This will be my daughter's second time on the other side of rush and we have to get almost all different stuff than last year...which is so irritating. Frankly, it would be a heckuva lot easier if panhellenic would let them wear identical stuff, then somebody could just order it for everybody instead of some 21 year old girl (who refuses to get input from anybody else) coming up with random outfits that half the time cannot be found in stores (and I live in Atlanta--it's not like we don't have good shopping here!) The main problem with my daughter's list is that everything has to be solid and in colors that aren't currently the most popular. Last year my daughter needed a solid pastel strapless or spaghetti strap sundress and we could not find one anywhere--thought I was going to have to dust off the sewing machine
until she finally found one....IN FRANCE. Now if she was looking for white last year, she would've been fine, but plain pastel was nowhere to be seen.
Grrrrr from the mother side. I'd rather give the sorority $300-$400 and have them buy it than spend countless hours shopping or on the internet looking for the holy grail of sundresses in a specific style and color.