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I am pretty sure I purchased my cap and gown instead of renting. But my college was a bit smaller.

At my school, I purchased my cap but rented the gown. The cap is in a box never to be looked at again. I can't imagine what I would do with the gown.

It’s not just for graduations! You can wear it at any gown-appropriate event!

Marriages, graduations and funerals carry forward some traditions that haven’t made sense for generations. They are the irregular verbs of modern life. Interestingly, marriages and funerals often have a religious element, and religion itself is conservative—but graduation doesn’t have that excuse.

Can you? I mean, you _can_ but you really can't. Showing up at a marriage or funeral in one would be... weird to say the least.

What a brilliant idea! I'll make sure to include in my will arrangements for everyone to easily be able to rent graduation gowns. It should make for a happier event

Wouldn't the purchase option be priced at a multiple to the rental?

OP paid $94 to rent their gown. I'm pretty sure I paid less than that (if not a comparable price) to buy mine. Thank god it wasn't multiple more, I only wore it for 5 minutes for a picture, since I graduated during Covid.

Yeah, there was no option to rent at my school. I purchased those things, not that I'll ever use them again.

Can't you sell it used to the next graduating class?

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