The shock of handing over £6.50 each is quickly receding as we recline and soak up the sun from the super kitsch candy stripes of our rented seaside deck chairs. Towels, windbreaks, Jean Paul Gautier style sailor shirts, sticks of rock… stripes are everywhere. How can the most regular and regimented pattern be so relaxed and fun? I’ll have forty winks while I ponder that one, you have a look at some papers and cushions… Laid back stripes I’ll have forty winks while I ponder that one, you have a look at some papers and cushions… The shock of handing over £6.50 each is quickly receding as we recline and soak up the sun from the super kitsch candy stripes of our rented seaside deck chairs. Towels, windbreaks, Jean Paul Gautier style sailor shirts, sticks of rock… stripes are everywhere. How can the most regular and regimented pattern be so relaxed and fun?