The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) probably assigned the Fuller Theological Seminary a hood lining not long after it was founded in 1947. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described Fuller’s hood lining as royal blue with three gold chevrons, which was also how the seminary’s hood was described in an IBAC list from 1972. The typical width of a normal chevron was between three and four inches, but the triple chevron pattern used three chevrons of about 1½ inches in width placed approximately one or two inches apart so that the color of the hood lining showed between them. The Intercollegiate Bureau probably assigned the seminary three chevrons to avoid duplicating the hood lining the Bureau had assigned to Bethany College in Kansas (blue with two gold chevrons) before 1927. Bethany’s school colors are actually royal blue and lemon yellow.