TEA BAG caught us in a lie of sorts by asking for the text book difference between Gingham and Plaid. This is a question that frequently finds its way into our mailbag, and we try our best to scoot around it most of the time, except when we have no choice, so in response to TEA BAG"s inquiry we responded:
"Good question, the difference between plaid and gingham is the size of the check and the weight of the fabric, though it's not all together certain whether or not these are the official defining factors. At first, it was thought by some of us that was plaid was made up of one color and black and gingham was one color with white, but our PVP FVC (Fashion Vocabulary Consultant) who is a well respected authority in the fashion world has told us that it has nothing to do with color...."
Here is TEA BAG"S retort:
"I'd just like to point out that there is one picture of you [in the blog] in which you are definitely wearing gingham plaid."
Well TEA BAG, you snarky devil....WE STAND CORRECTED. And I hope you will accept this pair of hand painted Chuck Taylors as a small token of our appreciation in regards to your acute attention to detail in keeping us honest. Just send us a pair of shoes and we'll paint em. (Sorry, we can't provide the footwear, we're on a shoe-string budget, no pun intended. Ha ha ha.)
