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- Paisley was named after a Scottish town that, in the 19th
century, produced copies of Indian cashmere shawls with cone motifs that we call paisley
today.
- Chintz was used as a dress fabric in America as early as
colonial days. The fabric was imported from India to England and then to the colonies. By
the early 1900s, this popular fabric was often of poor quality that faded and lost much of
its shine when washed. Thereafter, anything of inferior quality was referred to as
"chintzy."
Corduroy was a name
coined during King Louis of France's reign. The king insisted everyone around him be
dressed in splendor. Even his servants were instructed to have a polished look, so they
traded in their plain cottons and woolens for a new cotton fabric with a more
luxurious-looking nap--dubbed "cord du roi," or, in English, "cords of the
king."
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