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 ...

Wearing plaid is easy when it comes to shirts. Pair them with your jeans, leggings, or tucked in to a skirt and you're good to go. Plaid skirts, on the other hand, are a different story. You don't ...

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 ...