Pledge Pin/Formal Attire requirement?

[PhiGam]

Formal on wednesdays and football games (along with a lot of brothers), pledge pins except for sports, drinking, and sex.

[CrackerBarrel]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

Formal on wednesdays and football games (along with a lot of brothers), pledge pins except for sports, drinking, and sex.

This. And they have to wear a collared shirt tucked in with either khakis (or similar pants in navy) (no jeans) or non-cargo, non-denim shorts that didn't come below their knees anytime they were wearing their pin except for special occasions (formal pledge events, shirt and tie every football game, formal all week the week of initiation). We didn't do a weekly formal day though.

[nate2512]

Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel

This. And they have to wear a collared shirt tucked in with either khakis (or similar pants in navy) (no jeans) or non-cargo, non-denim shorts that didn't come below their knees anytime they were wearing their pin except for special occasions (formal pledge events, shirt and tie every football game, formal all week the week of initiation). We didn't do a weekly formal day though.

Jorts and cargos shouldn't be worn period.

[CrackerBarrel]

Originally Posted by nate2512

Jorts and cargos shouldn't be worn period.

That's the idea and generally pledges already know that. Occasionally you'll get a kid from way out in the sticks that was never exposed to the idea that you shouldn't wear them though. Every once in a while there will be a top-class kid from the middle of nowhere who knows how to dress, for instance, when his dad takes him into town to go to the country club, but everyone he's regularly around in his hicktown had jorts/cargos as every day wear. You make that rule and he quickly learns that in actual society you look like a fool in them.

[nate2512]

Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel

That's the idea and generally pledges already know that. Occasionally you'll get a kid from way out in the sticks that was never exposed to the idea that you shouldn't wear them though. Every once in a while there will be a top-class kid from the middle of nowhere who knows how to dress, for instance, when his dad takes him into town to go to the country club, but everyone he's regularly around in his hicktown had jorts/cargos as every day wear. You make that rule and he quickly learns that in actual society you look like a fool in them.

This is true.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel

That's the idea and generally pledges already know that. Occasionally you'll get a kid from way out in the sticks that was never exposed to the idea that you shouldn't wear them though. Every once in a while there will be a top-class kid from the middle of nowhere who knows how to dress, for instance, when his dad takes him into town to go to the country club, but everyone he's regularly around in his hicktown had jorts/cargos as every day wear. You make that rule and he quickly learns that in actual society you look like a fool in them.

A small, minor point of order if I may.
From my POV/experience there are cargos and there are cargos.
Yes, I think the baggy, ill fitting, low riding type are not to be worn.
However there are, and I have some, ones that are rather tailored and
look rather sharp.

[33girl]

Re a collared shirt, does a polo shirt count or does it have to be a button-down/Oxford shirt?

Polos can look as sloppy as t shirts if you do them wrong, LOL.

[lucgreek]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Re a collared shirt, does a polo shirt count or does it have to be a button-down/Oxford shirt?

Polos can look as sloppy as t shirts if you do them wrong, LOL.

For us it was only button-down.