This is an excellent value and overall great quality! At the time of graduation, my budget only permitted me to rent a hood for my daughter’s M.F.A. graduation ceremony. Now, that she is a full professor, she is attending graduation ceremonies for her students. I wanted to purchase her all the regalia she needed. After observing the price from the company we had rented from 7 years ago, it was nearly $1,000.00 for the full outfit (robe, tam, hood). I began researching and found Graduation Mall- what a TREASURE!!! You can personalize your alma mater’s colors for all items, including the hood colors for your specified degree. (I purchased the master’s robe from Graduation Mall also and the robe and hood were perfect color matches-that had not been the case even with the rental company items.) The quality is excellent, ‘real’ fabric, matte finish (not shiny and cheap in appearance, not a nylon lining look) pleated and beautiful structure. You are able to customize for height, sleeve length and by gender for overall body type so it is very custom, w/out the usual custom add-on prices. Since her degree is the highest level for Fine Arts, the tam needed was a 6-sided with w/ gold metallic doctoral tassel, I did have to purchase this from another company (on Amazon) also, as Graduation Mall did not currently have this exact offering. However, it was a Graduation Mall rep. that gave me the info for where to purchase (when I sent an inquiry & received an answer the SAME DAY) since they did not have that in their inventory-WOW, talk about customer service and customer FIRST! So what was my savings compared to the cost from the rental company purchase piece-$700.00!!!You CAN NOT go wrong with this purchase and if you were interested in getting just a hood to frame as a gift for a graduate, who would never need the full regalia for future use, this hood is perfect AND affordable. I found a shadow box at a national chain craft store and she keeps the hood displayed in her office in the shadow box, next to her diploma-fits perfectly and simply removes for ceremonies. I do 95% of shopping on-line so I have had lots of experiences with companies and Graduation Mall is exemplary! (Additionally, even during the holiday crisis of pandemic, this arrived on time to play under the Christmas tree-I had communicated my hope to present as a Christmas morning gift to the rep in an email response and they made it happen!!!!! Superior!)