The young students with glittering futures have now been told they can put on each other s finery - meaning chaps can party in ball gowns and ladies can go in dinner jackets and black ties.
Hundreds of young men and women soaked up the sunshine as they headed away from the party at King s College, in Cambridge. The bash was dubbed the Antidote to the May Balls .
Guests paid at least £330 for the double ticket to Mondays event, and were promised unlimited food and drink .Organisers of the ball, at Trinity College, bragged that they had put on Cambridge s best ball .
Hundreds of young men and women braved the heat to queue up outside Robinson College on Friday night, eager to get into one of its most anticipated events.