At the printing shop of Göteborgs Universitet to collect copies of my thesis. Purple wool dress by Warehouse and black patent flats by Prada.
It was to be a small academic ceremony today where I collected my thesis from the printers and have one copy nailed to the public notice board of the University of Gothenburg. The spikning or the nailing of the thesis is for two main reasons, the first of which is to encourage the public to read your work and the second, perhaps more important reason, is to show that your work hasn’t been plagiarized.
Design in dress and colours on outfits have always been important factors in my life. When choosing junior colleges in Singapore, I remember how all my other classmates chose their junior colleges based on entry grades and proximity to the home. I chose my junior college based on its uniform. So I ended up at Victoria Junior College in Singapore, second highest ranked after Raffles Junior College at that time, with its beige coloured unifrom accented with a deep wine coloured belt. And I felt perfectly fine about it. I thought a neutral beige would help my mind relax in its notoriously competitive school environment and the deep burgundy wine just happens to be one of my favourite colours of all time.
Nailing the thesis to the public notice board at Göteborgs Universitet.
The ceremony consisted of drilling a hole at the corner of my 554 paged thesis and putting a nail through that, onto the notice board at the University of Gothenburg. A champagne bottle was popped and served in celebration, and as a thank you for the group who had joined in for this happy event.
In dress, I opted for a 60s looking purple sheath dress from Warehouse with a boat neck and capped sleeves, since it had clean lines and turned quite chic when paired with dark grey wool tights and a pair of black patent Prada flats.
Signed vintage Trifari silvertone tulip ear clips.
Accessories for this day were a simple pair of signed vintage silvertone Trifari ear clips in the form of tulips. A thick, plain white gold ring from Cartier (seen in the second picture) and a watch that I’ve had for more than ten years, from Raymond Weil (seen in the first picture).
Trifari signature on the back of the ear clip.
My love for vintage costume jewellery has grown lately, where I’m finding fantastically crafted pieces of jewellery from earrings, rings and necklaces from the 1960s all the way to the late 1990s. The downside to having clip earrings is that they tend to hurt after a while, so I find myself having to take them off periodically.
Apart from the dress being proper to the academic cremony, it was quite brilliant weather outdoors and I found that the purple of the dress showed up nicely against the new spring greens of the city.