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2 unusual facts about Academic dress of the University of Oxford


Academic dress of the University of Oxford

Members of the British Armed Forces may wear their service uniform with gown and hood (for graduates) in place of subfusc and cap.

A similar garment (in scarlet or black) is worn over a white rochet by bishops in the Church of England e.g. when sitting in the House of Lords.



see also

Rules and Meanings

Part Six, "Interpenetration of Meanings", provides an excerpt from D. R. Venables and R. E. Clifford, Academic Dress of the University of Oxford (1957), as well as from Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), from an anonymous 19th-century etiquette manual (1872), from Lucy Grace Allen's Table Service (1915), and from the 7th edition of Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described (1943) by Adrian Fortescue and John Berthram O'Connell.