Sorority Fashions from Vicky Vaughn - Part 3!

So it's been a while since we have checked on all our sorority gals and their smashing Vicky Vaughn fashions. Let's see how they are doing....

As you may recall, our sorority had some rather bizarre initiation rites for their pledges.  Like here where apparently the pledges were forced to wear coordinated pledge uniforms.

However, this pledge class survived their horrors and decided to celebrate with a trip to the beach! Everyone is all smiles now.

They even held a formal ball to mark the occasion!

Naturally, travel is on the agenda for any jet setting young sorority lady. (Note: This pic is worth it just for the Pan Am plane in the upper right!) (1)


So now we have a new pledge class....

My, my, the previous pledge class thought that they had it bad, but this new class has even stranger pledge uniforms to wear! (1)

Surely, it can't worse for this new crop of pledges....

Oh dear, are we back to those strange sorority initiation rites?  It looks like these pledges are being forced to "walk the plank" or something (I did a double take with this pic.  What the heck are they doing out on some slick, moss covered, rock at the edge of a lake?, very strange)

Once again, surely it can't get worse for these poor pledges........

It can and it does! Now, they are forced to play some sort of scaled up version of Monopoly.  This is really taking a turn towards the weird.  The gal on the right is starting to look a little worried!  She's probably thinking "Hey, I wanted to join for the parties, not to be put in a jail cell!"

Meanwhile.........

The members snicker at the pledges misfortunes.  Apparently this sorority has fallen into that "Plaid, Plaid World" space time singularity.  Either that, or this sorority was founded by Scots!

footnotes:

(1) These pics re-blogged from MyVintageVogue.

Sorority Fashions from Vicky Vaughn - Part 2

Well it's been a while since we saw our sorority pledges after "pledge week".  So how are they doing, Did they make it as full sorority members??

Yep!!  It looks like the sorority sisters have adjusted well after their tumultuous pledge trials and are relaxing with a "Sunday in the Park".  Kathy is joined by Shelley Hack, Colleen, and an unknown model for this classic shot! (reblogged from ShelleyHack.Blogspot.Com)

Oh how quickly the tables turn!  Now that they are members, Kathy, Shelley and Colleen are giving the "pledge" treatment to this year's crop of freshmen (is that Kay on the right?, yep I believe so).  They are even dressed Greek-themed attire (Toga, Toga, Toga!).  (reblogged from Colleencorby.net)

Back at the sorority house, the sisters relax and pose for this pic in various combinations of pink and white. WOW!  (reblogged from Colleencorby.net)

So it looks like the sorority sisters are throwing a wild party with those mod 70s fashions.  Why wasn't I invited?  Drats!! (reblogged from ShelleyHack.Blogspot.Com)

Colleen and Karen checking out their airline tickets.  Of course, air travel back then was a little different.  It was considered more of an event that conferred status, and people actually dressed up for it.  Note that the bag says Pam Am - kind of dates this a bit, doesn't it? (reblogged from Colleencorby.net)

And finally, a last shot of our favorite sorority girls getting ready for some kind of red, white, and blue themed event.  Yep it brings back memories of college - rush week, fraternity / sorority functions, homecoming, sigh! (reblogged from sweetjanespopboutique.blogspot.som)

It's a Plaid, Plaid World!

Oh no!! Once again the writer for this Aldens page has written the title of a future internet post!  Just like with the "Hot Pants - Kicky!" post last year we are forced to come face-to-face with a time travel paradox:  the past writes to the future which then writes to the past!

Friends, have we entered an infinite loop of time causality from which never to return? (1) Well we'll see.  Perhaps the plaids (2) will help us straighten out things....

It's a Plaid, Plaid World for sure here in this Aldens internet post, errr, I mean catalog page (see what I mean!  Which is the past? Which is the future? And where, oh where, is the present in this plaid madness?  Arrggghh).  Plaid pants, plaid jacket, plaid vest, plaid skirt, yikes!  Of course it is for "Snappy Young Separates".  Huh?  Are they talking about the clothes or the people?  Oh I see!  It refers to the people who are "separates" in the sense that they are locked in a time travel loop thus "separated" from the conventional arrow of time!! (or am I reading a little too much into that?!?!).

Just in time to save us from a complete plaid slam, we can find solace in the "fake suede fun hat" that Kathy is wearing.  I'm not sure how fake suede can be considered "fun", but there it is.

Surely that is it for this plaid induced nightmare from the past, er, present, er, future?  Oh whatever...

Double Yikes!!  Now we've added plaid knit hats, plaid scarfs, even (gasp) a plaid poncho! Is the very fabric of space-time being ripped apart and plaid rushing in to fill the void?  (Maybe the criss-crossing lines of the plaid itself represents this rift in our universe!)

