You also have to know, as Harriet Vane comments in Dorothy L. Sayers' GAUDY
NIGHT, how to turn the velvet border so the silk lining shows. Yes, the least
they could do as part of the approving of a degree is to instruct the recipient
on how to put on the duds!
I KNOW we got instruction when I got my BA.? Don't remember if there was just a
detailed how-to sheet included, or what, but we definitely all found out how to
do it.? It is, though, one of those things that, if you don't do it for a
while, it takes a little bit to remember how.? But if one did it once or twice
a year, it should become second nature.
Ann Wass
-----Original Message-----
From: ruthan...@mindspring.com
To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com>
Sent: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:03 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] possibly OT -- Academic Hoods
You also have to know, as Harriet Vane comments in Dorothy L. Sayers' GAUDY
NIGHT, how to turn the velvet border so the silk lining shows. Yes, the least
they could do as part of the approving of a degree is to instruct the recipient
on how to put on the duds!
--Ruth Anne Baumgartner
-----Original Message-----
>From: Land of Oz <lando...@netins.net>
>Sent: Apr 17, 2009 10:28 AM
>To: 'Historical Costume' <h-cost...@indra.com>
>Subject: Re: [h-cost] possibly OT -- Academic Hoods
>
>
>Every time I walk at commencement I see full-professor PhDs who have
>no idea how to wear their hoods. As a professional costumer, my
>strong urge is to go around fixing their costumes, but since I don't
>know most of them, I restrain myself!
>------------------------
>
>That's probably because very few people know, and when you get set up for
graduation, no
>one tells you any of this stuff. I wish I had known some of this stuff when I
got my
>Master's degree. All they tell you is to go to the bookstore and pick up a
robe. Then,
>you might find (as I did) that the example robes hanging out to try on are
mis-labeled and
>the packaged robe you bought doesn't fit! No one mentioned anything about
hoods or other
>items for master's degrees and I don't recall anyone wearing any from any
>dept.
or college
>within the university.
>
>Denise B
>
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