White Dresses Question

[astralis]

Heh, it's so funny.. We keep our whites a secret on our campus, so I see it up here and I'm like "AAH! Shhhh!"

[Drolefille]

I think everyone on our campus knew that we all wore whites except one chapter (ADPis I think?) for pledging. If you see a bunch of girls in all white or black and white or all black then it's either "Presents" or pledging/initiation/*insert your alum cermony here*

[ufdale]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

If you see a bunch of girls in all white or black and white or all black then it's either "Presents" or pledging/initiation/*insert your alum cermony here*

Presents was your formal? And you had to wear white?
ugh I hate my white dress sooo much. It's majorly ugly and makes me look even paler.

[ufdale]

I hate the fact that they don't let strapless dresses in. Strapless dresses look more prude than ones with straps. The dresses with straps that I tried on were very very low cut, whereas strapless dresses just go straight across. I have to wear a sweater over my strapless dress (which shows NO cleavage). Whereas my friends are nearly falling out of their dresses, but they don't have to wear a sweater because they have straps. It makes no sense.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by ufdale

Presents was your formal? And you had to wear white?
ugh I hate my white dress sooo much. It's majorly ugly and makes me look even paler.

Nope, Presents was our semi-formal and we wore all black Same with most of the chapters on campus (for whatever their semi-formal was). So we just all kind of knew that XYZ wears white for ritual etc.

[seraphimsprite]

I've always found the different dress codes standards interesting. For initiation it's pretty well laid out in the ritual chair handbook. But that doesn't mean all of the chapters adhere to that, of course. And going slightly off topic, the dress code for chapter meetings seems to vary even more wildly. Besides just requiring pin attire, my chapter used to have a rule that you had to wear nylons if it was under 75 degrees but we had a chapter consultant tell us that was completely made up and we never had to wear nylons to chapter meetings. And the chapter I advise requires shoulders and toes to be covered which was a complete surprise to me.

[GreekGirl604]

My chapter was pretty lax with enforcing the dress rules. Most of the girls had spaghetti strap/sleeveless dresses (mine was a halter). The did have to be completely white though (no cream allowed). We didn't enforce the hose rule either. Some sisters wore sweaters over their dresses, but usually only when they were cold. The new members often wore white skirts or white pants for pledging in but sometimes they wore sweatpants turned inside out if they couldn't find anything else. We were always told not to be seen in our whites outside of the house (i.e. girls who didn't live there changed once they arrived). It was always funny looking when we went out to have cigarettes on the porch right before initiations etc. because you could tell we were all wearing white underneath our fleece jackets/sweatshirts/etc.

[BetteDavisEyes]

My chapter was sometimes lax about the dress code for meetings until some advisers from other chapters visited. They had a talk with our advisers who then had a strict talk with us that spaghetti strap dresses & heels, strapless tops, & capri pants were NOT meeting attire. Things got stricter after that but I didn't mind. I like dressing up.

[_Lisa_]

Originally Posted by astralis

Heh, it's so funny.. We keep our whites a secret on our campus, so I see it up here and I'm like "AAH! Shhhh!"

Its weird to me that you'd keep it a secret, I'm sure people see enough girls wandering around in all white to figure it out. Especially if you have a house/dorm floor that most girls live in. Or if its out of season!