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Proper term for wide pinstripes on a shirt

mamasboy

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What is the proper term for shirts with really wide pinstripes. I can't seem to find any.


YES! THAT IS THE PROPER TERM! BENGAL STRIPES! THANKS
 

Coburn

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Originally Posted by mamasboy
What is the proper term for shirts with really wide pinstripes. I can't seem to find any.

Racing stripes?
 

Sanguis Mortuum

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Originally Posted by JohnnyLaw
If they're wide, they're not pinstripes. Bengal stripes, maybe?

Unless he means the stripes are narrow but are spaced far apart. It's kinda hard to tell what he means.
 

pgd3

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Originally Posted by mamasboy
What is the proper term for shirts with really wide pinstripes. I can't seem to find any.

Like an oxford stripe?

Oxford-Stripe-Blue.jpg
 

alliswell

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Butcher stripes are wider than bengal stripes, which I think are 8-16/inch.
 

alexanduh

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i am going to have to go with stripe.
 

GBR

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Why worry? Even if you can find a consensus here, it is very likely that you will not be able to communicate by using the term given the doubts.
 

unjung

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Chalk stripe comes in somewhere doesn't it?

And what about candy stripe, or is that just shirts?
 

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