[HPforGrownups] Muggle World (Was: Quills)

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 117631

>>Carol wrote
>>I still think the closest equivalent is the academic gowns worn by
>>students at Oxford--not the modern version but the one that was worn
>>from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries to distinguish
>>the students (and faculty)from the ordinary townspeople--Town and
>>Gown.

>Potioncat:
>Where would the rest of us find a picture or description of that?

Here's a catalogue with some of them in

http://www.shepherdandwoodward.co.uk/acatalog/sitemap.html

and a description of all of them

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Academic_dress_of_Oxford_University

(takes me back a good few years!)

I also had a mental picture of something like Oxbridge gowns when I read
about Hogwarts robes, though (from having worn a commoner's gown) it
wouldn't keep you very warm (or modest) without something underneath.
Possibly they are somewhat more "monkish" and all-enveloping.

Also interesting to speculate whether the idea of having different
ceremonial gowns also applies in the WW: whether Madam Malkin has a
catalogue of patterns for the purpose...

Cheers

Ffred

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