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The products gained popularity in the 1990s, even as many other "party plan" merchandisers were faltering due to changing lifestyles, and was acquired in 2002 by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Corporation. Sometimes, mostly in England, this word is spelled Plad. Founded in the 1980s by Doris Christopher the company began to sell these items to housewives on the "party plan", a system in which a homemaker invited her friends over for a social event at which the products were demonstrated and sold, a concept first used with great success with Tupperware. Plaid is a Scots language word meaning blanket, usually referring to patterned woollen cloth; it is unclear if the Gaelic word Plaide came first. The Pampered Chef is a line of kitchen tools and other aids to cooking. Plaid may refer to more than one thing:. Plaid is the name of a British electronic music duo, taking their name from the threads of the fabric.

Plaid Cymru (Welsh, meaning Party of Wales) is the Welsh Nationalist political party dedicated to independence for Wales. Plaid refers to the carolingian assembly held twice a year. This makes blocks of color that repeat vertically and horizontally in a pattern of squares and lines. In American English, plaid is cloth made with alternating stripes and bands of color woven into or dyed onto the fabric.

It is mostly associated with the Scottish highlands, but was also used in poor lowland rural areas. This was worn over a leine (or shirt) and formed a cheap all-weather outfit that also served as a blanket or bedroll for wild camping. Historically the earlier form of the kilt was the belted plaid, a double width of thick woollen cloth worn pleated and fastened around the waist by a belt, with the upper half often cast over the shoulder but sometimes hanging down over the belt and gathered up at the front or brought up over the head for protection against weather. A similar plaid in checked cloth was formerly worn by Scottish lowlands shepherds.

When the modern kilt is worn as a dress uniform, for example by pipe band Drum majors, a plaid is a pleated cloth in the same tartan as the kilt, cast over the shoulder and fastened at the front. It may be laid on the ground as a tablecloth for a picnic. In British English, particularly in Scotland, a plaid or a plaid rug is a large thick woollen twill cloth, often tartan, used as a travel rug or as a blanket.