So I'm researching tartan vesus plaid...

[Smayniac]

It occurs to me, appropos of another thread here, that dress tartans lend themselves nicely to flannel shirts. Somehow the white doesn't seem out of place above the waist. I think I had a dress Gordon flannel back in high school.

Bob

[KD Burke]

I'm told that the origin of the famous Madras "plaids" is that the Indian weavers were struck by the colorful tartans worn by Scottish troops and sought to imitate them in local colors. Perhaps the historians can verify?