BISHOP DESIGNS COSTUME
A bishop braved the British National Union of Women Teachers’ Conference at Weymouth recently when a demand for the liberation of women from their “age-long trammels” was made. In 1929, women were admitted to degrees at Oxford University and one of the first questions that arose was what they should wear. Dr. G. B. Allen, Bishop Suffragan of Sherborne, revealed at the conference that he himself, as Senior Proctor of the University, had been responsible for the decision. “I had a very exciting time,” he said, “drawing up regulations and dealing with the vexed question of women’s academical dress, I do not know how far we succeeded, but, at any rate, what we then decided is worn in the streets of Oxford at the present day.” Aliss D. A. Griffin, retiring president, gracefully complimented the bishop on “his designing genius” in millinery. “Those of us,” she said, “who belong to universities which adopt the old mortar-board fashion are green with envy of Oxford.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 45, 22 February 1936, Page 5
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