wore a blue gingham dress in the Wizard of Oz book and film. Mary Ann Summers on Gilligan's Island often wore a gingham dress. Bill Hicks made reference to gingham in his famous stand-up comedy routine in regard to Jack Palance from the 1953 movie Shane. Gingham dresses were standard attire for most female performers on the Grand Ole Opry until the 1960s, such that the dress code was jocularly known as the "Gingham Curtain" until Jeannie Seely pushed for its abolition. In Marty Robbins's Grammy-winning song "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" (1970), he mentions his wife "in a dress made of gingham". In the Captain Beefheart song "My Human Gets Me Blues" from the album Trout Mask Replica (1969), he sings “I saw you baby, dancin' in your x-ray gingham dress.” Japanese girl group AKB48 used gingham as a general theme for their 2012 single "Gingham Check." The XTC song "Pink Thing" contains the line "If you could only see the way the gingham swirls." See also British country clothing Madras cloth Railroad stripe Gamucha Keffiyeh Notes References Kadolph, Sara J., ed.: Textiles, 10th edition, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2007, Material for Boys' Clothing: Gingham Vichy (optionally requires username and password to display images; press cancel until the box is gone) Woven fabrics Textile patterns