Dress Code Across the U.S.

[nittanyalum]

NOW we need your post, DST...

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

READY.


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GO!

[Just interested]

I haven't heard anything from our Texas schools (Especially the old Southwest Conference schools). I have a feeling it is much more casual than it use to be when we wore our very best dresses ( "Fall Cottons" as they were called) and we were decked out. I think all that has changed but would like to hear from someone in the know. I think SMU still dresses up but am not for sure of the others.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by Just interested

I haven't heard anything from our Texas schools (Especially the old Southwest Conference schools). I have a feeling it is much more casual than it use to be when we wore our very best dresses ( "Fall Cottons" as they were called) and we were decked out. I think all that has changed but would like to hear from someone in the know. I think SMU still dresses up but am not for sure of the others.

The OLD SW Conference is now a member of The Big XII

Dress is casual today more so than ever before in classes.

Tailgating is very casual, if you go to special functions, coats, slacks, shirts and ties.


Dress like a slob, you will feel like one!

[srmom]

I am not a student, but go to a bunch of UT games, and the fraternity guys wear jeans, boots, and burnt orange Longhorn shirts (either buttondown or polo). I would post a picture of a tail gate, but don't know how. It is a sea of orange.

Many girls wear orange sundresses - these cheesy, jersey things are popular now, or a cute top with a short skirt and cowboy boots. For the most part it is casual, but all UT related.

[Just interested]

Tom Earp, Don't rub it in!! I so miss the SWC

[Benzgirl]

My experience at a game in Austin: UT men in Khaki Shorts/Polos, women were in shorts or UT pajama pants and orange tank tops. Not as formal as SEC.

Let's face it, if we were to dress up for football, we would freeze our asses off. Except for the first few games, it's either rainy, windy or cold and who wants more skin exposed to that.

Now, in saying that....I'm done and hopefully this thread is too. I agree with NittanyAlum. Why are we rehashing this again!

[gee_ess]

Correction Tom Earp - one of the schools in the old SWC is in the SEC now - Arkansas, where the tradition to dress nicely at all social event - be it a football game or a night out - is still very much in effect.

EW - I sometimes gasp audibly when you make statements like the one (and I know this is not verbatim) where you said, "Greeks dress up because it is the way we were raised. " I have to disagree with you since I was born and raised in Arkansas (LR, Heights area) and was Greek on that campus. Not every Greek comes to campus from the circles you are implying they come from...but they dress appropriately due to the tradition and social customs of the environment they have entered.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Let's see, on my campus...

meeting: clothes (sometimes with letters)

formal meetings: nice clothes

everyday: clothes (sometimes with letters) colors may vary

sports events: we don't go to those at our school, no one cares. if you are greek and do go, either it's homecoming and you're in your letters
OR you're in a certain fraternity (that goes to many games) you wear paint and pants at games.

so let's see it would appear that clothes are popular (and paint).

[APhi4Ever]

I did not go to Texas A&M University but I went to many football games with friends that went there. The students mostly wore an Aggie t-shirt with jeans or shorts and parents and Alumnae dressed in the same. Usually, Texas A&M has a football season t-shirt that most students will buy and wear to the football games every year. Some Alumnae or parents would dress nicer but nothing too fancy.

[DSTCHAOS]

My South Carolina born and bred grandfather wore 3 pieced suits all day on Sundays. It would be 100 degrees and they would act like they have on shorts and tshirts.

But it turns out that's what they had always done. Even those who weren't of a certain social class did it.

[Lucky SC]

and about the comparison between college football and professional football dress. Those are completely different crowds, you wont see all the fratters out at a Falcons game when they go to UGA.

if you haven't noticed, the south isn't too known for their professional teams lol, the north and out west have us beat there. In the south everyone is stuck in the glory days of Herschel Walker's Georgia, Bear Bryant's Bama, etc.


its two different atmospheres that you can't compare. I feel like the NFL is always trying to make itself more modern with all kinds of sell out hip hop advertisements on that are just getting ridiculous, i feel like college sports and maybe the MLB are the only untainted things; which explains the traiditonal dress you don't understand. Its just how things are done.

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by Lucky SC

and about the comparison between college football and professional football dress. Those are completely different crowds, you wont see all the fratters out at a Falcons game when they go to UGA.

if you haven't noticed, the south isn't too known for their professional teams lol, the north and out west have us beat there. In the south everyone is stuck in the glory days of Herschel Walker's Georgia, Bear Bryant's Bama, etc.
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Agreed. All we got is the Falcons and the Saints...Falcons and New Orleans fans are mostly either inner-city or otherwise.

College is important to Southern states because often it's the only "pro" team we have. The only chance we'll ever get to compete against Southern California (and get smoked) or other states. It's important. In most Southern states, on game day the Stadium becomes the 3rd biggest city in the state. In this sort of atmosphere, it's easy to see why we dress up.

[nittanyalum]

^^^You're class-ay all the way, EW.

OK, SEC, which one is you in the picture?

[techzbt]

*Georgia Tech
*Zeta Beta Tau
*Clothing - preferably clean and non-offensive
*Clothing - preferably clean

[nittanyalum]

Hey, here's a question, and it's sincere, I'm really not trying to be a smartalec, it just occurred to me -- what would be "frattier" to drive? Some type of car? Or a truck? Or a crossover? What's big down there with the croakie set?