academic regalia
 

I was wondering what you guys' academic regalia (hoods, gowns) look like. My doctoral hood is lined with maroon and white satin (for Mississippi State) and the edge is royal blue for the Ph.D.--a doctor can have either the royal blue of the Ph.D. of the color of the particular field. Yellow with maroon? Ack, I chose blue, a no-brainer. Then the 3 stripes on my sleeves are royal blue as well.

Last year when my oldest got her master's, her edge and tassel were sage green for her field. I thought that was pretty cool, there are some awful possibilities in colors out there.

My Masters hood was yellow and green because those were the school's colors.

My tassel was lemon yellow. It was the color assigned for Library and Information Science. I wish they had picked a nicer color- I am not fond of yellow.

I just received my master's degree hood a little over a week ago... The color combo is decent - the hood has blue trim (for education) and black and red are the colors on the inner portion of the hood (for Whitworth College). My tassel is light blue, also for education.

My masters hood is white for M.A. in history with gold & brown for Georgia College (not too exciting).

(I framed my diplomas with a double inner mat with the school colors.)

My masters hood was sage green trimmed with blue and white for UK. The bookstore gave me and another classmate the wrong hood color. We were supposed to have pink.

I still received the degree so I don't care LOL!

I just recieved my bachelors so nothing really fancy, but my tassel was white for Arts & Sciences.

Our program had a description of all of the robes and caps and hoods and an explanation of the colors. Was very interesting reading when the President was talking ;)

for my ma the hood colors were red and white - red for the school and white for the degree

but i totally agree that there are some scary combos out there - i am totally opting for the blue at the phd level

- marissa

I think you get to choose one - one of my sisters/roommates had double B.S. degrees in forestry and in botany, so she had the option between golden yellow for a B.S. and something unattractive like brown for the school of forest resources.

Although I don't remember specifically, I think (hope?) that she probably bought both tassels and wore the pretty golden yellow.

Those with degrees in two different "fields" wore two colors of tassels at our school.

And anything is better than the traditional business school color: "drab" ...talk about ugly brown.

Awww, now I'm really sad my school didn't let us do colored tassels.

My bachelor's hood was brown (Business)
My master's hood was light blue (Education)
Black caps, gowns and tassels for both.

ditto on the yellow - MLS here too.

My MLitt was a black gown with strange cutout sleeves, no hat (we don't do caps of any kind at St Andrews), and a black hood which was lined with saffron (dark yellowy-orange) silk. It's bloody heavy - it hooks onto the top button of a shirt and nearly pulled my top off after graduation last November. :eek: I'm thinking of pinning it to the gown for the next time I have to wear it...

The PhD dress here (which I will hopefully get in 2008 if everything goes to plan) is an electric blue silk gown, and electric blue hood lined with white silk. They're sooo lovely!

I've seen some pretty awful academic dress as well including a particularly lurid green and orange number (I've no idea where it was from), magenta and blue (not so much the colours, but the style of the gown and the hat), and green with mid-brown. What were these institutions thinking, other than they have to be different to everyone else??

nb - Our hoods don't have any indication of the particular school or department in which one studied, rather they're just the degree (ie. all MLitts are saffron, all MAs are cherry red, undergrad scientists even get fake fur on theirs!)

Man, I graduated from the engineering college, and we had these ugly orange tassels. I hated wearing that thing!

I'm graduating this summer with my M.S. and I can't wait to order my hood and wear it.

Haha.
My tassel was drab... its an ugly mustard yellow. Blah.
My hood for my MBA was black and yellow.

I get all fired up when the first bars of "Pomp and Circumstance" sound and we begin to march. Thirty minutes later, I'm suffocating in velvet and waiting for us to march out.:eek: Every year.

At my grad school, you march in commencement wearing the hood of your bachelor's degree, because technically you are a "degree candidate" until they hand over the diploma at the end of the day. So I had a black hood lined with crimson (school color) and wore a black gown with purple crow's feet (representing a degree candidate in the field of law). It's fun to see the amazing robes of professors who got their PhD's from overseas universities; one university in Spain has a hat that's like a gold lame wig.

All the professional schools march carrying emblems of the profession -- globes for the school of goverment, toothbrushes for the dental school, play money for the business school. We in the law school carried inflatable sharks!

One of the professors at my graduation had the best academic attire that I'd ever seen - yellow robe with dark purple stripes and a great tam... I want to go to whatever school he got his PhD from just for the regalia!!!

One of the professors at my commencement was wearing regalia that must have come from Shakespearean England. All a burgundy red, instead of a full robe he had a cape and something like knickers and a top that matched and the hat was even crazier:

Imagine a platter with a big thing of padding in the middle. Cover it with burgundy red felt/velvet and tie a gold cord at the base of the padding so that it stands up and has some shape.

No tassel, just the gold cord....

If anyone knows what/where/when (he was old) you get your degree to dress like this.. let me know! :D

^ Ooh, sounds terribly snazzy, though complicated. One of my friends from Portugal mentioned something about wearing capes rather than gowns.

It sounds like what our dean had on at my graduation for grad school. He's Australian, and pretty young (maybe 50?). It was pretty awesome.

We just had the typical Master's gown with the pointed sleeves. There is dispute over what color to give Architecture, so we avoid it altogether.