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...over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing of the Cockney girls "in shapeless purple flannel blazers [and] pudding-bowl grey felt hats." The Squire and his family wondered what the world was coming to. "Poor Harefield is practically in the hands of the Jews," muttered the Belton son-&-heir. "There won't be a single gentleman in the Cabinet in five years," groused...
...movement was born on Dec. 21, 1844, when 28 shabbily dressed flannel weavers met in a warehouse on Toad Lane, Rochdale, Lancashire. They put in about $5 each so that they could buy candles, sugar, etc., in larger quantities, thus get them cheaper. Now there arc 143,000,000 members of 810,000 cooperative societies throughout the world...
Cheyenne found out about Nubbins when his father went looking for a Christmas tree. Within a week's time, newspaper readers across the land were looking at pictures of the thin, flannel-clad child with solemn brown eyes. Then the gifts began to pour...
Long sought in New Guinea, where some WACs have had to wear baggy twill fatigue suits on & off duty, the new jungle ensemble includes tailored khaki slacks, a matching shirt, ankle-high field shoes. The cold-weather outfit consists of wool-flannel trousers and jacket with snug-fitting collar, cuffs, and ankle bands (and may be used as a complete costume or as a lining for heavier clothes...
...theaters in Russia, Moscow's Bolshoi and Leningrad's Kirov, were slightly damaged in the war and the State took this excuse to give them such renovation that, by comparison, New York's Metropolitan Opera House looks like an elderly duchess decked out in moth-eaten flannel underwear...