She returned the same skirt twice. The one four feet behind her was fine.
The pattern arrives before the weather
Every autumn the check comes back in Italy within about ten days, and nobody involved calls it a trend.
She takes two steps back
In a Bologna shop she holds the skirt at arm's length, then moves further away than anyone needs to be from a skirt.
From ten feet, it has to stop being a check
It should resolve into one warm brown. The lines come back only when you are close enough to shake a hand.
Contrast, not pattern
Hard white lines against dark read from the end of a platform. That is a uniform. Tonal weaves read as a neutral.
Chosen from across the room
One check, everything else plain. That is the whole of it.