Favorites Series: Cardigans - Topic of the day 4/19/24
What are your favorite cardigans? Favorite brands at low medium and high price points? What do you look for in a cardigan? What brands have been great for them and what brands have really let you down? Do you prefer button or zip cardigans? Thin or chunky? Plain or designs? Feel free to share a few of your favorite fits or inspo that feature cardigans, too. (Note: the Favorites Series will be running ~weekly as a new way of doing the "Best X for $X" threads from a few years ago on MFA.)
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I feel like Kanata are slept on, for hand knit intarsia they are incredibly reasonably priced.
Universal Works wool fleece cardi
comfy as all get out
Have the same one in brown, it's bomb proof too.
Would love a navy one
Love my Needles mohair cardigan
I know Ambercrombie was selling some nice wool and wool/cashmere chunky cardigans for really low price
unlabelled, thrifted Cowichan
I fukin love cardigans
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eHaberdasher has really nice and fairly cheap shawl collar cardigans. I love my tan camel hair one from them. Great for an office cardigan when I used to do that.
My dark brown cashmere one from Cavour is..fine. It's pretty low ply if I understand knits correctly and as a result it doesn't hold shape very well and looks more flat than the eHaberdasher one.
One of these days when the stars align and colour and pattern is right my long search for a reasonably priced RRL ranch cardigan will bear fruit and I'll nab one of these monsters:
Chamula has fantastic options. No Man Walks Alone does great orders from them via Monitaly or however that works. My turquoise one is from them and maybe my favorite.
The real clutch play is to go to Mexico and get a huge 3d knit cardigan for like no money. The wool is very rough and mine literally has bits of like leaves in the yarns but it's easily the coolest knit I own
Screaming crying and throwing up that I didn’t buy up every vtg mohair cardigan I saw before like 2019
Always buttons or just fully open on cardigans for me. Favorites are Vince (mid range) and Celine (high)
The best ones that I have seen for a more expensive price point are Inverallan and RRL
Only one I’ve really kept though is this absolute piece of moth food from the 60’s
begging for some cool visible mending/darning
Scott & Charters made some great sweaters for NMWA.
Ive been on the hunt for a thin loose cardigan for wearing under my denim jackey, i’ll be monitoring this :ReadingFren:
1000%. I’m not good enough to do it myself n I don’t know who is. I’ll ask Casey maybe. Would be sick
The William lockie nmwa ones look great too
Maybe they'll be in a archive sale 🙏
My two favorites: johnUndercover SS18 and byborre Edition 10
have a big-ass inverallan one that's too hot for inside but wind goes right through it outside, barely wear it but don't want to let it go because it's too good otherwise
found this old orvis one and it serves all the purposes i need - pockets, grandpa-coded, large enough to wear stuff under it
ohh this is really good
Looks great
There are two vintage events where I am this weekend, fingers crossed for a find like that
thanks; it's rather warm so i haven't gotten much use aside from the days where it's ridiculously cold https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1116800072093532191/1219667919303217204
My only regret is I only bought 1
RIP to the NMWA x Scott & Charters collab
The Indi + Ash alpaca blend cardigan that Standard & Strange stocks is real good. I sold the one I had because it was just too big, but I’ll probably get another one this fall
really?? :nooooo:
The William lockie for nmwa ones look v similar tho?
They're doing 20% off everything full price now but they still be expensive
Yeah unfortunately they just weren’t reliable enough so they had to dead that
Yeah and William Lockie is also superb so it’s fine
Colhays is another good knitmaker, although their patterns run very slim
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I’m about to wash mine rn before I put it away for summer haha
I love cardigan too, at home most of the time because a shawl cardigan feels weird with a coat by maybe I haven’t find the right pairing
Does anyone had a Drake’s cardigan, I’m interested on a feedback
I’ve also found it’s hard to pair a shawl collar with a coat. Typically I’ll only wear a shawl collar item as the outermost layer
lambswool ll bean cardigans on ebay