What did your sorority wear for recruitment?

[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)

[KDMafia]

Day 1: Open Houses: Everyone wore jean's and then the panhellenic greek shirt. It used to be the same one for every sorority but my senior year they personalized. So ours was green with a teddy bear on it while the KKGs was blue with a key, etc.

Day 2 & 3: Philantrophy Day: We wore jean skirts one year and black pants the next and with it we wore fitted black shirts with our letters embroidered on it in hot pink. They were really sharp but ran really small. I always wear a medium comfortably and it fit me like a corset...but they looked slimming...

Day 3: Skit: Black pants and usually a fun colorful dress shirt, although this past year I think they all wore black pants and white shirts. Plus any skit costumes.

Day 4: Pref: A black dress (that must be approved of course...not too much boobies) there were not real restrictions on jewelry but everyone knew to go low key. And shoes were black and formal, not hooker boots

Bid Day: Jeans and our bid day t-shirts.