Yes, Virginia, There Is a Corduroy Appreciation Club

. . .and its mission is "awareness, understanding, celebration and commemoration of the fabric and all related items." Club meetings (you need to wear at least two corduroy garments, FYI) are held only twice a year: on 1/11 and 11/1, dates that most resemble corduroy's telltale vertical ribbing. Members scoff at velvet ("poor man's corduroy") and are fond of chanting the motto "Hail the Wale!" at meetings, since the club's symbol is the whale—a homonym of "wale," i.e., the raised portion of corduroy fabric.