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How to use gabardine in a sentence

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Look for all-season fabrics like wool gabardine, cotton blends or rayon crepe.
Cut sections 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14 and 15 from wool gabardine along the fabric straight of grain.
During World War II he acquired a government contract to manufacture covert and gabardine trousers.
Technology and the Internet are also taking interest away from the wonders of wool and gabardine, he said.
I think price is an issue only when it's a basic replacement item, like a gabardine suit.
For daywear, I have used gabardine and crepe and for evening, there are vibrant silks and chiffon.
So look for mid-weight gabardine and worsted wool, which are comfortable in all temperatures.
They were basically condemned to flowing tents and baggy ill-fitting gabardine outfits displayed in middle-class department stores.
A good worsted wool has nap or texture, is less subject to shine, and will wear longer than gabardine.
Authenticity is found in English herringbone, cotton gabardine and corduroy.
Was that really how I looked, I wondered, how I appeared to others, the gabardine sitting rakishly on the shoulders, the sleeves hanging free?
Outside of the Ghetto the modern Shylock is envisioned as a man of mode, whose proverbial gabardine has been replaced by the latest Parisian cry.
She opened with a black gabardine mini-skirt with lace inserts paired with a dressy asymmetrical sheer silk top with bell sleeves.
Look for classics updated in fabrics such as corduroy, wool woven in gabardine, herringbone and glen plaid.
The tanned, trim body was wearing a blue-and-white striped jersey with the sleeves pushed up and gabardine pants.
If you're not wearing a suit, then pants with wool, gabardine, or wool with Lycra are an excellent option for work.
Firm, stable fabrics such as melton and gabardine hold the cut edge shape with minimal staystitching.
A fabric of a more open and much lighter texture, produced entirely of silk, is called silk, or voile, gabardine.
You may want a cleaner that is doing a lot of hand ironing and soft steaming as opposed to machine pressing, which is death to a fabric like gabardine.
Although gabardine is a popular fabric, it is one that shines prematurely.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He spread out the skirts of his gabardine and pirouetted between the lines of tethered horses.
He liked the look of a Burberry gabardine which lay beside him on the seat.
The peddler's couch was empty, save for his gabardine of gray and the false hair that had served him for a beard.
He felt sure that his instinctive good taste had not deserted him in choosing the brown suit and the gabardine.
A porter took his kit-bag and wanted to relieve him also of the gun-case, the fishing-rod, and the gabardine.
Two large gentlemen in gabardine coats and fedoras, gently tapping lead-filled rubber hoses against their thighs, will deliver the Shield.
Wearing gabardine and hobnail boots, and tied together by a thin cotton rope, they were headed for the summit of the highest mountain on Earth.
At Burberry, the gabardine trench was reimagined in turquoise suede, while at Jason Wu, it was crafted into midi skirts and T-shirts.
He shook his gabardine jacket clear of his arm and stepped into the night.
Trench coats are typically made of gabardine, heavy canvas or cotton, and while they can repel raindrops they do little to keep out a heavy winter chill.
Well, you can be sure a song was brooding on the lips of the cool young man in a gabardine coat walking up from the waterfront in Birkenhead 57 years ago.
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