Entering the Gagosian Gallery on Thursday morning, he was clad in blue jeans and a gray flannel coat with a colorful skull on the back.

"Well, he might have a grey flannel coat underneath," said Daisy.

"Time enough to worry about grey flannel coats and mackintoshes when we've found the tramp," said Pip.

He wore a grey flannel coat!

And was his grey flannel coat torn in any way?

He donned a blue flannel coat, tucked a white handkerchief into the breast pocket.

This year a spring coat could be a lightweight wool gabardine coat, an elongated jacket or a capelike flannel coat.

This time, the prints were abstractions used to brighten gray flannel coats, where they decorated collars and lapels and also formed the lining.

My father handed me an old flannel coat, a hand-me-down from Ricky, and I reluctantly put it on.

There, we found, sitting by a fire, a very old man in a flannel coat: clean, cheerful, comfortable, and well cared for, but intensely deaf.