Graduation
All in attendance at graduation ceremonies are expected to wear subfusc, which comprises a dark lounge suit and a white shirt and white bow-tie for gentlemen and dark trousers or skirt and a white blouse for ladies. Gowns and caps appropriate to a person's degree or official position within the university are worn according to the rules set down by the Senatus Academicus.
Ordinary Graduands wear a black stuff or silk gown cut in the Cambridge M.A. style with the crescent-cut sleeves facing backwards, carry the hood proper to the degree to be conferred.
Honorary Graduands wear undress, a black, silk, full-sleeved cassock with buttons and cincture of the appropriate faculty colour and carry the hood proper to the degree to be conferred. They can wear either a black cloth mortar board with a black tassel or in the case doctors receiving honorary degrees, a velvet birretum.
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.
Undergraduates wear the gown appropriate to their college and carry the cap appropriate to their year of study.
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