WALING.(The Talk of the Town)(Corduroy Appreciation Club)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 05-DEC-05

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Several years ago, Miles Rohan was out of work and feeling lonely. He thought it might be nice to belong to a social club, like the Elks or the Shriners, and, in the absence of any invitations, decided to start his own. He noticed that he'd accumulated a good amount of corduroy clothing in his twenty-some years, figured that that ought to count for something, and made a theme of it: a corduroy club. He established a Web site, printed up membership cards, and hit the streets to recruit--in bars, on subway platforms, wherever he saw people wearing corduroy. "It was a complete failure," he said the other day. "Someone"--a particularly...

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