This is your mother's Rush! What we wore 1960-1990

[SWTXBelle]

YES, Carnation!

Texas Recruitment - 1983

First round - white suit (shoulder pads!), turquoise, black and white striped blouse. Monet black and gold necklace with matching earrings. Black patent pumps and pantyhose. Wouldn't go out without pantyhose.

Second round - can't remember

Third round - Blue cotton dress - white collar, red polka dots, matching red flats. The only problem? IT WAS THE EXACT SAME DRESS AS THE GAMMA PHIS WERE WEARING - only theirs were red with blue dots. I had some pnms ask me if I was the president and that's why my dress was different.

PREF - I had a black crepe dress with a lace collar. Our pref wasn't as formal as some - I don't know if that has changed.

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by carnation

Did you guys wait eagerly for the August issue of Seventeen, which was double-thick and had the latest styles in it?

OMIGOSH yes! I think I still have the 1969 edition. I used to try to save 1 magazine a year, just to go back and laugh at the fashions.
But I hated Seventeen for showing wool skirts and sweaters in August. In Alabama, we have about 2 weeks to wear that stuff...in February.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

OMIGOSH yes! I think I still have the 1969 edition. I used to try to save 1 magazine a year, just to go back and laugh at the fashions.
But I hated Seventeen for showing wool skirts and sweaters in August. In Alabama, we have about 2 weeks to wear that stuff...in February.

My friends and I would always want to get those glorious wool outfits for our back-to-school clothes...in Houston, Texas. I particularly remember one lovely butterscotch sweater/skirt combination that I actually got to wear on a cool morning in late October. Of course, I was frying by noon.

[carnation]

Although this isn't a vintage recruitment wear post, I saw pictures of the PNMs at my oldest daughter's recruitment in 2000 and animal prints were huge that year and all I can say is that they looked like they were getting ready to film "The Lion King". My daughter, along with several others in the pictures, was playing a zebra.

[myopicsunflower]

Originally Posted by carnation

Did you guys wait eagerly for the August issue of Seventeen, which was double-thick and had the latest styles in it?

YES!!

I loved Sassy too.

I don't remember what I wore each night of rush, but I do remember spending a lot of time on my hair, curling it and arranging my fringe just right. Big hair lasted well into the 90s -- it just wasn't as big as it was in the late 80s.

I still have one babydoll dress leftover from 1991 -- the only article of clothing I kept (besides a couple of lettered sweatshirts) from that time. I actually tried it on for fun earlier this year, and by some act of God, it still fits. Not that I'm going to wear it out of the house or anything!

[angelove]

AnchorAlum and FSUZeta, I would love to hear your retro recruitment stories!

I only remember a few things that I wore for rush at FSU in the mid-80's. On one of the icewater days I wore a pink pencil-type skirt from the Limited with buckles at its very high waist, and on one of the later days (maybe skit day - round 3?) I wore a Laura Ashley drop-waist dress. I can't remember what I wore for prefs except that it was covered with candle wax by the end of the day and I never could wear it again.

I do remember having to find something to wear for the extra day of round 2, which happened because the original round 2 day was canceled because of rain. We were supposed to go to nine parties that day, but by the third or fourth party we were soaking wet, so rush was expanded by a day.

[AXOrushadvisor]

Originally Posted by carnation

Did you guys wait eagerly for the August issue of Seventeen, which was double-thick and had the latest styles in it?

Carnation, My daughters back to school issue just showed up in the mail. There are 823 fashion and beauty ideas! I guess I just figured out how to spend my morning.

[AGDAlum]

Originally Posted by carnation

Did you guys wait eagerly for the August issue of Seventeen, which was double-thick and had the latest styles in it?

Not only Seventeen, but also Glamour and Mademoiselle. One of the Mizzou ChiO's the year I went through rush (1970) was one of Glamour's Top 10 College Girls. Of course they made much of that.

As to what I wore: what I remember is a doubleknit Bobbie Brooks polo dress (bumble bee logo)--navy/red/tan; and an interlock knit--multi-colored dots on blue...can't remember the others.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by carnation

Did you guys wait eagerly for the August issue of Seventeen, which was double-thick and had the latest styles in it?

You'd better believe it, baby!!

[AXOrushadvisor]

I only have 2 outfits that I can remember from recruitment in the Fall of 1981. The first is the outfit I wore the day before pref. Pleated white skirt with flowers on the bottom and a lavender t-shirt. The preference dress I wore was borrowed from a friend because my non Greek mother wisely told me I wouldn't need any formal wear at College! I was on a bus 2 weeks later retrieving all that formal wear I left at home.

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by carnation

Did you guys wait eagerly for the August issue of Seventeen, which was double-thick and had the latest styles in it?

For me it was the August issue of Glamour magazine. Back in the day they had the "top ten best dressed college women" and I was So Impressed that for a couple of years in a row, there were women from UCSB Kappa Alpha Theta who made the top ten list. This was when I was in high school... I did NOT make that list BTW.

I'm digging through a scrapbook to find photos; this is a fun thread!

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

For me it was the August issue of Glamour magazine. Back in the day they had the "top ten best dressed college women" and I was So Impressed that for a couple of years in a row, there were women from UCSB Kappa Alpha Theta who made the top ten list. This was when I was in high school... I did NOT make that list BTW.

I'm digging through a scrapbook to find photos; this is a fun thread!

What about Teen Magazine? There was a Teen Miss America every year, and was I excited as a pledge to see Jana Kerr is an ADPi!!

[*winter*]

Gamma Sigma Sigma Meet n Greet, Fall 99...Gap flared jeans, long sleeved ribbed Gap heather gray shirt...with (drumroll) those GIANT shoes that were in style back then...giant spongy rubber heels, about 2-3 inches off the ground! I was so excited about them!!! My roomie had them and I rushed out and bought me some!

I actually didn't pledge that semester...shortly after that meeting I left school for other reasons. Went to another Meet n Greet and DID join fall 2000...but I don't remember what I wore! Must have not been as memorable as those shoes

[Titchou]

Back in the 60's the fall clothes were called "transitional cottons." Ooh, September at Alabama in long sleeved dark plaid cotton dress! Why did I do that????

[FSUZeta]

seventeen magazine-waited by the mailbox for mine!