the.com/argyle sweater
Golf's way of making a diamond pattern look like a personality.
means A sweater knitted with a diagonal diamond-check pattern, usually in multiple colors, traditionally associated with golf courses and clubhouse closets.
from The name comes from the Argyll region of western Scotland, home of Clan Campbell, whose tartan featured a diamond lattice design. The pattern was adapted into knitwear from traditional Scottish Highland dress — specifically echoing the diamond-patterned socks worn with kilts — and the diamond check caught on in Fair Isle-style knitting before golf culture in the early-to-mid 20th century seized on it and never let go.
- origin
- named after Scottish Clan Campbell of Argyll
- golf uniform
- popularized by 1920s Scottish golfers
- peak fame
- worn unironically by your least cool uncle
- pattern logic
- diamonds, not plaid, despite constant confusion