Academic Dress of The University of Edinburgh - Graduation

Graduation

Male graduands are required to appear in black or dark coloured clothes, white collars, and white bow ties. Alternatively, either normal or full day Highland Dress may be worn with the appropriate hose. Female graduands are required to wear sleeved black or white dresses, or white blouses and dark skirts or trousers. Colours, apart from the hood, should not be worn.

Graduands for the degree of Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Music and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery must appear for graduation in a gown of superfine scarlet cloth with loose sleeves.

Graduands for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy appear in a gown of black silk or stuff with long sleeves with three inch red facings down the front. All other graduands must wear a gown of black silk or stuff, with long sleeves, in the Cambridge M.A. shape but with an inverted-T armhole. All graduands must wear the hood appropriate to the degree which they are about to receive. Although academical caps do form part of the dress of the university, they are not worn or carried by graduands at the graduation ceremony; in full dress, Edinburgh doctors wear a black silk velvet 'John Knox' cap.

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