Cotton Jumpers Have A Reputation For Shrinking That I Wanted To Test Properly
I bought the same jumper twice. Same brand, same size, same shade of oatmeal, four days apart, because I could not stop thinking about whether the internet was lying to…
Bobbling Happens To Basically Every Jumper I Own And I Wanted To Know Why
I bought a jumper in November that cost more than my electric bill that month, which felt like a personal milestone, and by Christmas it had little bobbles all down…
The Wool Coat Price Tag Made Me Sit Down And Do The Maths Before I Committed
I stood in the store doing actual math on my phone calculator while the guy behind the counter pretended not to watch me. $340 for a wool coat. I typed…
I Ruined A Wool Jumper In The Wash And Finally Understood Why
The jumper came out of the dryer looking like something I’d knit for a large cat. Charcoal gray, cable knit, bought in Scotland in a shop that smelled like peat…
Whether A Cardigan Counts As Smart Casual Depends Entirely On The Cardigan
I told a colleague once that I was wearing “smart casual” to a client dinner, and she looked at my cardigan the way you’d look at a stain you couldn’t…
The Bottom Button Rule Followed My Cardigan Home From My Blazer, Apparently
I buttoned a cardigan on a client three weeks ago exactly the way I’d button a blazer. Top hole first, working down, skip the bottom one on instinct, like my…
Nobody Could Tell Me Where The Word Sweater Came From
I called it a “sweater” for probably eleven years before I said the word out loud to myself and thought, wait, that’s a weird word. Not “cardigan,” not “jumper,” not…
The Cardigan Is Named After A Real Person And I Needed To Know Why
I’m standing in a fitting room with a $128 cardigan half buttoned, my phone in my other hand because I’d just typed “who is the cardigan named after” into Google…
Whether Straight Guys Wear Cardigans Got Debated At A Barbecue
I have a specific memory of buying my dad a cardigan for Christmas, watching him wear it approximately four times, and thinking absolutely nothing of it, because why would I.…
Why Every Therapist Ive Ever Had Owns The Same Cardigan
People get weirdly heated about the therapist cardigan. I’ve seen it argued about in a group chat for forty five minutes, real venom, someone’s aunt is apparently a therapist and…