gray flannel suit

No author could be included twice and books no longer available through Simon & Schuster were left off, such as a major release from the publisher in the 1950s: Sloan Wilson’s novel about a World War II veteran’s struggles back home, “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.”

“The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” as the writer Sloan Wilson titled his booze-soaked 1955 novel, became not just the era’s defining style icon but a glum commentary on American striving and the conformity it produced.

It was a huge best seller and a sort of companion text to Sloan Wilson’s shoulder-squaring novel “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.”

Quarterback Kyler Murray is so gifted and unconventional that he makes Lamar Jackson look like a man in a gray flannel suit.

In place of the hood and the robe, he now wears a very respectable gray flannel suit.