The shape is evocative of the square-cut liripipe incorporated into many academic hoods. The hood consists of a cape (known also as the 'tippet'), cowl and liripipe. He was wearing a gugel hood with a long and wide liripipe ("tail"). The shape is evocative of the square-cut liripipe incorporated into many academic hoods ("see", below). The modern-day liripipe appears on the hoods of academic dress.