How To Use Corduroy In A Sentence
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There had been a good deal of joking, both Spanish and English, among the passengers; I had found particularly cheering the richness of a certain machinist’s trousers of bright golden corduroy; but as the shades of night began to embrown the scene our spirits fell; and at the cry of a lonesome bird, far off where the sunset had been, they followed the sun in its sudden drop.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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The mound of dirty clothing just keeps piling up until your hamper is overflowing and a sea of denim, cotton and corduroy forms a carpet on the floor of your bedroom.
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There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin.
Power, corruption and lies
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Fat toffs wearing pink corduroy trousers.
The Sun
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Your new cardigan can be worn over a T-shirt with jeans, corduroy pants or khakis.
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We must've looked like freaks to people who had never seen a hacking jacket or wide-wale corduroys with lobsters embroidered on them.
Christian Chensvold: Preppy Evangelist: The Lisa Birnbach Interview
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Wear them with a pair of boot-cut distressed designer jeans, a thick gray wool turtleneck, and a beige or brown corduroy blazer.
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This show, held in cavernous, candelabra-strewn space that had a whiff of ruined empire, had plenty of strong, practical pieces: impeccably cut overcoats, running the gamut from deepest navy and ashiest gray to the purest white with black trimming; three-piece suits tailored with Browne's signature off-kilter proportions, and a pair of gray corduroy pants strewn with white snowflakes.
Esquire.com Article Feed
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At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him.
Excerpt: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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He wore indigo jeans and a brown corduroy jacket, and I caught a faint but pleasant hint of aftershave.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scraps of cloth were saved up for quilting - any sort of cotton, corduroy, knit or synthetic fabric was free.
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In any case, boldness of design and rectilinearity are characteristics of the quilts; and for some quilters, corduroy called forth their best efforts.
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Dressed in a beige cardigan sweater, corduroys and rimless glasses, he exudes a polite, professorial air.
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Considerable skill was required in the making of corduroy, working-class fabric or not.
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Instead of corduroy pants and a poplin jacket he was wearing dark brown trousers, a sports jacket, a white shirt, and a tie.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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Silk is also available in other weaves such as velvet and corduroy.
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It took them three days to lay a bridge of corduroyed branches across the river and another two to get all the wagons and ivory to the far bank.
When the Lion Feeds
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He's all mockered-up in his corduroy pants!
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Rich kids in fourth grade used to make fun of the sounds of my corduroys swishing down the hall.
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Welcome to November, a month that people take a little bit too seriously, a month of melancholy and corduroy, and the only time of year you'll hear New Yorkers utter the word "succotash" with a straight face on the crosstown bus ….
Eight Day Week
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Same thing, wore those tattersall shirts and, you know, corduroy pants.
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The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick ones way between the sketching-stools.
Inside the Whale
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On the old parade ground, schoolchildren gambolled like corduroy goats.
Times, Sunday Times
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I got some black stretchy material that i can use to make a belt out of and Karina got some tan corduroy to make a skirt.
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It seems that he was never tortured by his homosexuality, and he had a curious fetish for grey flannels and corduroys.
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There was no time to talk to Katrina in the bustle of inspanning and working the wagons across the corduroy bridge.
When the Lion Feeds
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More sedate but nonetheless oozing French bohemian cool are overcoats with ruched hemlines in soft corduroy by Lilith.
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I like trousers and jackets made of corduroy and feel most comfortable in browns and greens.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is wearing faded jeans and scuffed shoes, an unironed shirt and a brown corduroy jacket.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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I also noticed he had a corduroy suit in his bag just like mine.
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As it got colder, he started showing up in more layers, a brown corduroy suitcoat, then a black peacoat.
White girl/boy angst
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She reached out again and touched a man's leg in corduroy trousers.
Christianity Today
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While corduroys are gaining popularity this season, you'd better get yourself a pair of dark blue jeans in time for fall.
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He wears dull grey wool and boring brown corduroy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look for classics updated in fabrics such as corduroy, wool woven in gabardine, herringbone and glen plaid.
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Fall 2002 is marked by a retro look, which is highlighted by the re-emergence of corduroys, only these cords have thin ridges rather than the thicker ones that were popular last year.
