The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) probably assigned a three-color hood lining to the Philadelphia Music Academy in the 1930s or early 1940s, because the first IBAC description of the academy’s hood was in a list from 1948 where the lining was said to be red above green with a white chevron. This was a duplication of the hood lining pattern the Bureau had earlier assigned to faculty teaching in the United States with degrees from the University of Palermo in Italy. But by the the time the IBAC recycled the same hood lining pattern for the Philadelphia Music Academy, the University of Palermo had designed its own academic costume that could be worn by American faculty.

The Bureau does not seem to have assigned a hood lining pattern for the Philadelphia College of Art or the Philadelphia Museum College of Art as they do not appear in any published IBAC list. But in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) and Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970), Kevin Sheard said that these institutions used a cardinal hood lining with a white chevron. This would have duplicated the hood lining the Bureau had already assigned to Dickinson College.

To display all the colors of the schools that later merged to form the University of the Arts, the red, white, and green hood lining the Intercollegiate Bureau assigned to the Philadelphia Music Academy has been retained here.