Chapter Meeting Attire
 

At Ole Miss, for chapter meetings, everyone gets all dressed up for chapter sit-down dinner and then chaper meeting is right after that. For agenda at AOII the girls can wear whatever the want as long as it is not work-out clothes.

Ours was pretty much...don't come nude.

Unless we had a ritual or something beforehand, of course.

In which case you were supposed to come nude?

LOLZSORRY I couldn't resist.

my chapter and also the chapter i advise are like olemissglitter's, dress to pin unless otherwise stated. they do throw in the odd come in your pj's or some other themed chapter, but maybe once or twice a year. executive council and program council meetings are casual.

Formal meetings = badge attire

Informal meetings = pretty much whatever. Since chapter was on Monday nights, most girls just wore whatever they had on that day. Sometimes girls had already changed into pj pants, etc...

One Monday when I was a pledge I was told by an upperclassman (ah, those days before gender-neutral language) that the kilt and loafers I wore to formal dinner were not appropriate. "You should wear heels," she informed me. I didn't take offense (she was kind of a pill), and though I don't remember specifically, I likely dressed up a little more.

By the end of my college days the dress code had conceded not only on slacks but also on jeans . . . and we insisted that bras be worn to formal dinner and chapter.

Oh, the 70's!!

AGDAlum

Sorry to intrude, but I got interested when I saw this post on the first page...

For whatever it's worth, when I was an advisor for a fraternity chapter, we had three different "levels" of dress.

A normal meeting was "badge" attire, which is slacks and collared shirt.

A "Ritual" meeting (not necessarily initiation, but following ritual guidelines) was jacket and tie. We had one of those per month.

There was also an informal meeting once a month -- kind of like "casual Friday" where jeans, etc. were OK.

Of course initiations were always formal.

So, in a normal four week month, there were two normal meetings, one Ritual meeting and one informal meeting.

When a Chapter Consultant was in town, it was always a Ritual meeting because you got points on your evaluation for how well you performed The Ritual and the shape of your Ritual equipment.

Just don't come naked. I've shown up in my unisuit from rowing, padded bike shorts and a bike jersey, pj's...just as long as all of your bases are covered.

yea ours is pretty much wear clothes unless its formal meeting, then we wear badge attire

Shirt and tie - more special occasions, it was common for guys to wear suits.

Formal meeting is badge attire, and the actives have a pretty broad interpretation of that sometimes. For regular chapter meetings, we just say no denim.

When I was in school we did pin attire every week, but the chapter I advise does it only for the first meeting on the month and casual clothes (not work out stuff) for the other ones.

My chapter wore pin attire for every weekly meeting. Every once in a while we would have an informal meeting, which was whatever you were wearing that day...

At Clarion - we had two types of meetings:

Ritual:

Had to follow dress code. No pants (the push for this was toward the end of my time there - before it was no cord pants or jeans), skirt or dress only. PANTYHOSE. No shoes with tread or laces. Hair must be done, not messy. No spaghetti straps. Pin, badge or lavilier.

These meetings were in our union or sometimes in the basement.


Informal:
Clothing. Period. PJs, jeans, whatever. These are held in the house - first come first served on the couch space!

PAPER:
No meeting, read and sign the 'minutes' :) The best meetings.

Our meetings vary depending on what Monday of the month it is:

1st Monday of the month: Formal... Dress or skirt, hose, closed-toe shoes. Pin of course!

2nd Monday: Semi-formal... a nice skirt, no hose, shoes can be open-toe.

3rd Monday: Business... Dressy slacks or a skirt.

4th Monday: Open meeting... wear whatever you want!

Our chapter dresses casually for "regular" chapter meetings once a month. Same goes for cultural outings, depending on the outing. For ritual meetings, we wear dressy clothes.

We also wear dressy clothes for special occasions, such as Sweetheart Gala, Founder's Day, Fall Tea and other City Council events.

My chapter has a formal meeting every other week, and informal meetings on the off weeks, though attire is similar.

Formal attire- all black; nice dresses, slacks or skirts with nice heels. The girls are asked to wear colorful jewelry so the black doesn't seem too meloncholy.

Informal attire- nice slacks, capris or skirts with a nice top/blouse and nice shoes (heels). Basically almost like formal dress, except it doesn't have to be all black. No denim.

Occasionally we wear "KD attire" to our meetings, which is a KD shirt of some sort with jeans.

For our Tri Sigma meetings, we wear business attire every week. Once a month we have a ritual meeting where we wear white. Sometimes during the semester, once or twice, we have an informal meeting where we wear letters and jeans.

Our pin attire was either a dress with hose & heels, or good pants suit. We were permitted one informal meeting a month, and the attire depended on the "activity". If we were having a guest speaker, it was still pin attire, although a skirt was allowed. If it was causal (ie: during Recruitment), then almost anything was fair game - as long as you wore some sort of shoes!

Our meetings were casual...whatever you were wearing that day. Officers dressed a little nicer.

