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sereneEvery month, the Chicago Manual of Style online answers style questions from its readers. I especially liked this one from this month:
Q. Consider the following situation. A woman is wearing a sweater which has black-and-white stripes, and the underlying color is blue (base color), and a short skirt with a tartan plaid pattern involving the following colors: red, black, white. Is the correct way to describe this person as follows: “She is wearing a black-and-white-striped blue sweater and a short plaid skirt (red, black, and white tartan)”? Or “She is wearing a black-and-white-striped, blue sweater and a short, red-black-and-white-plaid skirt (tartan)”?
A. At last—a serious style question. I would go with version 1, but change the sweater to black cashmere.
Q. Consider the following situation. A woman is wearing a sweater which has black-and-white stripes, and the underlying color is blue (base color), and a short skirt with a tartan plaid pattern involving the following colors: red, black, white. Is the correct way to describe this person as follows: “She is wearing a black-and-white-striped blue sweater and a short plaid skirt (red, black, and white tartan)”? Or “She is wearing a black-and-white-striped, blue sweater and a short, red-black-and-white-plaid skirt (tartan)”?
A. At last—a serious style question. I would go with version 1, but change the sweater to black cashmere.
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Date: 2009-01-03 10:45 pm (UTC)me too
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Date: 2009-01-03 11:06 pm (UTC)