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Muriel Siebert, did so in 1967, paying $445,000 for the privilege. She called her enamel membership badge, which was designed to clip onto the breast pocket of a man’s suit, a garment that had been ...
You can’t have it all. Sixty years before this became a work/life mantra, it was the core message of Sloan Wilson’s 1955 blockbuster novel, “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.” Surprised? After a ...
In an era of rapidly changing cultural, sexual, and social mores, one surprising development came and went without much comment. In 2019, Goldman Sachs announced that it was relaxing its famously ...
Suits for women have popped up more and more on the red carpet in recent weeks. And according to the runways at New York Fashion Week, the trend is here to stay—specifically, in grey. This past week, ...
Generation Z is not the first cohort to face recessions, burdensome debt and a tough time finding a good job. Every generation has gone through this and some much more. The Greatest Generation entered ...
The 1956 movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" featured Gregory Peck as a soldier still traumatized by the death, suffering and shared sacrifice of war as he tried to fit into a booming America ...
On May 25, a fine representative of American letters passed away. Sloan Wilson, author of The Man In the Gray Flannel Suit, A Summer Place, and other novels, died after a struggle with Alzheimer’s ...
The back flap of the dust jacket on Ralph Nader’s latest book points out that Time and Life magazines named him “one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century.” Never mind ...
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An iconic American brand has just entered Chapter 11. On July 8, the venerable Brooks Brothers enterprise filed for bankruptcy protection, principally a victim of COVID-19, according to the Italian ...