Academic gown dress is worn by members of certain learned societies and institutions as official dress.
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10 Facts About Academic gown
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Academic gown dress found in most universities in the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States is derived from that of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which was a development of academic and clerical dress common throughout the medieval universities of Europe.
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Academic gown dress is only worn on ceremonial occasions: the university anniversary or dies natalis, inaugural lectures, and the public defence of a doctoral thesis.
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Hood, like the Academic gown, is identical to that of the hood for the Cambridge Master of Arts.
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Academic gown dress is rarely worn in New Zealand other than at formal academic events, such as by graduates and faculty at graduation ceremonies and teaching faculty at school prizegivings.
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Some universities even incorporate the hood into a pattern on the Academic gown, including Suranaree University of Technology and Walailak University.
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Prince of Songkhla University uses a Academic gown which is heavily deviated from the original British style.
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The Bachelor's Academic gown has bell-shaped sleeves, while the Master's Academic gown has long sleeves closed at the end, with the arm passing through a slit above the elbow.
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The masters' Academic gown sleeve is oblong and, though the base of the sleeve hangs down in the typical manner, it is square cut at the rear part of the oblong shape.
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