Mild-mannered and dressed this day in a blue button-down oxford shirt and black pinstripe pants, he said the church "brings a different dimension of life to them."

Bubba hadn't realized she was so attractive, not in a pretty way, but strong and striking in her pinstripe pants suit.

"From being teased, I fit in now," Ms. Walrond said, smartly dressed in one of her purchases, charcoal-gray pinstripe pants.

Mr. Mavrogeorgis, in spiked hair and a black Siouxsie and the Banshees T-shirt, carried a balled-up pair of pinstripe pants he had bought at a thrift shop.

Yes, as if the day hadn't been enough for her so far, she now found herself naked, in a public toilet, on her hands and knees at the feet of the most gorgeous man she'd ever seen, with her face level with the crotch of his exquisitely tailored pinstripe pants.

Witnesses said the gunman, a black man about 6 feet 4 inches tall and wearing a white shirt and gray pinstripe pants walked into the office and asked to see the doctor.

Big, chunky sweaters are popular in the store, too, said Brooke Lewis, a young saleswoman who seemed to epitomize the newly emerging Los Angeles style in black pinstripe pants and a full-cut T-shirt layered to look as if it were two.

Q.J. smoothed an imaginary crease in his pinstripe pants which did not go with his bright red jacket and green polka-dot tie.

He wore gray pinstripe pants, shiny from age, and slippers.

In his flared brown pinstripe pants, tight T-shirt and motorcycle boots, his hair in wild curls, Mr. Gallo looked very much the hip Manhattan dandy come home to show off his new duds and new life.