Sorority life has not always been Lululemon and bid day YouTube videos. Take a trip back in time through this photo gallery that includes photos of sorority chapters from each decade since 1880. It's fascinating to see how not only how fashion changed throughout the decades, but also the changes of the poses and general mood of the photos. Apparently, the first time a sorority girl smiled in a photo was in
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1880s
1890s

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Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women University of Illinois, 1896
1900s

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Chi Omega sorority Florida State University , 1908
1910s

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Kappa Alpha Theta Grand Convention, 1915
1920s

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Alpha Phi at University of Colorado Boulder , 1925
1930s

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Alpha Chi Omega Sorority sisters, University of Wyoming 1932-1933
1940s

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Delta Delta Delta, Texas University of Texas, Austin 1944

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Beta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., 1945
1950s

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Sigma Kappa University of Oregon 1951

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Gamma Phi Beta at University of Colorado in Boulder 1959
1960s

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Gamma Phi chapter of Sigma Kappa Sorority 1960

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Pi Beta Phi University of Maine 1961
1970s

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Delta Gamma LSU 1971

Mercer Univ. Chi Omegas - Bid Day 1979
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1980s

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Alpha Phi University of Virginia 1985

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Alpha Omega Pi University of Illinois 1987
1990s

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Zeta Tau Alpha Texas Christian University 1990

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Alpha Xi Delta Texas State University 1995
2000s

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Kappa Alpha Theta UCONN 2002

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Delta Zeta at Missouri State University 2009