Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Corduroy - a podcast by ABC Radio

With its ridges of soft, tufted cotton woven onto a cheaper base cloth, it combined softness and warmth with strength, making it comfortable to wear and popular with farmers and factory workers alike. It even had a kind of utilitarian chic when used by the Women's Land Army in the First World War, which saw women working in agriculture across Britain, filling the gap left by farm hands enlisted to fight abroad.

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