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Searching for the perfect jumper and fashion's gone fishing
Finding nice knitwear on the high street this winter is harder than you might think. Sarah Mower takes up the challenge.
BY Sarah Mower |27 October 2010
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Looking for a nice simple jumper? Start in the men's department: this is a tip I can share after wasting many hours scouring the high street for knitwear with my daughters. Make no mistake, there are plenty of 'fashion-y' women's jumpers out there, but almost all of them are either nasty, thin and skimpy, or otherwise too thick and cumbersome (is it SO difficult to work out a design approach that acknowledges central heating and global warming?). And then there's the messy over-done styling: whole departments devoted to all-enveloping droopy-sided A-line cardigans and sweaters. We gave up with Topshop, H&M and River Island before making a last - ditch sortie on M&S (actually I did that one on my own, because there are certain 'granny' zones teenagers can't be forced into). What I found is that the home of the British knitwear makes it really, really difficult to find a plain, long, classic sweater in the right proportions.
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Eventually, I hacked my way through the woolly thickets towards the cashmere range,
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This however, tells you something: it took three minutes inward tussle to break my prejudice against buying a really great-looking grey cardigan with a navy line running around the hem- because it had a Blue Harbour label in it: a dad-wear classification I felt no teenager could brook. Yet when I took it home, and left it casually lying on my bed as a test-snare,
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Meanwhile, fashion's gone fishing: at the Gap presentation for spring, so many male - and some female - guests turned up in Barbours and carrying classic hunting-fishing bags, it was hilarious. And when my daughters and I looked in the boys' department of Urban Outfitters on High St Kensington, blow me, if it wasn't full of quilted country jackets and vintage Orvis waxed fishing jackets too. Now my girls are eyeing my husband's Farlow's fishing bag with a dangerous gleam in their eyes. I've warned him to watch out.
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