Show HOW FAMOUS lA SIOUS COLORED CHECKS CAME TO POPULAR FAVOR sir walter scotts black and white walte tweed trousers figured in a paper dealing with the designing and coloring of scotch tweeds rend read ot at a textile congress held at hostek some time ago alie famous author was one of the earliest bearers wearers of tweed and the first pieces were made in the black and white design colored checks were introduced by accident A manufacturer had bad a number of pieces and the white was so impure and dirty looking that they could not be sold then someone suggested that if it the pieces were dyed brown the defect would woold be covered the suggest suggestion lon was acted upon and a new check of black and brown was the result the new color was rent to london and sold rapidly it was a short step to dye black and green and black and blue and to make broken checks and the trade increased amazingly jt it was now possible for a lady to have a reversible skirt made up in such a way that she might appear at one time in a modest blue and at another in the tartan of her clan |