Plaid has become a catch-all term in the US, but includes patterns with distinct histories, including tartan, from Scotland, which is more associated with Catholic school uniforms, and madras ...

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As students return to school, one patterned textile now synonymous with uniforms will make its seasonal reappearance on pleated skirts, jumpers and ties: plaid. The design has long been a mainstay ...

The uniform will be topped-off by a REDBLACKS plaid helmet with no other markings when the REDBLACKS play the team’s second game in the Signature Uniform later in the season.

“I had a uniform all through Catholic school and I hated it deeply,” she said. “In retrospect, it wasn’t so bad—a gray plaid skirt or a jumper, a vest, a white button-down, and oxfords ...

Plaid has become a catch-all term in the US, but includes patterns with distinct histories, including tartan, from Scotland, which is more associated with Catholic school uniforms, and madras ...

Uniforms were only associated with parochial and private schools until the late 1980s, but public schools began piloting them as well, allowing plaid’s influence in American classrooms to spread.