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...edge to shake hands and to sign hats. Teenage girls with bad teeth came running out of the crowd yelling, "I got it," clutching a hat or a scrap of paper with Wallace's initials on it. And filing out slowly were the old people, with thin faces and flannel shirts buttoned up under the chin, and the middle-aged women, the wives of the men who were at work in the factories--shuffling toward the door and the street...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: Flying High And... ...Low With Wallace | 10/31/1968 | See Source »

...must be satisfactory." Agnes Ash of Women's Wear Daily noted the plight of Ben Novack, owner of the Hotel Fontainebleau. "The Republicans aren't spending any money," he groused. "I'm not making a dime out of this convention." Outfitted in his "double-breasted blue flannel blazer, yachting cap and white duck pants," wrote Agnes Ash, "Novack continued to prowl the lobby, restlessly looking in vain for a big spender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Search Beyond Sadism | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Natkin: How about a grey flannel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: SPITBALLING WITH FLAIR | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Westbrook: Grey flannel is out. How about a turtleneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: SPITBALLING WITH FLAIR | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Such extreme styles may never attract more than a very special audience. Ever since the demise of the grey flannel suit in the early 1950s, a revolution in menswear has been forecast as regularly as the lifetime light bulb or a new Nixon. Until lately, men's fashion changes have added up to little more than slimmer trousers, side vents, a return of the shaped, double-breasted suit, and frilled shirts-worn mainly by actors. Lately, however, there have been signs of a real change in attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Man! | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

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