Did you know that university students in Portugal wear black cape as academic uniform?

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SuprDuprPartyPoopr on October 14th, 2021 at 08:08 UTC »

"No capes!!"

Gettygetz on October 14th, 2021 at 08:28 UTC »

It would appear the rest of the world's universities are behind the times.

wallynext on October 14th, 2021 at 11:05 UTC »

This is called “Traje académico” it is used by students in special events, and could be used every “academic day” of the week that usually is Thursday, the Traje symbolizes equality since you can be poor or rich but all look the same, JK rolling lived in Porto and a lot of things in Harry Potter were inspired by real things in Portugal like this uniform