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Rab offers Johnny his outgrown linen ruffled shirt and a corduroy jacket.
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Madison joined us in the kitchen by the time I had the package open, dressed in my new corduroys and her black tank top.
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You know, the egghead, absent-minded-professor types with bad haircuts and corduroy jackets with elbow patches.
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I wore a black beret, black leather jacket and black corduroy trousers.
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Biyan still used paper/crispy cotton for fabrics, along with knits, chiffon, recycled denim, corduroy, twill and linen.
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I don't want to hear my seat's too low, or corduroy isn't the best wicking fabric in the world.
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Comfortable and stylish, you can wear this turtleneck with a stylish pair of beige or light brown corduroys, designer denims, or a dressy pair of flat-front slacks for a more formal occasion.
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He took a bunch of keys from the pocket of his old corduroy trousers.
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He is dressed casually with a corduroy jacket and pom-pom hat.
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Considered a derivative of denim, corduroy is an extremely popular fabric for fall 2001, in pants and jackets.
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But, again, if you have chosen a cotton flannel as lining or cotton corduroy, then wash and dry that fabric as well.
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More apt for the city were low-slung trousers with a slight flare in white or brown corduroy.
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Miss Drexel, seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers, ran along the sand and dropped the skirt for a foothold for the slowly revolving wheels.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
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He will wear a tweed jacket and corduroy trousers.
Times, Sunday Times
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And while the fabric focus is predominantly denim, the roster includes suede, leather and corduroy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look for classics updated in fabrics such as corduroy, wool woven in gabardine, herringbone and glen plaid.
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Back pocket... He was wearing a bottle-green corduroy jacket.
WHITE LIES
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Authenticity is found in English herringbone, cotton gabardine and corduroy.
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As any fashion geek knows, the vertical ribby bits in corduroy are calledwales.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man in corduroy and dirty neckerchief no longer addressed me as
THE DESCENT
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I asked a bearded man in a corduroy suit when the next lecture was due to begin.
The Sun
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I just had on my corduroy shirt, and a pair of pants as thin as your underdrawers.
I Walked The Line
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He wore a green corduroy jacket with a rip in the sleeve.
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The comfort of his smell, the softness of his worn old corduroys.
SEA MUSIC
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Wesley slowly unbuttoned his corduroy jacket, `You must move to the left of him, hold his attention.
BEHINDLINGS
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Where House Republican leader John Boehner belongs to a golf club that cost 75K to join, wears thousand dollar suits, and travels on corporate jets, he campaigns in corduroy shirts.
Fred Rotondaro: Storytelling and the November Elections
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Swami-like and pedagogical in skullcap, glasses, corduroy blazer, and striped tie, with the first Beatitude (“Blessed are the poor in spirit …”) tattooed on his wrists, Aaron Weiss steps into the street after his band’s sound check and is promptly cornered by a young man wearing a homemade Aaron Weiss T-shirt.
Sing to the Lord a New Song
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Here he was, dressed in corduroy trousers and a light-blue shirt; concentrating, eyes half closed or fully shut; defined gestures; confident breath; fingers flat on the open holes of his clarinet; the muscles of his mouth tight, yet not puffing out his cheeks around the mouthpiece; his upper lip surprisingly mobile, at times seeming to inhale and swallow the top of the reed and at times curling back as if to convey its decision to keep its distance, disavow that nasty instrument, and, all of a sudden, with sovereign authority, literally cut off its breath …
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)
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The plush fabrics used throughout the room, such as corduroy and velvet, perform a similar function.
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Unionbay showed plenty of twill, corduroy and nylon pants.
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Amelia, eyes crinkled with tiredness, stood there fully dressed in purple corduroy trousers and an embroidered lilac jumper.
JUST BETWEEN US
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Make sure to select a shirt that matches at least several jeans, corduroys or Dockers of yours.
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He wore a navy cotton shirt, a heavy bottle-green cardigan and a pair of worn corduroy trousers.
CHAMELEON
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Many were in full countryside regalia - corduroy and tweeds, flat caps, hip flasks and sticks - despite having only walked from their expensive 4x4's parked nose-to-tail in the surrounding narrow lanes.
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He was always well dressed wearing handsome sweater vests with long sleeve shirts and matching corduroys.
