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Your feelings on sweaters

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I don't wear them anymore. Wool is too itchy, cashmere is too clingy, cotton the most comfortable but still too confining. They all trap too much body heat. Thoughts?
 
The Walmart cocaine sweater is all time and I'd buy it if I could. It's def a must wear. Could be made out of straw idgaf


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Do not own one. Do not remember the last time I did own one.

I don’t recall having made a conscious decision to rid my life of sweaters - never thought about it until this very moment.
 
WhereistheDove? said:
Merino is my go to. Best of all worlds.
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This. Merino is the deal. I mostly wear it as an undershirt but also have some 1/4 zips and a hoodie. The Kuhl merino line is excellent quality for a reasonable price. Very durable, versatile and comfortable.
 
Sweaters are my favorite part of fall/winter. I own about 40; probably 35 100% wool and five all-cotton. Love them and live in them Nov-April. Crewneck and cardigans, mainly. A few turtlenecks for when I feel like cosplaying a Bond villain. I don't own any v-necks or quarter zips.

Try wearing an oxford button-down underneath if itchiness is a problem. It's a classic New England look anyway. If they feel confining then I imagine sizing is the issue.
 
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I can't wait to tell my sister the title of this thread. It sounds so much like the way her dear friend Ferencz would mangle a metaphor about someone "wearing their heart on their sleeve." Very sweet & brilliant guy, well-employed scientist, just didn't grow up in the US, and thus English is tertiary language at best.

A decade ago cashmere sweater over a button down was my biz casual uniform. Somewhere along the line it shifted to non-woven quarter zips, mock turtle necks, and UConn hoodies. Half the sweaters at one point revealed moth damage & got tossed, so I'm probably left with cashmere cable, v-neck, and quarter-zip, plus a cotton for out of winter. They make a nice enough impression, but they're no longer top of mind. I don't forsee building it out.

All fit better since I shed 20 pounds a year ago.
 
Mano said:
Getting fat sucks, huh?
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Kind of but I hated them when I was a skinny kid, they're like sweaty straight jackets. I'm not even big, like 5'10 220 lbs. but I know xl sweaters would be too tignt. There are so many huge and fat Americans, I have no clue where they shop. Big and Tall must make a killing.

I also have no clue how all these posters can wear a button down under a sweater, pretty good look but sounds so uncomfortble and hot under normal conditions and everyone has the women in the office who want the heat jacked up.

I made the thread to piggyback the most hated sports terms thread, we are in the offseason after all....
 
8893 said:
This. Merino is the deal. I mostly wear it as an undershirt but also have some 1/4 zips and a hoodie. The Kuhl merino line is excellent quality for a reasonable price. Very durable, versatile and comfortable.
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I was waiting for your highbrow commentary.
 
A high quality, cable knit fisherman’s sweater is outrageously cool. You gotta be somewhat in shape, it has to be well made and It has to fit right, but it is a great look.
 
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Hoophound said:
A high quality cable knit fisherman’s sweater is outrageously cool. You gotta be somewhat in shape, it has to be well made and It has to fit right, but it is a great look.
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I love those but again so uncomfortable.
 
Dove said:
I was waiting for your highbrow commentary.
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Kuhl isn’t highbrow. Just good quality at a fair price. I’ve seen merino tops of lesser quality (e.g., pilly and stretched out) at almost twice the price. It’s very thin, has an extra panel on the sides for better fit, and it regulates temperature incredibly well so you are rarely too warm and never too cold.
 
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Like an actual sweater-sweater, I have one with an awesome Centaur Santa on it

otherwise just thinner sweaters you could wear to a decent restaurant
 
Rocktheworld said:
Like an actual sweater-sweater, I have one with an awesome Centaur Santa on it

otherwise just thinner sweaters you could wear to a decent restaurant
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Any of them. Cotton crew neck/v neck, bulky wool ones, clingy merinos and cashmeres, Irish knitted...
 
I don’t make fun of them. Could be caused by a condition called hyperhidrosis. Why? Are you dating one?
 
superjohn said:
Kind of but I hated them when I was a skinny kid, they're like sweaty straight jackets. I'm not even big, like 5'10 220 lbs. but I know xl sweaters would be too tignt. There are so many huge and fat Americans, I have no clue where they shop. Big and Tall must make a killing.

I also have no clue how all these posters can wear a button down under a sweater, pretty good look but sounds so uncomfortble and hot under normal conditions and everyone has the women in the office who want the heat jacked up.

I made the thread to piggyback the most hated sports terms thread, we are in the offseason after all....
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Not the off-season. Just waiting for the NIT.
 
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The best time to wear a striped sweater is all the time
 
Their ok. I wear them sometimes. I’d rather wear a shirt and tie under a nice sweater than wear a sports jacket/ suit with a shirt and tie.
 
I wear cardigans sometimes. They’re the perfect old man sweater for all ages.
 
Chicken or egg? Was the word sweat derived from sweater or was sweater derived from sweat. Just wondering.
 
Devland said:
Chicken or egg? Was the word sweat derived from sweater or was sweater derived from sweat. Just wondering.
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The answer is:

"Sweater" must have come from some Proto-Germanic or Old Saxon word for warmth. ... Ladies and gentlemen, the etymology of "sweater": "woolen vest or jersey, originally worn in rowing," 1882, from earlier sweaters "clothing worn to produce sweating and reduce weight" (1828), from sweat (v.).
 
Fishy said:
I don’t recall having made a conscious decision to rid my life of sweaters - never thought about it until this very moment.
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Never bought one for myself ever. My collection has dwindled as my size has increased and the older female relatives in my life have decreased. But I did hear an old Rodney joke today that fit the topic:

"I gave my son a BB gun for Christmas"
"He gave me a sweater with a bullseye on it"
 
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