by Isaure Fremont September 2, 2025

The tennis stripe

They're the talk of the catwalks and parades on every street corner: traditional suits in skirts or wide-legged pants, but also denim delighting in bold white stripes! But where does this stripe that runs through the streets come from?

The pinstripe, also known as the pinstripe , is an iconic feature of men's style. Unlike the chalk stripe , it is distinguished by its fine vertical lines, often associated with elegance and sophistication. A symbol of elegance and casualness, it has not always been the emblem of this. Indeed, in the Middle Ages, stripes conveyed a pejorative image because they were associated with the outcasts of society. We think in particular of jesters or criminals.

The Renaissance allowed the stripe to find a new place and a new connotation since they were now adopted by the upper classes and European royal families.

Finally, the tennis stripe is best known as the uniform of the City of London banker in the 1920s. The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese's famous feature film starring Leonardo Di Caprio, adopted the codes of the business world, and hundreds of two-piece tennis stripes invaded the screen. Once again, the stripe became an emblem and social distinction.

The stripe: when the dandy asserts himself

Among the stripe lovers, we find the French icon Serge Gainsbourg, who, in the 70s, never tired of his timeless tennis stripe blazer which he wore with an unbuttoned white shirt and raw blue denim, giving his silhouette an ambiguous nonchalance.

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The tennis stripe

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