Chapter Meeting Attire

[Zillini]

Very similar here at Bama as what Adpiucf said. Typical Chapter meetings are pin attire. About once a month we have "informal" chapter meetings with educational seminars and the like, so the dress is casual. Exec Committee meetings and informal standards hearings (now called council meetings) are casual, but Exec Board and Formal Standards Hearings are pin attire.

Currently we are conducting officer candidate interviews and we insist on pin attire for these as well. To me it's just like a job interview and should be treated as seriously. It also says alot about the candidate's personality as to what she feels is appropriate pin attire.

Funny though, the definition of pin attire has changed dramatically since I was in school nearly 20 years ago. Used to be that it was hose and heels. Slacks, no matter how dressy, were a no-no. Now it's pretty much anything goes except no denim (again no matter how dressy), flip flops, spaghetti straps or bare midriffs.

[Little E]

We had casual chapter the first meeting of the month, after that it was badge attire (though this was stretched into business casual occasionally) and then when we had national visits it was FULL badge attire (no lienency). Obviously we wore our magenta catsuits for rituals.

The chapter I'm advising now kinda does the same thing, but they are way better at dressing up than my chapter was. I think that is partly due to the whole east coast thing vs. liberal - liberal arts school in the mid-west.

[1heart1way]

Formal meetings - pinwear

Informal meetings - casual, but no PJ's or workout stuff

[Private I]

Business casual every single Sunday. There's something about dressed up formal that makes you act formal, and that's something we have to do every time to get through a chapter with 17 positions, otherwise chapter will last 5 hours (and often does).

[DeltaEtaKP]

We have 1 Formal Meeting a month this is the only meeting where we can vote on things like changes to the bylaws, staff member of the month, faculty member of the month, intra-sorority awards, etc. To this meeting we wear badge attire (no denim, skirts, slacks, dressy pants, dresses, etc, and a nice shirt). The other meetings are informal. We do different things like have speakers, play games, basically our educational programming. We are required by nationals to have three Chapter Development meetings/activities per month, and that is usually what we do on those Mondays. For that meeting, we can wear whatever, but most people wear at least jeans and a t-shirt as opposed to PJs, sweats, etc. (but PJs, sweats, etc are allowed).

[afboiler]

Chapter was every other week with pin attire. There was questions about the open toe issue. Exp in the beg of the school yr and the end when it got hot and wanted to wear a sundress. We could wear open toe heels.

On the other weeks we had Sisterhood or Pace. As long as there were no guest speakers we could wear whatever.

When we had a guest speaker we normally wore letters and followed the rules that went with that.

[AOX81]

Our chapter meeting attire was casual unless we had ritual.

[aephi alum]

Our chapter meeting attire was casual... it pretty much boiled down to, "wear clothes". People showed up in anything from business-casual to jeans and t-shirts.

My freshman-year roommates, who were in other sororities, had calendars that listed out dress codes for their chapter meetings. I think they were a little jealous when they had to wear dresses and I was headed to chapter in my jeans

In retrospect, though, I wish we'd had some sort of dress code, even something as simple as "no jeans". When you're wearing formal or even business-casual attire, you feel and act more professional, and it's a reminder that it is a business meeting.

[kchaptergphib]

For us, meetings were always tagged as formal or informal, with at least one formal meeting per month. Depending on the type of meeting, we could wear slightly different clothes.

Informal meeting: business casual attire = khakis allowed. Most people wore khakis or a skirt and a nice sweater or shirt.

Formal meeting: business dress attire, including pantyhose if you are wearing a shorter dress or skirt (excl April through October, when you don't have to wear hose). Most people wore dress pants/skirt and a blouse/sweater.
(For men, I think business dress means a jacket and tie).

never allowed:
denim of any sort
flip-flops or other non-dressy sandals
purposely-exposed midrif
mini-skirts (if your arms are at your sides, and your skirt ends before your fingertips, it was too short)

[USCTKE]

for formal meetings once a month shirt and tie...all other meetings...whatever

[_Opi_]

Business Casual during every meeting.

[KDLady23]

We can never wear jeans. Formal = dress, skirt, slacks. Business mtg. = khaki or something nice. We have 2 of each meeting a month.

[Lady of Pearl]

Originally Posted by KDLady23

We can never wear jeans. Formal = dress, skirt, slacks. Business mtg. = khaki or something nice. We have 2 of each meeting a month.

The same no jeans rule applies with our chapter, some chapters meet on Sunday and wear dressy attire, another chapter wore business attire pantsuits and dresses -and the chapter I am in currently -wears more business casual attire. As you can see I have been in several chapters!

[FeeFee]

For my chapter meetings, the attire is business casual.

[tld221]

bus. cas. typically. if we're having a lax type of meeting, just dress neatly and wear letters, usually a pin.