Punctuation
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 pattern, and the pattern consists of checks that involve 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 checked skirt (red, black, and white tartan)”? Or “She is wearing a black-and-white-striped, blue sweater and a short, red-black-and-white-checked skirt (tartan)”?
A. At last—a serious style question. I would go with version 1, but change the sweater to black cashmere.
