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#1 2014-08-16 08:49:52
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Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
With the autumn around the corner I am in search of a pair of corduroy trousers. Any suggestions?
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#3 2014-08-16 09:21:08
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
"I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry Martini" - Paul Desmond.
#4 2014-08-16 09:40:12
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
Harvie and Hudson had some decent ones last fall, but I don't know what they have for this season yet.
I take it you are in the UK?
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#5 2014-08-16 09:48:35
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
Cordings:
Cords, moleskins, chinos in a range of (sometimes bonkers) colours...
http://www.cordings.co.uk
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#6 2014-08-16 10:02:17
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
^ How are the Cording trousers cut? I am partial to a little more tailored fit.
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#7 2014-08-16 10:11:15
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
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#8 2014-08-16 10:34:53
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
I'm tempted to try O'C's myself, depsite the dreaded probable customs charges. Any UK ones I've seen just don't seem to have sufficient rise. LE and Bean are ok but the corduroy is quite cheap looking, meaning after one day's wear they are completely bagged out at the knees, and even repressing doesn't work until they've been washed again. Also rise is passable but in reality insufficient on either. I have tried Alexander's bespoke (or whatever the correct term would be), but they are unreliable.
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#9 2014-08-16 10:49:46
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#11 2014-08-16 11:41:49
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#13 2014-08-16 11:47:55
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
As JS used to stock them I know they're ivy approved, which is always my primary concern.
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#14 2014-08-17 05:45:16
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
Thanks for the tips I'll have a look
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#15 2014-08-21 11:04:07
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'.
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#16 2014-08-21 11:22:59
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
What is it with you and cords and your butt?
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#17 2014-08-21 14:24:23
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
LL Bean? I haven't tried theirs, but I kind of want to. My last pair of Lands' End cords wore out in under two years (got a bald spot on them on the back of the knee/calf area.
#18 2014-08-21 14:24:53
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'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'.
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#20 2014-08-21 14:45:38
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#21 2014-08-21 14:46:36
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
Looks like Lurch wears a clip-on.
#22 2014-08-21 14:46:55
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
Those do look good Oliver. Any background on the horizontal cord? I just don't recall seeing much horizontal cord in my time. Is that unique to O'Connell's?
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#24 2014-08-21 15:02:26
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Re: Where can I find Corduroy Trousers?
I also really dig the cuffed effect with the horizontal cord. They're pretty heavy duty and break nicely over big square shoes. I've pretty much replaced my chinos with them throughout the fall. I actually prefer them to my regular 8-wale vertical cords.