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Corduroy were one of those British acid-jazz bands who specialised in covering, and pastiching, theme music, mostly from 70s TV shows.
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With the abundance of fashionable fall jackets out there, from suede, to denim and corduroy, you'll have no option but to look hot.
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Where his right leg should have been was a brown corduroy pant leg, folded up and pinned together.
Times, Sunday Times
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Daniel arrived in a hoodie and corduroys, and we sat on two separate ends of the couch, and he wrote me a note on a piece of paper that said, Do we break our vows when we sneeze?
The Adults
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corduroyed" by carpeting them with long parallel poles.
The Blazed Trail
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Capture both elements with this cotton corduroy cap from Hugo Boss - a perfect alternative to the conventional winter tuque.
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Grow tomatoes and wear corduroy trousers and die?
Times, Sunday Times
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Wear them with a pair of boot-cut distressed designer jeans, a thick gray wool turtleneck, and a beige or brown corduroy blazer.
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More often than not, he turns up at black-tie dinners dressed in a polo shirt, black corduroys, and sneakers.
Art's New Pecking Order
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Liberty, a firm based in the United Kingdom, has begun printing on fine wale lightweight corduroy, noted Ed Harding, the firm's U.S. agent.
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This wardrobe is much more casual, with pants and shirts being the mainstay, plus a great casual coat in one of my all-time favourite fabrics, corduroy.
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I am not going back as far as the days of the corduroy and the swallow-tailed coat but what I remember myself.
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Throw in some chiffon, washed corduroy and aged denim and get ready to join the grown up country set.
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Other popular fabrics for the season include corduroy, but in a finer gauge than was worn during the autumn and winter, and very fine woollens and knitwear.
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He wears a corduroy jacket with elbow patches, and jeans.
Times, Sunday Times
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An occupation of Wall Street to monumentalize the already very imposing (at 6'8) Paul Volcker, and to adopt the tax suggestions of one of Wall Street's most ruthless and accomplished sharks, good old Uncle Warren in his viyella shirt and corduroy trousers, (who paid less than $7 million on income of $63 million last year), is a piquant confession of the innocence of the occupiers once they get south of Canal Street.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement
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He was wearing a waist-length light to mid-grey polyester jacket, zipped up at the front, and dark sandy-coloured corduroys.
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Fifi Simon, the brand's U.S. distributor, says the $8 to $140 line of items such as corduroy skirts and thick-knit sweaters boosted the brand's awareness in the U.S.
How to Say 'Bargain' in French
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In case of Corduroy, we will use, either 8 wale corduroy (about 320 gsm), or 14 wale corduroy (about 300 gsm) in 100% cotton or cotton/spandex blend.
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On the racks were items for fall, half-practical, half-fantastical: silk-lined camouflage corduroy pants for $298; one of those big blanketlike belted cardigans (part acrylic) that everyone wears now instead of jackets, for $365; and a “pom-pom” bag, resembling an oversize Tribble, for $950.
She's Mayoress of Tent City!
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If stripes aren't your style, experiment with other casual fabrics, such as cotton duck, denim, and corduroy.
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As I wish to describe these persons as accurately as possible, I may add, he wore a dark-coloured coat, corduroy breeches, and spatterdashes.
Redgauntlet
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Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road.
Kesh & Loaning
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One advantage of corduroy, aside from its warmth and comfort, is the richness it gives colours.
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There are slides, mules, comfy slip-ons in leather and suede, corduroy or shearling.
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You will get to know the store well: the buffalo-hide carpet; a stiff pair of black riding boots by the door; and some beautiful casual clothes, such as cherry-red corduroys and navy cardigans, folded on top of a weathered picnic table.
Ode to Handsome
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A wool or cotton crewneck or V-neck sweater, with your favorite jeans, corduroys or fitted five-pocket pants.
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While denim rules the casual trouser roost, corduroy is not being given the chance to reinvent itself; there is not enough of it on the high street and pitiable attempts to 'commercialise' it (for example, branding cord trousers not as 'cords' but as 'jeans') have not paid off.
Men's Flair
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He wore brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt.
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Her apricot corduroy skirt and sweater are simple and worn.
