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 ...

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 ...