How to Dress up the Recruitment T-Shirt

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by KDCat

I'm outing myself as a Midwestern girl, but I just can't imagine pearls with a tshirt. Too formal.

Not for the South.
Lace shorts, or scalloped hem, tuck in the shirt and wear a nice belt (if the shorts have belt loops).

[Hartofsec]

I'm outing myself as a Midwestern girl, but I just can't imagine pearls with a tshirt. Too formal.

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Not for the South.

On what Southern campus are pearls currently a popular accessory worn with t-shirts?

Just wondering, because at Bama, you won't see that many worn even with dresses right now.

[Loyally Kappa]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

On what Southern campus are pearls currently a popular accessory worn with t-shirts?

Just wondering, because at Bama, you won't see that many worn even with dresses right now.

Also no pearl sightings at Ole Miss. Sorority move-in is on August 15, school starts on the 25th, and they do a mid-term recruitment here, but I'll keep my eyes open. However, I think the shorts and t-shirts my students wear to class will NOT be the norm for how they dress up recruitment t-shirts.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by Loyally Kappa

However, I think the shorts and t-shirts my students wear to class will NOT be the norm for how they dress up recruitment t-shirts.

Do they still wear Nike shorts with recruitment t-shirts (from a past thread)?

[Loyally Kappa]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

Do they still wear Nike shorts with recruitment t-shirts (from a past thread)?

To be honest, I lay low during recruitment week on campus. I try to be a nice professor who doesn't schedule tests or have projects due ... and with the large crowds walking around campus, I just steer clear of them. I don't really have a clue what they wear during recruitment.

They do, however, usually show up to class in Nike shorts and teeshirts from various socials. I'm always amazed how at nicely they clean up when I see them in The Grove tailgating before football games.

On the first class meeting, since my students are seniors, I always ask them to tell me something about them that I wouldn't know unless they told me. Invariably, I am told who is a recruitment chair and who is a Rho Chi ... and I also find out if anyone is expecting a baby before the semester is over.

As they told everyone at my new faculty orientation years ago, "At Ole Miss, Greek happens so get over it."

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Loyally Kappa

On the first class meeting, since my students are seniors, I always ask them to tell me something about them that I wouldn't know unless they told me. Invariably, I am told who is a recruitment chair and who is a Rho Chi ... and I also find out if anyone is expecting a baby before the semester is over.

LOL, my students are ALWAYS wearing letters on the first day of class.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

LOL, my students are ALWAYS wearing letters on the first day of class.

Our Panhellenic requires all sorority members to wear stitched letters when out in public and not actively working out before and during recruitment, so PNMs know not to talk to us and potentially cause recruitment infractions (I guess?). It lets all the professors know right away who's Greek and who isn't. Once recruitment is over we all switch right back to tank tops and Nike shorts.

[Ag_Sis]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

On what Southern campus are pearls currently a popular accessory worn with t-shirts?

Ditto here. None of my friends are considering wearing pearl necklaces with their t-shirt, and I don't recall seeing any in past recruitment photos of PNMs. Pearl stud earrings, yes. Gold necklaces, yes. Diamond/sapphire/ruby earrings, yes. But hey, I come from a place where pulling on a fancy pair of cowboy boots is considered "dressed up."

[Katmandu]

The shirt probably has a logo or images, and you will be wearing a functional name tag the first rounds, so I would skip a necklace and concentrate on earrings, bracelet and/or ring. Something you love that makes you smile.