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Originally Posted by Croakies n Bows
I am a Sigma Pi at the University of Arkansas and i know what we expect as fratty in the south seems completely different than what people perceive as fratty up north.
Fratty is a way your life style down here. We wear ralph lauren polos, kakis shorts (no cargo), seersucker, plaid (in summer), and sun glasses with croakies on them all the time. On game days, its button downs and bowties along with a blazer and pants. On weekends we go to the lake (during summer) and in winter we party. We are raised to treat women like southern belles and dont tolerate guys who dont. We wear northface vest and jackets and all our clothes are either polo, brooks brothers, vineyard vines, southern proper, northface, or lacoste, with a select few others. And shoes are always sperrys.
We don't allow tattoos, piercing, popped collars, gel in hair, graphic t-shirts (affliction etc), or hoodies.
most everyone drives SUVs and we drink keystone light except on game days when we then change to bourbon and coke.
This is not just fratty but how we were raised and how we live our life from day to day.
Does anyone have anything different, or agree/ disagree with this? Im not sure what the north considers frat?
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I could have sworn there were topics about this, but here goes:
In the north you're going to find a wide variety of norms, depending on the school. Some schools the guys will be mostly prep, with the Brooks Brothers/Vineyard Vines thing going on (since Vineyard Vines is, in fact, a Northern company, and a lot of Northeasterners vacation in Martha's Vineyard). As far as vacation spots or whatever - a lot of people in the Northeast go to the Cape, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Long Island, Fisher's Island, or any number of other places around here for weekends away.
Again, though, it's hard to generalize because the schools up here tend to get a wide mix of guys from a wide variety of areas. As a result you could even have a mix of backgrounds within a single chapter. The Northeast itself is fairly mixed as far as that goes overall - what you'll find in the Boston area is different than what you'll find in CT, NY, NJ, NH, RI, etc. Each of the states is fairly distinct. Even the areas within the states are fairly distinct (i.e. Central CT vs. the Gold Coast, Boston and Metro West vs. Western MA).
As an example - my chapter had guys from the South, West, Midwest and Northeast, so there was a variety of guys even within my own chapter.
I can only really speak about the Northeast though - I grew up and went to school in New England (and have lived here since), so I'm most familiar with this region.