Owner's Manual No. 140

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

J. Peterman Company

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Physical Description:

50 pages : illustrations ; 27 centimeters

Edition:

Early fall 2016

Place of Publication:

Blue Ash, OH. : The Company, 2016.

Summary:

The J. Peterman Company was a running plot- and gag-line on the comedy series "Seinfeld." Manual #140 contains, on page 3, "The Undefinable Sport Coat" under the heading "Silence Dogood." Its following narrative is about Ben Franklin: "No one could figure out if Ben Franklin was behind the times or ahead of them. We do know he had a lot of sex. We know at sixteen he wrote a humorous and feminist column under the female pseudonym Silence Dogood. We know he was a fashion icon in France. And we know he invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses. Was he a brilliant yet morally lapsed scoundrel or a brilliant, modern man unwilling to conform? 300 years later, we still don't know. We should all be so lucky to carry undefinable mystery that long. Perhaps we should look at his propensity to wear sport coats at mid-thigh length."

Notes:

Includes order form.

OCLC:

958041048