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Graduation gowns and caps – Uses and significance

In America, basically there used to be three individualistic designs for the cap and gown sales ceremonies for students about to pass out and go to the next level. While the first degree students would traditionally put on a black gown made with the same materials those are used for making the bachelor's graduation gowns, graduation tassels and graduation honor cords, the Master's degree students would wear the gowns for graduation those are made bearing the same designs as that of the intercollegiate students of the Masters Degree. However, the new doctorates or the doctor's degree candidates would wear 2010 gownsmade ofcrimson silk material.

The facings of these 2010 gowns around the gown's yoke still continue to be similar to what they used to be in historic times and not much of change in their design and fashion has taken place so far in a century or more. These 2010 gowns have sleeves those are trimmed and are added with three velvet color bars with pointed ends, thus giving them a Victorian look.

Allthesegraduation cap and gowns are designed in such a way so as to reflect a symbolic significance of medieval education as compared to the degree these candidates now possess, and they have to wear these graduation cap and gownswhile receiving their degree certificates. There should  be some design element in these gowns for graduation that would symbolize and set a certain difference among all these different  degrees by categorizing them distinctly from the superior level to the amateur, like from a doctorate to a graduate in that sequence.

It seems that in present days almost each and every level of education are required to and are in a way obligated to use the cap and the gown for their passing out ceremony. Tough it is not necessarily followed in each and every year of passing out, the graduation cap and gownshave becomea necessity all over the world in many educational institutions. All the candidates or students of all degree courses need to wear these caps and gowns during the graduation ceremonies. Even in some places, the kindergarten schools have started using them, though that is not a very commonplace phenomenon, more in the western world. Such designs should therefore be relatively different from other degrees awarded to the graduate students as there must not be any resemblance or close parity which may otherwise destroy the essence of graduation ceremonies.

Such academic exercises like the graduation ceremony were traditionally introduced centuries earlier so as to honor successful students and give them their recognition for achievement. Graduation caps and gowns were brought to existence for their symbolic nature much like uniforms worn by people in varied occupations as also the judiciary.

 

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What do you feel is a generous and acceptable monetary gift for a HS graduation?

We are financially very comfortable and every year we have an increasing # of graduations to gift...I am just curious what the market is currently bearing...we typically give a lesser amount to acquaintances and distant family versus close family and friends. I would like answers from people who would rate themselves as financially comfortable - not struggling on a budget. Thanks!

I think your logic is dead on; family and friends would of course merit more than acquaintances. Two of my staff's children have graduated in the past two years and I've given them 100. each. These are kids who've stepped in to work for us too, and I feel very close to them, even though they are not family members. I'd be discriminating about monetary gifts for acquaintances; I just don't know that it's necessary. For a family member, I might go up to 200.

You might consider other things too; a share of stock in a company that is relevant for the kid, something for the college room if the kid is graduating high school....

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