I save the plaids for special festive holidays...and after I've 
dribbled various sauces and debris over my preferred solid color 
flanels...faded green, faded mauroon, faded yellowish-brownish.  With 
three, I'm pretty much set for life.  Oh and of course the long sleeve 
and short sleeve button down architects uniform.

-jc

On Nov 15, 2003, at 11:41 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> In a message dated 11/15/2003 11:39:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> Rest assured Ralph, that New England puritan modesty along with genetic
> dispositions that make us burn at the mention of sunshine, I and mine
> do not participate in the springtime striptease.  I feel downright
> naked without my flannel shirt.
> John,
>  
> The thought of sunshine is enough to turn me cherry red. 
>  
> As for flannel shirts, I had thought them a little too flashy (due to 
> the plaids, not the actual flannel itself) until recent years.  I have 
> subsequently cut loose and plunged into combinations of gray, tan and 
> dark blue.  In muted shades, of course.
>  
> Ralph