Ladies,

Now that you have hopefully gotten into the sorority of your dreams, and spending an arm and a leg on recruitment clothes finally payed off, it should be smooth sailing in the outfit department from here on, right? Wrong!

Now that you are in a sorority the merch buying will begin, and although your closets will get full, your bank accounts will get smaller. Its better you know now rather than later what you are going to be needing to purchase.

1. Your whites! Initiation may seem like it’s forever away, but remember that white is only going to be in stores for a short amount of time. Get your initiation whites before its too late and you become the only girl in the room wearing a dress you borrowed from that one skinny girl and your underwear is showing through. Don’t. Be. That. Girl.

2. Rain coats are essential. We live in Iowa, and if you aren’t already familiar, the weather changes every five minutes. If your hair is going to look like a hot mess because of the humidity, you might as well look like a hot mess in your amigrammed rain coat.

3. On Wednesdays we wear letters. Once you go Greek you can say goodbye to high school athletic shirts and hello to shirts with letters on them! Every kind of shirt you can imagine with your letters ironed onto the front of it will become your new wardrobe! Wear them with pride, but remember they can get pricey and don’t go overboard.

4. Don’t forget that if you want to have the perfect formal date, you are probably going to need the perfect formal dress! Depending on your sorority you may have some time on this one, but it doesn’t hurt to start looking.

5. Lastly, accessories! Every sorority woman needs her fanny pack and snapback to wear to every event that seems relevant for at least all of first semester! College may be the only time that we can dress like a hip-hop dancing grandma from the 80’s and get away with it! Get to online shopping and go crazy!

There you have it! Hello Greek life, goodbye to the last pennies that you had to your name.