Glen plaid (short
for Glen Urquhart plaid) or Glenurquhart check is a woollen fabric
with a woven twill design of small and large checks. 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. Glen plaid as a woven pattern may be extended to
cotton shirting and other non-woollen fabrics.
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 to outfit her gamekeepers,
though the name glen plaid does not appear before 1926
Tweed suit with
plus fours from Dashing Tweeds. Photograph: Dashing Tweeds
( By the way,
definitely wrong shoes for plus fours breeches / Jeeves )
Jeeves's own collection ...
The Russel Check / John G. Hardy
I have a glen plaid wool suit that I bought 2 years ago at J crew that I just love. I just wore it to an event 2 days ago and got so many compliments (the picture of me in it is up on pigtown design blog LOL.......). It's a versatile and beautiful print.
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