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Also known as Academic Dress or Academic regalia in the United States, is traditional clothing worn specifically in academic settings, particularly during the graduation ceremony. Graduation dress in most universities in the Commonwealth is derived from the academic dress of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In the United States, however, it has also been influenced by the academic dress of continental Europe. |
Graduation dress today generally consists of a gown (also known as a robe) with a (usually separate, unattached) hood, and sometimes a cap (either a mortarboard or a bonnet). When wearing academic dress, it is usual to dress formally and soberly beneath the gown; so, for example, males would typically wear a dark suit with a white shirt and tie, or military or national dress, and females would wear equivalent attire. It is traditionally wore on graduation day .
The Gown
The gowns most commonly worn, that of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA), are substantially the same throughout the English-speaking world. Both are traditionally made of black cloth, although occasionally the gown is dyed in one of the college's colors and have the material at the back of the gown gathered into a yoke. The BA gown has bell-shaped sleeves, while the MA gown has long sleeves closed at the end. In the Commonwealth, gowns are worn open, while in the United States it has become common for gowns to close at the front
The Mortarboard
The academic cap or square, commonly known as the "mortarboard", has come to be symbolic of academia. In some universities it can be worn by graduates and undergraduates alike. It is a flat square hat with a tassel suspended. The mortarboard is also called a trencher cap (or simply trencher). In many universities, holders of doctorates wear a soft rounded headpiece known as a Tudor bonnet or tam, rather than a trencher.
The tassel
The tassel comprises a cluster of silk threads which are bunched together at one end and fixed by a button at the centre of the mortarboard so as to allow the free strands to fall freely. Often the stands are plaited together to form a cord with the end threads left untied. While traditions vary by institution, in the United States it is common for undergraduates to begin the commencement ceremony with their tassels on the right. Switching the tassel to the left may be done individually or as a group. For doctoral and masters students, the tassel commonly begins and remains on the left. Depending on the level of schooling and the institution, the tassel's color may represent the school, the field of study, or simply be decorative.
Over the years there has been much opposition against the academic regalia by groups of students who consider it a symbol of elitism. However the tradition lives on and is most popular with majority of the students.
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