Word: plaid
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...DeWolfe suite looks more like a professor’s than a student’s: a daybed featuring a straightforward plaid comforter for the bedroom; a neatly kept living room complete with a coffee table and advent wreath center piece; kitchen stocked with sensible snack options like Triscuits and chicken noodle soup. His clothing, acquired from all over the world, but locally from the Andover Shop and Stonestreets, is more faculty than undergrad, too—a cashmere argyle sweater and khakis are his outfit of choice...
Guilty by Design? What happens when a respected brand falls in with the wrong crowd? In the case of British luxury-goods label Burberry, it gets shown the door. Recently, bands of soccer hooligans have adopted the firm's trademark beige plaid as an informal uniform. Some establishments assume anyone wearing the tartan has a checkered past...
...beyond its niche, the brand may be getting too familiar. Burberry - majority-owned by retailer GUS - needs to broaden its look "and reinforce its price and distribution," says Andy Palmer, account director at London-based ad agency St. Luke's. The company is trying to wean itself off the plaid; less than 15% of its wares now carry it. But will that stop thugs from buying counterfeit items that rip it off? A new floral print planned for next year might see to that. Think Twice Before Merging Five years after Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merged, the transatlantic deal...
...Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst were pretty shocking too. (Durst went on Howard Stern and gallantly described Spears' pubic region to millions of listeners.) Add to all that the legitimate anxiety over her musical staying power (will anyone still buy Britney records now that she's outgrown the plaid skirts and kneesocks?). And throw in all the other stresses and strains of being the world's most scrutinized 21-year-old pop star - the grueling video shoots, the countless interviews, the endless grind of disrobing for magazine covers, not to mention the hurtful backlash from conservative Britney-haters like Kendel...
Wearing a green, red and white plaid kilt, Maurrey Nicolson—a Concord resident and University of Edinburgh alum—explained the necessity of donning traditional Scottish garb while supporting the Edinburgh crew teams...