Lori Stefanelli

I was sitting on a panel and there were so many girls from Greenwich, Connecticut who were going down south, like Tennessee, Ole Miss, Auburn, Clemson, Texas.

And I was like kind of taken aback how full the room was of these girls.

I'm able to kind of translate for them a little bit about like, hey, I know like you're a cool girl in the city and all that, but like you got to tone that down and be cute girl instead.

I know that you went to like a beautiful, wonderful private school in New York City or boarding school somewhere in Connecticut, but that's not going to translate in the South.

I feel like kids on the East Coast, it's a little bit of like this quiet luxury status aura that they have around them.

All of their Instagrams are private.

And I'm like, you have to make that public.

And they get very touchy about that, especially the parents.

And I'm like, this is a vibe check for your daughter and she needs to make it public so that the sororities can see her ahead of time before she steps foot onto campus.

And they kind of push back on that a little bit because they don't understand the why around it, the ask around it.

So it's a little difficult sometimes.

It's a game.

At the end of the day, like sorority recruitment is a game.

And if you want to play, you've got to play by the rules.

I try to work with them as best as I can just to kind of have them feel confident in what they're wearing.

Every girl's different style, body shape, height, even like I'm only five foot.

So like when I have girls that are like, I'm 5'8 or 5'10, I'm like, okay, maybe this short little dress

won't work for you.

But I always have like a really positive spin on it instead of like, hey, you look crappy in that and it sucks.

I hate it.