Academic Dress/Suppliers

Graduation ceremonies are formal University occasions.
You are required to wear appropriate personal dress along with your Academic Regalia.

Suppliers

Academic dress may be hired/purchased from two companies.

Please click onto the hire company names below to download their advert and order forms

Australian Federation of University Women (WA) Inc. [PDF] 
or
Regalia Craft Pty Ltd. [PDF] 

All enquiries and forms about the hire/purchase of academic dress must be sent direct to the appropriate organisation and not referred to the University.  Please note that gowns are not collected/available from the University prior to your ceremony and therefore you must collect them from the respective hire firm.

Please ensure that you order your academic dress four weeks prior to your ceremony.

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Academic Degree Colours

Click here for a list of academic degree colours for this University. Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download) is required to view this list.

Description of Academic Dress

To view a description of your Academic Regalia, please click on the type of award you are receiving:

Bachelors
Certificates
Diplomates
Masters
Doctorates 

Bachelors

Gown: Black cloth gown similar in shape to that worn by Bachelors of Arts of the University of Cambridge.
Hood: Black silk hood, simple plain cut shape similar to the hood worn by Bachelors of Arts of the University of Oxford, lined with silk of the prescribed colour in the General Rules for Academic Courses and edged with white silk three centimetres wide.
Cap: No cap required.

Note:  If you have completed a pass Bachelors degree, you wear the coloured lining of your hood on your left shoulder.  If you have completed honours, you wear the colour on your right shoulder.

Certificates

Gown: Black Cloth gown similar in shape to that worn by Bachelors of Arts of the University of Cambridge.
Stole: Stoles are of black cloth, five centimetres wide and 180 centimetres long and have 45 centimetres of cloth down each side to breast level in the prescribed colour in the General Rules for Academic Courses. It shall be worn round the neck and down the facing of each side of the gown.
Cap: No cap required.

Diplomates

Gown: Black Cloth gown similar in shape to that worn by Bachelors of Arts of the University of Cambridge.
Stole: Stoles are of cloth, five centimetres wide and 180 centimetres long, and are worn round the neck and down the facing of each side of the gown.
Both sides of the stole are of the prescribed colour in the General Rules for Academic Courses.
Cap: No cap required.

Masters

Gown: Black cloth gown similar in shape to that worn by Masters of Arts of the University of Cambridge.
Hood: Black silk hood, simple plain cut shape similar to the hood worn by Bachelors of Arts of the University of Oxford, lined with silk of the prescribed colour in the General Rules for Academic Courses.
Cap: Black cloth trencher cap.

Doctors of Philosophy

Gown: Black Silk gown as prescribed for Masters but with facings of scarlet silk ten centimetre wide the full length of the front.
Hood: Black silk hood, simple plain cut shape similar to the hood worn by Bachelors of Arts of the University of Oxford, lined with silk of scarlet cloth.
Cap: Black velvet trencher cap.

Doctorates other than Doctor of Philosophy and Higher Doctorates

Doctor of Architecture (Design); Doctor of Arts; Doctor of Business Administration; Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy; Doctor of Education; Doctor of Educational Psychology; Doctor of Engineering in Information and Communications Technology; Doctor of Juridical Science; Doctor of Musical Arts; Doctor of Physiotherapy; Doctor of Psychology; Doctor of Social Work

Gown: Black silk gown as prescribed for Masters with silk facings ten centimetres wide the full length of the front, of the prescribed colour in the General Rules for Academic Courses.
Hood: Black silk hood, simple plain cut shape similar to the hood worn by Bachelors of Arts of the University of Oxford, lined with silk of the prescribed colour in the General Rules for Academic Courses.
Cap: Black velvet trencher cap.

Higher Doctorates

Doctor of Architecture; Doctor of Commerce; Doctor of Dental Science; Doctor of Economics; Doctor of Engineering; Doctor of Laws; Doctor of Letters; Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Music; Doctor of Science; Doctor of Science in Agriculture; Doctor of Surgery

Gown: Gown of scarlet cloth of the Cambridge LittD pattern with facings ten centimetres wide the full length of the front and fully lined sleeves of silk. The facings of the gown and the linings of the sleeve are of the prescribed colour in the General Rules for Academic Courses.
Hood: Hood of scarlet cloth, simple plain cut shape similar to the hood worn by Bachelors of Arts of the University of Oxford, lined with silk of the prescribed colour in the General Rules for Academic Courses.
Cap: Black velvet trencher cap.