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Is there a bigger ripoff than the college gown?

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    #32
    PizzamanIRL
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    Supply & Demand, young fella. Supply & Demand.


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    #33
    anncoates
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    Because you'll have to cringe looking at a picture of yourself on your parent's wall smugly posing in pennys jeans at your graduation with a big righteous student head on you for the rest of your life.


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    #34
    Capt'n Midnight
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    JAPAN !!

    You don't need to wear gowns to the Kanazawa College of Art graduation.

    https://imgur.com/a/6znwh


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    #35
    eternal
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    Mine was 45 euro. It is really expensive and it's worse for women cos we have to look decent in dresses and so on. It's killing me having to pay for the whole thing. It is worth it though cos I know when I look back I'll be glad I participated. And what another poster said, like what a degree costs anyway, you may as well finish it off properly. And laugh at the idea that there just so happened to be a gown fitter person on this thread. Oh the irony!!!!


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    #36
    rawn
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    eternal wrote: »
    Mine was 45 euro. It is really expensive and it's worse for women cos we have to look decent in dresses and so on. It's killing me having to pay for the whole thing. It is worth it though cos I know when I look back I'll be glad I participated. And what another poster said, like what a degree costs anyway, you may as well finish it off properly. And laugh at the idea that there just so happened to be a gown fitter person on this thread. Oh the irony!!!!

    I worked for them for 2 years :D Not a fun job! So many college students that could not figure out that the hoods are pinned TO the gown, so to straighten the hood you pull the GOWN forward not the hood. If more students could figure that out I might have been out of a job :P


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    #37
    Laois6556
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Laois6556


    Who says you have to wear a gown? Just wear your pennies clothes and they have some nice hats on sale for a fiver. You can throw that in the air when the other losers are throwing the stupid looking things. If any of the fellas say anything to you say 'I like the dress tranny' and if any of the girls say anything tell them that they look fat.


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    #38
    eternal
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    rawn wrote: »
    I worked for them for 2 years :D Not a fun job! So many college students that could not figure out that the hoods are pinned TO the gown, so to straighten the hood you pull the GOWN forward not the hood. If more students could figure that out I might have been out of a job :P

    I'll keep that in mind. What's the story with the hats, are they very hard to keep on?


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    eternal
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    Laois6556 wrote: »
    Who says you have to wear a gown? Just wear your pennies clothes and they have some nice hats on sale for a fiver. You can throw that in the air when the other losers are throwing the stupid looking things. If any of the fellas say anything to you say 'I like the dress tranny' and if any of the girls say anything tell them that they look fat.

    Very intelligent statement and I also worry as to the wanna be jokes on this thread cos there's nothing funny about working your ass off for something and then being rewarded rightfully.


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    Laois6556
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Laois6556


    eternal wrote: »
    Very intelligent statement and I also worry as to the wanna be jokes on this thread cos there's nothing funny about working your ass off for something and then being rewarded rightfully.

    I didn't mean to offend you. :( It's ok to look like a tranny or I'm sure you're just big boned.


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    #41
    eternal
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    Laois6556 wrote: »
    I didn't mean to offend you. :( It's ok to look like a tranny or I'm sure you're just big boned.
    nah, I'm just all boobs, it's cool :D


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    #42
    Laois6556
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Laois6556


    eternal wrote: »
    nah, I'm just all boobs, it's cool :D

    I hope you're a woman, a man that's all boobs isn't a pleasant image.


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    #43
    hfallada
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    I was at a graduation in UCD and one of the graduates was wearing a pink gown and hat. The whole fall was laughing when she went up. OP try and find something like that online and lift the mood at the dry graduation


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    #44
    rawn
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    eternal wrote: »
    I'll keep that in mind. What's the story with the hats, are they very hard to keep on?

    Nah they're grand, we pin them down if they're to loose.


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    #45
    eternal
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    Laois6556 wrote: »
    I hope you're a woman, a man that's all boobs isn't a pleasant image.

    Last time I checked yeah and if you even read the posts on here, I mentioned dresses and hats.


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    #46
    OneArt
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    It's a racket for sure but you'll probably be glad you did wear them when it's all over. Nice pics to look back on.

    Definitely a comfort when you're unemployed, sitting in your one-room shack eating mouldy crackers and drinking horrible juice.

    *weeps over degree*


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    eternal
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    rawn wrote: »
    Nah they're grand, we pin them down if they're to loose.
    Do I need to bring the pins with me? Thanks for your reply too btw.


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    #48
    Laois6556
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Laois6556


    eternal wrote: »
    Last time I checked yeah and if you even read the posts on here, I mentioned dresses and hats.

    Barely know what I do be posting, nevermind anyone else. I'm sure you have a nice pair of boobs though.


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    #49
    eternal
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    OneArt wrote: »
    Definitely a comfort when you're unemployed, sitting in your one-room shack eating mouldy crackers and drinking horrible juice.

    *weeps over degree*

    I did that for the whole of my degree ffs, only thing is-I don't like crackers.


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    #50
    Ciderswigger
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    Uriel. wrote: »
    85 for mine. Ridiculous

    :eek: What college is that??! That's madness.


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    #51
    OneArt
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    eternal wrote: »
    I did that for the whole of my degree ffs, only thing is-I don't like crackers.

    It's all one can afford though. Except once a month when you can go down the butcher's and get a soggy kidney pie as a treat.


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    #52
    Putin
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    Graduated in the UK, measurements were given to the faculty office in advance. Turned up on the day and was given my gown and hat thingy. Gave them back at the end and it cost me nothing.


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    #53
    eternal
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    OneArt wrote: »
    It's all one can afford though. Except once a month when you can go down the butcher's and get a soggy kidney pie as a treat.
    If you're buying food at the butcher's it should be of better quality than a supermarket therefore why so the sogginess? Or are you totally exaggerating everything to the point where everything seems bad?


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    #54
    rawn
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    eternal wrote: »
    Do I need to bring the pins with me? Thanks for your reply too btw.

    Nope we have them there, wouldn't hurt to have an extra one or two though!


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    #55
    gutenberg
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    Well OP at least you don't have to buy the gown: at my university in the UK, they're used for all sorts of occasions aside from graduation, so we just get told to buy one when we start. New they can be £100+, though there is a secondhand market. On top of that we have to pay to hire the hood for the actual graduation then :p


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    #56
    signostic
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    Get the gown but do a Patch Adams on the day....



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    #57
    twinytwo
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    Laois6556 wrote: »
    Who says you have to wear a gown? Just wear your pennies clothes and they have some nice hats on sale for a fiver. You can throw that in the air when the other losers are throwing the stupid looking things. If any of the fellas say anything to you say 'I like the dress tranny' and if any of the girls say anything tell them that they look fat.

    In ucc anyway you cant get conferred at the ceremony without the gown, so you only option is get it or dont go.

    The whole thing is a face


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    #58
    bucketybuck
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    What sort of useless waste of time degree did you do that even after graduating you cannot figure out why it costs money to rent an item of clothing?


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    #59
    Gannicus
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    here you go O/P


    http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Jostens-Black-Graduation-Judge-Minister-Clergy-Choir-Gown-Robe-510-6-Master-/181551099494?pt=US_Reenactment_Theater&hash=item2a4549ee66


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