Rachel Bilson’s wearing it. Jessica Simpson sports it. Heck, even Ashton Kutcher dons the funky plaid that’s making a huge fashion comeback. Madras, a light-weight, bright fabric that screams summer, ...

On the cover of Lisa Birnbach’s “The Official Preppy Handbook,” a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking, acting and thinking like a US prep school elite, a pattern along the border depicts a fabric ...

It’s a bleedin’ trend! Madras — the cotton fabric that comes in plaids, checks and stripes and is famous for its fading, “bleeding” colors — is back on the fashion runways again, along with other ...

The V.I. Council on the Arts unveiled the territory’s official madras fabric to the public at a ceremony held Saturday at the Frederick Dorsch Cultural Center in Frederiksted. The fabric was ...

THIS IS NOT your grandma’s madras. The summery plaid prints had a heyday in the ’50s and a revival in the ’80s. But if you’re old enough to remember “The Official Preppy Handbook,” these clothes may ...