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pin-stripe
[f. pin n.1 18 + stripe n.3]
A fine broken or continuous stripe, esp. one repeated as a pattern on cloth. Also attrib., designating cloth with a pattern of such stripes or garments made of pin-stripe cloth. So ellipt. as n., a pin-stripe suit, conventionally worn by business men.
1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 183/1 Extra good value, heavy pin-stripe, with fancy navy blue square sailor collar. Ibid. 183/2 This suit is made of a fine brown pin stripe cassimere. 1906Westm. Gaz. 2 June 16/3 The particular cloth I have in mind has a pin stripe in brown. 1922Joyce Ulysses 321 A dainty motif of plume rose being worked into the pleats in a pinstripe. 1935Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins iv. 42 A pin-stripe flannel suit. 1942S. Spender Life & Poet v. 84 The black-coated, pinstripe-trousered man. 1958Spectator 15 Aug. 214/1 A suit that fits him rather less snugly than his usual pin⁓stripe. 1972P. Cleife Slick & Dead i. i. 15 The usual aleatory fall-out of face fungus and brothel creepers mixing it with the pinstripes and the Financial Times. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 50 As I watched, there was a stir in the classroom; a cruel-faced bearded man in a pinstripe suit strode into camera. 1973Times 15 Nov. 18/4, I wore my midnight blue suit with a wide pin stripe. 1975‘D. Jordan’ Black Account iii. 23 This afternoon Magnus was..in a blue-chalk pinstripe, a heavy blue shirt..a near-black tie. 1977Hot Car Oct. 50/3 Apply 1/8 in. or 1/4 in. masking tape into the positions required for the pin stripe, then spray the complete panel in the required car colour.
So ˈpin-striped a., ornamented with narrow stripes; wearing clothes of pin-stripe cloth, conventionally dressed; also fig., characteristic of the business man.
1896Westm. Gaz. 18 Sept. 3/2 Pin-striped serge, a material that in navy blue with a white line makes a very smart costume. 1909Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 15/1 A gown carried out on a khaki-coloured foundation has a decoration of a pin-striped black and gold collar. 1932Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 4/4 A little tuck-in blouse of red and white pin-striped silk. 1958New Statesman 3 May 562/3 Small wonder we..are unhappy with the pin-striped Executive of the Labour Party, stinking as it does with the air of neat suburban houses and well mannered conversation over garden fences. 1967Listener 31 Aug. 263/2 The citizen everywhere, pin⁓striped or dungaree'd, puts his own interests before those of society as a whole. 1970‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird iii. 31 Big silver fish pinstriped in yellow. 1973M. Woodhouse Blue Bone xiii. 148 A stuffy, pin⁓striped wheeler and dealer. 1975Radio Times 13 Sept. 4/2 Pin-striped anonymity in the City once seemed a more likely destination.
Add:b. One who wears pin-striped clothing; = *pin-striper n.
1983N.Y. Times 11 Jan. a1/1 The Yankee pin stripes belong to New York like Central Park, like the Statue of Liberty, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [etc.]. 1986P. D. James Taste for Death vi. ii. 379 He's dredged up a bright young pin-stripe from Maurice and Sheldon. |