laced up at the back of the skull cap. Typically, the material used to cover the cap is wool cloth, but some versions are covered in velvet (mainly doctoral caps). Black is the usual colour but other colours are used.

The correct way to wear a mortarboard is to have the larger part of the skull of the mortarboard at the back of the head with the top board parallel to the ground. A properly fitting mortarboard should not fall off easily.

Until the second half of the twentieth century, mortarboards were often worn by schoolteachers,

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