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The actress paired the shoes with a colorful dress featuring a stripy geometric design.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
29 May 2026 It is shaped like a bear, and features a green lid shaped like a hat, and a stripy straw.—
Amanda Greenwood,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Dec. 2025 The thin stripy bits on the collars and cuffs and the piping around the shoulder redeem things slightly, but not enough.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025 Their seeds entwined in neat galactic sequence, not quite black yet, but stripy grey, soft and slightly wet, nature’s treat for small children as well as birds.—Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025 The exhibition kicks off with the original doll from 1959 in a stripy black-and-white swimsuit and places her evolution within the wider world of design.—
Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk,
theweek,
11 July 2024