Plaid Week 2010 is the 2nd annual weeklong celebration of plaid. Now that Plaid Week has reached international phenomena status (just go with it) we want to see how you are celebrating. Send us your photos and stories from Plaid Week 2010 and we will post them.

Please send your photos to david@plaidweek.com. We are looking forward to hear from you.

Happy Plaid Week!!!!!

Yoshi – Why are you participating in Plaid Week?

Akemi – I love everything American, when I heard about Plaid Week my mind was blown.

Takara – Why not? I would do anything that involves plaid.

Yoshi – Akemi, I noticed you seated in a rather precarious position earlier, why?

Akemi – The only thing I like more than plaid are Gargoyles. I have found that sitting on something as uncomfortable as a bottle really helps me develop my Gargoyle stance.

Takara – What?!?!?!?! (this is then the photo below was taken)

Akemi – I want to be a Gargoyle. Sometimes at night I sit up on the roof of my building and watch the city.

Takara – What?!?!?!?!

Akemi – I was going to wait until after we were married to tell you this but I quit my job. I am now a full time Gargoyle

Takara – What?!?!?!?! #&$%@#$

It was sooner after this that Takara stormed away, we don’t think these two will be spending many more Plaid Weeks together.

Hope all of you are ready. Be sure to check the countdown page so you don’t miss it.

If you want your own plaid clock check out this site.

If Chuck Norris does not wear plaid his aura will melt your face off.

Want another? Mike Huckabee was going to choose Chuck Norris to be his running-mate. If Huckabee announced this earlier there would have been no way he could have lost the election.

If you are looking for more interesting facts on Mr. Norris go to Google, enter “Where is Chuck Norris” into the search box and then press “I’m Felling Lucky”.

Iannone Design a Philadelphia based design/build firm designed a cork sideboard that retails for $3,400. Only “plaid-platting” could drive up prices like that.

We spoke to known economist Ryan Hoffman about this, here are this thoughts. “For decades our economies have been based on the gold standard. For just as long economists have been wondering what’s next. I think our days of wondering are over; it’s plaid! The Celts got it right, we just got too wrapped up in the glitz and glamour of gold to realize it.”

Tomorrow when the commodities markets you know we will be selling our gold in favor of plaid.

In 1957 a group of Hepcats, Hipsters, and Barn Burners started throwing exclusive parties at the Chateau Marmont, dubbed The Great Plaid Parties. Besides knowing the right people one had to be wearing plaid to be allowed in. As word spread these parties quickly became a hot spot for Hollywood’s social elite. It is rumored that Lana Turner was once denied admission for not wearing plaid.

Life reporter John Graham, was the only reporter ever allowed behind the velvet rope. In the October 1957 of Life he published a piece that both revealed the secret happenings of these soirees and ended them. What happened at these parties had long been the subject of much speculation. Louie Armstrong and Sammy Davis Jr. would often share the stage as James Dean, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Stack, Ingrid Bergman, and Anthony Perkins took to the dance floor. The Great Plaid Parties were where Henry Fonda and Afdera Franchetti first met.

In 1957 plaid may have been accepted among the Hip it was a different story in Middle America where it was still thought of it as the fabric of a counter culture movement; outlaw fashion. Until Graham’s piece the identities of the attendees had been secret protecting them from the scrutiny that awaited. In October the backlash began; many studios threatened to terminate the contracts of their stars unless the Great Plaid Parties were disbanded. Today all that remains are a few photographs and the memories of those few who were there. Luck for us we live in a time when plaid is honored in a week long celebration.

Images via: Black Watch

With everything going on we are glad The Miami Herald has the time to pick on Marco Rubio, a senate candidate in Florida, for wearing plaid. Yes, plaid of all things.

We have two things to say about this matter:
Marco Rubio – we know nothing about your politics or beliefs but we support your decision to wear plaid.
Miami Herald – we will never buy your paper and would like to encourage our readers to do the same.

The “Scarecrow Bandit” is a Chicagoland bank robber who received his moniker for his, gardening gloves, broad-brimmed floppy hat, sawed-off wooden broomstick and unfortunate use of a plaid shirt. It is a true shame that plaid is being defiled as if it were polka dots. We here at Plaid Week hope he is caught soon before he can do any further damage to plaid’s good name.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Chicago FBI at (312) 829-1199.

If for Plaid, Scotch-Koreans or Albinos are your thing then this commercial is for you. If not then it is just a strange commercial trying too hard to be funny. Is it just us or does the old guy look like Mike Myers? Click the more link to see if for yourself.

To make matters worse there was a rather long delay for the atrocious “ambulance” to arrive. Even Joe Harper, Del Mar’s chief executive, felt “there’s no excuse for this.” Steve Kenly, owner of Mad for Plaid had this to say, “This is unreal. This is like the Dark Ages.”

It is truly a shame that one of the only race horses we could relate to is no longer with us.