![]() ![]() ![]() Gingham fabric was popular to use in various dress material such as shirts, skirts, maxi and also for some home furnishing such as towels and curtains. Use Gingham patterns in a 1911 Macy's catalogue In the United States, the mass popularity of men's blue and white gingham-patterned shirts in the 2010s led to critical media coverage of the phenomenon. The same word is used in Spain, where this pattern is called cuadro vichy or estampado vichy. The equivalent in French is the noun vichy, from the town of Vichy, France. Checked gingham became more common over time, though striped gingham was still available in the late Victorian period. From the mid-18th century, when it was being produced in the mills of Manchester, England, it started to be woven into checked or tartan (plaid) patterns (often blue and white). When originally imported into Europe in the 17th century, gingham was a striped fabric, though now it is distinguished by its checkered pattern. Some sources say that the name came into English via Dutch. The name may originate from Malay genggang 'ajar, separate.' Alternatively, it is speculated that the fabric now known as gingham may have been made at Guingamp, a town in Brittany, France, and that the fabric may be named after the town. It is made of carded, medium or fine yarns. Gingham, also called Vichy check, is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric typically with tartan (plaid), striped, or check duotone patterns, in bright colour and in white made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarns. (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L.Type of fabric Gingham cloth with green and white checks It was gingham, with checks of white and blue and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock. March glanced at Meg, who was looking very pretty in her gingham morning gown, with the little curls blowing about her forehead, and very womanly, as she sat sewing at her little worktable, full of tidy white rolls, so unconscious of the thought in her mother's mind as she sewed and sang, while her fingers flew and her thoughts were busied with girlish fancies as innocent and fresh as the pansies in her belt, that Mrs. ![]() I'll be married in this lilac gingham: you may make a dressing-gown for yourself out of the pearl-grey silk, and an infinite series of waistcoats out of the black satin. The girl washed herself carefully, dressed herself in the clean gingham, and tied her pink sunbonnet on her head. ![]()
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