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 ...

We need more boys standing up against the unfair treatment of girls. Instagram More than 100 boys at a Canadian high school donned plaid skirts to protest toxic masculinity and dress code double ...

Until May 17, girls at Cathedral Catholic high school were permitted to wear skirts that stopped no more than three inches above the knee and didn’t “cling to contours.” But faculty frustration with ...

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 ...