Sigma Tau Gamma (STG), one of the nine chapters of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) at Saint Louis University, hosted three vintage dealers, two local to the St. Louis area, on West Pine to raise money for their philanthropy week. The market was open on March 20 from 11 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The vintage dealers brought clothing from a range of decades, offering a variety of styles. This was the first event of its kind facilitated by a fraternity on SLU’s campus.
Jibby Bellante, a student at the market, was impressed with the wide variety of clothing they had available.
“They had t-shirts, jerseys, pants, and also going out tops and skirts and dresses,” Bellante said. Bellante “went all out” and found a pair of green sweatpants, a blue dress, a y2k going-out top, and her favorite, an old housecoat.
Bellante said that the location “was perfect,” accessible and brought people together for a strong philanthropic cause.
“I love it when I see all of campus [life] involved in fraternity and sorority philanthropy events. It can be hard to find something everyone likes, and the vintage market was a fantastic idea!” Bellante said.
Adam Osman, president of STG, shared some insight into what their philanthropy is all about.
“Every semester, we have a philanthropy with different activities each day, one of the events is Tomato-a-Tau, where you pay a little money to get to throw water balloons at brothers; another is the dunk tank where you get to throw a ball to try to dunk one of the brothers,” Osman said.
These events are part of an initiative to raise money for Special Olympics Missouri (SOMO), a nonprofit organization that supports community members with cognitive disabilities in the St. Louis area.
The events are “all in good fun, and at the root of it all, it’s an opportunity for us to give a lot of money to a good cause,” Osman said.
