My Jumper Came Out Of The Wash A Different Size And I Wanted An Explanation
Okay so I pulled a sweater out of my dryer, well, not my dryer, my washer, big difference, we’ll get there, and it looked like it had been styled for…
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…
The Dry Clean Only Label On My Wool Coat Might Be Lying To Me
I bought a navy wool coat off a resale app for forty dollars in February, third listing I’d tracked that week, and the second it landed on my doorstep I…
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…
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…
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 Puffer Jackets Origin Story Is Weirder Than I Expected
My phone buzzed four times in about ninety seconds. My friend group chat, the one that exists mostly to argue about nothing, had landed on puffer jackets because someone had…