Show C College Caps and Gowns The history of academic dress dress reaches far back into inlo the early days of the oldest universities A statute of 1321 required red that all aU doctors licentiates licentiate and bachelors of the University of Coimbra wear gowns In England in the Four century certain colleges forbade for for- bade excess in apparel and pre scribed the wearing of a long gt gown Gowns may have been necessary for warmth in the unheated buIldings build build- ings tags of the period Hoods seem to have served the tonsured head until they were superseded by skull caps These were displaced by a headdress more like the ones now recognized as academic Both Cambridge and Oxford have made academic dress a matter of uni control |