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Pinstripes are on catwalks and in the White House. Is there more to this look than money and privilege?
Whether worn by RFK Jr or Jeremy Corbyn, a strong-lined suit portrays a very particular message. Now, everyone from A$AP Rocky to Charli xcx is getting in on the action
Visiting the American capital this week, McGregor met Donald Trump in the White House on Saint Patrick’s Day, wearing an outfit that had the markings of a man after the president’s own heart: a three-piece pinstripe suit. At the Coach show, watched over by Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, pinstripe was styled in the kind of high-low petri dish way younger generations tend to throw outfits together – over boxer short-style shorts with T-shirts grunged with scribbled messages. The lines are loaded, and McGregor knows it, having used pinstripe in the past to transmit a very direct message to his opponent Floyd Mayweather Jr: written into the stripes of a suit he wore pre-fight were the words “Fuck You”.
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