Academic regalia of Stanford University
[5] Stanford University followed the suggestions of the Intercollegiate Code of Academic Costume until 1977 when a new set of doctoral robes was introduced.
The adoption of Intercollegiate Code of Academic Costume by many universities in the Eastern United States was ostensibly completed to provide graduating students with an outward equality.
[7] At the same time, Stanford President David Starr Jordan believed that medieval ceremonies should not be artificially revived at a newly created institution.
The caps worn at Stanford generally follow the ICC recommendations with most doctors opting to use an eight-sided velvet tam.
Masters at Stanford wear gowns that are similar to the Oxford MA [m1] with the opening for the hand at the wrist instead of the elbow.
These were designed in 1977 by chemistry Professor Eric Hutchinson to reflect the robes of his alma mater, the University of Cambridge.
[3] The sleeves are black with the cuffs covered in red and lined with satin of a color indicating the scholarly discipline of the wearer's degree—following the pattern laid out in the ICC.
They are generally lined with cardinal red to signify the university and are bound with velvet in a color to indicate the wearer's discipline of study.
This official dress is cardinal red and lacks the three sleeve bars of velvet present on most ICC doctoral robes.
The robe does have white velvet facings on which are displayed the Stanford University coat of arms which was designed by Professor Eric Hutchinson in 1967.
