To avoid assigning duplicate hood linings to colleges and universities that used the same school colors, the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) used different types of heraldic patterns to divide the two or more colors in an academic hood. One of the heraldic divisions the Bureau quite frequently employed was a “double chevron”. The typical width of a normal chevron was between three and four inches, but the double chevron pattern used two chevrons of about 1½ inches in width placed approximately two inches apart so that the color of the hood lining showed between them.

Pacific College does not appear in early IBAC lists from 1927 or 1948, so the IBAC might not have assigned the college a hood lining until after the college became George Fox University in 1949. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described George Fox University’s hood lining as navy blue with an old gold chevron. This was identical to the hood lining the IBAC had assigned to Allegheny College (navy blue with an old gold chevron) between 1895 and 1912, so later in the 1960s the Bureau added a second old gold chevron to George Fox’s navy blue lining. In both Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) by Kevin Sheard and an IBAC list from 1972, the university was cited as having a hood lined navy blue with two old gold chevrons.