Everyone in school at Auburn before 1970 talks about the raincoats. Having to wear a raincoat even when it’s sunny is the kind of thing that sticks with you.
“That was back…when you couldn’t wear shorts across campus,” 1970 Auburn alumna Emily Perry told me when I interviewed her several years ago about her time at Auburn. “Everybody had a London Fog raincoat because if you were going to gym class you had to have a raincoat over your shorts.”
Dress codes, curfews, special permission to live off campus, in and out cards — once upon a time, coed rules and regulations at Auburn were some of the strictest for public universities in the country.