Word: fiannel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Helen Mills of New York City last year found the local habit of "going around in fiannel shorts the most ridiculouse I've ever seen." Some, indeed, objected to the ivied tradition of even long finnels...
...smart, polished Big-City comedy, although it is tailored for the Broadway trade and consequently suffered before a Boston audience. In the same way that the provincial New Yorker (the mag where you find W. Gibbs and S. J. Perelman) appeals to, among others, a certain tweed-and-fiannel set, this story of a back writer's family which attains its dream of a colonial home in the country (social suicide if it's not in Connecticut) is obviously meant to amuse the plethora of New Yorkers whose goal is to commune with Connecticut nature...
After asserting in the afternoon that she "wouldn't go across the Charles to a dance with a Lampoon man to be stepped on by clumsy boys wearing checkered coats, dirty white shoes, and sloppy fiannel pants," Miss Monroe turned around in the evening and accepted an invitation from John C. Robbins, Jr. '42, a special guest of the Ibisters...
Back to clothes: everybody was wearing those lovely crinkly grey fiannel trousers effects, and I saw oodles of the smart new leather elbow patches. I suppose those boys have to bend their elbows...