Bid Day Pics!
 

Would anyone like to post bid day pics from their colleges or new member classes? It gives us rush thread addicts something else to look at even as the recruitments end! Congrads to everyone! :)

I think we should post retro bid day pics, too. I think it would be fun to see how things have changed over the years!

Old Bid Day Picts
 

Get out the scanner sisters and lets have some laughs.:D

Not too retro...Spring 04
 

http://inlinethumb19.webshots.com/11...600x600Q85.jpg
My pledge class on our bid day! I am all the way to the right in the front row. Obviously this was before 4+ megapixel cameras were affordable :)

Try going to photobucket or flickr, they'll give you HTML to put in your message that will insert the picture. It's the same as you would use for My Space or Facebook. I'll try to post my 1993 bid day pic when I can get a chance.

great idea ladies!

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...ledgeclass.jpg

Sorry the picture is so big...I couldn't size it with my photoshop program. I'm the blonde curly haired girl leaning around the dark haired girl with the bow and a panda in her arms on the right. Our mascots were Raggedy Ann and Pandas so you don't get confused!

Fall 1982 Pledge Class
 

It was 1982 and a lot of BAD hair. We had 36 pledges (35 was quota) and reached the campus chapter max of 105

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c.../PledgeDay.jpg

Wow...y'all definitely looked '80's!

The Composites were worse. In the 80s, your hair took up the whole picture. :eek:

I think all three pictures are adorable.

I do love seeing the differences in decades.

(And yet we all thought we were kind of classic at the time.)

I am in LOVE with this thread. haha

The Alpha Gamma Delta picture is from the Alpha Lambda chapter at Ohio State. The big hair styles were "Mullets" and sideburns. I crack up every time I look at a formal picture.
My cousin, who was a KD at University of Texas, had me beat in the "big hair" category.

I don't know about anyone else but I am totally digging the wallpaper in the background :p

Isn't it awesome!?! My pic is from Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, LA since renamed University of Louisiana at Monroe. We had big hair too...just different. My husband always tells me that I looked Pentacostal in college (not that there is anything wrong with Pentacostals!)

Digging the 80s pic, and the 90s pic is filled with girls who remind me of the show on Nickelodeon from the early 90s, Hey Dude. :p

And I mean no disrespect here, but it strikes me that the girls in the photos from the 80s and 90s (vs. VioletPretty's picture) look much older even though I know they'd be the same age as the NMs we see today. I don't know what it is, y'all just look more mature, more adult than the PNMs today. Like, if I saw a girl from the 80s pic vs. a girl from say, Bama's rush this year, I'd have little difficulty believing that the Bama NM was fresh out of HS, whereas I don't get that vibe from the 80s pic. Does anyone else get that feeling, or is it just me?

My mom's bid day (I think it was bid day, it was taken the first year she joined DG - 1968), so it's either bid day or whole chapter?) - she's circled:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...bluecircle.jpg

My bid day (sorry, I had to take a picture of a picture, it was too big to scan!). I'm right smack in the middle, facing forward with a light blue shirt and black skirt.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...1805.sized.jpg

White Daisy...please fix your pix...I can't wait to see them! I agree with Mystikchick, PNMs today do look younger, but I think it's because the hairstyles you see in each generation look like an older generation so the girls look older. I see people starting med school now, and I think they look like babies compared to what my class looked like!

I agree. These were the days of Dallas and Charlie's Angles. A lot of it was the hair styles and the way we dressed.

Today, everyone has very straight hair (thanks to flat irons) and clothes are more fitted. That includes me, in my 40's.

In the 80s, not even high school girls wore their hair straight; only young children wore it that way. And mini skirts were barely over your knees.

Also, today's college girls (not only girls in sororities) are more influenced by the media. They are thinner and wear a lot more makeup than we ever did.

About the green floral wallpaper...we had sofas and love seats to match. They had just remodeld the informal living room before I pledged and everyone thought it was the coolest house!!! Maybe that is why the interior of my house is a neutral mocha color now.

Awwwww. So sweet! You two look so much alike!

I was thinking the same thing but I didn't want to say it! I think it's because only women who are at least 35, maybe 40 have hairstyles like that. I think the 90s girls look about the same as mine (if not younger because of the bow in that girl's hair :))

I have to agree. CJ, you look so much like your mom! How wonderful that she was able to share DG with you.

Thanks for sharing the pictures!

I was thinking the same thing. You look like twins pledging the same chapter! I remember the pic you posted of your initiation. Very sweet.

Can you not see it? I think they are working.

I couldn't see them this morning at work, WhiteDaisy, but I can now! They are so cute...I love your mom's bid day pic. They didn't get bid day shirts?

I'll bite - I'm in the very top row, first one on the left next to the girl with the really big and curly hair.

Gotta love midwinter in the Midwest - we didn't get our bids until mid-January! That explains the flannel shirts for the most part...then again, it was the mid-90s and flannel was all the rage thanks to Pearl Jam and Nirvana! :D

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...ledgeclass.jpg

I'm not sure bid day shirts were given back then...I just don't know enough about the late 60's! I wish I could ask her...I haven't seen matching shirts in any of her sorority pictures, so I'm guessing no.

This isn't my pledge class, but is 2 years before me. 1985 Iota Chapter of AOII - University of Illinois.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...LEDGES1985.jpg

And this is the year I pledged, but it is the seniors. Bid Day 1987 University of Illinois.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...eniors1987.jpg

Can't wait to get my Father's College year book from the 50's. I'll grab it in a few weeks when I visit and scan some pretty good pictures.

That is where we get into the stereotypes. I remember lots of sororities wearing white gloves (and pearls, of course) in their group picts.

Keep the pictures coming.

For Shame!! NO sorority woman would have been caught dead in a t-shirt prior to the late 1970's!!

Well, except on the rare Homecoming, Greek Week, or Derby Day t-shirt. The rest of the time, never!

I should dig out some of the old yearbooks my mother has and show those photos - they're really a hoot!

irishpipes, are the girls holding Lambda Lambda Lambda paddles in your bid day picture?

Why yes, I think those paddles DO say Tri-Lambda... :confused:

Wasn't Lambda Lambda Lambda the nerds' fraternity in Revenge of the Nerds?

Back then T shirts were something boys wore under their dress shirts. Silkscreening was very expensive and only used for posters, banners, etc. It would be much more common to dress up, with gloves and pearls! (Well, I think even gloves were passe by 1968).

Bid Day @ UF was today, so the pictures will be posted shortly at

www.flashesonline.com

I love how all the clothes from the late 80s /early 90s are too big! Irishpipes senior picture is hilarious. Why did we think we needed to swim in our shirts?!

You had to balance out the hair!

nylon stockings
 

Did anyone else notice on the photo of 1968 the girl in front with the nylon stockings (worn with garter belts)? The tops were always darker for 3". I remember when pantyhose were first invented; I thought it was the greatest invention ever! I hated those darned garter belts; we always had little indentions in our legs after sitting in class all day.

And the horror when a garter popped and your hose sagged!
My 24-year-old daughter thinks its old-fashioned to wear pantyhose:(.

You people are WAY too young if you don't get Tri-Lambda! That was from Revenge of the Nerds. I feel so old now.