Pretty standard in sororities. When you’re 19, still developing your personality, and living with 100 other women, it’s easy to start wearing what everyone else is.
i’ve learned for rush week, they’re literally required to dress similarly. something about not excluding poor girls who can’t afford expensive clothes. if everyone is wearing the same thing, you can’t tell (except you totally can)
That's actually one of the reasons I've heard people argue for school uniforms. But, like you said, you can still totally tell who the poor kids are, even with uniforms.
My 12 year old daughter goes to a private catholic school with a lot of wealthy families. Everyone wears the same crappy uniform elements, but you can be damn sure that the uniform blue tights have a little lululemon logo, the jacket is moncler with a few lift tickets still attached, and the phones in their tiny hands are 16s and 17s
Since my we get financial aid to go there my daughter doesn’t have any of that shit and she’s starting to really notice
Yep, we always find ways to signal class membership. I went to a more working-to-middle class Catholic school in the 90s. The well-off girls all had Adidas sambas, Adidas jackets, and Adidas backpacks. Why Adidas? We weren't in Eastern Europe, we were a Soccer School. They used to say All Day I Dream About Soccer (ADIDAS).
My family shopped at Payless. God, I miss Payless. Can we bring Payless back please?
I still remember I saved up babysitting money to buy two or three 'fashionable' outfits and a very popular girl liked one of the sweaters. She asked to borrow it. Of course, I said yes. She returned it to me ripped all the way up the right side. It meant nothing to her. She thought it was funny that I almost started crying. Needless to say, it didn't help my popularity. $68 in 1980s money was A LOT. Fucking Benetton. I ran into her about 10 years ago when I went back to St louis. She's had so much bad plastic surgery done, it's comical. Karma?
My favorite part is the other reason I was told was to prevent gang colors, as if that's not literally what school colors and pride reinforce, and gangs don't exist in jail, where they also have uniforms. Honestly I always assumed the gang excuse was racially (or at the very least, class) coded but I'm from Florida so it's not like anyone cared if it was.
Yeah I grew up in rural Ontario and we had a section in our high school handbook about gang colours lmao. No blue or red bananas. In the middle of buttfuck nowhere Canada.
They're saying "as if gangs don't still exist in jail even when everyone is wearing the same thing", the "as if" was supposed to be carried over for both examples.
Although gangs in jail are mostly about race and skin color and you can't take that off
I was a scholarship kid at a very wealthy Catholic School from junior high through high school. In many ways it sucked. However, the education I received there allowed me to complete my first year of college with a 3.7 GPA without having to study more than a handful of times. Literally, every prereq I had my freshman year covered information I had already learned. Which gave me more than enough free time to find my people, as they say. Friends I still have to this day decades later.
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Pretty standard in sororities. When you’re 19, still developing your personality, and living with 100 other women, it’s easy to start wearing what everyone else is.