Check it

From top to bottom

Red Check £6 Cancer Research, Chichester

Blue&White £120 APC Madras

Turqoise Check £19 Uniqlo

Red&White £9 H&M Kids

Green  $14 Beacon's Closet, NY

Blue Check $3 Salvation Army, NY

Red&White £15 H&M

Everywhere one goes at the moment there appears to be a veritable barrage of plaid, we all knew it was going to be a huge trend when it was paraded down the catwalks of NY, Paris and Milan during Men's fashion weeks a while ago resulting in what one might mistake as a Lumberjack convention. Go to any gig, party, hell...everywhere and it's there in a host of multicoloured checks, rather a cheering sight in these soon to be austere times.

The simplicity of a plaid shirt or jacket must be one of the reasons why it has exploded and it really is a very cheap trend to encapsulate, go to any charity shop, thrift store, vintage store and there always seems to be a bit of check peeping out from amongst the rails. The closets here appear to be spitting plaid shirts out of every orifice, the majority of them second-hand finds that have not cost more then a few pounds. On a recent scout of the high street the best we found were Uniqlo and H&M Children's section...we picked up a couple of shirts there for £9.00, a steal.