Long dresses, some sequined and some in gingham checks, are cheerful in red and white.

Boot-cut trousers, jean jackets, faded gingham checks and superlight suedes were paired in ways that tweaked formality.

Mr. Curtiss used color and pattern, like gingham checks, to convey his message.

Tweeds, gingham checks and 1960's prints are shown with matching hats, bags and shoes.

Its casual shirts sported pale photogravure pictures with safari or Hawaiian motifs, pretty pastel stripes or newly popular gingham checks.

Large tiered cakes, like wedding cakes, with sugar flowers, polka dots or gingham checks, are favorites for first birthdays, he said.

There was some humor on display, too: lively jackets in gingham checks lightened the severity of the sophisticated black dreses.

Her paintings, with their energetic colored grids and stripes, have been influenced, she said, by the gingham checks and other fabrics she saw there.

One intern, Miko Tomobe, spent every moment of free time over the last year hand-tufting 25 pieces of yellow gingham check.

Gold braid also borders long single- and double-breasted ivory jackets, some in stripes or gingham checks.