Plaid Nation Day is right around the corner for the RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing. On Saturday, Harbour Town is set to be covered in a blanket of tartan plaid as far as the eye can see. So far, ...

Regardless of any given year's current "trends," the fall season always brings with it imagery of beautiful leaves and an abundance of charming tartan and plaid fashion items. From traditionally ...

We (as a people) have a serious love/hate session with plaid every decade or so. Here's how it usually works. Somebody decides that it's actually a nice pattern and puts it on some things. Because it ...

Plaid feels right for this fall, when the wooly weave of Scottish tartans is likely to show up on store shelves. It appeared in the fall runway collections of designers like Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, ...

Tartan in modern fashion appears everywhere from school uniforms to McQueen runways, but the road to this ubiquity starts many centuries ago, with 15th-century Scottish women weaving this particular ...

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 in ...

The most recognizable royal family tartan is the red Royal Stewart tartan, which dates back to at least 1800. Its origins are unknown, but the pattern definitely has a royal pedigree. King George IV ...

Editor’s Note: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes is a new series investigating how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. As students return to ...