The Outfit That Made Me Laugh for Seriously Like 10 Minutes

Matt is graduating with his master's degree this weekend, so yesterday he picked up his cap and gown. He tried it on when I got home from church last night, and immediately stuck his hands in these weird sleeve pouch things. I found it absolutely hilarious and laughed for about 10 minutes solid, and demanded that he let me take a picture and show it to you. There are actual sleeve holes too, but these pouch sleeves hang down weird no matter how you put the robe on.

Psh, you don't need your hands in order to get your diploma!

Then we couldn't figure out how to put on the colorful hood to make the colors show properly because there's too much weird fabric on that too. And then Matt complained about the hat being too small, and told me a story about how he had the biggest head in the eighth grade when his class had to measure their heads. (I don't remember why they had to measure their heads. Something about plotting graphs, and his was all the way to the side, and his teacher was like, someone did that math wrong, but nope he just has a big head.)

Matt drew me a picture of what this head graph looked like.

You would think a couple of college-educated folks would be able to figure out something as simple as an outfit, but we're stumped. I hope someone at this graduation knows how to put everything together so it doesn't look totally ridiculous.

Are you an expert on putting together graduation robes? We need help. Also, did anyone else have to measure their heads in middle school? I never had to. This seems like a weird activity.