What is the source or origin of The Corduroy Appreciation Club?
The idea for the “Corduroy Club” was hatched in the year 2000 after President Miles Rohan experienced a powerful “Corduroy vision” in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia (the world’s highest city). At that time, used clothing shops throughout La Paz were rich with discarded North American Corduroy from the 19070’s and 80’s. Rohan packed his suitcases with vintage Corduroy and moved to New York City where he felt a need for Corduroy fellowship. Wishing to emulate old social clubs like The Elks and The Masons, and taking inspiration from Fluxus Happenings of the 1960’s, Rohan set out to form The Corduroy Appreciation Club. Over the next few years, Rohan distributed Corduroy swathed business cards to the Corduroy clad, placed invitations to join his club in Corduroy items sold at clothing stores, and attempted to recruit members on the streets of New York with a placard reading, Do you like Corduroy? The efforts met resistance. The Corduroy cards were destroyed or immediately disposed of. Roha
