> I know we are supposed to speak the same language but how the
> hell do you come up with the term pinstriping for lining. A pinstripe
> in Great Britain is a very narrow stripe normally in cloth (pinstripe
> suit). The term we use is lining.
And confusion right back at ya -- lining is the cloth on the inside of a suit coat, at least in American parlance. Sure, we see pinstriping on clothes, too, most notably (or notoriously) the New York Yankees baseball team's home uniforms and their dark blue pinstripes.
But, any thin (pin thin?) stripe of paint, whether it's straight, curved, making right angle turns, whatever, could be called a line, but never in my recollection "lining." Almost always, however, it's called a pinstripe.
"Box lining" is something I've only heard as a bike term, one I never heard mention of in relation to motorcycles, cars, aircraft, boats, whatever.
Dan Kehew
Davis, California