What do your Alumnae Wear?

[ADqtPiMel]

When I was a recruitment advisor, I wore business casual in a color scheme coordinated to the chapter's outfits. I was usually the only alumna on the floor, but the campus where I advised held recruitment in the student center, so we often had alumnae and active volunteers running membership selection materials to and from the house. We asked those volunteers to dress neatly in lettered shirts and jeans, rather than sweats or the usual lounging apparel in the tabulations room.

Now that I'm a recruitment international officer, I wear business casual and my professional ADPi nametag when visiting chapters during recruitment. I also look pretty young and prefer not being mistaken for a collegian.

[navane]

At the chapter I advised, we alumnae knew better than to appear on the recruitment floor without being dressed nicely. Usually, the recruitment chair would try to tell us the theme days ahead of time. That way, for example, if the girls were going to wear teal and black one round, the alums would attempt to wear some kind of age-appropriate teal or black ensemble just to help coordinate the look. Casual clothes, such as jeans and t-shirts, were OK only if working behind the scenes in tabulations or something like that.


.....Kelly