The thing is you see, I've taken the whole checked shirt wearing thing a stage further and started wearing not one but TWO of them, with the outer one unbuttoned. I think it looks quite gypsy. Sometimes I also sport a checked bandana-ie type thing, but even I think that is taking it a bit too far. In ten years time everyone will be dressing like the bay city rollers again.
Carson was doing emo a decade or two before it became popular. Those two guys from SCTV looked like that also on the sketch Great White North. .