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The “main road” sometimes plunges into deep bogs, at others is roughly corduroyed by the roots of trees, and frequently hangs over the edge of abrupt and much-worn declivities, in going up one of which the baggage-horse rolled down a bank fully thirty feet high, and nearly all the tea was lost.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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The tall, gawky, moon-faced 23-year-old Southerner in corduroy trousers had a lot in common with George.
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Past these windows, from Randolph to Twelfth surges the crowd: matinee girls, all white fox, and giggles and orchids; wise-eyed saleswomen from the smart specialty shops, dressed in next week's mode; art students, hugging their precious flat packages under their arms; immigrants, in corduroys and shawls, just landed at the Twelfth street station; sightseeing families, dazed and weary, from Kansas; tailored and sabled
Fanny Herself
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He wore a pair of black corduroys and a long sleeved striped green dress shirt.
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He is wearing green corduroy trousers, faded around the knee, and green and white trainers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is wearing faded jeans and scuffed shoes, an unironed shirt and a brown corduroy jacket.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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A mink came within twenty feet of me the other day as soon as my companion had left me, and if I had had my gray sack on as well as my corduroys, it would perhaps have come quite up to me.
A Different Stripe:
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To the ladies who live where it is cold - there is very nice fine-wale corduroy available, sometimes in prints too.
"The Pink Rose" by Federico Andreotti (1847-1930)
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At the Syracuse of my freshman year in 1967, everyone wore crewneck sweaters and corduroys to the football games at Archbold Stadium.
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Not boring white or dark blue broadcloth, but in an explosion of colors and fabrics, from stretch denim to corduroy.
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His voluminous corduroy trousers were frequently held up by bright red braces.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fabric or trim with a raised texture, such as re-embroidered and corded laces, wide-wale corduroy and heavy mesh.
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Corduroy is the poor man's velvet; its pile is made of cotton rather than silk or satin.
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As a judge's daughter, she considered herself scissored from a more refined bolt of cloth than the corduroy manufactured in Haw River's one mill.
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Look for classics updated in fabrics such as corduroy, wool woven in gabardine, herringbone and glen plaid.
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She's standing alone, stringy hair, corduroy skirt, scabby legs sprouting out of Roman sandals.
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He was a little boy for a moment: the toys made in Japan, Rob Roy shirts, corduroy knickers, Cod-liver oil and Ovaltine—
A Turlock Moment
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Corduroys come in shades of rust, sand, bottle-green, caramel and plum.
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I am huddled in a tight semicircle with a group of exceedingly hirsute young men, all wearing corduroy sport coats, all staring intently at the stage.
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The child was a girl, wearing corduroy jeans and a red jersey.
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And while the fabric focus is predominantly denim, the roster includes suede, leather and corduroy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the dusty window, there was a pure wool 'tweedy' jacket costing £135, a pair of heavy corduroy trousers at£45, and a pair of blood red slacks at £30.
Tailor to his Lordship
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The lane was quite populous with wagons and hay-makers – the men in their corduroys and blue hose – the woman in their trim jackets and bright calamanco petticoats.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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The girl, who answered to ‘Lee’, looked positively hippie in her black corduroy bell-bottoms and paisley smock with flare-sleeves.
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Corduroy's origins date back to the late 1700s England, not France as is widely believed, says James Pruden, a spokesman for Cotton Inc., a research and promotion nonprofit headquartered in Cary, N.C. The term corduroy is most likely a combination of the words "cord" and the now obsolete "duroy" or "deroy," meaning a woolen garment, he says.
Reading Between the Lines, This Is a Big Date for Corduroy Fans
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Might I remind you that, traditionally, much the same as corduroy, velvet is heavily associated with nobility," wrote the sender, a New York art dealer who goes by the alias Julius Fefferpot.
Reading Between the Lines, This Is a Big Date for Corduroy Fans
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If stripes aren't your style, experiment with other casual fabrics, such as cotton duck, denim, and corduroy.
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So go crazy this fall because flannels, corduroys and tweeds are making a huge comeback.
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The chalk type works best on flat surfaces while the wax version performs better on textured fabrics such as bouclé or corduroy.
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Nicholas was wearing a corduroy jacket.
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The girl, who answered to ‘Lee’, looked positively hippie in her black corduroy bell-bottoms and paisley smock with flare-sleeves.
