Why the 165-Year-Old Buffalo Check Is 2015's Hot Holiday Pattern

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Technically speaking, it is style No. 5310-402 in the Woolrich middleweight fabric collection, but everybody knows it by its nickname. The story goes that around 1850, a designer at Woolrich's mill in Chatham Run, Pa. reprised a black-and-red, twill plaid that the Scots had called Rob Roy. But since the designer happened to own a herd of buffalo on the side, he called it buffalo check.

Fashion trends come and go, but 165 years on, buffalo check is arguably more popular than ever. Are

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