New reversible smoking jackets have arrived at Cordarounds, and it’s high time we settled the eternal question of whether this item of fashion fabulousness is a modern corduroy coat or majestic smoking jacket.

Amazingly, the answer is both. But how can this be?

Leave it to technology to reveal Mother Nature’s secrets. In the same way naturalists use high-speed cameras to capture a chameleon’s color change, the sweep of a hummingbird's wing, or a mating manatee’s split-second Nixon impersonation, engineers at Cordarounds Livermore Laboratories have finally managed to capture THE JACKET REVERSAL on video.

We’ve enlisted Cordarounds-sponsored athlete Bill Bowles to demonstrate this heretofore unseen feat (as well as a fair amount of kung fu) in these spectacularly informative clips.

The new coats are available in Dutch Chocolate and trusty Blackhorse Black. They feature Vagisoft pockets, the auto-hankie, and ultra-soft (but not Vagisoft) cashmere collars.

Of course, those already smitten by Cordarounds’ reversible wonder of nature may proceed directly to our store, where a new jacket can be summoned with a few emphatic clicks of the mouse.