Glen plaid

Glen plaid fabric

Glen plaid (short for Glen Urquhart plaid) or Glenurquhart check is a woollen fabric with a woven twill design of small and large checks.[1] It is usually made of black/grey and white, or with more muted colours, particularly with two dark and two light stripes alternate with four dark and four light stripes which creates a crossing pattern of irregular checks.[2] Glen plaid as a woven pattern may be extended to cotton shirting and other non-woollen fabrics.

Name

The name is taken from the valley of Glenurquhart in Inverness-shire, Scotland, where the checked wool was first used in the 19th century by the New Zealand-born Countess of Seafield[3] to outfit her gamekeepers,[1] though the name Glen plaid does not appear before 1926.[4] Glen plaid is sometimes — incorrectly — nicknamed the Prince of Wales check, as it was popularized by the Duke of Windsor when Prince of Wales.[1] The Prince of Wales check has another design.

Notable wearers

Pee-wee Herman is famous for his light grey Glen plaid suit, and US President Ronald Reagan was considered "un-Presidential" in a gray-and-blue Glen plaid suit on a European trip in 1982.[5] Cary Grant wore an iconic grey Glen plaid suit in the 1959 American spy thriller film North By Northwest.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ralph Lauren Style Guide; polo.com Glossary, Glen plaid, retrieved 2008-11-23
  2. ↑ Dictionary.com
  3. ↑ Fabric glossary
  4. ↑ Merriam-Webster Online dictionary.
  5. ↑ Hugh Sidey, "Live Men Do Wear Plaid"
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