The chevron was by far the most common heraldic division the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) employed to divide the two or three colors in a college or university’s hood, but by 1918 Bureau president Gardner Cotrell Leonard was also using what he called a “wide chevron”. The typical width of a normal chevron was between four and five inches, but the wide chevron was a chevron with a width of 5½ inches, six inches, seven inches, or more. The IBAC did not assign a wide chevron very often, as it tended to hide the color above the chevron when the hood was folded and worn, which gave the lining the appearance of being divided per chevron.

The Intercollegiate Bureau assigned Wofford College a hood lining that was old gold with a black “wide chevron”, according to IBAC lists from 1927, 1948, and 1972. The 1972 list defined Wofford’s chevron as seven inches in width. To avoid confusion with a hood lining with the same colors divided per chevron, on this website colleges and universities the Bureau originally assigned a wide chevron have had this pattern substituted for one using three chevrons, but in this case the IBAC already assigned Wake Forest University an old gold hood lining with three chevrons at some point before 1927. So Wofford’s hood lining has been redesigned with a new pattern that mimics the college’s original “wide chevron” pattern: black above old gold, with the colors divided per chevron.