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Originally Posted by 33girl
I just want to say flat iron does not = well groomed. Letting your hair wavy or curly and natural is a lot healthier than destroying it day after day with a flat iron, and a lot of people look better that way too.
You can require a certain kind of dress for rush events, even the most laid back sororities do. But for day to day on campus, if it gets around that you're trying to regulate what sisters wear, it can make you look really bad - the whole stereotype of "sororities control you" and in your position, where there's a lot of anti-Greek sentiment anyway, that's the LAST thing you need. Not only that, some people actually look a lot better in sweats (I mean the Juicy type sweats not the elastic ankle sweats) than they do in jeans.
Start SMALL. It sounds like this isn't an area that's been addressed ever, and if you try to turn everyone into mini fashion plates immediately you'll get a LOT of backlash.
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Agree that a flat iron doesn't always make amazing hair. Using one occasionally will cause only minimal damage, but people who use them daily need to also use a lot of conditioner and some product to protect hair from the heat. This from someone who used to use one everyday back in high school and ended up with crackly, split ends. Now I usually just blow dry and go, but I always use product if I'm going to straighten it.
Stick with the happy medium. A "jersey day" and "pin dress day" once a week or once every two weeks (you could have jersey day one week, pin dress the next, etc.) will increase visibility without being too invasive. I do absolutely recommend some basic guidelines for recruitment events (the general do's and don'ts...tailored to your specific chapter and the activity you're doing for the event of course...for a movie night in the chapter room or something it would be much to have everyone in heels and dresses.) That's not asking too much. And of course do encourage everyone to wear letters to campus events, when possible. The more people that see your letters, the better.