Caps
Everyone below the rank of doctor wears a standard black cloth mortarboard.
Doctors wear a black velvet (or cloth for PhD) Tudor bonnet which has a cord and tassel of the faculty colour.
Women may wear a black Oxford ladies soft cap in lieu of mortarboard.
Read more about this topic: Academic Dress Of The University Of London
Famous quotes containing the word caps:
“... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools’ caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“At the milliners, the ladies we met were so much dressed, that I should rather have imagined they were making visits than purchases. But what diverted me most was, that we were more frequently served by men than by women; and such men! so finical, so affected! they seemed to understand every part of a woman’s dress better than we do ourselves; and they recommended caps and ribbons with an air of so much importance, that I wished to ask them how long they had left off wearing them.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)