Check Mate: Nine new ways to square off with plaid, tartan and tweed

It’s not what you wear, as the adage goes, but how you wear it. So, get ready to dress outside the lines. Here’s how.

Plaid, tartan and tweed may bear the hallmark of heritage but their reputation for stylish subversion precedes them.

The mathematical rigour of checks are not the stuff of disorderly conduct. Yet their association with punk, grunge and Vivienne Westwood pirates is legendary.

Plaid, tartan and tweed may bear the hallmark of heritage but their reputation for stylish subversion proceeds them. Perhaps that’s the appeal.