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Originally Posted by tld221
oh this is gonna be fun... but one question:
what exactly is "frills?" i know it means over-the-top fancy rush, but what does that involve? wearing dresses and going to tea? and how far back in the dark ages are we going - i see you're writing letters (  ) and all.
i can kinda imagine what regular rush looks like, having been through one at my school (which, noting my siggie, didnt really work out for me) and reading the recruitment threads here, but an old-school rush - i need details to set the scene. |
When my sister was an active (at the hometown university), they would give each PNM some sort of a nice token or gift at each round. For preference it was something really nice. I know she still has one of the other chapter's preference gift given to her. A porcelain "Cinderella Slipper" on a velvet pillow. Something to do with a "perfect fit" I guess. I just know that it represented Cinderella in some way. And as I recall her chapter gave her (gave out) a silver keepsake box that was lined.
There were elaborate skits, full fledge food and punch, and decorations with massive floral arrangements. I'm not sure if there was an agreed upon budget cap or not. After my sister became an active, my brothers and I (all younger than our sister) were "volunteered" to help prior to rush. (This was my Mother's chapter too - thus the forced labor.) I recall to this day stuffing tissue paper in this giant door covering thing made out of chicken wire that I think may have been a horse shoe. It was over the front door or something like that.
When I attended college years later and at a different school, they also had "frills". However, no gifts and there was "limited" outside help. (No younger siblings tied up in the basement stuffing tissue paper into a chicken wire horse shoe.) Also there was a budget cap. But from what I recall, it still allowed for a lot of "frills".
As for what they wore, I have no clue what my sister wore. However, this would have been a time when a lady rarely wore slacks for these kind of events. So my guess is that everyone was pretty much dressed up. At UK, it was more casual, but still kind of dressy.