Retro pictures

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by WinniBug

I think I'd enjoy it if we still wore dresses like these....

Ah yes. Then you, too, would know the joy of girdles, long-line bras, garters and thigh-high stockings (and garters that pop off when you sit down). Ever try to sit down in a hoop skirt? There's an art to it!
Give me jeans and pantyhose ANY day!

[honeychile]

Everytime I see a woman try to sit down with a hoop skirt for the first time, I really wish I had a camcorder!

I didn't know the garter belt/hose part. Hmmm...

[LucyKKG]

(in regards to the whistles)
Ahh I can't read music well enough to figure out how that goes! I can only read it if someone can play the first note! Why didn't I pay more attention?!

[TSteven]

[Miami of Ohio] Rush Week: When classes moved out of the Shacks, UM's sororities used them until the Mary B. Merritt Panhellenic Building was completed in 1956. Rushees sign up for a 1950s "Rush Week." [Parks, 2001]

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by honeychile

This is from Alpha Delta Pi's Loyally, Vol. I. I know we discussed whistles at one time, and I mentioned that I had seen a list of them from 1907. Here it is - sorry the resolution isn't better:





If anyone objects to this, as being part of ritual, please let me know. As it was published, I figured it was no big secret.

Love it! I wish AOII's was on there....only a few people even remember ours. Do you know how to do ADPi's, honeychile?

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by TSteven

[Miami of Ohio] Rush Week: When classes moved out of the Shacks, UM's sororities used them until the Mary B. Merritt Panhellenic Building was completed in 1956. Rushees sign up for a 1950s "Rush Week." [Parks, 2001]

Oh My Fricken God! That is SOOO Miami!

[indygphib]

Originally Posted by TSteven

[Miami of Ohio] Rush Week: When classes moved out of the Shacks, UM's sororities used them until the Mary B. Merritt Panhellenic Building was completed in 1956. Rushees sign up for a 1950s "Rush Week." [Parks, 2001]

I absolutely LOVE the polka dot dress! Fashion was so awesome in the 1950s and early 1960s.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by indygphib

I absolutely LOVE the polka dot dress! Fashion was so awesome in the 1950s and early 1960s.

i'll bet the squatting down to register was actually the first evil test to make sure the rushees were ladylike. indygphib, that polka dot dress is stunning!

[Benzgirl]

On a random Google search, I turned up this picture...


And a picture of someone named Ellen in 1972

[Benzgirl]

Here is a picture from 1927 at Miami University of a group with the letters "HIM"




The letters were an acronym for The H I M (Happy Independent Maidens) Club, an organization of non-fraternity women. This was a precursor to GDI.

According to the MU website:
"Each pledge wore "a blue stocking on one leg and tan one on the other, a high heel and a low heel, dress on backwards and hair in pigtails with blue and tan ribbons in the end." H I M stands for Happily Independent Maidens."

[Benzgirl]

The Northwestern Deltas in 1971. I'm really loving the boots.

[TSteven]

Chi Omega - 1920 Montana State University

[TSteven]

1939 -- Canadian Convention Delegates at the Essex & Sussex Hotel, New Jersey (our Helen Hann Belkin is the first left). -- Source: the "History of Delta Zeta Chapter [University of British Columbia] of Alpha Gamma Delta"

[Xidelt]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Here is a picture from 1927 at Miami University of a group with the letters "HIM"




The letters were an acronym for The H I M (Happy Independent Maidens) Club, an organization of non-fraternity women. This was a precursor to GDI.

According to the MU website:
"Each pledge wore "a blue stocking on one leg and tan one on the other, a high heel and a low heel, dress on backwards and hair in pigtails with blue and tan ribbons in the end." H I M stands for Happily Independent Maidens."

Wow! You know Greek Life really dominates campus when the non-affiliated women form their own official social group!

[TSteven]

[South Carolina] - Introduced by the Sigma Chi fraternity in 1947, Derby Day featured sorority sisters competing in the Miss Venus pageant, wearing high heels, short-shorts, tight blouses, and paper bags over their heads.