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Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former name of the city of Chennai in south India .
Depiction of a 13th-century gambeson (Morgan Bible, fol. 10r)A gambeson (similar to the aketon, padded jack, pourpoint, or arming doublet) is a padded defensive jacket, worn as armour separately, or combined with mail or plate armour.
1. A crimped silk gauze with a crêpe texture. 2. A historic 19th century lightweight crêpe, [5]: 6 introduced in 1820, [6] and, as "crepe aerophane" in 1861. [7] Albert crêpe 1. A fine black silk mourning crêpe introduced in 1862. [6] 2. Plain-weave crêpe. 3. An English-made silk and cotton blend crêpe. [5]: 10 Alicienne
Tweed is a rough, woollen fabric, of a soft, open, flexible texture, resembling cheviot or homespun, but more closely woven. It is usually woven with a plain weave, twill or herringbone structure. Colour effects in the yarn may be obtained by mixing dyed wool before it is spun.
Corduroy is a textile with a distinctively raised "cord" or wale texture. Modern corduroy is most commonly composed of tufted cords, sometimes exhibiting a channel (bare to the base fabric) between them. Both velvet and corduroy derive from fustian fabric. Corduroy looks as if it is made from multiple cords laid parallel to each other.
Pamela Anderson arrived in style to the Fourth Annual Academy Museum Gala.. On Saturday, Oct. 19, The Last Showgirl star, 57, showed off an understatedly elegant look at the Academy Museum of ...
Skorts are popular in sports such as field hockey, tennis, golf, ten-pin bowling and camogie, and are often part of girls' athletic uniforms.. The first noted skort-like clothing to be worn as tennis attire was done so by the Spanish player, Lilí Álvarez, who wore a pair of culottes which had been shaped to resemble a skirt during her Wimbledon match in 1931.
The surface of the fabric has a texture that looks like a waffle, hence the name. [2] [3] An example of waffle fabric. Waffle fabric can also be made on a double jersey knitting machine by selecting the needle position for knitting and tucking the loops for the formation of the structure similar to floating warps and weft in weaving. The ...