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The Evolution of Collegiate Dress - Formal Dances and Singing Groups

More images from the 1960s to 2000s: formal dances and singing groups.

Click on any photo for more information.

All images are courtesty of Archives and Special Collections, Vassar Library, unless otherwise noted on the information page for each photo.

Junior Prom 1968. vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/student-publications/pressing-c...
Students do the 'Hustle' at a spring weekend dance, 1972. © Vassar College, Archives & Special Collections Ref. # Ph.f14.10
The dance floor in a Villard Room event, 1983.
Students pose in formal dress for a dance in 1993, courtesy of Arden Kirkland, VC1993
Dressing up, courtesy of Allegra Shunk, VC2009
The Night Owls, Vassar's oldest a cappella group and the nation's oldest continually run all-female group, perform, 1963. © Vassar College, Archives & Special Collections Ref. # Ph.f16.29
The Night Owls, Vassar's oldest a cappella group and the nation's oldest continually run all-female group, perform on Founder's Day, 1975. © Vassar College, Archives & Special Collections Ref. # Ph9.13
Enthusiastic serenading, 1985.
Measure 4 Measure, one of Vassar's popular a cappella groups, 1994. Photo: Peter Howard
The Axies, from the 2000 Vassarion
1960s-2010s
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