The chevron was by far the most common heraldic division the IBAC employed to divide the two or three colors in an institution’s hood, but beginning in 1895 the “parti per chevron” was also used quite frequently. Here the two school colors were placed in the hood lining one above the other, with the division between them following the shape of a chevron. Later the IBAC began to use a per reversed chevron division and a division per bar on rare occasions. Confusingly, in IBAC lists from 1927 and 1948, a number of hoods were described as “[color] above [color]” or “[color] over [color]” which referred either to a hood lining divided per chevron, per reversed chevron, or per bar, and today it is not usually known which of these three patterns the IBAC intended to describe.

According to IBAC lists from 1927, 1948, and 1972, the IBAC assigned Millsaps College a hood lined purple above white, but none of these citations described the heraldic division between the two colors. The purple color is inaccurate, but this is probably because by this point in time the Bureau was usually abbreviating “royal purple” to “purple” in its citations. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) described the college’s hood lining as royal purple with a white chevron, which is the correct shade of the college’s purple, but the single white chevron duplicated the hood lining the Intercollegiate Bureau had assigned to Mount Union College.

Here the original IBAC hood lining has been retained, but with the correct Millsaps College colors of royal purple and pearl white, the iridescence of the latter rendered as light silver.