Wedding dress of Catherine Middleton Wedding dress of Catherine Middleton English designer Sarah Burton, creative director of the luxury fashion house Alexander McQueen, designed the bridal gown worn by Catherine Middleton at her wedding to Prince William on 29 April 2011. The dress and its maker were not formally announced until the bride stepped from her car to enter Westminster Abbey just prior to the service. Noted for its design, symbolism, and expected influence on Western bridal gown trends, the dress was widely anticipated and generated much comment in the media. Replicas of the dress were produced and sold, and the original dress was on
Academic dress of the University of Cambridge if they wear a properly collared shirt. In place of "sub-fusc", members of Her Majesty's Forces have in the past been allowed to wear their service uniform, persons in holy orders their clerical dress, and national dress has been worn, together with the appropriate gown and hood. Currently as of 2007, national dress is no longer accepted as an alternative to "sub-fusc". The proctors have discretion to waive the part of the regulations concerning dark clothes and white tie on 'reasonable grounds'. Notably, the rules governing Cambridge "sub-fusc" are less detailed and less strict than those prevailing at Oxford. In