plaid
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For many, private school evokes images of elite academies, manicured campuses and plaid Catholic-school uniforms.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
At a Sacramento stop Friday, he bounded around chatting with about four dozen mostly union supporters, wearing trademark Nikes, this time a vintage pair with a tartan plaid swoop.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
The red, white and grey plaid shorts have become iconic in tennis circles, and the surviving pairs have found good homes.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
I also made a pleated plaid skirt—this must have been a school project, as I recall no love for it—and my father said, “You shouldn’t wear plaid. It makes you look broad in the beam.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
But then she thought of her purple coat and her plaid skirt that she wore almost every day.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
Ken Billington’s lighting and Constance Hoffman’s costumes, which featured swirling flared skirts in different candy-colored plaids for the female chorus, added to the effect, as did Ms. Zambello’s direction, which emphasized thrust rather than sweetness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Newsboy caps, button-down vests and a predominance of subtle plaids recalled "Peaky Blinders", while pocket watch chains consolidated the 1920s feel.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
Come for the messy, backstabbing celebrities, but stay for Alan Cumming's show-stopping plaids.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
It was wild; there were crazy prints — plaids, leopard spots — in my favorite colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
The children had erected an amateur tent over their heads, out of the plaids, and under this they were lying close together, telling a story.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
