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 quite 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.

The IBAC assigned this type of hood lining pattern to Lee University at some point between the late 1940s and the middle of the 1960s. The first record of Lee’s hood lining is in a 1972 IBAC list, which described the university’s hood lining as white with two maroon chevrons. The Bureau used two chevrons to avoid duplicating the hood lining already assigned to Mississippi State University (white with a maroon chevron).