We had what would probably be described as "medium frills". The rush budget was about $2400, about enough to allow each sorority to provide refreshments at all the parties, print some T-shirts (either enough for the newer members, to match shirts the older sisters already had, or one entirely new set for all the sisters - plus bid day shirts for the new members) and buy some decorations - the idea being that you would buy some new decorations and combine it with things you'd bought for previous years.
My chapter was much smaller than the other chapters on campus, so we never had enough money to even come close to spending what we were allowed to spend. (Of course, fewer sisters does mean fewer T-shirts, but the fixed costs of setting up screens, etc, don't change.) And we were newer, so we didn't have an arsenal of rush supplies built up from previous years like the other sororities did. I remember doing pop-ins as a rho chi, and thinking how fabulous the other 4 rush rooms looked compared to AEPhi's.
On the other hand, though, it meant that the women who came back to AEPhi, came back because they liked the sisters and felt they might fit in with the chapter, not because they were dazzled by the decorations and cute T-shirts. We didn't have throngs of women at pref, but the women who were there had already decided that AEPhi could be home, not based on glitz and glamor, but based on the sisters in the room.
Frankly, I would have preferred - not a totally no-frills, icewater-only rush with all sisters in identical T-shirts - but fewer frills, where PNM's can focus on the conversations rather than who has the cutest skits and the best petits fours.
I must say that I don't understand the idea of PNM's being required to wear identical outfits.
At my school, PNM's wore whatever they wanted (with some guidelines from the rho chi's) - the only thing they had in common was Panhel-issued name tags.