Word: flannelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strides purposely to his dresser, opens the bottom drawer and carefully extracts his one clean white butten-down oxford shirt. From the mass of wrinkled spotted clothes hanging in massive disarray in the closet, he picks a hanger on which is draped the prized gray flannel. Pawing through a heap of jumbled dusty left shoes, he picks out a pair of glistening cordovans. Finally, on his hands and knees, he crawls under the bed and disentangles a red and gray striped rep from around the bedstead...
...CRIMSON this week learned that within two years both the flannel suit and the tab or rounded shirt collar will have gone the way of the hair shirt and the diamond stick pin. Square merchants blame the recent influx of western students here for the increased demands for lighter shades in shits and sport coats as well as the swing to one and two-button models from the standard three-button style...
...guest at the large fraternity parties where the door was never locked and people staggered in and out. If, before the game they had seen the commons rooms, it was there that they often expected a post-game house party. And after all, hadn't that fellow in the flannel suit said that you might call a House sort of a big fraternity. It made sense...
...potbellied stove. The temperature is a cool 66°; a mile up a dusty gravel road, the President is enjoying some fishing. Western Union Morse circuits are tapping away in the next room on press stories and White House messages. I've bought some levis and heavy flannel shirts. I'm assured that a six-gun is not really necessary...
...side road a mile outside town, and pushed on down the lane to the 1,900-acre ranch of Danish-born Aksel Nielsen, an Eisenhower family friend and financial adviser since the early '30s. Making an immediate break for his cabin, Ike shucked his tweed jacket and flannel trousers for old slacks and a fishing jacket. His Secret Service guards underwent an even more dramatic sartorial transformation. Stocking up on blue jeans and flannel shirts in local stores, they also bought wide, tooled-leather belts and, as a final Western touch, hung their Chicago-type shoulder holsters on their...