To avoid assigning duplicate hood linings to colleges and universities that used the same school colors, the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) used different types of heraldic patterns to divide the two or more colors in an academic hood. One of the heraldic divisions the Bureau frequently employed was a “double chevron”. The typical width of a normal chevron was between three and four inches, but the double chevron pattern used two chevrons of about 1½ inches in width placed approximately two inches apart so that the color of the hood lining showed between them.

St. Scholastica did not appear in early IBAC lists from 1927 or 1948, so the IBAC might not have assigned the college a hood lining until the late 1940s or 1950s. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) accurately described the college’s hood lining as royal purple with two gold chevrons. The Intercollegiate Bureau, on the other hand, had stopped distinguishing between “royal purple” and “purple” in its descriptions, so an IBAC list from 1972 said that St. Scholastica’s hood lining was purple with two gold chevrons.

Here the college’s traditional colors of royal purple and gold have been used, but it bears repeating that St. Scholastica’s current colors are royal blue and gold. Should the college wish to update its hood lining colors, a royal blue hood lining with two gold chevrons is a pattern that has not been assigned to any other college or university.