Shop the post: Spring sweater edit
Ding dong! It’s time for the semi-annual spring knitwear update. What’s new this time around? Ummm, not much; I’m still after the usual – short sleeve knits, merinos, and cashmere-mixes (100% cashmere is a bit too soft and pill-y for me, I’ve decided).
I guess new-ish to the rotation is colour. Tomato red, grass green and Celine blue to be precise, especially layered with white, cream, and ecru. Red cardigans are… everywhere! Thick like a jacket at B.B Wallace*, or lightweight enough for a shoulder-knot at Calvin Klein*. Alexandra Golovanoff’s tomato twinset (below) is a genius solution to looking smart on top if the rest of you is a bit scruffy (ahem) – although stocks are on the low side. In Paris, Rubirosa is the emporium to go to for kaleidoscopic knitwear and don’t miss the cult croc loafers. Also in Paris, Linda V Wright is your muse for colourful classic knits, and especially red, as demonstrated with her timely post here (hint: the clue is in the shop’s name: Crimson.)
Celine has the perfect cropped green sweater*, below (it’s giving ‘Girl in an Alex Katz painting’), while Sunspel’s cobalt men’s lambswool* is the colour of a cloudless Greek sky. And, not quite a sweater, not quite a tee, I love this Jigsaw sporty raglan merino top* (below).
I’m still hankering for the perfect vintage cricket white trousers but in the meantime, I’m eyeballing all the tailored white and white-adjacent long shorts. Yes, long shorts and knitwear is an incongruous mismatch but the kind of sartorial code-switching our weather demands of us, so you just learn to roll with it.
Massimo Dutti has the ultimate white linens* while COS has these in viscose with a razor-sharp crease* and further along the neutral spectrum, Polo Ralph Lauren has these linen shorts in camel*. These all go very nicely with a smart black shoe and sock combo. Everyone loved the Bode shoes in my April wish list post, while Church’s Shannons* are a mainstay (but expensive) or consider Macian’s English-made ‘Sophie’ derby for a slightly more affordable alternative.
I love the J.Crew styling that keeps cropping up on my Instagram (top and below – apologies for the screengrab quality but we keep it real here lol). Cream layers with a dollop of red that will look so good in the sunshine. I’m also thinking about a white linen dirndl as an alternative to shorts. It reminds me of mid-80s Honey magazine where they’d shoot two or three gamine girls on a windswept English beach in black and white, wearing like, a white knee length pinafore with nothing underneath, plus a big Joseph cardigan, black Church’s brogues and socks. Sigh… the things that stick in your head! A thick, semi-fitted or slightly loose cream cardigan or sweater (like this from Rohe*) would also suit this nostalgic vignette.
Major accessories aren’t needed here, but a tobacco suede bag* sporty eyewear and a simple watch or rustic pendant are always a good idea.
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WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGES: J Crew; Alexandra Golovanoff; Celine/Tommy Ton; Jigsaw; J Crew x 4; Mitchell O’Neil / Arena Homme Plus
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