Corduroy pants: only for fall/winter? Okay for spring as well? Does the answer depend on whether the cords are wide-wale or fine-wale?
Ok for spring if the color and weight are lighter than your normal corduroy.
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Aims - Mar 18, 2008 10:46:02 am PDT #463 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2008 10:47:36 am PDT #464 of 10001
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Ok for spring if the color and weight are lighter than your normal corduroy.
My "normal" corduroy is a fine-wale tan color; does that mean I would have to wear white supah-fine-wale?
(I don't think there's a wale finer than fine, right?)
(Man, that's a weird question.)
Emily - Mar 18, 2008 10:48:22 am PDT #465 of 10001
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color and weight are lighter than your normal corduroy.
Color? I pretty much always wear black pants. Is that bad?
Pix - Mar 18, 2008 10:50:28 am PDT #466 of 10001
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Ok for spring if the color and weight are lighter than your normal corduroy.I agree with the Empress, though color isn't a big deal for me.
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2008 10:51:52 am PDT #467 of 10001
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Ok for spring if the color and weight are lighter than your normal corduroy.
I agree with the Empress.
Yes, but -- what's lighter than fine-wale?
I feel like the rule should be: once it's appropriate to wear linen, you must stop wearing corduroy, and vice versa.
But I don't know that such a rule exists. I feel that I'm approaching a 3-month corduroy-to-linen gap.
Atropa - Mar 18, 2008 10:53:07 am PDT #468 of 10001
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Pants have seasons?! Freaky.
amych - Mar 18, 2008 10:53:51 am PDT #469 of 10001
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As an admitted fashion heathen, I'd say corduroy season lasts until right before "dude, aren't you too hot in that?" season begins.
(And I've heard of both narrow-wale and pin-wale corduroys, as well as those described by # of wales/inch, but I'm not sure if there's a real standard of fineness for the named ones or if they're all just fancy marketing terms.)
Sparky1 - Mar 18, 2008 10:53:57 am PDT #470 of 10001
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(I don't think there's a wale finer than fine, right?)
Wale is actually given in numbers. The higher the number, the finer the wale. (So 16 wale is fine, but 21 wale is finer.)
SailAweigh - Mar 18, 2008 10:57:13 am PDT #471 of 10001
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I'd say corduroy season lasts until right before "dude, aren't you too hot in that?" season begins
Depends on the air conditioning. Some movie theaters in summer require thermal underwear. Corduroy would be an acceptable substitute, even in July.
Aims - Mar 18, 2008 11:09:11 am PDT #472 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
what's lighter than fine-wale?
Nothing really. If the color's lighter (like you described) I would say wear em until it's Too Damned Hot. I wear my light chocolate brown ones on cool summer nights, but they are sooper-FOINE wale.