There’s something visually very confusing about the layers of a stripe, something very ambiguous.
Stripes are dazzling, sometimes hypnotic, usually happy!
No matter what they are used for, stripes are the most noticeable pattern.
The immediate and repetitive change from one color to another calls attention to itself, which explains why caution signs are almost exclusively striped.
Visual power of stripes comes from the inability to distinguish a stripes foreground from its background. This can be confusing and scandalous.
Beginning from the 12th and 13th centuries, abundant documentation in all areas emphasizes the demeaning, pejorative, or clearly diabolic quality of striped dress.
In 1310, a cobbler in the French town of Rouen was condemned to death because, according to the local archives, he had been caught in striped clothes.
Zebras wear stripes to confuse predators of their number and distance. The striped pattern creates an optical illusion when they move.
The Middle Ages was a time when wearing stripes of any kind was a perilous act.
People represented in the paintings are, more often than not, traitors, pranksters, executioners, executioners, lepers, cripples, heretics or prostitutes.
“Thinking of wearing that pinstriped suit for lunch with the boss? Just be thankful you didn't live a few hundred years ago.”
“Stripes were the devil's clothing, the dress of prostitutes, of hangmen. They were considered transgressive.”
“Nature has striped the zebra. Man has striped his flags and awnings, ties and shirts. ”
Starting in the 16th century, stripes shifted from being strictly diabolic into eventually positive meanings. It became a uniform for servants and found its way on textiles, integrating its way into the home.
Even today the stripes are a symbol of transgression,
but fortunately they no longer have that negative meaning.
If there are black and white high contrast stripes, well it becomes a supreme scene.
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