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Did You Hear About Corduroy Pillows?
The ribs in corduroy are technically known as whales without an H. The higher the whale number, the greater number of ribs per inch and the finer the fabric will be. Did you hear about corduroy pillows? They were making headlines. It's not coat of the King at all. Cord comes from cord, which is an old French word, and duroy, which is the name of a coarse English fabric. Is it actually called jumbo cord, not elephant cord? I've heard other people use the phrase elephant cord. It is jumbo cord. Can I also say that those socks that just go on your feet till they don't look like you're wearing