The Churchill Gowns Blog about Graduations Sustainability and Academic Dress

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Green Christmas

In all the excitement and stress in the build up to Christmas, making environmentally conscious decisions can slip to the bottom of the list of pri...

A History of the Graduation Cap

The square graduation cap, or ‘mortarboard’, has become a widely used symbol of academia and learning across the globe. Here, Churchill Gowns Dir...

Teachers Wearing Academic Dress

Should School Teachers Wear Academic Dress? 26th February, 2019 Academic gowns are now rarely seen in the classroom but here Churchill Gowns Direct...

A Beginners Guide to Academic Gowns

A Beginner's Guide to Academic Gowns Churchill Gowns Director of Operations, Ruth Nicholls, talks us through the most common styles of bachelors a...

Painted Graduation Portraits

The Ultimate Luxury Graduation Gift 28th May, 2019 For most people graduation is a once in a lifetime event, so what better way to commemorate it t...

Gifting Graduation Jewellery

Five Tips for Choosing Jewellery as a Graduation Gift 25th June, 2019 We've got a guest blog today with Sarah Buck, from pre-owned jewellery and wa...

Creative graduation photos

Churchill Gowns Managing Director, Ollie Adkins, tells us why waiting until after your graduation ceremony to get photographs taken ...

Churchill Gowns on Dragons’ Den

12th August, 2019Whilst the Churchill Gowns blog is usually filled with academic dress trivia or top tips for graduation, this week we’ve got som...

Dragons Den Investment for Churchill Gowns

21st August, 2019 If you read the blog last week you’ll know that the Churchill Gowns team were gearing up for an appearance on primetime BBC Two...

History of Academic Dress at Cardiff University

The academic dress for the University of Cardiff originated when Cardiff University was still part of the University of Wales. It was in 1893 that ...

Should You Hire or Buy Your Gown?

If you're considering whether to rent a gown for your ceremony or spend a little extra money and purchase it, Churchill Gowns Managing Director, Ol...

Academic Dress at Sheffield Hallam University

Today we're taking a closer look at the academic dress worn by graduating students at Sheffield Hallam University, one of few UK universities to gr...