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Celia was wearing turquoise corduroy bell-bottoms and a tank top, her hair in two French plaits.
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Despite its name, the road was imperfectly corduroyed.
The Guns Of The South
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Corduroy is the poor man's velvet; its pile is made of cotton rather than silk or satin.
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I shivered in my green, long sleeved shirt and black corduroys, staring up at the streetlights around the student parking lot, crushing my books against my chest.
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Whether discussing sewer scavengers or dustmen, beggars or prostitutes, he would begin by carefully noting their physical appearance and often idiosyncratic garb: The rat-catcher's dress is usually a velveteen jacket, strong corduroy trousers, and laced boots.
Sociology most Dickensian
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So go crazy this fall because flannels, corduroys and tweeds are making a huge comeback.
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YTT series ironing system for ironing wool, cotton blend, chemical fiber, velveteen, corduroy, and so the pressing equipment clothing, trouser press no light perception scalded, without.
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The solution is a corduroy jacket cut like a jeans jacket.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even softer was the chinchilla that lined baby corduroy gilets and below-the-knee hunting shorts, both of them covered in pockets for any game you might find in the Sicilian scrub.
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Her apricot corduroy skirt and sweater are simple and worn.
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It led to the smallest room, with a brown corduroy sofa bed that filled the room when folded out.
Times, Sunday Times
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By 1965 things had eased, but my detective inspector still railed against my three-quarter length corduroy car-coat with its red lining.
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To this day I can feel myself almost swooning with shame as I stood, a very small, round-faced boy in short corduroy knickers, before the two women.
Collected Essays
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Whether you enjoy wearing a tailored suit, old jeans, khakis, or corduroys, we have the perfect shoes for you to step out in.
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Arthur was wearing corduroys and a long-sleeved tee shirt; he pulled on a warm wool sweater Marilyn had given him for his birthday a few weeks ago, and then his parka.
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Corduroys come in shades of rust, sand, bottle-green, caramel and plum.
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For a less feminine look, simply select suede, leather, corduroy, denim or another masculine feeling fabric in a darker color.
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He hooked his fingers under the belt that fastened his baggy corduroys, tried to lean back casually, and bumped into someone walking by.
Kate Fridkis: Home-Schoolers Might not be so Weird After All
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Not a ratton -- forward there, Dick!" said the man behind, and the man with the bushy beard advanced, rising as he did so till I could see the ties of tarry cord with which he looped up his corduroy small-clothes.
The Dew of Their Youth
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He was instantly recognisable with his corduroy suits, handmade shoes and a permanently lit cigar.
Times, Sunday Times
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And though he wore corduroys at work, and a slop-made pepper-and-salt suit on Sundays, strangers would turn round to look after him on the road.
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Only odd remnants of the meet, straggling foot-passengers, terriers straining at a strap held by drunken runners -- some in old Beaufort coats, others in corduroy -- one-horse shays of every description by the sides of the road and sloppy girls with stick and tammies standing in gaps of the fences, straining their eyes across the fields to see the hounds.
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
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He wore brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt.
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Beginning at the hem, cut the jeans or corduroys open along the inseam or the side seam.
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The head of a smart high-street men's shop attempted to tell me why corduroys are superior to blue jeans.
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I got a corduroy jacket and trousers, and a pair of boots.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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She pointed to the corduroyed road that ran west from the new buildings until it disappeared into the pine woods that grew almost to the edge of town.
The Guns Of The South
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Miss Drexel, seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers, ran along the sand and dropped the skirt for a foothold for the slowly revolving wheels.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
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In the 1950s, they were fading a little, helped by sad variants from Dunn & Co in corduroy and unpersuasive tweed; by the 1960s, there was hardly a hat to be seen.
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A college boy inspired range of casual leisurewear which mixes denim, chino and corduroy with splashes of colour, such as orange, red and green.
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With such a corduroy fabrics majority.
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The stereotype of the beardy academic, dressed in ill-fitting corduroy and locked away in his ivory tower, endures.
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It was winter and everyone else was wearing normal clothes, but she had on a red backless halterneck dress, a tan corduroy cloth cap, and big silver hoop earrings.
