A description of the hood lining used by Pennsylvania State College of Optometry did not appear in Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) lists from 1927 or 1948, but was first cited by Kevin Sheard in both Academic Heraldry in America (1962) and Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) as having a hood lined black with a white chevron. A 1972 IBAC list described the hood lining in an identical manner. It is not known whether this was a pattern that was actually assigned by the IBAC or merely a record of the college’s hood lining the Bureau borrowed from Sheard, but either way it was a unique hood lining pattern not used by any other college or university in the United States.