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Plaids go back hundreds of years. In Scottish language the word ‘plaid’ means blanket, which was usually referred to a patterned woolen cloth.A plaid or full plaid is a pleated cloth worn with the modern kilt, made from the same tartan and worn cast over the shoulder and fastened at the front.The earliest record of the Plaid, or kilt, is about 1560. It was probably worn before this but there are no records of it. The garment was worn exclusively by Highlanders, and was not worn by the nobility except when at home on their estates. When at court they would have worn the same fashions as the southern nobles.

Plaid

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | 2008 | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press. (Hide copyright information) plaid a long shawl or blanketlike outer wrap of woolen cloth, usually patterned in checks or tartan figures. Now a distinctive feature of the Highland costume, it was formerly worn in all parts of Scotland and in N England by both men and women. The early Celtic people excelled in dyeing and in Roman times wore gay, many-colored, checkered plaids, woven or sewed together in squares of different colors. Through the Middle Ages and until the 18th cent. the people of North Britain belted their plaids about them, the lower part forming the kilt, the upper part the cloak. A shepherd's plaid is of black-and-white check. A tartan plaid has crossbars of three or more colors combined in designs distinctive of the different Highland clans and serving a heraldic purpose. In modern usage plaid may signify merely pattern, as a plaid gingham.

Bibliography: See C. Hesketh, Tartans (1961); I. Grimble, Scottish Clans and Tartans (1982).
...  plaid a long shawl or blanketlike outer wrap of woolen cloth, usually patterned in checks or tartan figures. Now a distinctive feature of the Highland costume, it was formerly worn in all parts of Scotland and in N England by both men and women. The early Celtic people excelled in dyeing and in Roman times wore gay, many-colored, checkered plaids, woven or sewed together in squares of different colors. Through the Middle Ages and until the 18th cent. the people of North Britain belted their plaids about them, the lower part forming the kilt, the upper part the cloak. A shepherd's plaid is of black-and-white check. A tartan plaid has crossbars of three or more colors combined in designs distinctive of the different Highland clans and serving a heraldic purpose. In modern usage plaid may signify merely pattern, as a plaid gingham.

Bibliography: See C. Hesketh, Tartans (1961); I. Grimble, Scottish Clans and Tartans (1982).
 




6 of the best plaids

PLAIDS

This season plaids will be a key statement piece for any guy.  Wear with dark crisp indigo jeans for a stylish teddy boy approach, or team with braces.




 
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