WM, I like your shirt. I'll send a car round to pick it up later.
Isn't graph really tiny checks and suitable for trigonometry, whereas tatt is larger (often exaggeratedly so nowadays) and to my mind at least some kind of wool/ cotton mix type flannel thing? Although that's often not the case. The Lazenby OHMSS dimensions are the ones Mercer seem to be using.
Thanks AC, it's good to be back.
I agree Stanshall. For me, the demise of Viyella is somewhat akin to the death of Burberry. A good solid brand, excellent at its one-trick, seemingly there forever. Until one day it all ballsed up.
Exactly, graph check is what you find on graph paper. It's a micro-check without any lines intersecting the check pattern, whereas tattersall is an overcheck pattern where the lines cross over; smaller checks contained by larger checks. See here: http://www.alexander-west.com/styleguide/?p=288
So if my Makers was a solid color it would be graph check.
So if my Makers had lines of only one color it would be graph check.
I suppose you could make that case... the red micro-checks are contained within the larger black squares, which is the classic tattersall pattern.
What if I were to get Bop to map out some fractal rhythm segments and some minor seventh flat five and overlay the visual interpretation onto the pattern?
I actually do have one tattersall oxford--one of Lands' End's "Original Oxfords," purchased back when LE was a better resource. It has brown and blue striping, rather widely spaced. I like it so much I wore it to the 50th reunion of my prep school graduating class back in 2009.
I have a couple of Mercer flannel tattersalls that I prize highly, so much so I tend to wear them only sparingly. I don't believe Mercer has any tattersall oxfords, although they do have a couple of fine check tattersalls in lighter fabrics.
I have a lovely makers tatterall in Oxford.
It has been in rotation heavily this winter.
I have two great LE tartan and tattersall check shirts. Older LE and new. But their current selection of colourways are fugly!