The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) probably assigned King’s College a hood lining not long after it was founded in 1946. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the college’s hood lining as red with a gold chevron, which was a duplication of the hood lining already assigned to the University of Denver.

To avoid this problem, the Bureau reassigned King’s College a hood lined bright red with a gold bar by 1972, according to an IBAC list from that date.