One terrific room I saw had walls clad in horizontal wooden planks, which created a natural stripe.

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The flag retained its red, white and black horizontal stripes, but the writing on the central white stripe was altered.

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Although slender, horizontal sailor stripes are perennially popular, this season, Ms. Etro favors a wider stripe about 2 inches, she estimates.

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