Were grilled dogs gone from the game, we wondered, as passe as flannel uniforms?

At Cathy Hardwick's perky show, for instance, the front row was filled with editors in last season's covered-up gray flannel uniform.

A sports memorabilia collector, Mark Lassman, had packed the off-white flannel uniform in the trunk of his rented Mercury Sable.

He had been able to camouflage his belly somewhat in the old flannel uniforms.

Baseball thought it was as chic as flannel uniforms.

For 10 years, my mother said, her sons seemed like an endless progression of different-colored flannel uniforms that needed to be washed.

If we went out dancing or to a club, we were all in pea coats and simple flannel uniforms, while they wore denim jackets and coffee-coloured trousers.

Start wishing for flannel uniforms and no blaring music between innings.

Now it is a relic, gone the way of flannel uniforms and scheduled doubleheaders.

The suit is as heavy as an animal skin - it would have kept a cave man warm - yet it is clearly an exaggerated version of the businessman's gray flannel uniform.