By Tony Diver and Jasmine Cameron Chileshe.
Oxford University proctors reminded students of the dress code for their graduations in an message sents to them.
Graduates would be refused entry to their ceremony without proper 'sub fusc' academic dress, if they fail to wear the correct dress code.
It has come to our attention that a number of students at recent degree ceremonies were not dress appropriately ", the Email said.
As a result of this, a number of women have been refused entry to graduation this year for wearing high-heeled shoes without socks.
One of the student, Eleanor Broome, 24, who studied French at Oxford, was turned away at the door in July and said she had to "sprint, in black trousers and full gown in the blistering summer heat", to buy tights to wear under her trousers.
Her ceremony was delayed by fifteen most minutes while students and their family and friends waited for her to return.
She said, it was boiling hot July, I didn't want to wear covered lace up shoes and black socks.
"what should have been the happiest day of my life turned into the an guest day of my life".
She was eventually allowed into the ceremony after a friend gave her a pair of socks to wear.
"It is one of the many ways in which the University continues to adhere to a set of archaic regulations that are coded for men".
The note was intended to avoid delays to ceremonies, as a courtesy to everyone attending.
