Mainstream adoption came in the late 30s and early 40s with the likes of Clark Gable and Cary Grant, the former of whom famously wore a pinstripe suit in Gone With The Wind, before the political class sought the strength of the stripe during the Second World War. Patrick Bateman was a fan of the pinstripe suit in American Psycho (2000) Furthermore, they also saw themselves as legitimate businessmen with sartorial nous, well-dressed pillars of a lawless and dangerous society, powerful men to be respected, all of which seem to be the innate deceits of gangsters throughout time. Quite why the criminal kingpins of the time adopted pinstripes suits is thought to be because the vertical stripes made them look thinner, given many of them had literally fattened up on ill-gained profits. The turn of the suit came a decade later in the Prohibition 1920s, when American culture became enamoured by the striped motif, with the pinstripe suit getting top billing in the wardrobes of the power- and infamy-hungry bootleggers such as Al Capone, along with film stars du jour and jazz impresarios. When the trend eventually sailed across the Atlantic, it was not in tailoring form that pinstripes first landed but in that of baseball uniform, with the Giants, the Cubs and the New York Yankees all adopting the style.
The pinstripe motif originally gathered pace in America in the form of baseball jerseys
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