The chevron was by far the most common heraldic division the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) employed to divide the two or three colors in an institution’s hood, but beginning in 1895 the “double chevron” was also used quite frequently. 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.

To avoid duplicating the hood lining it had assigned Texas Christian University (white with a purple chevron), the Intercollegiate Bureau assigned Kentucky Wesleyan College a hood lining that was white with two purple chevrons no later than 1927, according to an IBAC list from that period. A 1948 list from the Bureau had an identical description of the college’s hood, but a 1972 citation erroneously interchanged the colors, duplicating the hood lining already assigned to Pennsylvania College for Women (purple with two white chevrons). A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) was also erroneous: it described Kentucky Wesleyan’s hood lining as purple with a white chevron, which was the hood lining the IBAC had assigned to Amherst College in 1895 or 1896.