Seersucker Corduroy Linen Gingham 
Answer: Corduroy
When modern readers think of corduroy, they likely think of workwear and children’s clothing: two areas the fabric has seen heavy application in over the last hundred years. The fabric itself, however, has existed for thousands of years (originally known as fustian fabric, it was produced in ancient Egypt) under many names.
The name of the fabric is actually the most trivia-laced thing about it. In the 17th century, French royal servants and other members of the royal staff wore a fine but hard-wearing velveteen fustian (a very fancy and well made type of corduroy fabric). By the early 18th century the fabric had made its way to England and was produced quite heavily there. English textile merchants put a spin on the whole situation by taking the English phrase “cloth of the King” and translating it into French in order to give their fabric a sort of Parisian prestige and sell more yards of it. The translation “corde du roi”, cloth of the king, was condensed into “corduroy”. It should be noted that the entire translation was very haphazard and that what we know as corduroy (despite having been worn by a king or two through the ages, like Henry the VIII) was never referred to as “corde du roi” in French, but as “velours à côtes” (roughly: ribbed velvet).
In yet another twist in the fabric’s history: corduroy production shifted so heavily to England that now the fabric is known widely in continental Europe as “Manchester cloth” because such a huge amount of it was produced in Manchester, England.
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