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Back in the days before "no frills" the favorite one my chapter did when I was a sophomore, junior and maybe a senior was a Fashion Show. It started with loud, pumping, popular music as the "rushees" walked into the dark room (chapters don't have houses on my campus) with a spotlight on the catwalk. Once everyone was in the room, the music got quiet and an announcer described the attire of our founders to 1850s music. We then leapt ahead to our chapter's colonization in the 1960's with appropriate music, hippie garb, etc. We followed with music and fashion through the 70s Brady Bunch attire, 80s preppy attire and finished in the 90s with grunge attire (this was mid-1990s afterall). We finished the fashion show with popular music (think Right-Said-Fred and "I'm Too Sexy") describing outfits our members might wear now, such as volleyball jerseys, dance team costumes, garb for library studies, and other organizations our members were involved with. After the fashion show, the lights came up and the room was decorated in all black, white and silver with hundreds of helium balloons. It was our first day of "Rush" and really set the bar high for the other chapters to have to compete with us. I miss frills rush!
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