The Committee's brief was to i) enquire whether University regulations were in need of amendment or should be better enforced and ii) make suggestions for the systematisation of academic dress. The papers include issues of Cambridge University Reporter containing successive reports and discussions; correspondence with A.G. Almond Ltd, tailors and University robe makers, of 11 Sidney Street and A.E. Clothier, University outfitter, of 14 King's Parade; illustrations of academic dress of all kinds worn in Cambridge from the late eighteenth century onwards.