I remember wearing jumbo cords as a kid n the very early 80's with me Kickers, about '82 ish. The last pair of cords I bought were a pair of chocolate brown needle cords in a boot cut a few years ago.
I've been mulling over having a sports coat made up out of cord just for knocking about in.
A great jacket to have - A real Ivy classic.
i bought two pairs of pants off ebay, both by brooks brothers one is a gold color the other a medium reddish brown, both are middle wale widths, not the really fine or really wide, the gols ones are cuffed and all the seams are taped inside, i wore the reddish brown ones thanksgiving with a brown tweed jacket - the corduroy looked good with the tweed
I know I've said this before, but:
grey narrow-wale cords are a good stand-in for grey flannels
and what cut...?
I got Levi's needlecord jeans and sta-press trousers, LL Bean corduroy chinos, various H&M cords and MTM ones of different wales, different colours and different quality...
First proper night of frost, about to leave home. I'm typing this wearing the wool lined cord Buffer Coat. YUM. Medium wale.
Brooks herringbone tweed, wool Sir Pendleton button down, Beefy T, Wranglers, Burlingtons, Playboys.
I'd say it can be both, an undarted or a darted jacket, but as far as I know, it's definitely an unconstructed, unlined jacket. No padding, and no wadding either, very casual... A J.Press thing, and there are those French ones, too, that were sold at JS... I think it was J.Keydge, but I never got one of those....
http://garmsville.blogspot.com/2009/04/talked-about-french-ivy-while-back.html
http://jpressonline.com/sale_outerwear_detail.php?ix=1