For a simple design, corduroy has a complicated legacy. Since reaching the height of its popularity in the 1970s, the heavy, ribbed fabric has had a decidedly retro appeal. | cbc_life
, a Toronto-based scholar and fashion historian, argued that it comes down to one reason. "There's an auditory sensation of wearing corduroy," she said. "It announces your arrival, basically.…
"We have gotten so used to, in the postmodern era, having clothing that doesn't have noise associated with it. Our clothes are very silent. And in the past, big silk dresses … would [rustle], and you would hear those coming a mile away." It's also become an emblem of working-class utilitarianism, which might be at the heart of the fashion world's fickle treatment of the textile..
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