Sequins and beads

[UGAalum94]

Some of it maybe to communicate that you should be dressing for day rather than evening wear because weirdly sometimes girls this age don't discriminate in outfits.

(I'll see stuff sometimes at the school where I work and wonder if they thought they were going to a night club.)

The other aspect I can think of is that even in later rounds, with the exception of prefs, you might sit either on the floor or on a metal folding chair. In either case, beads might be really uncomfortable and impractical.

[cuteASAbug]

Or that sequins are tacky?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

Or that sequins are tacky?

Oh, they'd have to mention more than sequins if that were what they were working at.

I did notice the number of times one said 'anything revealing" under what not to wear.

[alum]

The no-sparkles might be the same for the actives' side of it as well.

My D brought home 10 pages of instructions regarding her GLO's required outfits for their Panhel's recruitment. They have the parties in the evening once classes are done for the day but still are to avoid "beading, sparkles, sequins or anything that screams look at me."

[beachlover]

I just bought that first sun dress on the alabama page in blue

[UGAalum94]

Alum's comment reminded me of something I've been wanting to ask. Can I highjack here?

How much direction does your group give in regard to what actives should wear?

I know we've had threads about why groups wore, but I friend of mine who wasn't greek whose daughter is at UGA now showed me a list of what her daughter was supposed to wear as a member to do recruitment. It seemed about like the directions we were given years ago, but struck the mom as dictatorial.

[SWTXBelle]

Back in the day all the actives wore the same outfits - every round.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

Alum's comment reminded me of something I've been wanting to ask. Can I highjack here?

How much direction does your group give in regard to what actives should wear?

We were a "medium frills" recruitment. Our Panhellenic didn't allow us to have EXACT matching outfits. We also couldn't bulk order anything (other than philathropy day shirts). What this meant was our recruitment director could require us to buy (for example) a blue sundress, but she couldn't say "go get the blue sundress from Ann Taylor."That was considered matching by Panhellenic if we all had the same dress from the same store.

So since we had those rules, we all had to go out and buy our own clothes. The recruitment team had to be very specific about the color/style of items that we had to have. I'd say that they gave a great deal of direction. For each piece of recruitment clothing (every top, bottom, shoes, dresses for pref) there was a written list of specifications.

For example, our 2nd day outfits in 2005 required a khaki skirt. From what I remember, the skirt had to be above the knee, brown or olive colored dark khaki, not polyester or any other cheap material, and no pleats or ruffles.

You were instructed to leave the tags on all of your clothes for recruitment because if they didn't pass dress check (which was about a month before recruitment), you would have to return them and get something else.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

I know we've had threads about why groups wore, but I friend of mine who wasn't greek whose daughter is at UGA now showed me a list of what her daughter was supposed to wear as a member to do recruitment. It seemed about like the directions we were given years ago, but struck the mom as dictatorial.

I used to think the same thing about lists like that and chapters dressing all alike. Then after reading a couple of threads on here and thinking about the mechanics of 1) getting 180 women to agree on what to wear 2) trusting the fashion sense of 180 women, some of whom you don't know terribly well, instructing everyone to get "editor pant #136 in dove gray from Express" sounds like a really good idea.