Vera Bradley and Greek Life

[Leslie Anne]

Wow! I had no idea Vera Bradley was so popular. My grad school is pretty small and not really a VB type of place.

There's always a boutique at Kappa Delta Conventions and the Vera Bradley table is huge; just mountains of the stuff. I'm not sure if it's discontinued items or what.

Those KD NM bags might have been gotten at a pretty nice discount since Patricia Miller has stayed close to her KD roots. I probably works out nicely for the company as far as free publicity goes.

[LouisaMay]

Vera's huge here in western PA...on and off campus. Unfortunately, the campus bookstore sells only yucky knock-offs.

Why is it that knock-offs of other styles look fairly decent, but VB look-alikes are so awful???? Some of the colors and patterns are...um...strange...

[twinkle555]

its big here in FL too...back in the day, i used to think that vera bradley bags WERE sorority bags since I have never heard of VB and i only saw sorority girls with them. Now i know otherwise and I am obsessed!!

[sass n klass]

Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

Just out of curiosity, how big is Vera Bradley at your campuses? Is Vera just something indigenous to South, or do those in the North love it too? I know at my college campus, Vera was big across campus, but huge with the Greeks.


If you think I am crazy, and have no idea what I am talking about please check out Vera's website

WOW! Vera Bradley! I just moved from North Carolina to Illinois and I forgot all about those. Now that I think about it, I haven't seen any here. When I was in NC I would see them everywhere I went. I promise there were VB bags EVERYWHERE. Personally, I can't stand them (maybe because my NC experience was overkill) but to each her own. I did an internship in Smithfield, NC and there was an outlet there. The ratio of VB bags to people was just crazy. If I had five bucks for every three I saw, my student loans will be paid in full right now.

I do think it is a regional thing. They are really big in the south and not so much in the northern states in which I have lived or visited recently. Northern women might like them but southern girls have definately cornered the market on them.

[fantASTic]

Eh. I know a few girls that have them, but not sorority girls necessarily. Personally, I think they're ugly...grandma-type bags.

[When Doves Cry]

i know
i, personally, hate vera. and uggs.
they are both hideous
i do own a northface though. and different non-ugg boots!

[sass n klass]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Eh. I know a few girls that have them, but not sorority girls necessarily. Personally, I think they're ugly...grandma-type bags.

ditto

[KenUDiggit]

I go to a school in the SEC and it seems to be the fashion for sorority women. Of course next year there will be a totally different fashion coming in!

[Jill1228]

My mom hates most of my Vera bags...she calls them my "flower babies" She lives in Virginia Beach and Vera is pretty big there
Vera is not as popular out here in the Bay Area. I think the bookstores at Cal Berkeley and Stanford are Vera sellers.

I don't know about the University of the Pacific --they have a huge store that sells Vera a couple of miles up the road

[RushLeader08]

i would go gay for vera bradley!

[MandyPepperidge]

Vera is not big here, at least not with sorority women. The more popular label is Vineyard Vines, especially custom, chapter-specific designs.

[PhiGam]

Vera Bradley: Sororities
Croakies: Fraternities

[IlliniMeg]

I'm a grad student at Ball State and as a non-native Indiana person, for the first few months of school i was convinced Vera Bradley was the state mascot.

It's not just greek students, it's 90% of all females. It looks like her totes threw up on campus.

But I found out that VB HQ is just up the road in Fort Wayne, IN so that might have something to do with it.

And I won't knock it, in fact I'm buying a ticket to their warehouse sale in May!!

[audie97890]

Vera is HUGE down in NORTH CAROLINA! even though i migrated from the midwest i Love love love VERA. JAva Blue is my all time fav

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Eh. I know a few girls that have them, but not sorority girls necessarily. Personally, I think they're ugly...grandma-type bags.

Originally Posted by sass n klass

ditto

double ditto