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Discover LudwigThe phrase "academic costume" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the traditional attire worn during academic ceremonies, such as graduations or formal academic events.
Example: "The graduates proudly donned their academic costumes as they prepared to receive their diplomas."
Alternatives: "academic regalia" or "scholarly attire".
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academic costume
noun
An outfit consisting of, typically, a cap and gown, utilized by academics for special occasion, such as graduation.
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Ghana's first president Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in his African Genius speech at the opening of the Institute of African Studies in Accra, made a metaphoric reference to academic costume.
The academic costume worn by graduates consists of a gown, hood, and cap.
The idea appeared in a more academic costume, according to McManus, in the form of what's known as the Standard Social Science Model.
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Academic costumes and textiles collection (Box 16), University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
As in other universities, academic costumes have placed vital roles at its academic ceremonies.
During graduation ceremonies the academic costuming of graduands offers visual symbolic registers of their earned academic status.
To ensure strict compliance of academic costumes politics, many universities worldwide have initiated policies guiding the use of the costumes in academic ceremonies.
The academic costumes carry pride, hope and connote a lifelong intellectual flame with which to illuminate society.
Through participant observation and photographic evidences, the article delves into the aesthetical realms of academic costumes and its theatrical orchestrations in announcing visual identities of wearers.
The blend of classics and academic costumes in UEW academic processions and recessions in constructing symbolic visual identities and academic pride is, therefore, better understood through the Ghanaian conceptual and contextual cultural dialectic.
Besides, the globalization of academic ceremonies through the interplay of fashionable classics (queen mothers' dressing, toga and kͻla styles) and conventional academic costumes project the Ghanaian cultural values and enlivens the ceremonies.
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