page_title: Academic dress
hierarchical_section_title: Academic dress
caption_attribution_description: English: Oxford University DPhil graduand, wearing full academic dress for DPhil graduates: the scarlet and blue DPhil festal robe over sub-fusc dress, with square cap (colloquially referred to as the mortar-board). Photographed in the grounds of Lincoln College, Oxford.
context_page_description: Academic dress is a traditional form of clothing for academic settings, mainly tertiary education, worn mainly by those who have obtained a university degree, or hold a status that entitles them to assume them. It is also known as academical dress, academicals, subfusc and, in the United States, as academic regalia.
  Contemporarily, it is commonly seen only at graduation ceremonies, but formerly academic dress was, and to a lesser degree in many ancient universities still is, worn daily. Today, the ensembles are distinctive in some way to each institution, and generally consist of a gown with a separate hood, and usually a cap. Academic dress is also worn by members of certain learned societies and institutions as official dress.
context_section_description: Academic dress is a traditional form of clothing for academic settings, mainly tertiary (and sometimes secondary) education, worn mainly by those who have obtained a university degree (or similar), or hold a status that entitles them to assume them (e.g., undergraduate students at certain old universities). It is also known as academical dress, academicals, subfusc and, in the United States, as academic regalia.
  Contemporarily, it is commonly seen only at graduation ceremonies, but formerly academic dress was, and to a lesser degree in many ancient universities still is, worn daily. Today, the ensembles are distinctive in some way to each institution, and generally consist of a gown (also known as a robe) with a separate hood, and usually a cap (generally either a square academic cap, a tam, or a bonnet). Academic dress is also worn by members of certain learned societies and institutions as official dress.
caption: A doctor of philosophy of the University of Oxford, in full academic dress.
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