Investigation has been carried out on the comparison of the classical silk woven fabrics with the imitated silk-like synthetic fabrics. Construction characteristics and physical properties of the nine classical silk and the nine imitated silk-like synthetic fabrics were measured and analyzed by the statistical methods. It can be concluded that the classical silk and imitated silk-like synthetic fabrics are different in their properties, in general, but are the same in some bending, drape and frictional properties. Bending resistances of both classical and imitated silk-like synthetic fabrics seem to be the same, but the recovery behavior of bending are different, i.e., that of synthetic fabrics are better. Among the twenty physical and construction properties, ten of them seem to be the same for both classical and imitated silk-like synthetic fabrics and ten are different.