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Deck Chair
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Stripe
Deck chair, pinstripe, awning. The pattern that reads as composure.
7 cases
Questions
Does the fold cut through the striped print?
The vertical stripes run parallel to it, so the fold becomes one more line and disappears into the pattern. Regatta runs horizontally and the stripes cross the hinge in register, which is the point.
Do vertical stripes make the phone look thinner?
Closed, yes — the same effect they have on anything. Open they have no effect at all, because the object is then wider than it is tall and the eye stops reading the stripe as a proportion cue.
Which stripe is quietest?
Hairline. Tonal lines one shade off the ground, about a millimetre apart, visible only in raking light. At a distance the case simply looks slightly warmer than a plain one.
Why is Peppermint on a diagonal?
Run straight, a candy stripe is a shirt. Run on a steep diagonal it is a stick of rock. Fifteen degrees is the pitch that reads as deliberate rather than as a printing error at the edges.
Striped cases for the iPhone Duo
A stripe is the only pattern where direction is the whole design. Run vertically it makes an object look narrower and taller. Run horizontally it does the opposite. On a phone that folds down a vertical seam, that choice also decides whether the pattern agrees with the hinge or fights it.
Deck Chair, Pinstripe and Hairline run vertically, parallel to the fold, so the hinge reads as one more line in the sequence. Regatta runs across, and it is the one that makes the closed phone look wider and more solid in the hand.
The counts are not invented
The Breton shirt was standardised in 1858 with twenty-one stripes. Regatta has twenty-one across the width for the same reason, which means nobody had to decide the spacing — it fell out of the rule.
A real pinstripe is a broken chalk line rather than a solid rule, and the spacing is wider than most people remember: about a centimetre on cloth. Both are kept, which is why Pinstripe reads as suiting instead of as a barcode.
Bayadère is supposed to clash
A bayadère is a horizontal stripe of unequal widths in colours that do not agree, named for the silk worn by temple dancers. The clash is the definition. A bayadère drawn in one harmonious family of colours is just a stripe with extra steps.
It is the loudest thing in this family and the only one here that is difficult to wear, which is the correct number of difficult prints for a family of seven.