yep, everything so far sounds like they frizzed you all up. literally no reputable uni would pull this kind of shit.

• shirt, tie, slacks have 0% bearing. under the robes it’s barely visible.
• if they control/own the distributor they stand to get a lot of money by this dick move.
• unis rent out robes and lapels. those never change because unis want to save money too.
• also each lapel represents a faculty so they’ll never change year after year.

It’s merc, that’s to be expected 😂