In the present-day Vietnam, instead of wearing the robe and mortar hat, Vietnamese students wear áo dài at graduation ceremonies. Apparently, the inconvenience of performing one’s daily tasks while wearing the áo dài is perceived as an advantage when it comes to teaching students. It is widely believed that feminine values of modesty and refined mannerism would be taken up by those wearing áo dài: “Something which must be noted about the áo dài of Vietnamese women is its ‘soul.’ It truly is appropriate only for those with the slight stature and slimness of Asian women. It demands that the wearer have a self-effacing bearing, cautious, moving deliberately, lightly. Because of that, it isn’t without reason that there was a time when people forced female pupils from sixth to twelfth grade to wear the áo dài as a uniform. The goal was to train girls in a modest, cautious, and refined manner in their dress and their bearing, so that they can become young Vietnamese women of grace and politeness.”