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Length – The length of the hood will vary with the level of academic achievement as well: bachelors wear a 3 foot length, masters a 3.5 foot length, and doctors a 4 foot length. [10] Generally only doctoral hoods are made with the cape or panels at the sides of the hood that lie cape-like across the back.
Doctors' hoods are normally made of scarlet cloth and lined with coloured silk. [21] Faculty colours were introduced by the University of London and many universities followed suit. [22] The hood is nearly always worn with a gown, though there are some exceptions, such as Oxford doctors who do not wear a hood with their festal robes.
Previously vice-chancellors had no distinctive dress, but instead wore the black gown, convocation habit and hood if they were doctors or the MA gown and hood if they were not. When John Hood , a non-MA from outside the Congregation of the university, was appointed vice-chancellor in 2005, a new lay-type (undress) gown was designed for him ...
Rear view of a Harvard doctoral gown and hood. Note the lack of velvet trim on the hood, which is a common feature of the hoods of other universities in the United States that follow the ICC. Rear view of four Harvard master's gowns and hoods. The master's hood is the same shape as the doctor's hood, but is slightly shorter.
Detail of the hood worn by holders of postgraduate master's degrees other than the MPhil. Most hoods are of the Cambridge Full [f1] shape in the Groves classification system with the exception of the Certificates and Diplomas hood, which is of a modified Aberdeen [a7] shape. All have purple neckbands with a centrally-placed band of gold ribbon.
Bath and Body Works has issued an apology for their candle design that some say looks like Ku Klux Klan hoods. The holiday candle “Snowed In” is being pulled from stores after critics argued ...
A black silk hood fully lined and bound all edges with the faculty silk. Before the abolishment of Convocation, members were entitled to a facing of white silk. MMus: a mid-blue silk hood lined and bound all edges with white watered silk. MPhil: a black silk hood fully lined with light claret silk and bound all edges with blue silk.
Doctors in full-dress wear a silk gown, similar to the Cambridge Mus. D. pattern, of the colour of the appropriate degree hood and carry a black velvet John Knox cap. Graduates (other than doctors) wear the gown and hood appropriate to their highest degree and carry a black cloth square cap.