I have a theory on the massive amounts of Plaid shirts that’s hitting the streets lately. I haven’t seen this much since watching Party of Five and maybe Empire Records.
I believe that when a recession or economic uncertainty hits the plaid comes out of the cupboards/designers heads and hits the streets with a vengeance. I don’t know why; maybe because it’s comforting, you don’t really need to iron a plaid shirt, and it looks good with jeans. I have nothing against it, I am wearing one now with my sweat pants!
I also think that some of the plaid obsession from the under 18’s comes from the Twilight movie and Rob Pattison (he apparently doesn’t like ‘RPattz’, and who can blame him?) just look at this page from Delias online store.
Long live Plaid!