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Hockney wore a gold lamé jacket at the ceremony, under the traditional academic gown.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

The price covers the student's ticket, academic gown hire, a souvenir brochure and access to a 90-minute garden party.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2022

While the President stood garbed in a scarlet-and-purple academic gown, preparing to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, some 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters staged a demonstration about half a mile away.

From Time Magazine Archive

On every head but one rested a flat-topped, tasseled cap; all but one pair of legs marched swathed in the folds of the academic gown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paul had planned to march with the college women, so she was wearing her black academic gown.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling


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