gabardine
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One night before bed, M. Benamar shreds the silk lining from a pair of worn gabardine pants to craft a belt for his daughter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025
The experiment with traditional suiting fabrics, from pinstripe and tweed to cotton gabardine, took a different turn through with folded pleats.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2023
Mallory and Irvine, wearing wool and gabardine, hobnailed leather boots and homemade oxygen sets, disappeared into a swirling cloud on that fateful day, never to be seen alive again.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2022
In fact, purists insist that the best versions are the stiff, gabardine PE shorts sold in John Lewis’s school uniform department for less than a tenner.
From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2020
Meanwhile, a vest required some internal structure and a fabric to support it—a wool gabardine, say, or a flannel.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
