FS: Moleskin Knickers - Suitable as Fixie Pants

[normankirk]

Made in England, House of Hardy 100% cotton moleskin knickers - 34 inch waist. Belt loops, Velcro closure cuffs, zippered fly. Stout moleskin fabric, tightly woven, soft and supple, feels like chamois. Moleskin cotton fabric is specifically woven for outdoor garments in cooler temperatures. Very good used condition with no specific imperfections. Look excellent with sandal's or wear at the crags in cooler weather. Asking $40.00, shipped.

 

What is Moleskin? Description from David Morgan:

 

Moleskin and corduroy are rugged cotton fabrics long used in outdoor wear, as trousers, jackets, vests and shirts. In Britain, with the development of the cotton industry in Lancashire, these fabrics were used particularly in trousers for farmers and laborers, as the trousers were durable, washable, and gave good protection from chilling winds. Moleskin and corduroy were used also by the landowners who found it unusually comfortable when shooting or fishing. While laborers in Britain tend nowadays to wear inexpensive jeans, the landowning class have stayed with the moleskins and corduroys not only for trousers but also for jackets, vests and shirts, providing the market for a few mills to maintain production of high quality cotton moleskin and corduroy fabrics.

 

Moleskin and corduroy are fustian fabrics, woven with a twilled weave to form a thick dense cloth, and having a cut nap on one side. With the moleskin, the fabric is brushed to form the nap. With the corduroy, the weave is such as to provide separate cords, held in the woven fabric, which are then cut to form the pile of the wales or ridges. The nap or pile is then sheared to form a uniform surface. The best quality fabrics are very tightly woven from fine threads of long staple cotton. The stress on the loom in producing the better cloths is too great for the normal modern loom, which restricts manufacture of these cloths to those few mills with either older high strength looms or specially reinforced looms.

 

Moleskin, with a brushed nap, is soft. Moleskin is a rugged long lasting material providing great comfort and good protection from wind chill.

 

Edited September 2, 2016 by normankirk

[DPS]

If I did not already own a pair of knickers, I would totally pop on these. So handsome.

[DPS]

One has to ask oneself, how many are too many pairs of knickers to own. In this day and age I fear the number is exactly one.

Edited August 31, 2016 by DPS

[normankirk]

Ah, but what an outfit paired with this-

 

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1148555/FS_Now_Here_s_A_Classic_From_B#Post1148555

[olyclimber]

I surprised there isn't a big market for this stuff. Its sort of like Civil War re-enactment, but for climbing!

[normankirk]

I suspect its because they don't want to be stared at..........or thought of as old.

[olyclimber]

they would make great pants for hipsters. craigslist them as "fixie pants".

[normankirk]

Do you mean clothing for hipsters that ride fixed gear bikes in the city?

[olyclimber]

affirmative! you could probably double the price then