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The square academic cap, graduate cap, cap, mortarboard [1] (because of its similarity in appearance to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar [2]) or Oxford cap [3] is an item of academic dress consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upon a skull-cap, with a tassel attached to the centre.
Sometimes it is also known as a tam cap or the traditional term tam o'shanter might also be used. [1] The tam became popular in the early 1920s, when it followed the prevailing trends for closer-fitting hats that suited shorter hairstyles and for borrowing from men's fashion; other traditional men's hats that rose to popularity in women's ...
At the front of the band is a cockade of blue and yellow, the colours of the Swedish flag. Swedish student caps traditionally come in two main variants, named after the two universities in existence at the time of their original adoption. The Uppsala cap has a black band, blue and yellow lining, and a somewhat soft crown.
c. 1910 top hat by Alfred Bertiel European royalty, 1859 Austin Lane Crothers, 46th Governor of Maryland (1908–1912), wearing a top hat. A top hat (also called a high hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes, meaning white tie, morning dress, or frock coat.
Vice-Chancellor: A full-sleeved gown of black figured satin, with the sleeves lined in University red, parted in front and looped with two loops of gold braid on each side. Pro-Vice-Chancellor: A gown of the same shape as the Vice-Chancellor’s, but of black corded silk, looped and buttoned in gold similarly to the Vice-Chancellor's.
Two officers wearing the M1951 Field Cap-Anyang South Korea, Lt. Green and Captain Ray. The M1951 Field Cap, introduced with the M1951 Uniform, was a derivative of the M1943 Field Cap, part of the M1943 Uniform. [2] [1] [3] The M1951 cap was worn in the Korean War, where it became known as the "patrol cap" by the US Army Rangers there. [1]
It is properly worn "on the right side of the head, centred front and back, with the front edge of the cap 2.5 centimetres (1 in) above the right eyebrow." [9] Cap badges are worn on the left side, with the centre of the badge 6.5 centimetres (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) from the front of the cap centred between the flap and the top seam. [10]