[HPforGrownups] Re: Robes and other Clothing

[James P. Robinson III]

No: HPFGUIDX 45751


>Eloise wrote:
> >>Otherwise, anything approaching the everyday wearing of *gowns* is,
>I *think*  (although I'm sure someone out there will correct me!)
>confined to a handful of universities. At Oxford and Cambridge they
>are (or at least were) required when taking exams and for formal halls
>(dinners) and students at St Andrews also wear gowns, although in
>their case, red ones.<<


Apparently, scholars at Winchester and King's School (Canterbury) wore 
academic gowns on a daily basis at least into the 1980's.[1]  Masters, of 
course, wore gowns at many schools.[2]

                                                         Jim



[1]  Davidson, Alexander.  Blazers, Badges & Boaters:  A Pictorial History 
of School Uniform.  Horndean, Hants.:  Scope Books, Ltd. 1990, p. 21, 
23.  A photograph of a contemporary Winchester scholar in his gown is on p. 25.

[2]  Davidson, p. 104-108.



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