Ordinary stripes, which we see every day on men’s shirts, road markings or Beeline advertising, it turns out, have a long and amazing history.
The Catholic Church demonized stripes and ordered the outcasts to wear striped clothes: executioners, prostitutes, itinerant actors, crazy people. In the Middle Ages, striped shields were reserved only for bastard knights and nobles who violated the code of honor.
In the paintings of the Renaissance masters, black servants flaunt in striped clothes. During the Enlightenment, stripes became a symbol of freedom and romance, and then migrated to various uniforms — from military to prison and sports … Pasturo’s «Stripes» and other books from the «Culture of Everyday» series — whether it is the history of a mirror, ice cream or a bath — deepen our perception of the surrounding world, allowing you to see a whole bunch of meanings in the most ordinary things.
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