Plans for graduation

I was contemplating again today wearing a suit to my graduation this year - not one with a skirt, but one with trousers. Cambridge is slightly archaic, as you might expect, but I was glad to find out that apparently women have more freedom of what to wear than men at graduation. Men can wear a black suit, white shirt, black shoes and socks, white bow-tie and white bands (two strips of white cotton on elastic). Women can wear that, or white shirt and black skirt, or dark long-sleeved dress.

Oh, and of course, you can also wear national costume if you have permission. But no swords, they're not allowed in Senate House.

I love my university, it has mad regulations like these that somehow manage to make sense in context.