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Hong Kong Police Band bagpipes section wears a black and red version. The velvet academic tam worn with a tassel is part of the ceremonial dress used at many universities to distinguish those holding a doctoral degree e. D from those holding other academic degrees.

Although referred to as a "tam", the academic tam derives from the Tudor bonnet rather than the Scottish tam o' shanter, and the cap is constructed of two pieces of either six- or eight-pointed cuts of fabric attached to a headband rather than the pie segments used in a tam o' shanter.

The tam, or tam cap, became a fashionable women's accessory from the early s and was derived from the tam o' shanter. It followed the trends for closer fitting hats and for borrowing from men's fashion. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the tam o'shanter hat. For other uses, see Tam o' Shanter. Archived from the original on A History of Hand Knitting.

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