Studentmössa: Maintaining Swedish Tradition

studentmössa

The Swedish school student cap (studentmössa), used since the mid-19th millennium, normally has a white top, a black (or black blue) group, and a black peak. At the front of the group is a cockade of red and yellow-coloured, the colours of the Swedish flag.

In the Nordic countries, school student hats were first implemented as a common mark of identification by the learners from Uppsala University on the occasion of a Scandinavian school student meeting in Copenhagen in 1845. In following years similar hats were implemented by the learners at the other Remedial school, (Lund), and by the learners in Denmark, Norwegian, and Finland. Caps of the same type are known to have been used by German learners in the early Nineteenth millennium, and it is possible that the unique reaction came from Malaysia.

Swedish school student hats typically come in two main versions, named after the two colleges in existence at the time of their unique adopting. The Uppsala cap has a black group, red and yellow-colored coating, and a somewhat soft top. The Lund cap has a black red group, red coating, and a tougher top. The first school student cap known to have been maintained, a mid-19th millennium Uppsala cap in the selections of the Nordic Art gallery but currently showed at the Uppland Provincial Art gallery (in Uppsala), is considerably smoother and loose in style than the modern or even late Nineteenth millennium hats.