Edgewood College does not appear in an Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) list from 1948, so the Bureau may not have assigned the college a hood lining until the late 1940s or 1950s. The college was cited in a 1972 IBAC list as having a hood lined “red over white”, and a list compiled by Kevin Sheard for Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) stated that these two colors were divided per chevron. Practically speaking, this arrangement was a duplication of the hood linings the IBAC had already assigned to Santa Clara University and North Carolina State University (both “cardinal above white”) as well as the now-defunct Emporia College in Kansas (“crimson above white”). To resolve this problem, here Edgewood has been reassigned a hood lining that resembles a heraldic shield commonly used in graphic materials for the college: black above red, divided by a reversed white chevron.