Checkered pattern penetrates all men’s wardrobes. An array of patterns from argyle to gingham dominate menswear. Checks make your wardrobe more colourful and interesting.
Found on nearly all top clothing essentials including shirts, sport coats and sweaters it is easily identifiable by crisscrossing lines of coloured squares of either same or varying sizes.
A Pattern may be as plain as bicolour alternating squares or a puzzle of several coloured squares. Bright multicoloured check shirts are most casual while base white shirts with almost undetectable checks can be your business casual staples.
Ransack a man’s closet ;what you are most likely to find in his collection is a checkered shirt.
Garments that have checkered patterns are shirts, suits, blazers, sweaters, socks, pocket squares and ties.
Why Every Man Should Wear Check Pattern
Checks are older than your grandpa, probably very old. Ever since men started styling clothes they wore checks in shirts, trousers, blazers even full check suit. The design came as an alternative to drab clothing that was plain and needed more colours for casual outfits- simply check shirt and denim or gingham shirt with work trousers.
Shirts
Almost all check patterns succeed well in shirts because shirts are worn in a large variety in various outfits. Small check patterns are less casual than large patterns except windowpane. As more colours come into play the shirt becomes more casual.
Common checkered patterns in shirts are gingham, tattersall, graph check, windowpane which pair perfectly with dress trousers whereas tartan or buffalo checks work with casual pants like chino and denim.
Suit Jacket Blazers Sport coat
Both plaid blazer and hounds tooth patterned sport coat are two classy clothing staples in mens collection. Two more checkered patterns suitable for blazer designs are windowpane and glen check. Windowpane is appropriate for a suit since both jacket and trousers can be made out of this.
Glen check and hounds tooth are small and heavy patterns proper for blazers and sport jackets.
Sweaters
Sweater Argyle and windowpane patterns exclusively belong to sweaters. Patterns only appear on front of a sweater’s body. Argyle checks are commonly seen on V-neck sweaters and windowpane on crewneck sweaters.
Checkered Pattern In Mens Accessory
Socks, ties and pockets squares usually come with different check patterns. Argyle and checkerboard are most common in socks.
Ties are most versatile and have nearly all checks as shirts. A multi-coloured checkered tie is the focal point of your outfit while you can choose other clothing pieces with matching shades.
- For instance: a check tie with blue, grey and white colours can be grouped with a white shirt, grey blazer and blue pocket square.
- Ensure you don’t wear the same checker design next to your tie to prevent clash of patterns. However, choose varying sizes of the same pattern if you are still bent on matching like check patterns.
Pocket squares: don’t try too hard in pocket squares; steer clear from larger checks; be wise to introduce small decent patterns with complementing colours to the outfit.
Socks can also look excellent in check designs. Some common patterns are Argyle, windowpane and checkboard. Same logic of tie applies here; one of the colours should exactly match the trousers colour for a systematic appearance.
Well-known Check Patterns
Gingham
Gingham is a small check pattern having single coloured checks on white base. Usually two shades of a colour are used to make this pattern one being light and other dark. Gingham shirts are a popular article of clothing among men.
Hounds Tooth
It’s a rare checkered pattern mainly seen on men’s blazers and sometimes on shirts. From a distance it’s an elusive design of squares which appear to be woven diagonally but upon closure inspection you see a very fine and intricate checkered pattern.
Hounds tooth is predominantly black and white. Men can own one blazer with this pattern to wear on special nights. This pattern appears to suit mature men hence it is best choice for young men wishing to look accomplished and sophisticated.
Buffalo Plaid
Very similar pattern to gingham is buffalo plaid. Alternately arranged Red and black squares create buffalo pattern. Mainly this pattern is good for casual shirts.
Argyle
A pattern with vertical diamonds of two-three different colours. This is fairly a large size pattern and a distinctive design found on mens sweaters; perfect for work culture. Argyle pattern blends absolutely with small checks and stripes looks fabulous, fits formal scenarios and is a quintessential winter garment. Argyle is out of the ordinary pattern for men who love mixing patterns while dressing smart.
Windowpane
A business class large checkered pattern windowpane pattern is simply made of crossing lines forming large rectangles, roughly squares. Check size can vary according to the garment, so called because of the resemblance to windowpane design. Usually white or grey lines make up the whole pattern.
Suits and shirts are especially made of this pattern. Windowpane suits are among the
business professional category. Choose windowpane for a shirt to diversify your style. This pattern is perfect for slim men who want to look proportionally bigger.
Tattersall
This check design is similar to graph checks save the fact that it has two colour lines crisscross each other in each square making tattersall a very unique elegant pattern for shirts and vests. Tattersall shirts make a smart casual staple because this pattern pairs well with denim chinos and dress pants since it lacks colourful squares.
