Word: flannelism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parental press to keep the youngsters busy has created an image of an Organization Child, or Boy in the Grey Flannel Sneakers. The thriving Cub Scout movement is a wondrous machine of 1,822,062 beanie-capped boys who visit fire stations, make kites and tie knots, all en masse, and the Little League has more than a million little sports who are cheered on by an equal number of overexuberant daddies. "Some kids," says Long Island School Psychologist Justin Koss, "need the Little League. But some need to dig in their own backyards, too. The trouble is that plenty...
...ever accorded Mozart's Don Giovanni. For all the Met's fine performances this year, the NBC Opera Company's TV version last week stood out as a high point of the opera season. Usually, English translations of opera have the incongruous effect of a grey flannel suit at a fancy dress ball, but this time Poet W. H. Auden and Collaborator Chester Kallman managed to provide language that was not ridiculed by the music or drowned by it; the TV microphone clearly picked out the words that, in an opera house, usually fail to cross...
Then all of a sudden, she saw some jerk she knew on the other side of the lobby. Some guy in one of those very dark grey flannel suits and one of those checkered vests. Strictly Ivy League. Big Deal...
During Tom Brown's school days at Rugby a century ago, for fastidious Dink Stover going up to Yale in 1912, down to Catcher's supercilious modern hero, Hoiden Caulfield, the big deal for the well-dressed schoolboy and collegian has always been flannel. In the last decade alone, flannel for boys' and students' suits has topped all other suit fabrics in the U.S. each year without exception. But last week fabled flannel was on the way out. In 1960 worsteds will be the most popular fabric for youthful suits, followed by hopsackings, with flannel toppling...
...figures: the tightly woven worsteds in 1960 will grab 37% of the boys' suit market, 48% of the student trade. Hop-sackings, a coarse, basket-weave pattern of cotton, linen, rayon or wool, will make up nearly one-fourth of both boys' and students' suits. Fading flannel will plummet to 21% of the junior market, a mere 14% of the undergraduate trade. Best explanation for flannel's worsting by worsted, from a buyer in New York's Old School Tie haberdashery. Brooks Brothers: worsteds weigh less, wrinkle less, wear longer-and now are being made...