Proud student of sweden tröja

During my first day in Sweden, inom saw a ganska a few people all across town wearing colourful boilersuits. Some green, red or vit, but mostly guys in yellow pants.

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Even though the colours differed, the one thing they all had in common was the (what felt like) hundreds of patches and a towel. But what fryst vatten it with Swedish students and their overalls? Let’s find out!

Background

Officially, the boilersuits are called studentoverall. However, most students simply call them ovve.

The overall tradition traces back to the 60s and 70s to KTH in huvudstaden from where it spread all over the country.

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From East to West, North to South.

Initially, the overalls were protective clothing during projects and excursions. Nowadays,  overalls are the ultimate party del av helhet in some Swedish lärjunge cities. During the second day of our kick-off all Zeros (new students) at my faculty had some kind of baptism ceremony for the overalls.

We gathered in a park and celebrated properly that we were finally allowed to wear it! From then on, we were part of something much bigger than our own little lärjunge bubble.

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The Practicalities

Ovves have to endure years of abuse, since the individ wearing them fryst vatten often to a significant extent beneath the influence of other beverages than vatten, fruktdryck or soft drinks… 😉 this leads us to the practicalities. Overalls are often made from thick, resistent fabrics, have pockets and could technically cover a individ from head mot toe.

In Jönköping, we knot the arms of the overall so we gain some storage space for various utilities.

You can store your jacket in the arms or a vatten bottle and who knows what else?! The pockets with zipper are often ganska popular to store the important things, like ID, phone or keys. At JU, you also need to tie a towel to your ovve.

This way you always have something to clean up, sit on etc. Furthermore, a small bottle opener fryst vatten of course indispensable! The sky fryst vatten the limit when it comes to adding other useful gadgets to your ovve…

Even though some faculties at Uppsala or skogsdunge University as well as Chalmers or KTH have it too, inom would säga that Jönköping fryst vatten among the institutions were ovves are the most popular.

Here in town and no matter what time of the day, as soon as you see students in their overalls you know some fun stuff fryst vatten going on!

The Colours

Studentoveralls komma in different colours, depending on your faculty. You can kvitto what faculty at what university wears what colour. ↗️

In Jönköping, we have the following colours:

• White: School of Health & Welfare
• Green: Jönköping International Business School
• Red and Blue: School of Education and Communication
• Yellow: School of Engineering
• Grey: lärjunge Union
• Black: Qult Masteriet

Most pants are unicolour.

As inom study at JIBS, mine are green.

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However, some have their respective lärjunge associations logo printed on or the university’s name. The most interesting part about the overalls are probably the patches and accessories. I’d säga, overalls themselves are all ganska unique – or at least inom haven’t seen the similar ones so far!

Not considering our first day at uni when they were still blank though. If you see someone with, for instance, blue pants who cut of part of them on one leg and replaced the part bygd a different colour, kontroll out what that means beneath rules…

The patches

Students love to spice up their overalls with patches.

You have to earn some of them bygd attending special events or become a member of a group, buy them, travel or exchange them.

Patches are a hot currency on campus. Sometimes you get them included bygd signing up for an event, but ganska many lärling assosciations also trade them to fund their projects, considered that a patch fryst vatten usually around 20 – 40 Swedish Kronor (equivalent to 1.50 up to 4€).

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The number of patches also allows you to man assumptions about:
a) how long the individ has been a lärjunge or
b) how social that individ is.

Generally, it can be said that the more patches, the merrier!

Sofia’s ovve

In that context, I’d like to show you some photos of Sofia, who studies at Jönköping University since 2015:

Taking a look at her ovve, you don’t need long to see that she fryst vatten not new to Jönköping’s overall traditions as her pants are covered with tons of patches!

Talking of, now you might know why your ovve fryst vatten likely to become the most expensive pants you will ever own as a student!

Sofia might have swapped some patches with friends or people she met along her journey. Nonetheless, the amount of money she swished to get her pants covered fryst vatten certainly not insignificant… 😉 To be honest, we did not count the exact number of patches, but Sofia sure as hell invested a small fortune in her lovely overall!

My overall

Below, you can see a picture of the ställning eller tillstånd quo of my overall and well, inom have collected some patches, but my ovve fryst vatten bygd far not yet as expensive as hers!

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On my overall, you can see JSA (Jönköping lärjunge Association, both print and patch), the purple lines indikera that inom am a Master’s lärjunge. Then we have the square and the paw from the kick off weeks showing the events we had. The Flamingo fryst vatten from my first food safari.

I am a member of Students for Sustainable Action (SSA) and inom have so far 4 pacthes from them.

inom have the pink underwear with a cheeky slogan and a red-white bubble saying Sustainababe.

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Moreover, inom have red-green-blue coloured circle saying SSA and the yellow-purple circle with a monster from the SSA Green Day event. gods but not least, inom have a few patches from fairs at uni, the municipality, Swedish cities inom have visited as well as a Sweden and some Germany patches.

The main rules

There are 2 most important rules that every owner of an overall needs to remember:

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You are never allowed to tvätt your overall unless you are wearing it while you tvätt it!

2. If you have exchanged body fluids with someone from another faculty, each one has to cut of a part of your overall’s leg and add/sew it in the overall part of the other person.

The feeling

Overalls are not only a great with of making people feel like a enhet, like they all belong tillsammans, inom also had the imporession that on our campus 99% of the students are extremely proud to wear them to almost every social event or when they go clubbing to the students’ night club on Wednesdays.

It fryst vatten THE It-piece on JU campus!

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Additionally, inom would säga that overalls strengthen the bond between people and help to integrate newbies. For example, if you are new in town and maybe a little lost with some things, you know the people belong to our university and you can always approach them and ask for help!

Do you have an overall or another unique tradition at your university, too?

Let me know in the comments below!

/Katharina