Wedding dress of Princess Elizabeth house copies would make it impossible for her to make last-minute design alterations. The dress was taken to the palace a day before the wedding in a box. On the wedding day, the dress glittered, bejewelled with pearls "skilfully combined with flowing lines of wheat ears, the symbol of fertility, and worked in pearl and diamante." Princess Elizabeth's wedding dress has drawn parallels with both the similarly designed dress worn by Grace Kelly in 1956 and the "Westminster décor" wedding dress that Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen designed for Catherine Middleton; particular points of similarity have been highlighted in the
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