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#1 2005-11-19 12:41:12

Elgee
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Registered: 2005-11-12
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'wide-whale' corduroy for 'wide-wale' corduroy

Do these pants make me look fat?

Other than the previously mentioned hairstyles, guys usually wore wide-whale corduroy pants, unless they wanted to look truly sinister – then it had to be black jeans.
http://www.nicke.abelgratis.com/lamey.html

When asked, she graciously attends elegant evening functions with museum trustees, but always clad in the same sensible wide-whale corduroy pants she wears every day. “I’ve never seen her dressed up,” says Ingrid Rea, a longtime board member.
http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20 … awson1.asp

The ceremony was pretty good — except for the wide-whale corduroy-wearing, BMW-driving, Marty Reasoner-chanting BC fans who managed to make themselves look silly.
http://www.uscho.com/news/id,698/TheMak … ishna.html

The knickers were hideous. I hated them on sight (they were olive green) and sound (they squeaked when I walked in them). Their wide-whale corduroy texture sent out a sound like a cage full of laboratory mice overdosed with nitrous oxide (laughing gas).
http://www.townusa.com/southsidemedia/1028no.html

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