I've seen dresses on girls at my big 12 school...pretty much all of them dress like that. But when I was there over 10 yrs ago it was usually jeans and a cute shirt in school colors.
Post by DarcyLongfellow on Oct 5, 2012 11:47:59 GMT -5
That is very typical for Southern football schools.
Thankfully, my Southern ACC school was a basketball school, so we didn't do this. If anyone actually went to football games, they wore shorts or whatever.
For basketball, we didn't dress up either. Basketball was serious business and you would probably have been laughed at for showing up in heels.
SEC/formerly Big 12 checking in here. These dresses with cowboy boots are the most common for the under-40 (and sometimes over-40) crowd here. If not dreses, then super short shorts with tall cowboy boots.
I'm 32 and we drive down and back in the same day (usually about 8 hours total in the car) so go for comfort - jeans or shorts with a spirit T.
My college has a crappy football team and no tailgating culture. But I have been to many University of Texas and University of Oklahoma tailgates, and those kind of outfits are very common place, especially among the young and Greek.
Also, keep in mind that it can still be 95+ degrees during football season in the South, so a cotton dress might be far more comfortable than jeans from a weather standpoint. Most of the men I see at tailgates are in shorts, not jeans, at the early season games because of the weather. As evidenced by the "do you wear shorts?" thread the other day, lots of women prefer sundresses to shorts, so it isn't suprising to me that there are a bunch of young women in short sundresses at late summer/early fall football games in hot climates.
We wear jeans and college t-shirts or sweatshirts/hoodies. Big 12 school. Sometimes I'll see college girls wearing t-shirts that have been reconstructed into dresses at the early (warmer weather) games.
My BFF went to an SEC school, and still regularly wears team-color sundresses to their tailgates.
I think it's very regional. To me, we're outside all day, we have a campfire plus grills, and I'm either using a camper bathroom or a port-a-john. And in college, odds were pretty good that at some point I would get drunk enough to fall down. No way am I dressing like that.
I'm thinking it must be a southern thing. These girls wear 4 in heels and walk miles around campus, regardless of the weather. It's bizarre.
We did that!
But not when we were going to be on a field for 4 hours.
I remember walking around in the dead of (Mid-Atlantic) winter in a skirt, tube-top, and heels (picture really ugly ones -- 1997-2001 were dark times), and no coat because the bars/frats had nowhere to put a coat.
That is why I drank a lot on those nights. Needed to feel warm.
But not when we were going to be on a field for 4 hours.
I remember walking around in the dead of (Mid-Atlantic) winter in a skirt, tube-top, and heels (picture really ugly ones -- 1997-2001 were dark times), and no coat because the bars/frats had nowhere to put a coat.
That is why I drank a lot on those nights. Needed to feel warm.
And my campus is really, really small.
We did for nights going out, spaghetti straps, black bar pants and platform heels, traipsing through the snow (through fraternity backyards) to get to the bars/house parties.
But tailgating? We were often up early for a long session of day drinking - we needed warm, sturdy clothing to see us through until the night closed in!