pinstriped

or pin-striped

[ pin-strahypt ]

adjective

1. (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
2. Informal. having or conveying the attitudes, policies, etc., often associated with persons who typically wear such garments in their work, as bankers or lawyers:

   a pinstriped mind.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pinstriped¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; pinstripe + -ed ³

Example Sentences

“If the blues were born in New Orleans and the South — they took a note and blew it through a horn,” said Rodriguez, standing onstage wearing a pinstriped suit and his signature fedora.

From Los Angeles Times

Everything was yellow or pink—the checkered floor, the pinstriped walls, the booths and counter stools.

From Literature

It often wore pinstriped suits; Jews regularly saw the backs of them if they had the nerve to try to get admitted to certain clubs, fraternities, neighborhoods, and inner, upper business circles.

From Los Angeles Times

His first “crawl,” as he called them, took place in Times Square in 1978, when he moved on his belly across 42nd Street in a pinstriped suit with a yellow square sewed to the back.

From New York Times

Last month, one of my favorite online vintage curators, @copmeifyoucan, posted a pair of Jean Paul Gaultier SS88 boxing shorts, pinstriped with a bone design and embellished with an image of a boxing gym.

From Los Angeles Times