Ultimate (?) Guide for What to Wear for Matriculation - Not Just Girls

Poor her.
Just a boring black & white for Christ's girls......

Christ's 2016: one girl has a white blouse with a small pattern (possibly little flowers) but yes mostly plain white or black blouses.

Some of the boys (not many) have bow ties, all have dark grey/blue/black suits. All have white shirts, oh a couple of pale blue rebels. One chap in the front row has white soled shoes - not recommended ...

Ok thanks. I'll add the info to OP accordingly.

White soles? On black leather upper part???

Blue suede chelsea boots by the looks of it. The rest of his outfit is completely standard so I expect someone forgot to pack their black shoes... I wonder if the photographer put him on the front row for the bantz.

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It's a bit of overkill really though. Matriculation is an administrative process followed by formal hall in nearly all colleges. It's just suit/female equivalent and no-one is going to turn you away (unlike graduation). This year it seems unlikely there will be an en-masse formal hall, so it's jut a series of lectures about the rules, introductions to key people and key College systems and sign that you've turned up - while wearing a gown (available from the Porters or borrowed from the MCR/JCR)

I doubt porters/JCR would have enough gowns for everyone though would they?Plus students need gowns for formals so they will need to purchase one.

I think most of them have a scheme whereby they buy back from leavers and/or buy in bulk (sale or return) from the suppliers, to save everyone traipsing in to town. Then the JCR/MCR always have a few for emergencies.

There was someone in the US who went to their graduation and then she took her top off as a protest (cannot remember what the protest was about). I cannot imagine this in Cambridge somehow.