A pattern of colored lines forming squares on a light background, originally used for horse blankets and now common in shirts and casual wear.
Named after Richard Tattersall, who founded Tattersall's horse auction house in London in 1766. The pattern was originally used on horse blankets at his famous auctions, where the colorful checks helped identify different stables' horses. The design jumped from horse gear to human fashion when English gentlemen began wearing shirts with the same pattern as their prized horses' blankets.
Every tattersall shirt connects you to 18th-century horse auctions in London—you're literally wearing a pattern that was designed to help identify valuable racehorses at England's most prestigious equestrian marketplace.
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