Wearing Other People's Graduation Regalia

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by carnation

You don't wear multiple hoods. If you have your doctorate, believe me--one velvet-lined, knee-length hood is enough and you would die in two even if it's forty degrees inside.

What you're supposed to do when you get advanced degrees: you wear the hood and lining colors of the school of your last degree. My doctoral hood has an edge of royal blue velvet that matches my tassel and the 3 velvet stripes on my sleeves because royal blue is the color of a Ph.D. (An Ed.D. has aqua, an M.D. has green.)Then the satin hood lining is maroon and white for Mississippi State. If you've been in the academic world for awhile, you can often identify the degrees and schools of many faculty members at a graduation.

What I wonder is which hood lining colors are worn by all those people who've been getting online degrees from non-brick and mortar schools.

Hm they probably have some sort of school colors.

My favorite variation on hats is the Tudor bonnet although I enjoy the slightly pointed tams too. Even though their meaning wasn't immediately apparent to us as graduating students, they certainly set the profs apart and made us google them later

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Hm they probably have some sort of school colors.

My favorite variation on hats is the Tudor bonnet although I enjoy the slightly pointed tams too. Even though their meaning wasn't immediately apparent to us as graduating students, they certainly set the profs apart and made us google them later

We got to vote as a graduating class in med school whether we wanted the standard mortar board or the tudor bonnet. The class before us wore the tudor bonnet, but I was beyond grateful that we chose the mortar board!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

We got to vote as a graduating class in med school whether we wanted the standard mortar board or the tudor bonnet. The class before us wore the tudor bonnet, but I was beyond grateful that we chose the mortar board!

Nooooo you should have had the bonnet!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Nooooo you should have had the bonnet!

I couldn't believe the class before me chose to wear them! They looked so silly, but I thought that many of them were rather pretentious.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I couldn't believe the class before me chose to wear them! They looked so silly, but I thought that many of them were rather pretentious.

Well, I'm just coming at it from the view of the student watching the profs enter opening Mass/graduation ceremony and thinking the tudor bonnet was waaaaaaaay cooler.

ETA: Hi UGAalum *waves*

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Well, I'm just coming at it from the view of the student watching the profs enter opening Mass/graduation ceremony and thinking the tudor bonnet was waaaaaaaay cooler.

ETA: Hi UGAalum *waves*

I'm just coming at it from not wanting to wear it!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I'm just coming at it from not wanting to wear it!

I demand you change your behavior, preferences, and travel through time to satisfy my desires.

[UGAalum94]

Carnation,

What you described in the OP isn't really surprising to me, but I haven't noticed it yet myself. We do say that the only regalia items allowed at graduation are given out by the school at honors night or through pre-approved clubs, like a medal for Beta, etc.

I'm not sure what gets enforced however because once the graduating class is a certain size, it gets kind of unmanageable. We have a hard enough time with the clearly stated aspects of dress code for the graduates like guys wearing white shirts rather than pink or whatever. While I personally wouldn't care if they had on different colored shirts, they've (and their homeroom teachers) been thoroughly briefed on what's required in advance and I've witnessed a couple administrative showdowns with kids who just expected that the rules didn't apply to them.

I think we'd go to no regalia and just notations in the program before we went to more graduation night policing of what the kids are wearing.

Drolefille, it's a pleasure to see you posting frequently again.