Wearing your Academic Regalia

Academic regalia can consist of a gown, a stole, or a hood and a trencher.

• If you are having a diploma awarded, you wear the gown and the stole
• If you are having a degree awarded, you wear the gown, the hood and the trencher
• If you are having a postgraduate diploma awarded, you wear the gown, the stole and, if you already hold a degree, a trencher.
• If you are having a master’s qualification awarded, you wear the gown, the hood and a trencher.

How to wear your academic regalia

• Gown – arms go through the slits
• Hood – neckband can be secured under your tie or with pins
• Trencher is worn with shorter peak to the front (degree students hold their trencher under their arm until they are capped, and they place it on their head)
• Trencher tassel can hang on either side
• Embellishing your graduation regalia with garments of honour from your cultural tradition, korowai, ta’ovala, lei, sari, etc is a welcome enrichment to the colour of the ceremony.  These are worn under your hood or stole.

Whitireia Regalia 

WelTec Regalia