Skin-friendly polyester corduroy composite fabric is a bonded or laminated construction that combines a corduroy face fabric with a secondary backing layer — typically a soft knit, fleece, or nonwoven material — through an adhesive bonding or thermal lamination process that joins the two components into a unified fabric structure. The composite construction addresses the primary limitation of standard corduroy in direct skin-contact applications: the cord structure, while visually and tactilely rich on its outer face, can feel firm or slightly rough on the cut-pile surface when worn directly against sensitive skin without an additional lining layer. By integrating a skin-contact layer into the fabric construction itself, the composite eliminates this limitation while retaining the visual character and structural performance of the corduroy face.