Autumn is undeniably here: layers—oh, how I have missed layers!—coats, boots, all of it. It’s this time of year that I get excited to wear fall plaid pieces. Once an illegal cloth (ask the Jacobites), plaid has been a pattern of the establishment and the rebellion.
We use the terms tartan and plaid quite interchangeably these days, but a tartan, originating in Scotland, is the specific colorway of a patterned cloth, which has crossing horizon and vertical bands in several shades. Plaid, meanwhile refers to the piece of cloth itself.
