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Members of a university's governing body, regardless of their degrees, are entitled [citation needed] to wear doctor's gowns, faced only with black velvet and black velvet bars on the sleeves. However, their hoods ( see , below) may be only those of the degree actually held by the wearer (or one specially prescribed by the institution). [ 3 ]
The master's gown is of the Intercollegiate Code master's pattern, which is black silk, or worsted stuff, with long closed sleeves. The doctoral gown is either crimson or black silk, with facings continuing around the yoke in black velvet. The sleeves are trimmed with three black velvet bars with pointed ends, and crow's feet befitting the subject.
Academic dress of King's College London in different colours, designed and presented by fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. 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 ...
Master's gown. Note the amendment at the bottom of the sleeves. Master's hood. Black stuff or silk gown of the Oxford M.A. pattern save that the sleeves shall be ended with rounded corners, and a slight concavity in the lower border without any nick in the side. Hood of the Cambridge pattern, in University red silk, lined throughout with white ...
Other Master's degree gowns vary from subject to subject at Cambridge; for example, the Master of Engineering (MEng) and MSci gowns are the standard MA gown but with a circle of cord on each sleeve, and a corresponding hood is worn. The MPhil gown is the same as the MSci gown, but instead of an embroidered wheel, it has two buttons connected by ...
DPhil – scarlet cloth (full shape) lined with dark blue silk; DPhil graduate in Full Academic Dress. The full dress gown is a scarlet clerical-type yoke-gathered gown, with open bell-shaped sleeves. The sleeves and facings are in the appropriate coloured silk. Full dress gowns are normally worn over sub-fusc, but never with a hood.
Undergraduate Masters - a full lining of purple trimmed with two bands of gold ribbon within the cowl; Master of Philosophy - a full lining of purple trimmed with a broad band of gold ribbon within the cowl and a maroon edging on the cape; All other Post-Graduate Masters - a full lining of purple carried over as an edging on the cape;
The University of London was created out of a partnership between University College and King's College, receiving its royal charter in 1836; however, it later subsumed much older colleges, such as the 13th century St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, and The London Hospital Medical College dating from the 1760s.