Graduation gowns and caps are generally reserved for college students. Who isn’t familiar with images of learners strutting about in their graduation gowns and caps, tassels dangling proudly, academic hoods spread far back, hems caressing the wind and the cuffs dazzling by? I think we are all familiar with that image. However, just because something is officially required at one level does not mean that students of a lower level cannot have their own version of things, albeit at an unofficial level. The practice of wearing graduation gowns goes back many centuries; in fact, it goes back at least eight to nine hundred years, when the first universities began forming. Due to their lack of classroom space, universities had to request local churches for accommodation. The fashion, thus, was picked up from the clergymen inside the local churches who used to wear long robes and hoods to keep warm inside the stone walls.