This is your mother's Rush! What we wore 1960-1990

[honeychile]

I had to get out my rush book when I wrote my Rush Thread. Quiana was high quality stuff! Other brands were PantHer, College Town, and of course, Gunne Sax!

[MUSK81]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I had to get out my rush book when I wrote my Rush Thread. Quiana was high quality stuff! Other brands were PantHer, College Town, and of course, Gunne Sax!

My pref dress was a Gunne Sax. It was a street-length cotton and velvet sundress with a matching jacket I originally bought for the Christmas dance senior year. It was perfect for pref, even if it was September. I don't remember buying anything new for rush, and I don't think anyone else did either. Our school just wasn't that competitive.

Fun fact: Miss West Virginia 1980, Pam Paugh, was an Alpha Xi and was away at the Miss America pageant during rush that year. Her sister was Miss West Virginia 1977 Patsy Paugh, an AXD at another school ... now better known as the late Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenet.

[33girl]

LOL PantHer!!!! I remember that well...Vicky Vaughn was another one around that time. I should just go look at the labels on Mom's clothing that I saved.

We had a structured informal rush that lasted 2 weeks, and 7 sororities. Meet the Greeks I have no clue what I wore. Same for much of the theme week, but I do remember I wore pleated capri jeans (lol) and an orange polo neck sweater to ASA's theme party.

First night of prefs I wore my HS graduation dress...blue and lavender plaid with this sort of corsety belt thing in the middle. Not really in season but it was one of the better things I had. Obvi I didn't "preplan" my rush outfits before I went back to college.

Second night of prefs I wore a pale pink tank-top dress (see the Steve Perry Oh Sherry video) with a (borrowed) dusty pink Shaker knit sweater over it. The first party of the night there were 50 sisters plus probably at least 60 rushees crammed into a dorm suite. With candles. I thought I was going to die of heat stroke. And THEN I had to go to another party. Bleeeaaahhh

Third night of prefs (this was ASA) I wore a black sweater with pink cabbage roses on it and my friend Tina's black knit skirt. (This was my fave outfit which is why I saved it for ASA. I kind of knew. )

As you can see I would have been royally screwed if I hadn't had a dorm floor of girls to borrow from - I don't think any of us made it the whole way through rush in completely our own clothes. This is just another reason I <3 deferred rush.

Pledge pickup night I wore jeans and the ubiquitous sleeveless/cap sleeve Shaker knit top.

On another note, I also remember what I wore the first day I got to campus. The aforementioned capri jeans, a rainbow striped cutout-back shirt I got in Florida, jelly shoes and every rubber Madonna bracelet I owned.