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Designs for boys shift very little season to season, save for adding the choice of cargo pants to wide-wale corduroys and classic blue jeans.
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If you're using corduroy remnants, cut the strips across the fabric grain with the cords running perpendicular to the strip length.
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Suppose I were to dress in corduroy and run a grist mill.
The Miller of Old Church
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Trousers were still made of corduroy; or of moleskin (a cotton pile fabric with a weave based on that for satin); and jackets were still made of fustian.
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His trousers are corduroy, his shirt a pale blue button-down.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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The morning after the night of the corduroy sofa was awkward.
The Sun
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It seems like the '70s all over again: long hairdos for men, tight jeans, wide lapels, and corduroy everything.
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I was always fascinated with the written word, even before I could read, and I must have recognised that there was something inherently magical about squiggly symbols organised in lines and packed together like corduroy.
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By 1785 types of cotton fabric generally available included corduroys, jeans, nankeens, erminetts, thicksets, corded tabby and jeanette.
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Then the young man in corduroys and the bloom, etc., carried Denny home on his back, after his legs had been bandaged up, so that he looked like "wounded warriors returning.
The Wouldbegoods
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This show, held in cavernous, candelabra-strewn space that had a whiff of ruined empire, had plenty of strong, practical pieces: impeccably cut overcoats, running the gamut from deepest navy and ashiest gray to the purest white with black trimming; three piece suits tailored with Browne's signature off-kilter proportions, and a pair of gray corduroy pants strewn with white snowflakes.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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There are occasional hits, such as hot-pink coats, cropped corduroys, and the retro argyle look.
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In the blistering heat, and in true family tradition, I was dressed in corduroys and a heavy knitted sweater.
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They dressed me in a turquoise crocheted pullover, brown corduroy flares and open-toed sandals, while letting my hair grow very long.
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He wore a sort of smock-pullover, badly stained, and great flapping brown corduroys above suede chukka boots.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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The introduction, where we see Lexie kicking her heels in the stifling atmosphere of her Devonshire family before a too-chance encounter with the glamorous, corduroy-suited Innes, feels a little stagey; for all the brilliance of O'Farrell's depictions of new motherhood, the historical plot outshines and unbalances the contemporary one.
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
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Any fabric works for this delightful treat: denim, corduroy, cotton, or if you are feeling slightly daring, some PVC or leather.
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At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him.
Excerpt: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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He wore brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt.
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No, my main worry is that the passengers will conform to his relaxed style and be allowed to fly in jumpers and corduroys.
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The mound of dirty clothing just keeps piling up until your hamper is overflowing and a sea of denim, cotton and corduroy forms a carpet on the floor of your bedroom.
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In the blistering heat, and in true family tradition, I was dressed in corduroys and a heavy knitted sweater.
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Next to her was a little old guy looking rather sheepish and awkward, wearing a stripy jacket and a corduroy cap, with lots of badges on both.
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Mitchinson was wearing a handmade corduroy suit, handmade shoes by Ducker's of Oxford, a cashmere polo neck.
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Whether it's cotton, corduroy (thin or thick ridges) or velour, a blazer will help you blaze any trail with the utmost of style.
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Take note that these basic cuts apply to a wide range of pants, such as jeans, corduroys, chinos, dress pants, and khakis.
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A heavily built man in a corduroy jacket edged closer to him on his left.
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Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road.
Kesh & Loaning
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The Italian fashion designer on style, philosophy and wearing corduroys 24-7.
Cashmere King Brunello Cucinelli
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Beginning at the hem, cut the jeans or corduroys open along the inseam or the side seam.
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He had been accustomed to her only in trim tailor suits and shirtwaists, or in riding costume of velvet corduroy, and he was not prepared for this new revelation.
Chapter XVIII
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His little corduroyed backside clambers over another fence after them.
Molly Magid Hoagland: Fly Where I Can't Hold You
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One member was stationed at the door of the party and took note of the kind of wale, which is the raised portion of corduroy, that people were wearing.
The Double Life is Twice as Good
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Whether you enjoy wearing a tailored suit, old jeans, khakis, or corduroys, we have the perfect shoes for you to step out in.
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If stripes aren't your style, experiment with other casual fabrics, such as cotton duck, denim, and corduroy.
