The last three items of knitwear people have bought me...

[Jockice]

...are all practically the same colour. What is going on here? The trio of present-givers do know (or at least know of) the others but I don't think there's a collaboration going on here. It's probably sheer chance. And I already have a top in that particular shade anyway. That's was a present too, albeit a few years ago.

At least they're different styles (one round-neck, one v-neck and one cardie) but I might have to restyle myself now. Forgot goths wearing all black, I am now Mulberry Man. Think it'll catch on?

[dissolute ocelot]

It's not Orchid Flower, colour of the year 2022?

[Jockice]

Wasn't Orchid Flower a racehorse?

[tookish]

Now I want to see you dressed as Mulberry Man.

According to almost every menswear section, there are only about five colours men are permitted to wear, unless they're gay.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

What d'you think of this nifty little mauve number my partner's mother knitted for me last winter?

I think I look lovely in it.

[tookish]

Very nice, but not one of the five colours approved for straight men.

You'll have to be gay, now.

Sorry.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

My partner of twenty years will be indifferent devastated but it's such a nice jumper it'd be wrong to keep it in the closet. Gay it is then.

[Janie Jones]

That jumper looks great and has reminded me that Brewdog have launched a Parma Violet beer

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/309748040

[shiftwork2]

Discovered v-neck jumpers, haven't ironed a shirt since.  Downside is I look like a Boden catalogue ass wipe.  Sticking with it though.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

That jumper looks great and has reminded me that Brewdog have launched a Parma Violet beer

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/309748040

That's this year's Christmas presents sorted then. Looks like a great session ale.

[JamesTC]

Maybe people think mulberry looks more expensive.

[seepage]

Discovered v-neck jumpers, haven't ironed a shirt since.  Downside is I look like a Boden catalogue ass wipe.  Sticking with it though.

You can get ones with the top bit of a blouse already sewn into the jumper, too. Or cut up all your blouses and do it yourself.

[Jockice]

You can get ones with the top bit of a blouse already sewn into the jumper, too. Or cut up all your blouses and do it yourself.

I have two of them. Both presents from a few years back. Actually one of them isn't that far from the colour of the three mentioned above. People obviously think I look good in various dark purple shades. Or maybe they don't and just want me to get laughed at in the streets. More than usual.

[Jockice]

I've been away from home for most of the last fortnight, so when I returned home yesterday evening there was another parcel waiting for me. Two t-shirts both with 'witty' slogans on and one in exactly the same colour again.The other's dark blue. I'm entirely sure this person had previously sent me another 'witty' slogan t-shirt for a birthday/Crimbo present in the same colour. And like most 'witty' slogan t-shirts I get sent to me it was worn a few times around my flat but never seen in public and is now presumably in a pile of old clothes somewhere.

I might as well dye my hair mulberry and complete the job. Or my entire body.

[thenoise]

Discovered v-neck jumpers, haven't ironed a shirt since.  Downside is I look like a Boden catalogue ass wipe.  Sticking with it though.

Love me a v-neck. I'll even wear them with a t shirt underneath because I literally do not give a solitary shit.

[Cloud]

Ah, be glad of them.  I miss the annual jumpers from my grandma.  Alas, no one lives forever

[Fr.Bigley]

I just expedited the winter by purchasing 4 delightfully thick cable knit jumpers for yuletide. I'm going to drink my mulled wine with my toes toasties leant on the radiator as I look out across the green, all bleak and wintery like.

I love the season, I think I'd be fine in the far north of scandiland (been in dead of winter, missus is one).

Jumpers!

[touchingcloth]

The berry-brown jumpers of Robert Kilroy-Silk.

[Chollis]

i just googled cable knit jumpers and this was one of the first images to come up on the right-hand column. Looks exactly like one you could buy for £80 but god I bet it's more comfortable. This is what they wear in Succession at the family retreat. I wonder if I will ever get to wear cashmere before I die

[Fr.Bigley]

I'm quite happy with a good wool knit, heavy and lovely. I got a cashmere jumper once from a relative and after the first few wears I wondered why she spent so much on something I'm afraid to wash or wear. Cheaper Cable knit all the way for me.