Longwood U. sororities

[ladygreek]

^^^^ So why is that chick sitting in a dress withe her legs wide open?

[howtheSunrose]

Oh good Lord, it's fairly innocent if you ask me.

...but everytime I hear "jumper," I think of these freaks:

[BabyPiNK_FL]

omg, thats so sad. i can't believe someone made that to create laughs.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

omg, thats so sad. i can't believe someone made that to create laughs.

Why is that sad? That family is a bunch of fundamentalist freaks. Srsly. Have you seen any of their tv specials?

[couggirl]

i have wondered if the only way that that family can afford to feed and cloth so many kids is to have tv special. it was just a thought.

[Glitter650]

Originally Posted by porkfriedrice

Why is that sad? That family is a bunch of fundamentalist freaks. Srsly. Have you seen any of their tv specials?

I agree... Humans were not meant to have that many children, I think it's rather irresponsible.


I like the jumper tradition, and really they aren't all that bad.. I'd wear one, (as long as everyone else was too HEHE)

[alum]

The Duggars ARE definitely NOT part of mainstream America but four of the girls aren't wearing jumpers in the picture that was on this thread. No need to associate a Longwood Tradition with the First Fundie Family. Longwood is a public university funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is not a religious school in any way, shape, or form.

[James]

Well it used to be relatively common even in the USA, but a lot of children didn't live to maturity.

Big families are not possible for a lot of people for physical and economic reasons . . . even assuming they had the desire.

Originally Posted by Glitter650

I agree... Humans were not meant to have that many children, I think it's rather irresponsible.


I like the jumper tradition, and really they aren't all that bad.. I'd wear one, (as long as everyone else was too HEHE)

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

^^^^ So why is that chick sitting in a dress withe her legs wide open?

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[jennie3576]

Originally Posted by honeychile

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honeychile - i'm with you! i have no idea what this refers to!

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by honeychile

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The pic was removed.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

The pic was removed.

*whew*

I thought that last little bit of my sanity that I've been clinging to had finally left!

[SigKapShell]

Hey. So I am an alumna of Longwood. Back in the day, Longwood was a Normal School (a school for women wanting to become teachers). Each woman was required to wear a school uniform of sorts- a long dress (jumper). Some of the women in sororities decided to dye their jumpers with their sorority colors. So, still today, each sorority wears jumpers about once or twice a month (even during the winter). Each woman usually picks out a pattern and has a dress maker in town make the jumper or some moms or grandmothers do it. Colors for each sorority:

ZTA- turquoise
AGD- gingham with green, red and yellow
ASA- red
DZ- pink
Sig Kap- maroon
Tri Sigma- purple
ADPi- blue
AST- green
KD- green top and white bottom

I loved jumper day- they are very comfortable! Longwood has tons of quirky traditions, all of which I loved! Hope this clears things up!

[UGAalum94]

I'm so happy to finally see pictures, and they look better than what I was expecting.

Teacher style is often most baffling to those of us who are teachers but have no interest in little red-school house embroidered sweaters or wooden yellow pencil jewelry.

As SWTXBelle noted, dressing professionally and appropriately for a job with a lot of random duties is more challenging than you'd think, and jumpers, any time you can sort of fashionably get away with it (these things do seem to have a cycle) make sense.

But it still doesn't explain this:

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