Today is a truly important date in the annals of sartorial splendor. Today is this century’s (you heard it right) Corduroy Appreciation Day, Friday, November 11, 2011 or 11|11|11.

There will be celebrations all over the world on this day of days. I hope you will honor today by wearing your very best corduroys, and wear them proud. This day can only be appreciated once a century so if you miss it you will have to wait another hundred years for 11-11-11 to come again.

The most revered of all Corduroy Appreciation Days was November 11. 1111 or 11|11|1111. Unfortunately that day passed by without celebration as corduroy had not been invented yet. If it had, maybe history would have been a little more gentle and caring.