What did your sorority wear for recruitment?

[PeppyGPhiB]

Regarding heels, I think most chapters wear them, but I think it surprised us to read "stilletos" specifically, since that is a very high heel that is not-so-fun to stand in for long periods.

I went to school in the west, so y'all know that we dress more informally on most campuses here (some campuses being exceptions). Flip flops were worn by many women on my campus during recruitment, though pref parties were always dressy.

ETA: I think the attitude at many western schools is for the girls to look cute/cool/trendy versus "classic," which is why we can get away with the flip flops/sandals/flats/Uggs/platforms/whatever-else range in footwear. Again, always exceptions for some campuses.

[GeekyPenguin]

Doing door chants is entirely possible in heels.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

I'm guessing they really mean heels, not specifically stilettos.

Boy, the southern ladies sure do dress differently from the ones in the west. White pumps? Pink suits? Sure, some women out here have them, but I don't think my chapter would ever assume all the women in our chapter would have a pink suit.

ADqtPiMel is right, I'm from NE Ohio!

But our clothing list comes out in April. Recruitment isn't until the 2nd week of September. So you really have ALL summer to locate one.

And our campus is pretty much "no frills" so there are no door songs as of this year.

[kathykd2005]

First Event: I Love KD Shirt or Kappa Delta Airlines Shirt (Dependent Upon Year), jeans, and nice sneakers for Philanthropy Night
Second Event: Various Outfits for Social Night--One year we wore Hawaiian gear, once we did an 80s Theme
Third Event: Sisterhood Night--We did a KD TV Theme for several years, and we wore outfits for each skit we were in; the skits were based on all kinds of tv shows (mostly, I wore club clothes because I was in a few singing groups); the year I was third event chair I changed the dress to semi formal and we did a "KD Sisterhood Awards" night
Fourth Event: Preference--always classy, pearls, black cocktail dresses, and heels of our choice (hahah we were FORBIDDEN to wear stillettos); my senior year we got a little "looser' and stopped requiring the neckline to be scoop neck, and allowed v-necks (haha one year I actually had to buy a new dress bc mine was "too racy")
Bid Day: We had bid day letters that we "shirted" the girls in who ran down to the house, and we also had Bid Day T-Shirts and whatever you wanted to wear on the bottom was up to you
Awwww I miss these days!!!

[PhiMuGoddess]

For recruitment at UW-River Falls, we wore:

Night One: Panhellenic T-Shirt, black gauchos, black sandals
Night Two: Phi Mu polo, black dress pants, black dress shoes
Night Three: Black dress, black dress shoes, hosiery, badge
Bid Day: Phi Mu t-shirt, jeans

[joliebelle]

Day 1- Open Hall Night- Panhellenic T-shirt, jeans, and white sneakers (flip-flops, black heels, and croakies are what the other sororities wore)
Day 2- Philanthropy Night- Philanthropy Shirt and khaki pants, white sneakers
Day 3- Pref. Night- Black Dress with lavalier or pearls and black sandals
Bid Day- Bid Day shirt and any shoes and bottoms

[WVU alpha phi]

In regards to door chants in stilettos, I'm a little confused. Our door chants basically consist of all of us crowding around the door cheering and chanting, we aren't moving around or jumping up and door or anything. Can someone tell me what door chants people are referring to that would be difficult in stilettos?

[xo_kathy]

I went to school in the Midwest in the 90s. None of the houses did "matching" clothes really at that time. And as rush chair, if I had required people to wear heels - stilettos specifically - and pearls, I would have had a coup on my hands. Plenty of our girls were the heel/pearl wearing type, but plenty of them were not. Quite frankly, I think it makes you look too steroetypical and not at all diverse.

Round 1 - Panhel issued Go Greek shirts and khaki colored bottoms - skirt, shorts, pants - your choice; any shoes you want (flip flops weren't popular then, but I would have "outlawed" those)
Round 2 - A letter shirt you already own and khaki colored bottoms, any shoes you want
Round 3 - Badge attire - most wore skirts/slacks and nice tops, or sundresses
Pref - All black dress, black dress shoes

[TigerOwl]

What a great question to drive my brain crazy!

Years ago----August Hot recruitment
Open House------nice short outfit (capri's were not in)
1st event------Skit day, so we all wore our skit costumes
2nd event-----House Tour, Badge Attire which was dress or skirt, no pants
3rd event/pref------Badge Attire, very dressy black dresses
Bid Day-----nice short outfit

Notice we did not wear jeans of any kind. We sang one sidewalk song for at least 10 to 15 minutes, over and over again until it was time for the rushees to enter the house! Also, my freshman year, all the women on campus that were in the many sororities were NOT allowed to wear pants or shorts to class. We all, yes I said, all of the chapters, had to wear skirts, dresses to class. Thank goodness that changed my sophomore year. But most of us were used to dresses, since the public high school I went to had us wearing skirts only too!

Today------August and September Hot recruitment
Open House-----matching polo's or shirts with jean skirt
1st event-----Skit Day, skit costume, or black and white outfits--no shorts
2nd event------Philanthropy/House Tour, Badge Attire pastel dresses
3rd event/pref-----Badge Attire, black dressy dresses--nothing long
Bid Day-------matching tee shirts with jean skirt

[blackngoldengrl]

Originally Posted by WVU alpha phi

In regards to door chants in stilettos, I'm a little confused. Our door chants basically consist of all of us crowding around the door cheering and chanting, we aren't moving around or jumping up and door or anything. Can someone tell me what door chants people are referring to that would be difficult in stilettos?

Well I know that we were all over our house-hanging out second floor windows, some dancing (note: "hoe down" silly dancing, not REAL choreography or anything) on the porch, and some bouncing while cheering. In the first rounds, we line up along our staircase, so stomping and leaning over the banister is involved...just not something I would consider doing in heels!

[ForeverRoses]

Keep in mind that I joined in 1993, so times have definitely changed (the year I "rushed" was the last year of lawn chants and being able to take the flowers with you that were presented during preference)

For our recruitment, we wore:

Open Houses- Floral Dresses with dressy sandals (no flip-flops) and our badge

First Parties- Cardinal Red dresses with hose & heels and our badge

Second Parties (skit night)- we had a Brady Bunch theme so we were all in '70s clothes (and if it was "dressy" 70s, then our badge)

Preference-Black dresses with black hose & heels and our badge

Bid Day- various block letter "bid day" tee shirts, each year the new member class was given them, and you wore them on the subsequent bid days (so you could tell what active was in what new member class)