Word: flannel
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...more inclined to give money to street people on a bright spring or summer afternoon, when I'm feeling fine and I want to celebrate with a little charity. Or, sometimes, I give to one of those guys who positions himself in front of young women in gray flannel suits and stays there until they give. This charity sometimes comes after I've passed by a whole row of polite, self-effacing guys like the one I passed last week...
Behind me, two female devotees--one in flowing yellow Indian robes, the other in the regulation spiky bleached hair, plaid flannel shirt and black cotton tights of the Cambridge punk scene--linked arms, and twirled happily to the music...
Some folks in his old stomping grounds don't accept that fact. Down at the JS saloon, where Dallas played a few pool games, the door swings open with a creak. In ambles the mailman, an elderly fellow fond of flannel shirts and bright red Budweiser suspenders. Dallas? Known him for years. "It's hard to think that kid ever got into trouble. They just pushed him against the wall. He'd walk away from trouble if he could." The whole mess baffles Bar Owner Phyllis Sans. "It's just a damn shame it had to happen...
...Nightshirts. You can't have visions of sugar plums unless you're wearing a cozy nightshirt. Brooks Brothers (46 Newbury) offers a traditional 100 percent cotton flannel sleepshirt for $30, and the Banana Republic sells their Artisan's Nightshirt...
...turns into bitterness at the sleeping, a quick water-gun, water-balloon raid on Store 24 is in order. Nothing lightens the prospect of six more hours without sleep like the sight of a dripping wet roommate stumbling and screaming downstairs to the laundry room, arms full of soggy flannel...