Doctoral gowns have many different uses in many different purposes. Every university has its own doctoral gowns and most of them have unique design and pattern of their academic dresses for convocation or graduation party. The Oxford and Cambridge are the most popular and older universities of the world and the doctoral robes or gowns were first used by them. The design of every academic dress has a touch or similarity of their design. They have the most attractive and elegant academic dresses for their student%u2019s teachers and officials. There are huge differences of every category of their academic dresses.
The dress of their VC or Vice-Chancellor is quite different from other officials and teachers. The chancellor and vice-chancellor dresses have some similarities. You will find a different shape of their dresses which is known as the habit and only the students, teachers and officials of Oxford and Cambridge use it only for some extremely formal ceremony. This part worn over a dark or black doctoral gown and only some special students, teachers and officials can only wear it in the ceremonies. The habit has some different categories and the most popular of its category is the convocational habits.
There is a huge difference between the design of the habit of Oxford and Cambridge. In Oxford the habit wear on the black gown and this is a sleeveless cloths which has a similarity with a bishop gowns but it has 2 big buttons what bishop gowns does not contain usually and this type of habit use only in a meeting where some students have been given the doctorate degree. The use of the cope is so rear that in your life time you can see it two or three times by the vice-chancellor of those universities. The cope is a kind of habit and only a vice-chancellor can wear it.
The doctoral gowns have the huge varieties of every parts of the academic dress. You can think why you say doctoral gowns as the dress, it has point but usually all the parts of graduation dresses known as the doctoral gowns where the meanings of the doctoral gowns is just the gown nothing else but you can say that the habit and cope is a part of doctoral gown. Usually they are the part of academic dress. Habit is the most unique and exceptional part of any type of university dress and only in Britain you can see that.
