dress academically

I wonder if it's too early to congratulate the class of 2009, since Commencement / Convocation hasn't started. But by now, those who are attending the ceremony should have gotten their academic dress.

At first I was wondering if I can use my elder brother's academic dress. He was from engineering, but from the other university. Nah, better don't take the chance, in case one has a big lion printed on it and the other has the other lion. So I got my own set.

Turn out, the colours and patterns are the same. So it doesn't mean your university's ranking is way higher, the academic dress is different. But like what the Thais say, same same but different.

I remember the time during my brother's Convocation, he was struggling with fastening dozens of safety pins onto his gown to keep everything in place. Not anymore. Introducing the NUS academic dress. It comes with zipper for the gown and velcro to attach the hood to the gown. The tassel is sewed to the correct side of the mortarboard and the mortarboard even has an arrow telling you which side to face enemy front (sorry, mixed up with Claymore mine). No safety pins needed. (sold separately somemore)

The brother says idiot-proof designs are for idiots. I can understand why he would say that, cos that's the difference between them n'us.