Word: flannell
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...Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Leach (Mrs. Cary Grant) ordered some 20 little numbers put aside. Margaret Sullavan, Joan Fontaine, Carole Landis clapped delighted hands with the lesser Hollywood lights and the wealthy housewives from Beverly Hills and Pasadena as Adrian, himself costumed in a two-piece creation of flannel with cuffed trousers and a washable blue tie, displayed his confections...
...house in the adjoining cloister was completely burned and he lost all he owned except what he had on. Up all night putting out other fires, he had to go to Oxford next morning to deliver a lecture with nothing but a cassock to hide the battered pair of flannel trousers ("Oxford bags") he had worn firefighting. Afterwards he went into an Oxford shop to buy a more respectable pair of pants. The proprietor looked at him disdainfully: "Don't you realize there is a war on?" "Yes," said Dr. Barry...
...more colorful than the prim, functional antiques of New England. Their artistic flavor was well represented by Norristown's reconstructed old-fashioned Pennsylvania Dutch country store, in which heavily skirted, buxom saleswomen sold such newly popular items as hair ribbons, school slates, stick candy, kerosene lamps, penny banks, flannel underwear...
...been decided that the college dress shall remain unaltered except that any kind of grey trousers may be worn with tails or jackets. In addition, new boys may continue to wear at Eton the overcoat, shoes, grey flannel trousers, football boots and fives clothes which they already possess. The Eton tailors have a large quantity of second-hand tail coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers which can be purchased without [ration] coupons at small cost. The use of these will help to conserve existing supplies of cloth and clothes...
This is a sort of criticaster's view of Britain's two decades between wars. Unlike Frederick Lewis Allen's headline-hopping Only Yesterday, which had the pleasant, white-flannel air of Commencement Exercises for the end of its period, The Long Week End is almost fiercely opinionated. More often sarcastic than affable, it is edged to the point of bad manners as well as bad history. Yet strong opinions are appropriate to a mature review of those times...