Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations: That's the familiar story of so many once-great American fortunes.
He wore a tie but had removed his jacket and rolled up his shirtsleeves.
My grandfather was nine, and he ran out of the house in just his shirtsleeves.
In Manchester he strode about in shirtsleeves, politely but firmly in charge, cutting wafflers short and kindly prompting the nervous.
It lay on our roof slopes, it sifted down onto our sidewalks, covered our shirtsleeves and the tops of our cars.
"Oil and gas prices are high, and they are here to stay, " says Plummer, standing in shirtsleeves in front of a working oil well.
He carefully folded the cuffs of his shirtsleeves up over themselves only two or three times, so they ended up at the middle of his forearms, flat and relaxed.
If I could have caught him before he entered the room, I would have told him to take off his jacket, loosen his tie and roll up his shirtsleeves.
John Davis, of the Harvard Business School, is writing a book on the few family firms that do not succumb to the old rule of shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
Listening to the judgment in his shirtsleeves, his suit jacket having been the casualty of a well-aimed egg on his way into court, he showed no signs of regret or even discomfort.
But what does it mean when you go from Bill and Dave in shirtsleeves sitting beside you on a bench in the company cafeteria to a ghostlike Carly floating on a television screen?
"I wear things to make myself feel good, but my style changes every day according to my mood, " muses Hidemichi Sawa, dressed in a grey waistcoat and shirtsleeves as he strolls through fashionable Daikanyama with girlfriend Chika Hamamoto.
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