"And the men in gray flannel suits, now in their fifties, still look pretty good when you see them on the commuting trains. Some of them will stand up to give a lady a seat, if she's pretty enough, and they will open doors for ladies when they are walking from one car to another. When called a male chauvinist pig, a man in a gray flannel suit looks confused. He's supporting a wife, a former wife, maybe a mistress and three daughters in college, in addition to his mother in a nursing home. On weekends he does the dinner dishes. What more do women expect of him?"What Shall We Wear To This Party, by Sloan Wilson
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More of a question than a comment. I've always associated flannel with the fall/winter seasons. Are there flannel weights that can be worn during spring/summer months? Also, is flannel appropriate for summer lounge garments?
Flannel of any weight wears warm. It's available in cloth as light as nine ounces but I wouldn't attempt to wear it in summer.
Ten ounce trousers are fine on a mild Spring day though.
Excellent quote, Will. Of course, the proper response to such accusations is not to look confused and protest one's innocence, but to tell these hateful harridans to go to hell.
I wear flannel suits in every season save summer, when it simply gets too hot here in Southern California. I wore them for years commuting to Wall Street, but in summer switched to worsted, and, on occasion, cotton and linen.
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