The checkered print is by no means a novel pattern — it's been around since the invention of chess in the 6th century (Netflix's The Queen's Gambit really couldn't have been better timed). It's appeared in tiling and flags that date back to the 1600s before showing up in fashion in the 1950s and '60s, gracing the pages of Glamour. Most recently, those classic black-and-white squares have swept the runways once more, showing up in the Fall/Winter 2020 collections of Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Erdem, Eckhaus Latta, and The Elder Statesman. The ubiquity of checks, especially among the Instagram influencer set, is felt even with a simple, cursory scroll. We get it, Instagram was invented for that very reason: to show off what you love and to have that love validated with copious likes. But when there's a tidal wave of people who all love one thing at the