"Southern" Sororities? - Page 28

Alumiyum · #**406** 06-14-2010, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by exlurker

Summer 2010 Update / Addition re: Southern Sororities and Southern Debutantes

A summer 2010 sample of “Southern debutante” news, traditions, and so on is available; this one's for Montgomery AL, and, unsurprisingly, it helpfully gives the college and NPC (or, in one case, local) social sorority for the debs. Ten of the 13 debs have sororities listed:

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/...-presentations

There are pics of the women in their gowns, descriptions of decorations, and more.

By my count, of the 10 identified as Greek:

5 – Kappa Delta (at Bama, South Carolina, and Auburn)

2 – Kappa Kappa Gamma (Bama, Dartmouth)

1 - Chi Omega (College of Charleston)

1 – Gamma Phi Beta (Auburn)

1 - Pi Kappa Epsilon (Local at U of the South)

Of course this doesn't mean that “all” the members of those chapters or sororities are debs.

I'm not sure how much being a deb means these days...besides a pretty dress and all night open bar (at least, that was my favorite part of the experience...but then again I don't plan on throwing any potential future daughters of mine into any balls)...but if you looked at that list combined with the several from Birmingham you'd have an entire stable of debs, just about all of them Greek.

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Originally Posted by Drolefille

But don't you know that just because they're in the South doesn't mean they're older than the existing southern ones and that who is better isn't based on whether they're southerly southern but whether they're northerly southlike and considering how fast the wind changes from north to south they can be popular there too especially since the north doesn't have an oil spill.

Ouch. Now my head hurts.

FSUZeta · #**407** 06-14-2010, 12:54 PM

my sentiments exactly, alumiyum. my head hurts too, but i am so entertained.

Barbie's_Rush · #**408** 06-15-2010, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Tippiechick

Actually, it is spelled elephant. And, obviously you have been born without the ability to detect when a username is meant to be sarcastic. I don't think there is a poster here who doesn't know what an elephant (<---see there, I spelled it right -- AGAIN) walk is.
You are making yourself look like an ass by thinking you are so "above" everyone that you have to explain it to us poor, stupid GC posters. Thanks, though. It gives me more to laugh at on here.

Considering that definition of elephant walk was copied and pasted directly from urbandictionary.com, I doubt that stoopid troll #459,228 even knew what it meant before he/she looked it up and raced back to GC to share her new knowledge.

Elephant Walk · #**409** 06-15-2010, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

Considering that definition of elephant walk was copied and pasted directly from urbandictionary.com, I doubt that stoopid troll #459,228 even knew what it meant before he/she looked it up and raced back to GC to share her new knowledge.

I can't believe her first instinct was to look to urbandictionary. I would have just assumed that I was a DST or something if I didn't know the slang for it.

DrPhil · #**410** 06-15-2010, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

I can't believe her first instinct was to look to urbandictionary. I would have just assumed that I was a DST or something if I didn't know the slang for it.

That troll is probably unfamiliar with DST and our elephant walk.

Your post is hilarious because I thought you were a Delta when I first saw your username. I think my first couple of posts to you were trying to figure out if you were. LOL.

I also knew about the other elephant walk but couldn't comprehend someone making it a username outside of sarcasm.

remmie_k · #**411** 06-15-2010, 05:35 PM

What if you go through deb before college? I had mine at 16 and my cousin had hers right after she turned 18. It was a range of girls from 16-20, 16 being the youngest you could be.

Alumiyum · #**412** 06-15-2010, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by remmie_k

What if you go through deb before college? I had mine at 16 and my cousin had hers right after she turned 18. It was a range of girls from 16-20, 16 being the youngest you could be.

I believe most of the ones making the papers are the events you participate in at 20-21. The majority of these girls participate in more than one ball. Most of the time anything under that is called "sub-deb", at least where I come from. (We also had "lead outs" in high school which were open to any girl in the community. They are different from debutante balls in that daddy isn't involved but otherwise, same concept. Everyone is escorted down the runway one by one and your name is called out. Is that the kind of thing you're talking about?)

If you had it alone (as in the event was held specifically for you), it's usually called a "coming-out party".

remmie_k · #**413** 06-15-2010, 10:42 PM

My dad did escort me, I was presented to society and the women who were 20 were presented as women because they weren't teenagers. Some girls around here do have several balls at 18 and 20 to represent both changes in life. These weren't open to just anyone nor were we chosen as some are based on community envolvement if that makes sense. I did cotillion in 5th and 6th grade which alot of girls have to complete to be a deb and then during deb we took classes on how to wear high heels and to fix a flat. It was about equal number of girls that were in hs and just graduated.

ps we also had a deb coterie but with guys as our escorts but that wasn't our ball just a party.

Alumiyum · #**414** 06-15-2010, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by remmie_k

My dad did escort me, I was presented to society and the women who were 20 were presented as women because they weren't teenagers. Some girls around here do have several balls at 18 and 20 to represent both changes in life. These weren't open to just anyone nor were we chosen as some are based on community envolvement if that makes sense. I did cotillion in 5th and 6th grade which alot of girls have to complete to be a deb and then during deb we took classes on how to wear high heels and to fix a flat. It was about equal number of girls that were in hs and just graduated.

ps we also had a deb coterie but with guys as our escorts but that wasn't our ball just a party.

Hmmmm I'm not familiar with this set up since I never heard the 18 year old balls referred to as debutante balls, but different areas/regions/cities have different traditions, especially north vs. south. It's actually all kind of interesting since a lot of the older balls have some really cool histories, and every area has its own version.