Caps and Gown .com Academic Regalia
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Additional information (for those who don't overwhelm easily) about doctoral regalia, PhD and doctoral gowns and hoods, and this web site.
This is the academichood (specifically the PhD hood) page of capsandgown dot com
Capsandgowns .com specializes in providing deluxe, rental and custom doctoral and PhD regalia for university professors and faculty members, as well as students' graduation cap and gowns.
Academic regalia for faculty members holding doctorates normally include a doctoral gown (or PhD gown), an academic cap (either a mortarboard or a doctoral tam) and an academic hood.
This page deals specifically the doctoral hood and PhD hood.
This page can be accessed either from capsandgown or directly at PhDHood dot com (http://phdhood.com/)People often use the terms phd_hood and doctoral_hood interchangeably -- and quite often people will call and say that they have a doctorate in music, when in fact their degree is a PhD in music. Or the reverse: someone might call and ask for a PhD hood in music when his/her degree is a doctorate in music.
This is understandable, since a PhD is a doctorate, and most faculty members with doctorates teaching in universities have PhD degrees.
However from an accuracy in ordering point of view (that is, to be sure we give each person the correct hood for his/her degree), we generally like to differentiate between these two terms (phdhood and doctoralhood), since not all doctoral hoods are PhD hoods.
The difference between the two is that a PhD in music would receive PhD blue velvet; a doctorate in musical arts would receive pink velvet (since pink is the velvet color used to delineate music).
Similarly, a PhD in Education hood is not the same as a Ed.D. - doctorate in Education hood. Whereas the Ed.D. graduate would receive light blue velvet on his/her hood, to signify education, the PhD would receive the dark blue velvet.
For that reason, we ask people to specify their degree when ordering their regalia: PhD in Music (so we know to use blue velvet) OR Doctorate in Musical Arts (so we know to use pink velvet) when placing their order.
For that reason, individuals with PhD's in fields other than philosophy, often elect to have us add their discipline color, as piping, on their deluxe PhD gown and/or hood, to show the area of their degree.
Although we strive to keep deluxe PhD gowns IN STOCK (together with doctoral tams and deluxe and faculty doctoral gowns) we make our academic hoods to order, owing to the fact that their are thousands of schools out there and there is no way to stock each degree hood from each school at all times. Nevertheless, in cases when the customer needs their hood sooner than that, we can often help out by offering our customers free loaner hoods.
An example would be if a customer ordered PhD / doctoral regalia a week before their need date. As stated, we generally keep most doctoral and PhD gowns and tams in stock. What we would do, therefore, is ship the PhD gown and Tam immediately to the customer and include a generic loaner PhD hood in the box, so that the customer has full academic regalia to wear (their 'real PhD gown; their 'real' PhD tam; and a 'loaner' PhD hood). Then when the "real" hood was ready (+/- 8 weeks later), we will send it to the customer direct from the factory, and the customer sends us back the loaner PhD hood.
There is no charge for loaner PhD hoods provided that the customer returns them to us as soon as they receive their 'real' phdhood. This way, it would be available to others in the same situation.
Above Deluxe PhD Gown (in stock) and Tam (in stock). If needed, we can RUSH SHIP these to customer upon confirmation of order, toghether with a loaner PhDhood (no extra charge), until 'real' hood is ready -- then just send back the loaner hood.
More information about our custom doctoral gowns and PhD gowns and PhD hoods can be obtained by clicking the appropriate link above or we would be happy to send by e-mail (sales@capsandgown.com)
You can also reach us by phone 412-422-GOWN (412-422-4696)
