THROUGHOUT THE 1970s and into the ’80s, Ocean Pacific, a merry purveyor of beachy fashion, sold heaps of barely there corduroy shorts. Such shorts might sound ill-conceived—isn’t corduroy a ...

Of all of the fabrics in your typical shorts rotation—nylon, linen, plain old cotton—corduroy feels like a bit of an outlier. After all, the plush cold-weather fabric is more closely ...

The fashion designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla bought her first pair of senior corduroy pants from a vintage-clothing seller in 2013 when she was a senior at the New School.

News last fall, after he’d worn another pair of short shorts that made the rounds online. (Corduroy shorts, he said, were his favorite: “I mean, it’s a vibe. It’s the best vibe.