Gingham, Gingham and More Gingham—Because How Else Will You Know It’s Spring?
Lindsey Lanquist
Because coordinating outfits with your picnic blanket is officially cool.
I’m not sure when humans decided it would be cool to coordinate outfits with our favorite picnic blankets, but somewhere along the line we did, and spring’s enduring gingham trend was born. These days, spring doesn’t really feel like spring until we’re all veritable collages of pastel-colored gingham clothes—millennial pink gingham jumpsuits, pale yellow gingham mini dresses, lavender gingham shoes. No spring closet is complete without at least one eye-catching gingham piece; in fact, it’s perhaps stranger to own no gingham at all than it is to wear all-gingham-everything (considering our historical aversion layering prints on prints, that’s really saying something).
Spring is a pretty maximalist season. Emotionally...