Illinois College of Optometry
Illinois
1872
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) must have assigned a hood lining to the Illinois College of Optometry in the late 1940s or 1950s because it first appeared in a list of hood lining patterns compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962). Sheard stated that the hood had a lining that was royal blue with a tri-chevron of white, seafoam green, and white. A 1972 Intercollegiate Bureau citation is similar.
A “tri-chevron” is a standard chevron that has been subdivided into three smaller chevrons, each chevron one to 1½ inches in width, so that the lining color does not show between them.
Detailed historical information about the royal blue, seafoam, and white school colors of the Illinois College of Optometry is not available at this time, but “seafoam” is the official Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume Faculty color for Optometry.
