. That's so funny that it's a universal thing!

Of course, between the shoulders we had the big, pouffy bangs. A concession to the era in which we were living :)

Why would you stop? People just don't respect tradition anymore.

We got old. Our bangs got tired. They wouldn't stay up like we wanted them to. Alas, there is no Viagra for bangs :(

rofl.

I used to do that in the 5th grade. mmm, hair stylin companies loved me :)

I remember seeing her name on a rush list!!! There is no way I'm going to remember which sorority she ended up with!

One year, our Exec Board decided that we were all going to wear azure blue crew neck sweaters with white shirts underneath - ever so preppy! There was a major brou-ha-ha about this ("we're going to look like a field hockey team!"), which resulted in several sisters putting field hockey positions in the space where it said Office______. Luckily, the composite company checked - because the sister who put goalie didn't look like a goalie!!

my beef -

"Tilt your head to the left. No, not so much. Tilt your head to the left. No, not so much. Tilt your head to the left. No, not so much."

If you don't like it, please just come over and physically move my head to where you want it! Thanks! :)

Oh - they do when they do ours - then they "smooth" your hair. I also had a big bruise on my shoulder (shot put hickey) and they were like "Oh, well that's not flattering." Like they weren't going to airbrush me anyway. :rolleyes:

My beef is that you guys were being mean to the trolls and now I will never know if Brandon Ramey is my soulmate! Thanks meanies! :(

WHAT ABOUT THE DRAPE????

Does anybody else want to rant about the drape?

Seriously. I. HATE. the drape. With a passion.

and i thought i was the only one who found their photographs disgusting! i have not laughed this hard in a while!! i took my tenth grade daughter by my sorority house a while back and we were hysterical over the "stylish" hair-dos on the composites--every decade had their curse(50's and 60's bee hives, 70's farrah fawcett or tennille of capt. and tennille fame, 80's the pouf bangs, etc.)!! why do we let the hair stylists do this to us??

I just love slipping off my bra straps and putting on that monstrosity of a thing that is all stanky so I look more "revealing." One year, in the big hair 80s, my chapter wore white frilly blouses instead. While I hate those too, at least they looked a little more individual.

i agree! that thing was horrible!

Hahahaha! We love going through the old composites and picking out our favorites. My favorite is the composite from the 1980s. One girl has the worst dye job I had ever seen, crazy mall bangs and a side part (I don't know how she kept her head from tipping over), and a horsey face. On the same composite there is a girl with a giant floppy white bow on her head. Granted I used to have one of those two, but I was six at the time. It was different.

Over the summer, our house mom hung up the composite from when our current alum advisor was president of our chapter. She had awesome mall bangs back then and we love to tease her about it.

The drape is horrible. This year, my chapter decided we'd wear those little short-sleeved white button-up shirts instead of the drape. So, some of my sisters went out and bought a small, a medium, a large, and an XL from Wal-Mart, which would've been a good idea, except for the fact that even the XL wouldn't fit those of us who were more, shall we say, well-endowed. So I (along with several others) ended up in our vice-president's fiance's dress shirt.

Add that to the fact that I have really long, really thin dark hair that the photographer slicked down on either side of my head, so it looks like i'm wearing one of those knit hats with the long earflaps...lovely. :rolleyes:

:D ROTFLMAO!!!!

Back in the 80's, our chapter apparently decided that wearing the high-collared turquoise shirt was the "in" thing. What were they thinking? As much as I hate the drape, I'll take it any day as long as we don't go back to 80's style!

Okay, you girls are killing me....

What on earth is "the drape"?

This lovely young lady is wearing a drape.

http://www.magnoliacomposites.com/Ph...e1/Leia-SK.jpg

interesting. So it's like a one-size fits all semi-shirt?

more or less, yes.

in my experience with them, its basically just a shaped piece of velvet that velcros in the back :p

*shudder* Ooohhh.... the wretched drape!
It never fits!!!! We had our pictures taken in the student union this year... which resulted in me at one point standing in front of a whole crowd of students in my bra as that stupid stupid thing decides that it really doesn't want to be on me anymore... Grr...

Also, AOPi gets red drapes here! They're pretty snazzy, as far as drapes go. Does anyone know how to get different colors?

We always got red drapes. I think all you have to do is ask, although I'm guessing a lot of chapters just pick black because it is overall the most flattering.

I kicked and screamed when we went to drapes - "you're stifling our individuality!" - but now I think the ones where everyone just wears whatever look messy. The same shirt in different colors might be a good compromise.

We always wear white button down shirts for our composites. I went to Texas A&M this weekend to the ADPi house to visit some friends and they wore pretty much whatever they wanted...as long as it was "conservative".

drapes
 

The gripe we had with drapes was that you had to pull your bra straps aside to take the photo, and since you'd been wearing the bra all day, there was likely a mark on your shoulders from it, which showed up in all the photos. We also had to wear pearl chokers and since I didn't own one, I used a full strand and a twist tie to hold it to the proper length in back. Someone should have taken a photo of the back of me, in jeans, a velcro wrap, bra haning off and wearing a twist tie. Lovely.

I always love looking at the fashion faux-pas of the ages as found on different composites. In our house, the 1958 composite has half the guys wearing the same LOUD patterned sportcoat that looks like Buick seat covers. Mutton chops are my favorite hair don't of the early 1970s, while some of the leisure suit looks are well...interesting? The 80's are fairly tame clothing wise except for the odd Miami Vice look or knit tie. The hair however...

My students love to make fun of my composities in my office. "Mullet, mullet, crimped hair, mullet...":p

i HATED that damn drape. i had to keep my arms pinned to my body so the velcro wouldn't come off. and it's ridiculous if nobody is around to close it for you. they do look better than regular clothes though...

The drape is a PAIN!!! One time it started creeping down my shoulders as the photographer was taking the pics, and by the end I was showing some major cleavage. Just the "tasteful" thing we needed in the composite. :p Luckily that one didn't go in, but it was still ugh to look at the proofs.
My chapter provides us a pearl choker to wear with the drape; we didn't have to provide our own.
My favorite look on the old composites were these nordic-type cardigan sweaters with designs around the collar that seemed to be very popular mid-80s. In some composites, something like 3/4 of the girls are wearing some variation on that sweater.

The drape sounds a little scary. In my chapter we all have to wear black dressy shirts. That's pretty much the only requirement. I think it looks a lot nicer than the older composites where they just wore whatever, but on the other hand, still allows for some individuality.

Sarah

We did the black drapes too. I'm surprised not everyone knows about them. We had to use them in high school too for senior pictures. 'Course my HS yearbook was extremely anal. Everyone had to have the exact same pose and drape or faux tux for the guys. If it wasn't identical they'd lose points in the big yearbook competions. :rolleyes:

The drapes always had velcro but the photographers were usually smart enough to have the massive black paperclip things. So you weren't endanger of the drape sliding down, only up. My lil was extremely paranoid of showing any clevage so she had started with it fairly high. By the time she was done it had slid so far up she was pretty much just a head on a piece of velvet. :o

Our drape didn't even have velcro this past year we had to use a CLOTHES PIN !! Very fun trying to get that to stay on, and you can't move your arms from your sides or it will fall down. All the chapters at my school use the drape and my chapter everyone wears a lavalier. Also NEVER NEVER let the photographer help you choose your pose they don't know what the heck they're talking about !!

wow, the clothes pin is kinda ghetto ;)

in high school my older friends taught me the secret to those darn drapes -- strappless bras and tube tops. no bra lines, no standing half dressed in front of half the student body in the union if it doesnt wanna stay put ;)