Academic dress of King's College London, designed by Vivienne Westwood
The academic dress of the United Kingdom and Ireland has a long history and has influenced the academic dress of America and beyond. The academic square cap was invented in the UK as well as the hood which developed from the lay dress of the medieval period.
Irish academic dress is virtually the same as that in the United Kingdom given the common history and proximity of each other. Many other Commonwealth countries also follow British cuts and design of academic dress, most notably Australia and New Zealand though some are beginning to evolve away from British cuts such as Canada of which University of Toronto has slowly introduced American gowns that close at the front.
There is a distinction between different types of academic dress. Most recently, gowns, hoods and caps are categorised into their shape and patterns by what may be known as the Groves classification system, which is based on Nicholas Groves's document, Hood and Gown Patterns.[1] This lists the various styles or patterns of academic dress and assigns them a code or a Groves Classification Number. For example, the Cambridge BA style gown is designated [b2] and a hood in the Cambridge full-shape is designated [f1], etc. Because the universities are free to design their own academicals using a wide range of available gown, hood and cap patterns, colours and materials at their and the robemaker's disposal, the academicals of two given universities rarely clash with each other.
The Burgon Society was founded in 2000 to promote the study of academic dress.[2] It has publications and activities to do with academic dress and published an updated version of Shaw's book on British and Irish academical dress in 2012, with a second volume covering non-degree awarding bodies published in 2014.[3][4]
^The Burgon Society: The Design of Academical Dress Archived 23 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine (6 May 2007) Classification of Styles
^Burgon Society: Introduction Archived 22 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine (2 Nov 2008)
^Groves, Nicholas (February 2012). Shaw's Academical Dress of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd Revised ed. Edition. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-0956127235.
^Groves, Nicholas (2014). Shaw's Academical Dress of Great Britain and Ireland - Volume II: Non-degree-awarding Bodies (Volume 2). Lulu.com. ISBN 978-0992874001.
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