Pretreating other fabrics, such as cotton drill or oxford cloth, confers a weathered, familiar air many men find attractive.

How calm these people looked, how incredibly calm, both men and women red-eyed from crying, and all in their lawyerly tropical wool and oxford cloth.

Instead, he protected his oxford cloth with a green apron.

What do you want to do, scare them back into chinos and oxford cloth forever?

On the right-hand wall are the flattened remnants of lots of black and gray garments, shading into the dullness of khakis and into the paleness of oxford cloth.

I pulled on a pair of gray-green corduroy trousers, and put on my best shirt, a black oxford cloth Western shirt with white pearl buttons.

"They are required to buy executive wardrobes: blazers, dress slacks, oxford cloth or broadcloth shirts, with the employer sharing the cost," she said.

Asked the next day about the shirt, a white oxford cloth, Mr. Higgins said, "What of it?

Curvy women's shirt dresses are made in oxford cloth in an imaginative twist on the dress shirt.

She reached out to put her hand on his chest, trailing her fingers over the oxford cloth of his shirt.