Help Requested: Creating stripe texture on an outfit?

Just what the title says - I want to create a texture like diagonal candy-cane stripes over a character's whole body. Whether it applies to a separate bodysuit figure (I have a few in my runtime) or the figure itself (I use Genesis) doesn't matter. Don't have a screencap handy but the ones I've tried have odd pinches and bulges. Does anyone have any tips, links to tutorials, etc, that could help me? I'd be ever so grateful! :)
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You would have to take the texture images into photoshop or gimp and draw out your line and reapply the texture. May need to do a custom bump or displacement to make it stand out.