Pinstripes

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'''Pinstripes''' are a pattern of very thin stripes of any color running in parallel. The pattern is often found in fashion fabrics. Pinstripes are very thin, often {{convert|1/30|in}} in width, and are created with one single-warp yarn.

[[File:Portrait of Sir Henry Dale Wellcome M0017462.jpg|thumb|upright|English pharmacologist and physiologist Henry Hallett Dale wearing a pinstripe suit]]

==Men's suits== Although found mostly in men's suits, any type of fabric can be pinstriped, including fabric for shirts.<ref name="buddshirts/shirting-stripes">{{cite web |title=Earn your Stripes - A Glossary of Shirting Stripes |url=https://www.buddshirts.co.uk/blogs/blog/earn-your-stripes-a-glossary-of-shirting-stripes |website=Budd London |access-date=17 September 2025 |language=en}}</ref> Pinstripes were originally worn only on suit pants but upon being adopted in the United States during the 20th century they were also used on suit jackets.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.knownman.com/pinstripe-suits |title=Pinstripe Suits: How to Wear Them and Whether You Should Buy Them |publisher=KnownMan.com |language=en-US |access-date=2017-06-19}}</ref> Pinstripes have been found on suits since the early 19th century. They were used by banks in London to identify their employees.<ref name="capitolhillclothiers/pinstripes">{{cite web |title=The History of Pinstripes |url=https://www.capitolhillclothiers.com/style-guides/a-brief-history-of-pinstripes |website=Capitol Hill Clothiers |access-date=17 September 2025}}</ref><ref name="gettyimages/3268357">{{cite web |title=A client brings his silver to a City of London bank and the cashier prepares to weigh it. |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/client-brings-his-silver-to-a-city-of-london-bank-and-the-news-photo/3268357 |website=Getty Images |access-date=17 September 2025 |language=en-us |date=8 April 2004}}</ref><ref name="crane-brothers/pinstripe-suit">{{cite web |last1=Crane |first1=Murray |title=The Origins of the Pinstripe Suit |url=https://crane-brothers.com/blogs/dispatch/the-origins-of-the-pinstripe-suit |website=Crane Brothers |access-date=17 September 2025 |location=Auckland, New Zealand}}</ref><ref name="reuters/idUSL1880264">{{cite news |last1=Merriman |first1=Jane |title=No brown shoes for 'peacocks' of banking |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/business/no-brown-shoes-for-peacocks-of-banking-idUSL1880264/ |access-date=17 September 2025 |work=Reuters |date=August 9, 2007}}</ref><ref name="businessinsider/dress-code-london-city-banks">{{cite news |last1=Fitzmaurice |first1=Rosie |title=These are the unwritten dress codes for the major London City banks |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/dress-code-london-city-banks-2017-4 |access-date=17 September 2025 |work=Business Insider}}</ref><ref name="gettyimages/646346103">{{cite web |title=British banker, diplomat and former Governor of the Bank of England, Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer (1918-1991) pictured at his desk in London on 7th November 1970. |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/british-banker-diplomat-and-former-governor-of-the-bak-of-news-photo/646346103 |website=Getty Images |access-date=17 September 2025 |language=en-us |date=10 June 2016}}</ref><ref name="gettyimages/826700596">{{cite web |title=British banker Raymond Bonham Carter in front of a window overlooking the river Thames, London, 9th February 1978. (Photo by Evening Standard) |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/british-banker-raymond-bonham-carter-in-front-of-a-window-news-photo/826700596 |website=Getty Images |language=en-us |date=8 August 2017}}</ref>

==Baseball== The Boston Nationals' baseball uniforms have had pinstripes since 1907 and they are recognized as the first Major League Baseball team to incorporate pinstriping into a baseball uniform.<ref>[http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/uniforms-cubs.shtml "Cubs Uniform"]. ''Baseball Almanac''.</ref> Many other former and current Major League Baseball teams—including the Florida Marlins, Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros and the San Diego Padres—later adopted pinstripes on their own uniforms. The Yankees, in particular, are associated with the pattern.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dittmeier |first1=Bobby |title=Yankees pinstripes turn 100 years old |url=http://m.mlb.com/news/article/28329362// |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030105935/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/28329362 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 30, 2014 |work=MLB.Com |access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> This was later carried over into the National Basketball Association, with teams like the Chicago Bulls, Charlotte Hornets and Orlando Magic incorporating pinstripes into their uniforms.

==History== References to pinstripes can be found in Geoffrey Chaucer's ''The Canterbury Tales'' (written between 1387 and 1400), where the Sergeant at the Law is described as wearing "a homely parti-coloured coat girt with a silken belt of pin-stripe stuff".<ref>{{cite book |date=1996 |title=Adventures in English Literature, Athena Edition |url=https://archive.org/details/adventuresinengl00holt |publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |page=[https://archive.org/details/adventuresinengl00holt/page/67 67] |isbn=0-03-098638-9 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

==Chalk stripe== [[File:Portrait of Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947.jpg|thumb|Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill, in front of Minton's Playhouse in New York City, some wearing '''chalk stripe''' zoot suits. (1947)]] The pinstripe is often compared to the wider chalk stripe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/chalk-stripe-or-pinstripe/|title=Chalk stripe or pin stripe? |website=Gentleman's Gazette |language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-19}}</ref>

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