Border tartan

[citation needed] One similar fragment was discovered in an earthenware pot filled with silver coins, at the Antonine Wall in Falkirk, Scotland.

The Celts were said by Roman scholars to wear bright stripes, which some have suggested are actually descriptions of the brighter variants of tartan.

[6] Another similar tartan was found on a cloak in the peat bog at Thorsberg, in the modern-day Schleswig-Holstein region of northern Germany.

[11][12] Walter Scott was famed for wearing trousers of Border tartan, thus starting a fashion for checked clothing in Victorian London.

Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe encounters a man in his building wearing a shepherds' check necktie.