White ducks

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Boyer praises white ducks in canvas cotton as a blazer companion. Does anybody own a pair? Is this the fabric: http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/catal ... tmID=U7030 ?

[Guest]

I've seen them worn to nice effect by others; although I've myself not owned white ducks. Ben Silver offers a pair that are quite reasonably priced and look okay.

http://www.bensilver.com/pt_standard.as ... splay=5213

Ray K.

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I've heard that unbleached white (linen) duck is the stuff.
NJS

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Or white flannel.
NJS

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"Duck", made of cotton or (better) linen (though I've heard of duck made of cotton-linen mixes, I've never seen it), is basically a moderately light-weight sailcloth: the sort of canvas on a weekend sailor's masts. If you're intending the use as knock-arounds (or real working trousers), this would be the cloth.

I agree with NJS, though: a nice white flannel would be elegant; it's what I'd wear with a blazer, for example. Duck is not.

[Guest]

"Duck", made of cotton or (better) linen (though I've heard of duck made of cotton-linen mixes, I've never seen it), is basically a moderately light-weight sailcloth: the sort of canvas on a weekend sailor's masts. If you're intending the use as knock-arounds (or real working trousers), this would be the cloth.

I agree with NJS, though: a nice white flannel would be elegant; it's what I'd wear with a blazer, for example. Duck is not.

RWS

(I'll have to swear off anonymous posting, I find so troublesome remembering to sign.)

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If you know anyone who still uses cotton or linen sails on a pleasure boat, you do hang out with a retro crowd. Both were pretty firmly displaced by Dacron about 45 years ago.

Concordia

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If you know anyone who still uses cotton or linen sails on a pleasure boat, you do hang out with a retro crowd.

Ha! I'll have to tell that to my 96-year-old cousin -- her boat still has what seems to me to be natural-fiber cloth -- or her 106-year-old best friend!

Seriously, I've not carefully examined a sail in, perhaps, thirty years. I've little doubt that I was mistaken.

[Guest]

If you know anyone who still uses cotton or linen sails on a pleasure boat, you do hang out with a retro crowd.

Ha! I'll have to tell that to my 96-year-old cousin -- her boat still has what seems to me to be natural-fiber cloth -- or her 106-year-old best friend!

Seriously, I've not carefully examined a sail in, perhaps, thirty years. I've little doubt that I was mistaken.

Good grief! Another failure to sign --

-- RWS

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Please can someone say the exact rules for signing in this forum (anon) - is it that questions may be anonymous to protect the questioner from any perceived threat of ridicule - but if we stick our heads over the parapet to venture an answer, we should sign in full or initial - presumably, actually, just to show who gave which answers and follow-ons?
NJS

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Yes.

RWS

(I remembered!)

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That's it then.
Anon.