The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) did not assign a hood lining to Tuskegee Institute until the late 1940s or 1950s. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the institute’s hood lining as crimson with a gold chevron; an identical description can be found in a 1969 IBAC list and a 1972 IBAC list.

Unfortunately Tuskegee’s hood lining was a duplication of the hood lining the Intercollegiate Bureau had earlier assigned to the University of Denver, which in the same IBAC 1969 list was also described as crimson with a gold chevron. To avoid this problem, here Tuskegee has been reassigned a hood lined crimson above gold with the colors divided per chevron, which was a common heraldic pattern the IBAC had been using since 1895 to resolve duplications of this sort, though not in this case.