<p>^^ A nudist floor??? Whoa</p>
<p>Thanks, Pizzagirl, for making an excellent point. My older DS is a hgh school senior who has applied to Univeristy of Kentucky, Ohio U and Marshall University. Regardless of where he ends up, I’m sending him to school with at least one pair of dress pants, a nice polo, a button-down shirt and tie, and his dress shoes. A lot of people these days have decided that wearing anything but jeans or sweats and T-shirts is pretentious. But IMHO, people who refuse to dress appropriately for an occasion are only showing their ignorance. BTW, I was in a sorority and loved every minute of it, especially as I was a commuter and it gave me a place on campus and something to distinguish college from hgh school.</p>
<p>D. continue loving her sorority experience. There is very strict dress code for some events, to the point that they have to send a picture of dress to president and get approval. D. has no issue with that. It is part of discipline and sorority experience has been great learning even in negative situations, especially in leadership area, dealing with different personalities, social awareness, consequences of decision making.</p>
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<p>I haven’t read through all the subsequent posts yet, but I would like to point out that the email in question was directed to the sorority members regarding how to present themselves during rush, not to rushees.</p>
<p>In addition, it was quite clear that the person who wrote it was not only a fashionista, but was poking fun at herself for being a fashion nazi and injecting humor in various places. Although I am a clog and wool sock wearing person who lives in LLBean country, has never had a pedicure in my life, and hasn’t had my nails done since I worked in Manhattan 20 years ago, I loved her little piece. Not only did it make me smile, but a lot of it was really excellent advice. I can’t tell you how astonished I have been at the outlandish and inappropriate rigs and horrendous shoe/dress combinations I have seen a music recitals over the years, not to mention the young girls with lovely skin who ladle on sluttish makeup. </p>
<p>And yeah, I sent my S to college with a decent pair of slacks, a couple of Brooks Brothers dress shirts, a couple of ties, a leather belt and loafers, and a blue blazer. Just in case. </p>
<p>I would never join this sorority, nor would they want me, of course. But I did enjoy her little write-up.</p>
<p>Consolation - so would you consider yourself granola?:)</p>
<p>^^Not really. I know people who are totally granola. I’m pretty eclectic. Probably a combination of granola and preppy, with some bobo thrown in. <g> (I just learned what bobo is, although I’ve never shopped at an Anthropologie.) My fashion choices have been severely restricted by lack of $$ for quite a while. The one thing I have never gone in for is the tailored look. I prefer things that are more relaxed. When I worked in Manhattan during the suit and floppy bow tie with pumps era, I never wore that. I still have a couple of Perry Ellis suits from back in the day, although I no longer fit into them! :)</g></p>
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<p>Let the church say amen!!</p>
<p>There are times that one must get dressed in attire that is not jeans and sneakers. Every young woman should have a lbd that they can dress up/down (fortunately you will wear one at the end of rush). There will come times in college where your child will go through on campus interviews (whether it is for internships, jobs after graduation, dinner at a professors home, award nights, etc) and they should not be scrambling to figure out what to wear. But then I am old school and grew up during a time when you had school clothes, play clothes and church clothes.</p>
<p>I remember when D was in 5th grade and the principal sent a letter home to all of the parents stating that children could not participate in graduation wearing sweatpants and $5 chinese slippers, because there were occassions that they would have to be dressed appropriately. she believed graduation was one of those times.</p>
<p>Shame she did not fast forward to high school and college graduation. Talking about kids not getting dressed, I never saw so many kids mainly boys, dressed in shorts, sneakers, sandals (there was only one boy in my D’s high school who actually wore a collared shirt and tie to graduation). The girls did seem to dress up a little more. </p>
<p>Fast forward 4 more years, the PhDs, MDs and undergrads were walking across the stage in shorts, tevas, birkenstocks and flip flops. My sorority girl fashionista walked across the stage in a very nice dress, shades and havaianas :eek:. I could have fell through the floor. She said “were in the middle of a heatwave, the processional walk was really long and I was not going to do it in heels”. However, she did not return the pricy pair she purchased for the occassion.</p>
<p>OT, I was watching the olympics saturday night when they interviewed Lindsay Vonn. She had on way too much badly applied make up and I kept trying to figure out what was going on with ther eyebrows. Hey I know she is a great skier, but perhaps she could have benefitted from the services of a media consultant or someone who could tell her how to present herself for the camera.</p>
<p>I’ve acquired two new terms in one day: bobo and havaianas.</p>
<p>CC is SO educational! :D</p>
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<p>Who comes up with this stuff? Someone, somewhere used the term “camel toe” for the first time.</p>
<p>From Pi Phi email for Bottoms: No Camel toe.</p>
<p>Some of us, older people, couldn’t figure out what it was and had to look it up. Now I know when someone says I look like camel toe, it’s not a compliment.</p>
<p>^^^ :eek: ^^^</p>
<p>Yes-- admitting to be another who referred to the urban dictionary for terminology definitions. On the other hand, as soon as I mentioned camel toe, my DH knew EXACTLY what I was talking about!</p>
<p><a href=“https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja[/url]”>https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja</a>
If you use Google Chrome browser, you can double-click on any word and see its definition</p>
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<p>Haha, technically, you don’t ‘look like’ camel toe, you ‘have’ a camel toe…as in…“Omg, you’ve got a camel toe goin’ there girl.” If you have a D who wears HardTails, those roll-down stretch pants, you’re most likely familiar with this term. </p>
<p>And don’t forget ‘muffin top’ in today’s urban slang lesson: <a href=“http://www.ezweightlossdietplans.com/2009/09/muffin-top/[/url]”>http://www.ezweightlossdietplans.com/2009/09/muffin-top/</a></p>
<p>Even <em>I</em> knew what muffin top was going into this thread. I learned it in an earlier thread on CC. 
Camel toe, on the other hand…</p>
<p>I’m trying to remember when I first heard the term. I guess I blocked it.</p>
<p>I had never heard of “camel toe” before this thread. Asked H and he said he had heard it years ago!</p>
<p>I have been following this thread and until just now (when I looked it up) i thought “camel toe” in that list of rules referred to some unflattering style of shoe that the sorority sisters were not supposed to wear, like open toe or closed toe…</p>
<p>I was thinking “hammer toe.” I have a friend who had surgery for hammer toe. I’m glad I won’t confuse the two now. Can you imagine? “You can have surgery for that camel toe, ya know?”</p>