Episode 20: The Thing About Colonel Brandon's Flannel Waistcoat

Is Brandon into grunge? Going through a lumberjack phase? Embracing Santa chic? We're here to uncover just exactly what Colonel Brandon has on under his coat. If you have ever advocated for dressing in layers, this episode is for you.

Selected episode sources

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• Ray, Joan Klingel. “‘The Amiable Prejudices of a Young [Writer’s] Mind’: The Problems of Sense and Sensibility.” Persuasions On-Line 26, no. 1 (2005). https://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol26no1/ray.htm.

• Styles, John. The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

• Sutherland, Eileen. “That Infamous Flannel Waistcoat.” Persuasions 19 (1995): 58.

• “Waistcoat.” In OED Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed November 18, 2021. www.oed.com/view/Entry/225127.