Dress code

Sword sharpening ceremony

Doctors:

Dress, jacket suit or sophisticated trouser suit (length and colour are optional)

Dark suit (black, dark blue or dark grey)

Doctor’s companion:

Dress, jacket suit or sophisticated trouser suit (length and colour are optional)

Dark suit (black, dark blue or dark grey)

Guests:

Dress, jacket suit or sophisticated trouser suit (length and colour are optional)

Dark suit (black, dark blue or dark grey)

Conferment ceremony

Doctors:

Long, black gown with long sleeves (not décolleté) *, black gloves, black shoes (not open from the heel), no handbag

White tie *, black waistcoat, white bow tie, white gloves, black, thin leather shoes, no white pocket square

Doctor’s companion:

Dark, long or short evening dress - no hat other than doctoral hats

White tie or a dark suit

Guests:

Dark, long or short evening dress - no hat other than doctoral hats

White tie or a dark suit

Everyone: decorations

Those who participate in the Academic Procession dress in the similar manner to the honorary doctors and doctors or in the doctoral dress of the university the person has graduated from. Only the honorary doctors, doctors and officiants have a sword.
Color of the gloves is defined by the type of dress:
Dark, long or short evening dress, black gloves
White tie or a dark suit, white gloves

Ceremonial conferment banquet

Doctors:

Long, black gown, doctoral hat, sword. The gown does not have to be long-sleeved at the banquet.

White tie, white waistcoat, white bow tie, white pocket square **, doctoral hat, sword, patent leather shoes)

Doctor’s companion:

Long gown (preferably coloured). The gown does not have to be long-sleeved at the banquet.

White tie, white waistcoat, white pocket square **, (patent leather shoes)

Guests:

Long gown (preferably coloured). The gown does not have to be long-sleeved at the banquet.

White tie, white waistcoat, white pocket square **, (patent leather shoes)

Everyone: decorations

*) Please deliver the doctoral hat and sword marked with your name to the University beforehand

**) If you have no decorations
 

At the banquet, only doctors and officiants have doctoral hats and swords.

More specific instructions on the use of the doctoral hat and sword will be delivered separately.

Download printable version of the dress code here.

Suit rental (website only in finnish):

Pukuvuokraamo Academia

Hämeenkatu 1, 20500 Turku
p. 041 317 9756
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www.pukuvuokraamoacademia.fi

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