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the fabric that turned farmhouses into picnics and a tornado into a fashion icon.
means A lightweight cotton fabric woven in a checked or striped pattern, usually in white and one bold color.
from From the Malay word genggang, meaning 'striped' — picked up by Dutch traders (as gingang) in the East Indies and carried into English in the 1600s. Notably, the cloth started life as stripes; the famous checks came later, once power looms made the crisscross easy to weave.
- name origin
- From Malay genggang, meaning striped, not checked.
- started striped
- Originally striped; checks came later in Manchester mills.
- dorothy's dress
- Blue gingham carried Judy Garland over the rainbow.
- woven not printed
- The check comes from threads, identical front and back.
- brigitte bardot
- Married in pink gingham, crashing the fabric into couture.
for instance
gingham style by psy — 2013 parody of 'gangnam style' featuring gingham fashion and rural korean aesthetics