"Southern" Sororities?

[rebelsweetheart]

Originally posted by KDwxgrrl
Ok, so maybe I'm just too Midwestern... but there are still debutantes? What exactly does one have to do to be a debutante nowadays?

I know here (Athens) the debutant thing is a huge tradition, it doesn't really mean that much any more in the sense that it won't necessarily help you get a job or any thing like that. Its more a tradition (and lord knows how much tradition means in the south). Most girls get presented at the same ball that every woman in her family since forever has been presented at. When I first started taking ettiquette type classes (I was 13-ish) my grandmother sat me down and told me that I was going to be presented at this ball during this year, because its tradition...enough said. haha

[ISUKappa]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Prom in your gym? WTF? That's not a midwestern thing at all - at least not in the urban areas. My prom was at a pavilion at the Zoo that's used for charity fundraising and the other proms I went to were at hotels or restaurants on the lake.

Our prom was in our cafeteria (as were all our school dances). Small rural high school, we couldn't afford to do anything too fancy, nor did we have any facilities nearby that could accommodate us. Looked a bit nicer with Christmas lights and balloons but still smelled like stale spaghetti.

[bruinaphi]

Ok, maybe I am showing my LA-Centricity, cuz my prom was at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, but if I went to school in a rural area I would have prom outside on someone's ranch or farm or something like that where you could put lights in the trees, set up a dance floor and bring in food from a caterer or something. I think it could be very "Great Gatsby"-ish.

Prom in a gym is not prom, it's another school dance.

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by bruinaphi


Prom in a gym is not prom, it's another school dance.

We called prom at the school gym our winter semi-formal. Seriously, the girls were as worried about their dresses and hair appointments for the semi as they were for the formal (prom).

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by bruinaphi
Ok, maybe I am showing my LA-Centricity, cuz my prom was at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, but if I went to school in a rural area I would have prom outside on someone's ranch or farm or something like that where you could put lights in the trees, set up a dance floor and bring in food from a caterer or something. I think it could be very "Great Gatsby"-ish.

Prom in a gym is not prom, it's another school dance.

Correct. We had Homecoming and TWIRP (Sadie Hawkins) in our commons (which was the caf for juniors and seniors as well) but we'd never do prom there.

And yes, my prom cost $100 for tickets. It was worth it.

[Munchkin03]

My hometown's 3 high schools each had their proms at the Officer's Beach Club (military town on the Gulf). It was nice because you know that you could go to all three without any date conflict.

We didn't even have our Homecoming Dance in the gym!

[Peaches-n-Cream]

My prom was at the Swan Club on Long Island. It was beautiful. My prom cost $75 per person plus $150 for the limo per couple. We wanted to have it at the Plaza or the Waldorf Astoria, but they wouldn't accommodate such a small group for that price. Another hotel cancelled our reservation ten days before so we almost had it in the gym. Luckily, the Swan Club was available. Afterwards, we went to the Copacabana when my friends couldn't get into Tunnel. I wore a pretty pink strapless Gunne Sax dress with ivory lace. I love the 80s.

I'm not sure what this has to do with "Southern" sororities, but I wanted to reminisce.

[AGDee]

Gunne Sax! That's what my Initiation dress was! I think I said in another thread it was a Laura Ashley, but hearing Gunne Sax jogged my memory better! Big white thing, almost needed a hoop.. anyway, that's a hijack of a hijack!

To the original hijack, my prom was at a very formal banquet hall, catered, with a live band. It was $70 a couple, back in 1983!

[IluvSirFidel]

How funny! Two of my chapter's sisters are listed in the Gulfport article, and I know of the other girls that are from State! I love being southern!

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by AGDee
Gunne Sax! That's what my Initiation dress was! I think I said in another thread it was a Laura Ashley, but hearing Gunne Sax jogged my memory better! Big white thing, almost needed a hoop.. anyway, that's a hijack of a hijack!

To the original hijack, my prom was at a very formal banquet hall, catered, with a live band. It was $70 a couple, back in 1983!

Gunne Sax had the prettiest dresses! When I saw a picture of it in an ad in Seventeen Magazine, I knew it was my dress. I found it at Macys or Bloomingdales. I had shoes dyed to match. My sister had a big white poofy strapless lace dress for her prom. When she bought it, people asked if she were getting married, lol.

[KSUViolet06]

So how about those southern sororities/debutantes?

[ISUKappa]

Originally posted by bruinaphi
Ok, maybe I am showing my LA-Centricity, cuz my prom was at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, but if I went to school in a rural area I would have prom outside on someone's ranch or farm or something like that where you could put lights in the trees, set up a dance floor and bring in food from a caterer or something. I think it could be very "Great Gatsby"-ish.

Prom in a gym is not prom, it's another school dance.

The issue with Prom season in Iowa, it's usually in April-May and weather is very unpredictable. It could be 70 and sunny, it could be 30 and snowing. Besides, most likely, no one would have had a suitable area to hold it or we would have to sit through senior Prom smelling pig shit. Honestly, Prom wasn't all that big of a deal in my hs. Hardly anyone got limos; if you spent over $100 on a dress, that was being extravagant; we didn't have a Queen/King -- it was just another dance where you got a little more dressed up. Sometimes I think it would have been cool to go to a school where it was more of a big deal, but eh...

Now, back to your regularly scheduled topic.

[Nikki_DZ]

Originally posted by ISUKappa
The issue with Prom season in Iowa, it's usually in April-May and weather is very unpredictable. It could be 70 and sunny, it could be 30 and snowing. Besides, most likely, no one would have had a suitable area to hold it or we would have to sit through senior Prom smelling pig shit. Honestly, Prom wasn't all that big of a deal in my hs. Hardly anyone got limos; if you spent over $100 on a dress, that was being extravagant; we didn't have a Queen/King -- it was just another dance where you got a little more dressed up. Sometimes I think it would have been cool to go to a school where it was more of a big deal, but eh...

Now, back to your regularly scheduled topic.

ISUKappa, I think we went to the same high school.

I grew up in a town of 1200 people (and, honestly, I think they were counting house pets, too), and graduated high school with 63. Our prom was held yearly in the gym, which was decorated nicely-wires running length wise wall to wall so we could hang gossamer so you weren't looking at the ugly gym roof and to feel more intimate, coverings on the floor and walls, usually a fountain or statue in the middle. We tried as hard as we could to make it feel like a ballroom. We couldn't go off campus, frankly, b/c the school district couldn't afford the liability insurance of someone getting hurt, us causing damage, etc.

Lack of money for insurance was the same reason we didn't have a football team

[LSUTriDelta4]

LSU has 10 pan chapters...

phi mu
dg
tri delta
dz
kappa
pi phi
kappa alpha theta
zta
kd
chi-o

we have no alpha sororitites...

i think everybody hit their record high quota (80) this year during recruitment


geaux tigers!

[NutBrnHair]

Originally posted by LSUTriDelta4
LSU has 10 pan chapters...

we have no alpha sororitites...

i think everybody hit their record high quota (80) this year during recruitment

geaux tigers!

I hope you'll consider some "Alpha" groups -- with a quota the size of 80 -- it would be a good thing.