And his military and naval uniforms were never exactly right — a brass button might be missing, an epaulet might be askew, there might be too many gold stripes on one sleeve and too few on the other.
The lively palette of the collection – tobacco, jade, turquoise, red and navy stripes, on one dress – successfully showcased Saunders' talent as a bold colourist, an aesthetic that chimes with the confident spirit of the DVF brand.
Just because one may not, in practice, be able to count the stripes on one's tiger image, it does not follow that it does not have a determinate number of stripes.
This very exciting claim is strengthened by reports of sighting of the white dorsal stripes on one bird in flight.
In some areas foes of different stripes will even turn on one another (a particularly memorable battle uses this idea to disorientating effect), further easing the sense that you are the only opposing force in this opposing world.
To examine how this asymmetry leads to self-organization, we simulated a community in which a center stripe of partners was initially bordered by a stripe of cooperators on one side and cheaters on the other.
The Lacoste crocodile comes rendered in the stripes of the French flag, and there are further stripes placed selectively on one arm, or just above the hip of a shirt.
Bright stripes that begin on one wall run across several homes before swooping into graceful curlicues.
This bellbird, however, has the white cheek stripe of a female on one side, but the dark body plumage of a male.
