They wear a velvet mortarboard, similarly trimmed with gold braid and tassel. The Chancellor's mortarboard has a gold tassel, like that of the former noblemen commoners. The Mysore University replaced the conventional mortarboard used in graduation ceremonies with the traditional "peta". The cornered cap evolved into today's square trencher or mortarboard university hat. Graduates of the Bachelors' programs wear the traditional mortarboard, hood and gown. Of these, cords and mortarboard tassels are most often used to indicate membership. Women may wear a black Oxford ladies soft cap in lieu of mortarboard. All Foundation degree holders, Bachelors and Masters wear a plain black mortarboard. The mortarboard may also be referred to as a trencher cap (or simply trencher). Women may choose between the mortarboard or the "soft cap" [h5]. Everyone below the rank of doctor wears a standard black cloth mortarboard. Early students wore a mortarboard or trencher, although this had been discontinued by 1871. This is also the ancestor of the modern mortarboard used today in secular universities. There is a version of the mortarboard that is worn during mourning. She slams his mortarboard over his head.