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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer
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Corduroy
Corduroy is fast establishing itself at this year's fabric, while the ribbed cotton itself provides utilitarian tenacity, texture, and warmth. It is the fabric's long-held associations that may provide a hint to its current revival as a fabric for all seasons. It is Corduroy's link with the good breeding and country living that made it an essential ingredient in the gentleman's wardrobe along with Wellington boots and decent woolly. It combines the comfortable nonsense appeal of cotton with the perfectly correct luxury finish of velvet. Corduroy has the ability to appear either supremely sophisticated or rough and ready.
According to the author, the special quality of corduroy is that
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