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

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Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

OK, time to fess up. I am SO old....you were not allowed to wear pants on campus on weekdays unless you had a raincoat on over them.

(By the time I graduated we were all wearing bell bottoms and going braless and spending the night with boys in the dorms)

I am so old that we still had 19 houses at Florida State - 10 ice waters one day and 9 the next. I am so old that the dorms were not yet air conditioned - in Florida! And you could NOT skip any of the parties. They had tear sheets you had to hand in at every house and heaven forbid you didn't turn yours in somewhere - you probably would have been disqualified.

I am so old that they told you that if you asked to use the bathroom it meant you didn't want to be invited back. After 8 glasses of ice water, I had a really tough decision to make. There was a girl in the Theta house who I had known from GIRL SCOUTS when we were little, and I always thought she didn't like me anyway, so I had nothing to lose. I made the decision. Lo and behold, they asked me back anyway.

I wore Villager dresses with full slips underneath, Weejun loafers, carried a monogrammed John Meyer purse, and wore a circle pin at the collar notch with my initials engraved for the ice water parties.

For skit parties I wore my Villager suit and Pappagallo low heels with a matching purse, and for third round (Information?) parties I wore a green Bobbie Brooks dress and Bernardos with a woven straw Aigner purse.

Prefs were black dresses and heels. I still have my white dress I wore to pledging and initiation. It's packed away with that stupid Girl Scout uniform. Memories!

Nylons were worn with EVERY outfit.

My hair was done in a center part flip that flopped in the heat. No foundation, but a little eyeliner and some lip gloss. Everyone in Florida has a tan in September, so we didn't really need too much makeup.

It was deadly hot, but back then not all places were air conditioned, so we were somewhat used to it.

I can tell you that everyone on my hall rushed and all but two pledged. That is what you did back then. I think that there was more of a drastic change in my four years than at any other time in history. I wore a suit to freshman homecoming with gloves, heels, and a giant mum, but by the time I was a senior, I wore Jesus sandals and a pant suit.

A girl who lived across the street from me pledged Tri-Sigma in '66 and I remember her dressing a lot like you described when she was in college. She had beautiful black hair that she wore in a flip with bangs a la Marlo Thomas in "That Girl" and drove a red convertible with a white top ... I wanted to be her when I grew up!