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Flashback, early to mid 80s:
We gave flowers at Pref, and our greeters would take and put them in vases at the door. Those of us Preffing didn't have to look at them all night AND it made it easy to see who our competition was based on the flowers!
Pledges either wore their bid day tee/letters tee, sorority button pin (remember those?), or pledge pin on campus.
Say it with me, Aqua Net and hot rollers! My mom said they should have bought stock in the Aqua Net company.
In addition to the other style memories, on my campus the first Liz Claiborne bags were it. So were topsiders, penny loafers, Tretorns and the first Reebok aerobic shoes.
"I Heart" ringer tees and jerseys in your own colors. None of this ADPi wearing Pink and Navy jerseys or KKG wearing white and red bid day tee shirts (note: examples used were not on my campus). For that matter, bid day tee shirts were either in the "I Heart" style, were iron-on letters only (if the sorority allowed pledges to wear letters before initiation), or the spelled out sorority name.
Ditto on candlelights with real candles and a baby candlelight only for advisers.
Ditto on little sisters and sweethearts. Fraternities were known to serenade based on which chapters their little sisters were in and would serenade after the girl's candlelight. Who still has their little sister pin?
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