Editor’s Note: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes is a new series investigating how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. As students ...

Marques Reed puts out stock of plaid pants at Uniforms by Logo Express in New Orleans. (Brett Duke, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Plaid has long been synonymous with private girls' schools such ...

This is the story of a little red and green plaid ... girls grew up and had children, the kids wore the dress. When the kids grew up and had children of their own, the dress would come out for sch ...

For 14 years, they have outfitted many of the region's Catholic school ... many uniforms does the average student have? Donna: In the case of a plaid, which is going to affect the girls ...

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 ...