In celebration of the cardigan

[im barry bethel]

No longer the preserve of the middle aged dad let's take this opportunity to marvel at the warmth convenience and sheer versatility of the zip up jumper









<sub>especially if it's got pockets










no knit rib cuffs though, that's lightweight sports jacket territory</sub>

[Cuntbeaks]

Elbow patches?

[Shit Good Nose]

Big fan of the cardi - comforting when worn at home, and you can wear one at work without people looking at you like you're a hot turd for wearing your coat in the office cos you find it cold.

[Space ghost]

It's a sports utility top I swear!

[Captain Crunch]

Pure new wool and perfect stitches
Not the type of jumper that makes you itches

[Queneau]

Cardigans have been part of my every day dress for as long as I can remember. I love cardigans. Some of my current favourites are ones I've had for years that I picked up for a few quid from Sainsbury's. They are particularly good because they are thin and strand that space between keeping your arms warm but not making you overly hot so good to wear when working or wanking or whatever.

How about posting some good places to buy cardigans? Come on, you fuckers. I used to buy from Woolovers but I no longer wear wool. I've had a few good ones from GAP and H&M over the years.

[SteveDave]

I've got a lovely purple and green official Wimbledon cardigan. It's a bit long and warm af. Lord knows how those lads wear them in the summer.

[Jockice]

Cardigans are cool. Because I say so.

[Vodka Margarine]

I bought a silly outsized mustard cardigan ten or eleven years ago when that indie vintage thing was kicking off. I thought I was a young Morrissey or something but it looked stupid and I didn't have the looks or personality to carry it off. Should've hung on to it - would be a snugger fit now and just a nice comfortable layer for going to church, trimming the hedge or fell walking.

[Norton Canes]

How about posting some good places to buy cardigans?

I get mine from that specialist second hand cardigans site... cardiganBay.

[poodlefaker]

Some nice ones in Uniqlo at the moment

[biggytitbo]

DO HOODYS COUNT.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

pics or stfu

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

I regularly teamed a thin black cardigan with a Smiths T-shirt and jeans in the late 80s. It was a look that would perhaps have better suited a pale, slim, bespectacled young man and not a 16 stone oaf with a round, red face. My mother quite liked the cardigan and suggested I wear it with some nice trousers and a pair of sensible black lace-ups.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Bloody love me a cardigan. Got a big dark blue one that's supposedly worth a hundred quid or so - got it for a fiver at oxfam so thank you very much uninquiring charity workers :)
Too many of mine are those ones where the buttons only start halfway down the garment so they don't keep you adequitly warm in the winter time though

[im barry bethel]

Elbow patches?

Perfectly acceptable for wearing during a spot of gardening pottering in the shed or tinkering in the garage

DO HOODYS COUNT.

See this is the dichotomy of a man (or woman) comfortable in their own image and a teenage oik

[Glebe]

[tag]Nina Persson's mates surprize her on birthday.[/tag]

[Buelligan]

I have two of the lovelies.  Both from Emmaüs - a top fashion house with branches all across France and other places - one 80's leopard patterned with proper eighties gold buttons.  The other, handknit dark indigo with huge complex cabling (yes), both massive, really like coats).  Blue one's for posh, I live in the leopard one.  I think the leopard might make me look like a degenerate but optimistic Keith Richards or perhaps, a degenerate but optimistic Patti Smith (except quite a bit prettier than either of them, obvs).

Probably just makes me look like a woman in an 80's cardigan in reality.  But nothing's real here unless I want it to be.  So that's fine.

[Jockice]

I bought a silly outsized mustard cardigan ten or eleven years ago when that indie vintage thing was kicking off.

11 years ago! It was 1982 when I first snatched one of my dad's cardigans (blue with big white buttons) and his red and black checked shirt and wore them to school. I'd just started sixth form so was free of uniform restrictions. Kids today have no idea of history, do they?

[MoonDust]

There's a picture of me from when I was about 3 years old in a thick, wooly, cream cardigan.

I've always been ahead of the curve.

[Queneau]

There's a picture of me from when I was about 3 years old in a thick, wooly, cream cardigan.

I've always been ahead of the curve.

Which was annoying because it was the curve they were trying to take a picture of.

[Buelligan]

I don't think that's legal when they're three.

[mothman]

There's a picture of me from when I was about 3 years old in a thick, wooly, cream cardigan.

I've always been ahead of the curve.

Pah! I have a picture of me in a nice purple sweatshirt on which she sewed orange clouds. It went nicely with my olive green flares and bowl cut. I was five, and ahead of the baggy/Madchester curve by FIFTEEN YEARS.

[Z]

I bought like 5 uniqlo ones in a traid nearly a year ago that were damn near new. Basically became my life uniform.

[ZoyzaSorris]

I am a middle aged dad. Cardigans are all good.

[imitationleather]

Since I broke my arm I've been zip-up hoodies all the way.

Not cardigans, though. I'm no hipster.