Country Florals A rustic floral pattern on a button-down shirt, pocket square, or necktie is a hallmark of preppy wedding-season style, but you don’t have to be so gentlemanly all the time.

Although Ogilvy, Nair and Jacobson shot madras into superstardom in the US during the 1960s, the fabric’s link with the Ivy League had started centuries earlier with Elihu Yale, the colonial ...

In Nigeria, where the fabric is known as injiri, or “George” (named after Fort St. George, the port in Madras where the cloth was sent to other parts of the world), the cloth is sacred in the ...

Madras Checks, an ubiquitous feature in lungies and handkerchiefs in the city, is also a world-renowned pattern that made its away across the globe Updated - August 17, 2023 10:35 am IST ...

For a brand that released its first collection just three years ago, the Original Madras Trading Company seems to be everywhere these days. From its own-label clothing, which can be found on its ...

In Suriname, the presence of Madras is particularly evident in the pangi, the iconic wrap skirt worn by Maroon women ...

Madras (pronounced, in the US, with the emphasis on the first syllable) is a lightweight carded cotton cloth with a bright plaid pattern, first produced in and named for the Indian city now known ...

The checked fabric Madras was adopted by the affluent elite of 1950s America. But the fabric's origins go back to a South Indian fishing village, writes Kalpana Sunder.

As early as the 12th century, “Madras” referred to a type of handmade fabric worn by peasants in India's Madraspatnam, now Chennai. Local weavers used soft fibres from the native trees' tip ...

Originally worn by Indian laborers, madras became a staple of preppy American fashion in the 1960s after advertisers spun its tendency to bleed in the wash as a selling point.

Although Ogilvy, Nair and Jacobson shot madras into superstardom in the US during the 1960s, the fabric’s link with the Ivy League had started centuries earlier with Elihu Yale, the colonial ...