https://le-magasin.co.uk/tag/stripes/ Recent content in Stripes on Le Magasin Hugo en-GB Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://le-magasin.co.uk/history-of-the-stripe-british-fashion.html Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://le-magasin.co.uk/history-of-the-stripe-british-fashion.html <p>Stripes are back for autumn — striped linen shirting, deckchair-width cotton, fine pinstripe tailoring. This happens roughly every eighteen months, and it is always announced as a revival. It isn&rsquo;t, really. The stripe has never actually left British dressing. It has simply moved between classes, industries and decades, picking up a new set of meanings each time.</p> <p>Which is more than most patterns manage. A stripe is the simplest mark you can put on cloth, and yet in Britain it has signified disgrace, service, wealth, rebellion and seaside leisure — sometimes within the same century.</p>