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" In the 1940s, chino pants (the evolution of that name too boring and too speculative to recount here) completed a migration from the military to the workingman to the disillusioned, Benzedrine-fueled Beat Generation. King of the Beats\u2014who spent much of his later life refusing the crown\u2014was Jack Kerouac, who apparently first received Allen Ginsburg at his breakfast table, in a t-shirt and chinos. If the Beats thought of fashion at all, it was to refuse it; inevitably, the opposite happened. One modern variation worth noting: the ultimate cargo chino from Gant. Cleaned up but willing to work, slim enough to almost obscure the functional cargo pockets. Good pants. Sal and Dean (On the Road kids, keep up) chose alcohol the way they chose clothing: What was around, what was cheap. But jug wine tastes like it sounds, and you don&amp;#039;t need Esquire to tell you hipsters drink Pabst Blue Ribbon. Look instead to the Manhattan Jazz clubs where young Kerouac and his friends found inspiration. In those smoky rooms, it was gin, and beer, and Bourbon\u2014like Jazz, a purely American invention\u2014mixed, perhaps, with Coca-Cola. And the best-selling Bourbon of the day was Four Roses. Four Roses has been through a lot since then (for decades, the good stuff was exported to Asian markets and we were stuck with a lousy blended whiskey), but current owner Kirin set things right some years ago. The Small Batch and Single Barrel offerings make enthusiasts swoon, but the simple Yellow Label comes closest to its roots. Sweet, serviceable, surprisingly good. It will keep good company through Kerouac&amp;#039;s American Bop night. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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