White after labor day?

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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

So you'd disqualify a candidate for wearing white after Labor Day, even if she had an impeccable resume and looked perfectly presentable?

Aren't we now taking this a bit too far?

Sorry if I jumped around. The point I was trying to make was that going through recruitment was much like going to a job interview where first impressions were important. In corporate America what you wear on the job matters, just like in recruitment. Maybe there are other careers where fashion doesn't matter, I wouldn't know.

I live in the Deep South. Temperatures reach 100 degrees regularly during the summer. White, linen, sear sucker are all legitimate fabrics to wear. (Jackets required indoors). But when the weather cools, summer attire needs to be put away. I didn't make up the rules. These are common rules in corporate America. Wearing the wrong clothes to a job interview may affect whether or not that girl gets the job. Likewise, what a girls wears to recruitment may affect which sorority she gets into.

Networking is a learned skill. Sororities help girls fine tune those skills. Fashion can also be learned, and sororities can help fine tune those skills as well.

Now, many of you might not have seen my original post on the subject on the ole miss thread. Ole Miss has a fall recruitment. Although the temperatures are still warm, fashion rules should and do apply. I have another daughter who just transferred to Baylor. Baylor has a winter recruitment. Wearing white would be taboo.

Basically, white is reserved for summer when the temperatures dictate fashion. In fall and winter we put the summer fabrics away.