Academic hood lists published by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) in 1927, 1948, and 1972 described Wesleyan Female College as having a hood lined purple with a lilac chevron. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) more accurately described the college’s hood lining as purple with a lavender chevron, but none of these sources correctly state that “deep purple” (a dark purple similar to royal purple) was the lining color, probably because by the 1920s the Intercollegiate Bureau no longer distinguished between purple and royal purple in its hood lining descriptions.