Word: fiannels
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...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...
Stripped of their grey fiannel pants (which were replaced by ones which matched their coats), their dirty shoes, and their bow ties, which were both also replaced with a view to obscuring any identification with their Alma Mater, eight Seniors joined local Republican Vote-chasers Tuesday afternoon by volunteering to resurrect countless sequestered but registered as Republicans by some all-pervading act of Providence or the Republican City Committee and drive them to the polls...
...most famous courses in the country, and the mid-year and final exams with their long memory question and 60 to 70 "spot" passages were the terror of generations. During his reign he insisted on "Shakspere" as the correct spelling. His students will never forget the pearl gray fiannel suit he invariably wore, the glasses that flew up his lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his pungent injunctions against coughing...