In the game of Risk that is Global Corduroy Warfare, it appeared Vertical Corduroy had the upper hand... until now.

With an audacious flanking maneuver, Cordarounds have taken the continent of Antarctica.  Last month, Mark Davidson and a crack team of Wharton MBAs slipped into the  Seventh Continent and staked the red horizontal corduroy flag of Lindland's Cordarounds. How did they do it? Cunning. Optimism. Derring-do. Everything for which Cordarounds stand. Particularly derring-do.

According to Davidson, "I froze my ass off performing this stunt.  But had I been wearing mere vertical corduroy, instead of a hearty pant crafted of high-grade, wind-heating horizontal corduroy, I fear my suffering could have been unbearable."

This is just the start.  Hundreds of Cordarounds now populate the planet.  Slowly, in places as remote as New York or Chicago, that which was vertical is being replaced by the horizontal.  And the tide, ever so surely, turns.

Cordarounds are available for sale online,  but  not in stores. Not in New York. Not in Antarctica. Not yet. So if you have the moxie, the pure teeth-clenching grit of a man like Davidson, visit www.cordarounds.com to point, click and purchase your way into the ranks of this subtle fashion insurgency.

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