Styling by the book: Oxford’s secret fashion rules

Styling by the book: Oxford’s secret fashion rules

It often feels as if the so-called ‘Oxford bubble’ is full of binaries: commoners and scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate, town and gown. These dualities are neatly emblematised through the medium of fashion – not only through our academic gowns and sub fusc, but through other, more implicit, rules of dress.  A friend recently pointed out to me the tell-tale sign of a summer school student roaming Oxford’s streets during the long vacation: …