[Fictionary] Selcouth Results

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

My parents just gave me some corduroy pants where the cords run
horizontally around the pants instead of up and down. I said that it must
have been very expensive to set up a production line to weave horizontal
corduroy, but nobody appreciated my joke.

On Monday, September 16, 2013, Fran Poodry wrote:

> Corduroy and similar fabrics do have directionality, called "nap." Rub
> your hand one direction along (not across) the cords and they seem to
> smooth down a bit, rub the other way and they fluff up a bit. It is similar
> to (but less dramatic than) rubbing a cat "the wrong way" and making its
> fur stand up, or rubbing a cat the way its hair naturally goes.
> This is observable on velvet and even suede. But not so much on "crushed
> velvet" in which the nap is all smooshed down willy-nilly for a different
> visual effect.
> -Fran
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Nicolas Ward <ultranurd at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'ultranurd at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Ranjit (3 + 0)
>>
>> selcouth, n. A corded velveteen fabric distinguished from corduroy in
>> that the cords run from bottom to top rather than top to bottom.
>>
>> Elliot 2 "Are cords in corduroy *signed*? I had no idea. Inspired by
>> SILK?"
>> Jim 1
>>
>> Hutch: "I'm pretty sure that corduroy doesn't have any 'directionality'
>> to it?"
>> Pierre: "Turnabout is fair play."
>>
>>
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