Though that didn't stop Madonna from painting her Hollywood Hills home in red and yellow stripes in the 1990s.
He stuck mostly with pant suits, wool shift or trapeze dresses and coats in solids, accented with a sprinkling of white-and-black stripes and large leaf prints in autumnal red, orange-red, green, purple and a rich deep blue.
"Complex colour patterns such as spots and stripes are common in nature but the way they are formed is poorly understood, " said Dr Kathy Schwinn of the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research.
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And Ms Banerjee seems to think the way to lure tourists to Kolkata is to paint every railing, kerbside, public urinal, roundabout and bridge in blue-and-white stripes.
Rosen then examines the complementary role the for-profit colleges play and concludes with a discussion of how learning should guide government policy for colleges and universities of all stripes in the future.
One man arrived in a bus painted with the Stars and Stripes and accompanied by a pet monkey in a nappy.
This close examination has shown that the dinosaur's "Mohican" was russet or ginger-coloured, and that these bands were in fact ginger and white stripes.
The heads of private equity giants KKR ( KKR), Apollo Global Management ( APO) and The Blackstone Group ( BX) all earned their stripes and built buyout skills working in the investment banking units of Wall Street mainstays before breaking out to master the art of the buyout.
He was said to be slim and clean shaven, with three stripes shaved into one eyebrow and two in the other.
They were just bunch of young women from Great Britain, happy about a win and walking in the Manchester rain, stars and stripes draped over their shoulders.
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The demonstrators, some of whom were dressed in beekeeper outfits or wearing yellow and black stripes, have the support of fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Katharine Hamnett who delivered a petition in support of the ban to the Prime Minister.
In the year of the tiger, Seoul is proudly displaying its stripes in Asia and around the world.
Armstrong thus becomes a bad-ass American folk hero, a Robin Hood in stars and stripes, if you like.
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"It's more subtle, " she says, adding that she prefers stripes in navy and gray, gray and white or navy and beige.
When the Union expands to the east, and brings in new members of even more varied political stripes and genealogies, will the club lecture these newcomers at every electoral turn?
Previous Work Experience: Started earning my stripes (and war wounds) in 2003 by working in Publicity, Finance and Physical Production Departments at Miramax Films and then Focus Features.
Dressed in a stars and stripes t-shirt, 62-year-old Bill Higgins, from Fullerton, California, fought back tears as he talked about the impact of the Boston bombings on the international racing community.
Movie stars, real estate developers, doctors, lawyers and wealthy people of all stripes have bought in, DeManns says.
In school districts from Los Angeles to New York, with many Midwestern stops in between, parents, physicians, and students of all political stripes have banded together to stop the sale of soft drinks in schools.
But the location will not be the only change - the familiar green and yellow stripes of the pavilion will be gone, with a new yellow and blue tent in its place.
Realists and non-interventionists and doves of all stripes have few good choices in any election.
On the roof of Frank Johnson's office in Montgomery flew the Stars and Stripes.
In 1990, the Stars and Stripes was most visible amid foreign flags.
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Or are prominent conservatives going to help our countrymen of all political stripes understand the challenge we face and lead in developing and executing strategies for defeating it?
Like mixing plaids and stripes, celebrities and taxes often seem to be in discord.
These sales tactics have been used by men like Ron Popiel and all those who followed in his footsteps, generating countless millions for inventors and designers and manufacturers of all stripes.
According to the media, the well-dressed woman this spring will be wearing bold patterns in stripes, checks, polka dots and animal prints.
As the Suwanee Quintet sang gospel tunes, Brown -- decked out in a black leather jacket with stars and stripes down the sleeves -- grabbed the microphone and added his signature screech to applause from the crowd.
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