News — OutsideFlannelWeek
I’m a Flannel-Wearing Stereotype—and I’m OK with It
This is part of #OutsideFlannelWeek, a celebration of the fabric we all know and love. Fall is here. Yes, there’s a nip in the air, yellow aspen leaves flutter to the ground, and the days grow shorter. But the real harbinger of fall is this undeniable phenomenon: when more than half of the people I encounter on a daily basis are wearing flannel. Cool guy walking down the mixed-use path in skinny black jeans, smoking a cig, wearing an airy open flannel? Check. That lady mountain biker raging past me in a cloud of dust wearing her tech checks? Boom. My wife, in yoga pants and...