gray flannel suit

Example Sentences

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A generic gray flannel suit epitomized the tradition-bound 1950s.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2019

In 1960, he was on the cover of Time magazine, the man in the gray flannel suit, the young World War II veteran just as much as Jack Kennedy.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2017

Within decades the shirt had become so universal, as much a uniform of the day as the proverbial gray flannel suit, that the comedian Bob Newhart was riffing on Madison Avenue’s “button-down mind.”

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2016

When “Mad Men” began, Don was the handsome man in a gray flannel suit who superficially embodied the 1950s ideal.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2015

To be precise, Hodges did it in a gray flannel suit, for he was a pragmatist, dubbed the “Businessman’s Governor,” a believer in method and technique over ideology and manifesto.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson