As it was, I shuddered and drew back; not alone at the pool itself and the black air there was about it, but also at the whirling manner, and wisping of white threads upon it in stripy circles round and round; and the centre still as jet.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore
She had quitted her companions-two gaily-dressed, be-rouged women and a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, moustached young German, whose stripy tweeds, vociferously-patterned linen, necktie of too obvious pattern, and high-crowned bowler hat, advertised the Berlin tailor and haberdasher and hatter at their customer's expense, as Saxham went by.
"The Dop Doctor"
Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
Dorothy never did have any particular beau, Bert observed, She just likes to dress in those little silky, stripy things, and have everyone praising her, all the time.
"Undertow"
Kathleen Norris