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         <title>About Cordarounds</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Cordarounds is a two-man design shop based in San Francisco.&nbsp; We only sell our clothing online and manufacture locally.&nbsp; Each product is produced in small batches of a couple hundred itmes, then we move on to new ideas.&nbsp; Ideas like <a href="http://www.suckerlab.com">this</a>. <br />  </p><p>We ship every other day via UPS and via the US Postal Service to foreign destinations and military bases.</p><p align="center"><img width="495" height="333" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/zepblog.jpg" />&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:56:09 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Technology and Magic</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Praise science and the remarkable times we live in!&nbsp; Cordarounds has fused the most practical and impractical coat into one.&nbsp;&nbsp; On one side an exclamatory smoking jacket, on the other a subtle corduroy coat. <br /> </p><p>But this isn't any corduroy, it's Cordarounds aerodynamic cord. The horizontal orientation allows wind to whip through the wales, shaving precious nanoseconds off your walks about.&nbsp; And your arms swoosh silently, the meshing grooves offering no onomatopoetic alert of your approach. </p><p>Our researchers have discovered that, somewhere between the second and third cocktail, the coat magically transforms from subtle corduroy to screaming smoker.&nbsp; The results, of course, depend on the wearer. Some switch sooner, and we praise them for it. <br /> </p><br /> <p align="center"><img width="490" height="289" border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/metamorphosis.jpg" />&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:48:38 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>The Cordarounds Reversible Smoking Jacket Tour</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Why stop at a perfect corduroy coat, when you can offer much, much more? After 3 generations of innovation, the '007 reversible smoking jacket is packed with so many special features that a few catalog pics simply won't do.<br /> <br /> There are <strong>5 MAJOR UPDATES</strong> to this year's coat, which we will now discuss with gusto. From engineering to artistry, delights abound in his Jeckyl &amp; Hyde creation.<br /> <br /> Click the above links to see huge images and detailed descriptions of this ingenious jacket. Or, if you've seen enough, <a href="http://www.cordarounds.com/catalog/item.php?show=men/mblue">click here </a>and proceed directy to our store. Tan and green coats are limited, so get while the gettin's good.</p><p align="center"><img width="500" height="329" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/catalog/images/rsjblog/tourimage2.jpg" /><br /> &nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <category>smoking tour</category>
         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:38:45 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>In the News</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Cordarounds reversible smoking jacket has been featured in Cigar Aficionado, Robb Report, and Thrillist -- the standard-bearers of snooty to smart-allecky gentlemanly reading.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img width="160" height="213" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/smokingjacketpress1.jpg" /><img width="160" height="213" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/smokingjacketpress2.jpg" /><img width="160" height="213" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/smokingjacketpress3.jpg" /></div>&nbsp;<br /> <p><br /> Our limited edition designs -- pants, coats, blankets, shorts, and seersucker line -- have received great coverage in the press.&nbsp;&nbsp; A summary:</p><p align="center"><img width="498" height="500" border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/presslist.jpg" />&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:27:58 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>The Incredible, 4-Way Coat</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p class="style21">This incredible chameleon coat adapts to whatever social environment you encounter. </p>                 <p class="style21"><strong>Worn Incognito</strong>, the jacket features all the amenities of a high-end corduroy coat.</p><p align="center" class="style21"><img width="545" height="749" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/incog1" />&nbsp;</p><p class="style21"><strong>Worn <em>Bavarianized</em></strong>, you can display the fine cashmere collar liner for all to see<strong>.</strong></p><p align="center" class="style21"><img width="500" height="333" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/bavarian.JPG" />&nbsp;</p>  <p class="style21"><strong>With auto hankie deployed</strong>, you're one step closer to full smoking jacket mode.</p><p align="center" class="style21"><img width="500" height="416" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/autohankie.JPG" />&nbsp;</p><p class="style21"><strong>Worn in Nehru smoking jacket mode</strong>, all conversation will center around you. </p> <p class="style21">&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img width="545" height="686" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/smokingmuru.jpg" /></div>&nbsp;<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <category>4 wear</category>
         <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:56:02 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Nehru Smoking Jacket</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>What other coat possesses such potential energy?&nbsp; When reversed (as often as possible) you're wearing a silky, nehru-collared smoking jacket.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img width="545" height="686" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/smokingmuru.jpg" /></div>&nbsp;<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:42:50 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Sideflash Pockets</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>One of Cordarounds' great innovations is <em>Sideflash</em> -- a burst of color that radiates from your pockets as you walk about. We've brought this technology to the reversible smoking jacket by rotating the pockets precisely 51 degrees. Now you get a subtle flash of color and easy access to the wondrous <a href="http://www.cordarounds.com/smokingjacket/vagisoft/">Vagisoft</a> liner within.</p><p align="center"><img width="500" height="375" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/sideflash.JPG" /></p> <p align="left" class="style21">&nbsp;</p> <p align="left" class="style21"><strong>LASER WRIST LOGO&nbsp;</strong></p> <p align="left" class="style21">Each article of Cordarounds clothing comes with a red horizontal corduroy tab, triangle, or doohickey. For this jacket, our scientists were tasked to invent something exciting and new.</p>               <p align="left" class="style21"> They delivered -- a triangle cuff logo that reverses along with the jacket. The double-sided, <em>&ldquo;look at my hand when I&rsquo;m speaking to you&rdquo; </em>logo is like having a laser pointer affixed to your wrist. People will follow your every gesture. A powerful innovation, just you see... </p> <p align="center">&nbsp;<img width="545" height="765" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/ivanhugesmoke.jpg" /></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:40:57 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Autohankie</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>How come  we didn&rsquo;t think of this sooner? Simply sew the breast pocket liner in a crest shape and, <strong><em>SHAZAM!</em></strong>, you can deploy a decorative hankie in a flash.</p> <div align="center"><img width="500" height="333" border="0" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/autobill.jpg" /><br /> </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:38:14 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Vagisoft Pockets</title>
         <description><![CDATA[  <p><img width="200" vspace="0" hspace="6" height="500" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/softometer.jpg" />We set out to engineer silly luxury into every nook &amp; cranny of this coat. So how could we pass on pocket liner fabric that feels like the pouch of a cloud kangaroo....the womb of a marshmallow mermaid... analogies fail to evoke the feel of this ridiculously soft fabric.&nbsp; Only precision science can identify exactly how supple this cloth is.&nbsp; <br /></p><p>The world of tactile technology was once satisfied with &quot;soft as a baby's bottom&quot; as the measure of absolute softness. And anyone who dared name something &quot;softer than&quot; the aforementioned infant's posterior was suggesting a theoretical, quantum world of soft that existed beyond anything man could conceive.<br /> <br /> That is, until researchers at the Cordarounds Livermore Laboratory invented the Tactile Soft-o-meter, a device that can detect and compare the density of softrons, the subatomic units of softness. And while this has proven a Nobel worthy discovery, our scientists could not simply rest on their laurels.<br /> <br /> Using this newfound knowledge, they set out to line the pockets of our world famous reversible smoking jackets. And so comfy was the fabric they developed, so rich and impossibly supple, that test subjects had to have their hands removed from the coat pockets with the Jaws of Life. Success!<br /> <br /> But what to name this miracle material? Again and again, the Soft-o-meter produced a result that had our marketing department in a nervous titter. But we're scientists dammit, not salesmen, and if the Soft-meter says this fabric measures &quot;Vagisoft&quot; within a standard deviation of one softron, so it shall be named! </p><p><img width="545" height="364" border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.cordarounds.com/vagisoft.jpg" /> <br /></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:34:41 -0800</pubDate>
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