Dress Like a Man by Antonio Centeno, Geoffrey Cubbage, Anthony Tan, Ted Slampyak Page B
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"variegated stripes." The effect is bold and often a little overwhelming, making it largely a pattern for casual shirts and very fashion-forward trousers.
Dimensions: Variable, but each individual stripe is usually no more than 1/2" wide or so.
Herringbone
A textured weave rather than a dyed pattern: vertical columns of small, repeating V-shapes. If the warp and the weft threads are different colors, the pattern becomes more pronounced.
Herringbone is a popular choice for suits, jackets, trousers, and shirts alike. It is often used to add a little more visual interest to a solid-colored item.
Dimensions: Columns are usually between 1/4" and 1/2" wide. The thickness of the "V" shape is determined by the threads or yarns used in the weave.
Houndstooth
A "broken check" grid of jagged repeating shapes, usually rendered in black and white or dark gray and light gray. Like herringbone, houndstooth is created by a specific weave, in this case one that uses two threads of each color.
Dimensions: Varies based on the threads used. A typical houndstooth pattern has checks about 1/4" square. If the pattern is printed rather than woven, it can be blown up or shrunken down to any scale, including very exaggerated ones.
Plaid/Tartan
A style of check created by crossing bands of two or more colors, typically using more than one size of band. A specific weave creates alternating diagonal slashes wherever the colored bands intersect.
In most of the world, these patterns are called "tartan." In the United States and Canada they are more commonly called "plaid," after a specific Scottish garment traditionally woven in tartan.
Dimensions: Vary widely. Most tartans have at least one broad band of color (at least 1/2" wide) and one narrow (less than 1/4") wide.
Glen Check/Prince of Wales
A specific type of tartan that has seen enough use in menswear to warrant its own category, a "Glen check" pattern uses different numbers and sizes of bands for its vertical and horizontal elements. That makes the resulting pattern irregular, with larger and smaller rectangles formed by the intersecting bands.
There is no specific color formula for Glen check, but the most common styles use predominantly muted colors like grays and dark blues, sometimes with a single thin line of a bright color in the vertical and horizontal patterns to create a grid that "pops" out from the rest of the weave.
Dimensions: No fixed dimensions, but most Glen checks work on a fairly small scale relative to other tartans. The bands are usually not more than 1/2" wide.
Gingham
Another tartan varient, gingham is specifically a two-tone plaid with identical horizontal and vertical arrangements. It produces a more regular grid than plaids where the vertical and horizontal layouts are different.
Frequently, all the bands are the same size, making gingham a regular grid pattern of squares in three colors: each base color, plus the diagonal blending of the two. White paired with one other color is the most common color scheme for gingham.
Gingham usually shows up on casual work shirts, but it can also be used for pocket squares and neckties, and very large-scale gingham is sometimes used to make casual sports jackets.
Dimensions: Varies. Anywhere from 1/4" to 3/4" is a typical width for each band of color on a gingham shirt, but it can go smaller or wider. Gingham sports jackets usually enlarge the pattern significantly, with each band of color at leas an inch wide, and sometimes more.
Windowpane
A broad check, windowpane basically takes a pinstripe or a chalk stripe and lays the same pattern down horizontally as well as vertically to create a grid.
It is distinguished by having gaps substantially larger than the lines of the grid. Windowpane is most commonly seen on sports jackets, and on some dress shirts; n both cases it is a fairly casual pattern.
Dimensions: Gridlines of 1/4" or less. Spacing can vary, but is generally quite wide -- at least 1" between lines,
Dimensions: Variable, but each individual stripe is usually no more than 1/2" wide or so.
Herringbone
A textured weave rather than a dyed pattern: vertical columns of small, repeating V-shapes. If the warp and the weft threads are different colors, the pattern becomes more pronounced.
Herringbone is a popular choice for suits, jackets, trousers, and shirts alike. It is often used to add a little more visual interest to a solid-colored item.
Dimensions: Columns are usually between 1/4" and 1/2" wide. The thickness of the "V" shape is determined by the threads or yarns used in the weave.
Houndstooth
A "broken check" grid of jagged repeating shapes, usually rendered in black and white or dark gray and light gray. Like herringbone, houndstooth is created by a specific weave, in this case one that uses two threads of each color.
Dimensions: Varies based on the threads used. A typical houndstooth pattern has checks about 1/4" square. If the pattern is printed rather than woven, it can be blown up or shrunken down to any scale, including very exaggerated ones.
Plaid/Tartan
A style of check created by crossing bands of two or more colors, typically using more than one size of band. A specific weave creates alternating diagonal slashes wherever the colored bands intersect.
In most of the world, these patterns are called "tartan." In the United States and Canada they are more commonly called "plaid," after a specific Scottish garment traditionally woven in tartan.
Dimensions: Vary widely. Most tartans have at least one broad band of color (at least 1/2" wide) and one narrow (less than 1/4") wide.
Glen Check/Prince of Wales
A specific type of tartan that has seen enough use in menswear to warrant its own category, a "Glen check" pattern uses different numbers and sizes of bands for its vertical and horizontal elements. That makes the resulting pattern irregular, with larger and smaller rectangles formed by the intersecting bands.
There is no specific color formula for Glen check, but the most common styles use predominantly muted colors like grays and dark blues, sometimes with a single thin line of a bright color in the vertical and horizontal patterns to create a grid that "pops" out from the rest of the weave.
Dimensions: No fixed dimensions, but most Glen checks work on a fairly small scale relative to other tartans. The bands are usually not more than 1/2" wide.
Gingham
Another tartan varient, gingham is specifically a two-tone plaid with identical horizontal and vertical arrangements. It produces a more regular grid than plaids where the vertical and horizontal layouts are different.
Frequently, all the bands are the same size, making gingham a regular grid pattern of squares in three colors: each base color, plus the diagonal blending of the two. White paired with one other color is the most common color scheme for gingham.
Gingham usually shows up on casual work shirts, but it can also be used for pocket squares and neckties, and very large-scale gingham is sometimes used to make casual sports jackets.
Dimensions: Varies. Anywhere from 1/4" to 3/4" is a typical width for each band of color on a gingham shirt, but it can go smaller or wider. Gingham sports jackets usually enlarge the pattern significantly, with each band of color at leas an inch wide, and sometimes more.
Windowpane
A broad check, windowpane basically takes a pinstripe or a chalk stripe and lays the same pattern down horizontally as well as vertically to create a grid.
It is distinguished by having gaps substantially larger than the lines of the grid. Windowpane is most commonly seen on sports jackets, and on some dress shirts; n both cases it is a fairly casual pattern.
Dimensions: Gridlines of 1/4" or less. Spacing can vary, but is generally quite wide -- at least 1" between lines,
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