Kathy in the upper left pulls off the super cute look.  Is that Karen Bruun in the middle?  Can't really tell.

This plaid aided destruction of causality cannot continue!  Can it?........

Triple Yikes!!! Kay is in all plaid from head to toe.  She obviously thinks something is funny.  Hey there! You may lost in a plaid induced time loop, but here in the present, the very fabric of reality is being shredded into plaid madness.  That's nothing to laugh about!

Things are looking grim for us in the "Non-Plaid World" or what's LEFT of it!  Can it get any worse?....

Quadruple Yikes!!!!  "What's Next" this post, errh, catalog page asks.  How can they even say that?  Next to what?  The past has become the future making the present undefinable!!!! There is no "next" to even talk about!!!!  (As a bonus, check out the groovy collar on that yellow shirt!)

Let's face it folks, time (whatever that word even MEANS now) is running out for us in the real world!  We are at the end of all existence.  Is there any hope left?.......

That's it!!! Obviously the entire universe has collapsed back into an infinitesimally small point of infinite mass - void of all dimensionality!  No longer referred to as either "plaid" or "tartan", these criss-crossing lines of non-existence are now called "Cinnamon Toast N' Honey".  Huh?  Have words lost all meaning in this bizzaro alternate universe?  And how bizzaro is this brave new world?  Well for starters, Kathy is wearing a black wig!

I may have just given up any hope of finding meaning in this new Plaid, Plaid World!  Maybe, just maybe we can have one pic of Kathy and the gang in non-plaid outfits....

Nope!


footnotes:

(1) Listen everyone, I don't want the comments to delve into that whole Block Universe model (aka the eternalist model) of time versus the Augustinian model (aka the presentist model) of time debate.  I mean those arguments and counter arguements have been going on for centuries.  There's no reason to hash them out here.  Besides, obviously from the tone of this post you can tell I'm on the Block Universe side so you presentists will just have to grit your teeth and go along.  Okay! (Besides your model of time is obviously WRONG anyway).

(2) I hate to get all technical and everything, but the words "plaid" and "tartan", while often used interchanbably, actually have different meanings.  Tartan refers to the entire class of fashion while the word "plaid" is used when refering to a specific tartan pattern used by a Scottish clan.  Of course "It's a Tartan, Tartan World" wouldn't quite have the same catchy cadence so we'll let it slide this time.

Sorority Fashions from Vicky Vaughn

I admit that I know next to nothing about Vicky Vaughn.  We didn't get any of their catalogs back when I was young, and I never even heard of them until I was much older.  From all appearances they seem to be a little more on the high end on the fashion pecking order - more conventional and less outlandishly 70s.  Which is good if you are a girl attending a sorority, but, of course, it is a big negative for me (a lot less good blogging material). But, as consolation, they put out some really nice photos.  Check them out!

Ahh, yes, the sorority pledge class has gathered in the parlor for their group picture before commencing "hell week".  Yes, it is all ribbons, curls, and smiles now, but what challenges lie ahead?  Could that be, no it couldn't be, Colleen on the first row smiling?  If it is, it's a rare pose for her.

Forced to wear matching bumble bee outfits to class was just one of the horrors our intrepid pledges faced that week.  They became so distraught at the shame and humiliation that they even began to stare off in random directions!  I believe that the girl in the lower left is Kathy, but not sure.  If it is, that is the only pic I have seen where she had that hairstyle (perhaps that was part of hell week torture also). And is that Colleen again smiling in the back row.  This time with a HUGE grin.  Maybe she likes hell week?

Finally hell week is over and the pledges gather by the school fountain for one final picture.  Why are four of them staring off to the their left while two of them (including Kathy) are focused at the camera?  We'll never know.  Oh, and Colleen is up to her usually expression, no smile this time.

Settled into Greek life, the girls face one final decision "Which Vicky are you, Vicky Vaughn or Vicky Petite?".  If I have have learned anything, you never, ever, ask a women if she is regular or petite (that is unless you want a lot of annoying questions afterwards).  Shelley Hack and Kathy appear to be having a stare down over whose ridiculously long dresses are more bizarre!

According to the caption "you'll look great in top notch tweedies" made of something called Creslan Acrylic.  Hmmm, that doesn't sound too comfortable.  Whatever, Vicky Vaughn "lets rick rack ramble" and then "teams it with skinny ribs".  What in the heck are they talking about?  I do believe that the caption writer had a few too many at the sorority's initiation party!  I like the nod to honesty that these ads had back then "Prices slightly higher in the West."  West of what?  So many questions, so few answers!