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Gowns and robes. American academic dress is typically closed at the front and is properly worn with the prescribed cap and hood. On the baccalaureate dress shown, other items, such as scarves, stoles or cords may be seen. Bachelor's and master's gowns in the United States are similar to some of their counterparts in the United Kingdom ...
The square academic cap, graduate cap, cap, mortarboard[1] (because of its similarity in appearance to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar [2]) or Oxford cap[3] is an item of academic dress consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upon a skull-cap, with a tassel attached to the centre. In the UK and the US, it is commonly ...
Academic dress of King's College London in different colours, designed and presented by fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Academic dress is a traditional form of clothing for academic settings, mainly tertiary (and sometimes secondary) education, worn mainly by those who have obtained a university degree (or similar), or hold a status that entitles them to assume them (e.g., undergraduate ...
No senior will wear ribbons, badges or medals of any description on the gown. The cap will not be removed for the purpose of greeting acquaintances, but will be removed indoors. Black coats and waistcoats with white ties, and dark trousers will be worn under the gown. There must be no violation of this rule.
Doctors. Doctors in Oxford have three forms of academic dress: undress, full dress and convocation dress. [19] The undress gown in the lay faculties is a black lay-type gown with a flap collar and closed sleeves, decorated with black silk lace; for Doctors of Divinity, it is the MA gown in black silk.
Black gowns (undress) are worn at less formal events, while on special occasions (such as the days of General Admission to Degrees) full academical dress is worn, consisting of gown, hood and headdress with Doctors in festal dress. The University's officials also have ancient forms of academic dress, unique to the University.
Academic dress of King's College London, designed by Vivienne Westwood. The academic dress of the United Kingdom and Ireland has a long history and has influenced the academic dress of America and beyond. The academic square cap was invented in the UK as well as the hood which developed from the lay dress of the medieval period.
Detail of the Stanford University seal on the bachelor's stole. The school's first commencement ceremony took place in 1892 and was a very low-key affair. It was not until 1899 that a student at Stanford convinced her classmates to wear caps and gowns at the annual graduation ceremony.