I like what my chapter's doing for recruitment outfits this year-we're given a range of color options and told to pick a flattering and appropriate dress within that color palette. Obviously I can't go into exactly what colors we're wearing or else our formal recruitment chair would bite my head off but in general it's much easier for girls to individually find dresses that look good on them then for the whole chapter to order one style of dress that won't look good on everyone.
As for Lilly dresses, I love Lilly dresses in general but I don't think they're a good idea during recruitment. One chapter at Clemson wore Lilly during their philanthropy round and while the girls looked cute individually there was no cohesiveness as a group. It was also very difficult to tell who was a PNM and who was an active because they all looked so alike. A Lilly theme for Bid Day would look cute if the chapter and campus culture on the whole supported it.
I like what my chapter's doing for recruitment outfits this year-we're given a range of color options and told to pick a flattering and appropriate dress within that color palette. Obviously I can't go into exactly what colors we're wearing or else our formal recruitment chair would bite my head off but in general it's much easier for girls to individually find dresses that look good on them then for the whole chapter to order one style of dress that won't look good on everyone.
That sounds like a good idea to me!
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As for Lilly dresses, I love Lilly dresses in general but I don't think they're a good idea during recruitment. One chapter at Clemson wore Lilly during their philanthropy round and while the girls looked cute individually there was no cohesiveness as a group. It was also very difficult to tell who was a PNM and who was an active because they all looked so alike.
That's a good point -- imagine the panic of the PNM in her cute pink and green Lilly when the door flies open to reveal a sea of singing actives in pink and green Lilly -- many wearing the same dress she is wearing.
It wasn't Lilly, but when I went through rush I had the exact same dress as the Gamma Phis, only with the colours reversed; they wore red with blue polka dots and I had blue with red polka dots. Very awkward. Another rushee asked if I was the president and that's why my dress was different.
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