- Gabardine is a tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers and other garments. The fiber used to make the fabric is traditionally worsted wool, but may also be cotton, synthetic, or mixed. The fabric is smooth on one side and has a diagonally ribbed surface on the other. Gabardine is a form of twill weave.
- Cotton gabardine is sometimes used by bespoke tailors to make pocket linings for office-type suits, where the pocket's contents would quickly wear holes in the usual flimsy pocket lining material.
- The material was invented in the late 19th century by Thomas Burberry, founder of the Burberry fashion house in Basingstoke, and patented in 1888. The fabric takes its name from the "gaberdine", spelled with an 'e', which is a long, loose over garment tied at the waist.
- Depending on the type, gabardine is either dry cleaned, as most other wools, or is machine washable and dryable on a low cycle. A warm iron should be used for pressing; ironing it at a higher temperature would mark the fabric. Our boys cotton gabardine collection offers stylish and comfortable Christening and Baptism clothing.
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