Description:
Fine, stripes separated by a medium width of space. Classification: Casual.
Pattern: Horizontal Stripes for Sample
Fine, close set horizontal stripes. The thicker the stripes and the farther that are apart the wider and shorter you will appear to be. Classification: Business Casual, Casual.Pattern: Horizontal Stripes
Since the 18th-century striped cloth entered the repertoire of ordinary European fashionable clothing. In particular, striped clothing acquired sporting or leisure connotations. As this association with the seaside suggests, stripes also called to mind nautical images. Woollen sweaters knitted with horizontal stripes of blue and white became standard clothing for sailors.
The classic navy blue and white striped T-shirts that we know today originated from the French coastal region of Brittany. The 1958 Act of France saw navy seamen in the area given a striped woven top bearing 21 horizontal stripes (one for each of Napoleon’s victories) as a uniform, known as a matelot or marinière. The garment was born out of functionality: the boat neckline allowed sailors to dress quickly and to spot an overboard shipmate. The official Breton shirt, manufactured locally in wool and in cotton, was eventually adopted by many sailors across the region of northern France, and it was upon a visit to the coast that fashion designer Coco Chanel came across it.