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...Aldous Huxley swallowed a small quantity of mescaline and sat back in the California sunshine to contemplate the infinity of wrinkles in his trousers. The following year he described his psychedelic confrontation with gray flannel in The Doors of Perception. ,"How rich, how deeply, mysteriously sumptuous," he wrote. "The nearest approach to this . . . would be a Vermeer...
...SCRAP of newspaper blows among the litter of the railroad tracks. A group of people wait on Platform 5 of Baltimore's Penn Station for the 9:45 a.m. train to New York. A middle-aged man dressed in a spotless grey-flannel suit waits nervously with his wife. Her face is heavily powdered and her hair is piled high on her head. Close to the track a wrinkled-looking man in a creased sear-sucker sports coat checks his watch and begins to pace in a narrow circle. His sparse white mustache stands out on his lined black face...
...early days," says a onetime NASA engineer. "We made design changes right on the pad and let the home office know about it later. Anything to get the bird away. Now it's all so stylized. It used to be shirtsleeves and sweat. Now it's gray flannel...
...tall tales, mostly about themselves. Every logging camp has its own exaggerations: Ask around about a local Paul Bunyan at some lumberjack bar in southwestern Canada and you'll be told a few tongue-in-cheek stories. Even when they're drinking, the big men with the big-checked flannel shirts know pretty much where the truth stops and the fables begin. Nobody believes in The Blue Ox. Yet a lot of lumberjacks will swear by the existence of a giant humanoid standing close to ten feet tall and weighing up to 1000 pounds, called "Bigfoot" in California...
...Wear Daily involved in Gatsby as a fashion goal for the 1973-74 season. It is doubtful that Paramount choreographed Designer Kenzo Takada's Paris show in October 1972, but the appearance of Kenzo's V-necked, red-and-blue bordered tennis sweaters and boxy white flannel pants was deftly followed by the announcement that the film was going to be made. Women's Wear Daily promptly translated Paris' le style tennis as "the Gatsby look," and the fashion publicity fairly snowed. It was a case of perfect timing-or at least it would have been...