The Corduroy Appreciation Club is a social club which wishes to cultivate good fellowship by the advancement of Corduroy awareness, understanding, celebration and commemoration of the fabric and all related items. Club events are held on dates which resemble Corduroy.

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11|11 Grand Meeting, 2009

Esteemed Member of The Corduroy Appreciation Club,
The Corduroy Appreciation Club shall convene on the date which most closely resembles Corduroy, November 11th, 11|11. Here are the particulars and secret location of our meeting:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Hilarious BEST SELLING AUTHOR of I Was Told There’d Be Cake, SLOANE CROSLEY!
$11.11 (A price which resembles Corduroy). Please Purchase here [...]

111109 Keynote Speaker Selected: Sloane Crosley

Absolutely thrilled and honored to announce that Sloan Crosley will be the keynote speaker at our 1111 Grand Meeting on Wednesday, 1111 09 Sloane is completely hilarious and the author or the NYTIMES best seller, I was Told There’d Be Cake, which has been optioned for a series on HBO! Cannot wait! More details [...]

11|11 Draws Nigh!

The Date which Most Closely Resembles Corduroy looms near! It’s 10 days from today! Are you ready? We’re not, exactly, but tremendous preparations are underway for celebration of this most important day for members of The Corduroy Appreciation Club and Corduroy lovers the world over. A Grand Meeting will occur in Brooklyn, NY. Details accumulating [...]

Rare Video Footage of Corduroy Club President Released

The website revelinnewyork.com has released an excellent video about The Corduroy Appreciation Club featuring the reclusive and mysterious founder of the organization, Miles Rohan. Note, it would appear that The Founder is wearing a wig, of sorts, to disguise himself. What else could explain that which sprouts from his head? Lots of other wonderful interviews [...]

Corduroy and The Double Life is Twice as Good

It is a great honor to have an essay about the Corduroy Appreciation Club appear in Jonathan Ames’ new collection, The Double Life is Twice as Good. Obviously Jonathan’s account of his time at our 2007 meeting is the best part of the book, but everything else (that I’ve read thus far) is very good [...]

Twittering. yes, we are.

Follow the fascinating ups and downs, err…wales and races of the Corduroy Appreciation Club on Twitter. Corduroyclub is our username.

Emergency Meeting 3|11|09

In these uncertain times, Corduroy is a symbol of resilience and comfort. Due to a variety of circumstances, a meeting of The Corduroy Appreciation Club has not occurred in 13 months. Yet we remain a powerful force and voice for Corduroy and Corduroy Appreciation across the globe. Good souls continue to join our organization every day. We [...]

Cord of the King, We Are Not

The Hindu Online, India’s National Newspaper, which I always peruse, recently published a sound dissection of the origin of a word that is among the most hotly contested in etymological circles. What word, you ask, is that?
Corduroy, the familiar durable fabric, has no known linguistic parents though it is said to be the offspring of [...]

Among Other Wonderful Attributes of Paul Newman

I don’t have the proper words or abilities to adequately articulate the loss of Paul Newman and I’m not so sure I should try. But since his passing, I’ve received many photographs of him wearing Corduroy. I wanted to share one. It’s him and Joanne Woodward reading a script and they’re both in Corduroy [...]

Corduroy Wearing Bolivian Ambassador Expelled from U.S.

Friend of the Corduroy Appreciation Club and Bolivian Ambassador to the U.S., Gustavo Guzmán, was asked to depart our fair shores last week. His Excellency was told to leave just days after Bolivia expelled U.S. Ambassador Philip S. Goldberg. Bolivian President Evo Morales accused Goldberg of encouraging violence in the country amid fierce debate [...]

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