Occasionally we'd have theme meetings (like pajama party) and we'd dress to fit the theme.

The majority of Our meetings are causal. with maybe one or two ritual that called for Shirt and Tie.

All of our meeting are Quill attire unless otherwise stated. Before I joined girls said that there used to be one Quill attire meeting and the others casuals.

Counsils are wear what u want.

All of our meetings with rare exception were shirt and tie. There were very specific rules as to dress code. I'm not sure what they do these days.

We have 3 different levels of dress.
Formal Pin Attire is no jeans, cords, khakis or flip flops, and hose.
For Informational or Program Chapter wear it's just no jeans or flip flops.
Fun Chapter we can wear whatever we want.

Dress to pin for weekly business meetings: No denim, chinos, sneakers, or strapless of spaghetti strap tops, shorts/skorts, cleavage, midriff, thighs and butt unexposed, no tee shirts. Pin over your heart, clean, pressed clothes. Tasteful, classic clothing.

For membership education workshops (about one a month or one every couple of months, you were allowed to dress in letters and chinos, and not "dressed to pin.")

Very similar here at Bama as what Adpiucf said. Typical Chapter meetings are pin attire. About once a month we have "informal" chapter meetings with educational seminars and the like, so the dress is casual. Exec Committee meetings and informal standards hearings (now called council meetings) are casual, but Exec Board and Formal Standards Hearings are pin attire.

Currently we are conducting officer candidate interviews and we insist on pin attire for these as well. To me it's just like a job interview and should be treated as seriously. It also says alot about the candidate's personality as to what she feels is appropriate pin attire.

Funny though, the definition of pin attire has changed dramatically since I was in school nearly 20 years ago. Used to be that it was hose and heels. Slacks, no matter how dressy, were a no-no. Now it's pretty much anything goes except no denim (again no matter how dressy), flip flops, spaghetti straps or bare midriffs.

We had casual chapter the first meeting of the month, after that it was badge attire (though this was stretched into business casual occasionally) and then when we had national visits it was FULL badge attire (no lienency). Obviously we wore our magenta catsuits for rituals. :)

The chapter I'm advising now kinda does the same thing, but they are way better at dressing up than my chapter was. I think that is partly due to the whole east coast thing vs. liberal - liberal arts school in the mid-west.

Formal meetings - pinwear

Informal meetings - casual, but no PJ's or workout stuff

Business casual every single Sunday. There's something about dressed up formal that makes you act formal, and that's something we have to do every time to get through a chapter with 17 positions, otherwise chapter will last 5 hours (and often does).

Chapter was every other week with pin attire. There was questions about the open toe issue. Exp in the beg of the school yr and the end when it got hot and wanted to wear a sundress. We could wear open toe heels.

On the other weeks we had Sisterhood or Pace. As long as there were no guest speakers we could wear whatever.

When we had a guest speaker we normally wore letters and followed the rules that went with that.

Our chapter meeting attire was casual unless we had ritual.

Our chapter meeting attire was casual... it pretty much boiled down to, "wear clothes". People showed up in anything from business-casual to jeans and t-shirts.

My freshman-year roommates, who were in other sororities, had calendars that listed out dress codes for their chapter meetings. I think they were a little jealous when they had to wear dresses and I was headed to chapter in my jeans ;)

In retrospect, though, I wish we'd had some sort of dress code, even something as simple as "no jeans". When you're wearing formal or even business-casual attire, you feel and act more professional, and it's a reminder that it is a business meeting.

For us, meetings were always tagged as formal or informal, with at least one formal meeting per month. Depending on the type of meeting, we could wear slightly different clothes.

Informal meeting: business casual attire = khakis allowed. Most people wore khakis or a skirt and a nice sweater or shirt.

Formal meeting: business dress attire, including pantyhose if you are wearing a shorter dress or skirt (excl April through October, when you don't have to wear hose). Most people wore dress pants/skirt and a blouse/sweater.
(For men, I think business dress means a jacket and tie).

never allowed:
denim of any sort
flip-flops or other non-dressy sandals
purposely-exposed midrif
mini-skirts (if your arms are at your sides, and your skirt ends before your fingertips, it was too short)

for formal meetings once a month shirt and tie...all other meetings...whatever

Business Casual during every meeting.

We can never wear jeans. Formal = dress, skirt, slacks. Business mtg. = khaki or something nice. We have 2 of each meeting a month.

Strangely, when I was in school, you could wear your pin with jeans - if they were the type of jeans that you had dry cleaned - but never to meetings!

three times per month we have formal meetings with roberts rules and badge attire (where we have to make sure to cover the 4 b's boobs butt belly and badge, as our greek advisor so tactfully put it) and then once a month we have an informal meeting where roberts rules and dress code get thrown out the window.

Should wear letters or collared shirts. Cargo pants and jeans are fine.

That was rule when I started but it got lax as the years went by.

Also, Formal Ritual meeting once a month.