Corduroy pants.

[oneighty]

My earliest memory of "Cords" was the knickers I wore in the period just before the big war broke out with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. I was living down in Alabama then. I rode on the bus with a little Gypsy girl. She smelled of Concord grape candy. I was in love with my Gypsy girl and her candy. One day she took the candy from her mouth and gave it to me, my first kiss. Cords remind me of that.

A while later back up in Buffalo, NY I wore those same cord knickers to school where the other children were doing cursive. I was still printing. I was embarrassed about that. We kids my sister, Lois and Eunice and I were given a few coins for snack money. My favorite snack then was Egg Custard and Chocolate Milk. One day my coins fell thru a hole in my pocket and were trapped where my cord knickers blossomed out. I could not get to my money and missed out on my treats. Cords remind me of that.

In 1944 I was rented out to a farm. I was ten years old at that time. I worked like a slave on that farm all summer long. It was hard work for a little guy. I had to live there too. My bed was on the screened in front porch. Many nights I lay out there on my cot and cried myself to sleep. At the end of the summer my stepmother was given fifty dollars for my labour. She bought me two pairs of corduroy pants for the school year. That is all I got for that summer of child labor. Cords remind me of that.

Yesterday or the day before I bought a pair of cord pants. they are black, comfort fit, I think I might like them. They sure do remind me of other times. I am wearing them now.

Do you like Cords?

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[pruner]

1. I love them

I'm actually wearing a a pair of them right now.

:)

[oneighty]

4. Yippee

Another Cord Person! Yours make neat noise when you walk?

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[patdem]

2. You got alot out of cordoury!

All I know of cordoruy is that they make swish, swish, swishing sounds if you are not bow legged. And I spent a fortune on a cobble cord sofa.

I loved your tale, I went there and saw that. Thanks for the story.

[Robb]

3. Dug mine out for the holidays

and ironed 'em, too!

[11cents]

5. Cords: They make winter worthwhile

I'm wearing a pair now.

[Rainbowreflect]

6. Did you know if you wear cords & hiking boots,

and walk in the snow with change in your pocket you can sound just like the intro to Pink Floyd's "Money"?

[patdem]

13. That is too funny....swish, swish, ching ching, crunch, crunch...

I can hear it now....too funny

[luckyluke]

25. That's the funniest thing I heard all day! (nt)

[dweller]

7. Love 'em

they are still 'groovy'. Sorry, bad pun.

Levis had an olive green/grey back years ago that i had (i think my first pair) that i've looked for since then, but have never found again in that color.

Got black,brown, tan, grey and dark green now, maybe a dark blue, i forget. I'm going to wear some tomorrow.
thanks for the reminder and the memory.
Happy T-day 180!
dp

[oneighty]

9. Happy T-Day

to you dweller.

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[Brother Buzz]

8. Gave them up for a life of crime...

Hard work being stealthy wearing cords...vffft, vffft, vffft.

[oxymoron]

10. Last time I wore Cords I caught fire.

...not to even mention the noise!

[absyntheNsugar]

11. Nothinig sexier than

a brunette in a turtleneck sweater and brown cords...

mmmmmmmmmm :)

[oneighty]

14. WhooooHoooo

I remember her!!!

WhoooHooo

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[absyntheNsugar]

15. You remember her too?

man she must have got around ;)

Seriously - that is one of the few things that I can say is better about today than it was before...that is one style (along with platform shoes) that I'm glad has made a comeback...

[oneighty]

16. Certainly not the same girl.

But the image you painted brought one just like her to my mind. Thank you! Sigh,

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[dfong63]

12. i love cords, but

i only like them when the band of material that goes around the waist, is oriented correctly. by that i mean, the wales should be vertical, not horizontal. i find that the pants are much more comfortable when the waistband is sewn that way. they have more "give" at the waist.

that's the way they used to be sewn. but nowadays all i can find are the other kind, with the wales running horizontally. i'm sure that in the old days, the seamstresses or whoever made the pants understood this point. but it seems to have been forgotten by today's clothing corporations.

[Character Assassin]

17. Only useful if one wants to look like a Moody Blues album cover, 1970

Check out the insert to 'On the Threshold of a Dream'.

Pee-yook.

[Superfly]

18. I'm sorry, but men who go for the "Professor" look

with cords, turtleneck, and sportjacket with leather elbow pads, might want to join "the now", as it were.

That being said, I think a pair of flat-fronted (no pleats for me, thank you very much),straight leg, relaxed fit, thin wale cords is a good looking pair of pants.

[KG]

19. living in the FL gives few reasons to own cords

always like them. my mom hated to see us on our knees playing cause we would wear the ribs off there first.

btw - when's the book coming out. heck, let me publish it!

[oneighty]

22. You can publish it ??

Interesting. PM me..

Ed

[KG]

23. gulp!

going to see my journalist brother tomorrow. i'll get back to you.

on edit - my football watching buddy Jeff put together this book. i'll be seeing him sunday. let me pick his brain, too.

[oneighty]

24. Thanks KG

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[sleipnir]

20. Cords are all the rage in NYC fashion now

All kinds of colors, mostly red, dark brown, and green. Quite fashionable to wear them in the City, if you're down with that look.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. So how come I could hardly find any in the stores

when I went shopping yesterday?

:shrug:

[trof]

21. They DON'T go "swish, swish".

They go "swoosh, swoosh".
And yes, I had a pair of corduroy knickers too.
It takes a geezer to know a geezer.
;-)

[Insider]

26. love 'em

look forward to pulling them out every winter. i wore those LLBeans last weekend. brown, baggy & saggy (with cuffs & without).

thanks for this thread

[oneighty]

27. You are welcome Insider!

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[shanti]

28. oh yeah, loved those levi's cords

from back in the 60's/70's. i had just about every color - light blue, dark blue, chocolate brown, tan. this was in southern california, and everyone wore them with the obligatory hang ten tee shirt.

[Digger]

30. Great stuff

Keep 'em comming.