In Praise of Cardigans

[Beebo]

I am proud to join @Drago in the CCCC (Cycle Chat Cardy Club)

You missed the 5th C.
It’s the CCCCC
(Cycle Chat Codgers Cardy Club)

 

[Drago]

Cycle Chat Curmudgeonly Codgers Cardigan Club.

 

[Dave 123]

When I was about 7 years old I had an arran cardigan.

I used to know it as my arrogant cardigan.

Sadly no photo evidence or knitting pattern!

 

[All uphill]

I am proud to join @Drago in the CCCC (Cycle Chat Cardy Club)

No!

Disillusion on top of disillusion!

I had you down as a cool guy, not a fake Val Doonican!

Cardigans are for people who've given up on life - it's a well-known fact

 

[Drago]

Our man @Accy cyclist knows a thing or three about style. I wonder where he stands on the great cardie debate?

 

[All uphill]

Our man @Accy cyclist knows a thing or three about style. I wonder where he stands on the great cardie debate?

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Great photo.

If that image is from about 1955, and the man was 40 then, he'd be around 110 years old now. The perfect age for wearing a cardigan.

 

[tyred]

You need a nice Morris Oxford to go with it.

Or a Wolseley 15/60 if you're feeling flush.

 

[Jenkins]

Since they invented fleeces I've barely worn a jumper, full zip fleece and not with a hood (hate owt on my head)

Another vote for the fleece jacket. I've not yet reached my 80th birthday so still too young for a cardigan.

 

[Jenkins]

What @Drago thinks he looks like in a cardigan

The reality

 

[lazybloke]

A lot of cardigan buttons look like swastikas

 

[slowmotion]

You need a nice Morris Oxford to go with it.

Or a Wolseley 15/60 if you're feeling flush.

...........with a tin of boiled sweets in one of the dashboard cubbyholes.

 

[a.twiddler]

And yet... when I was a kid all the other kids used to swan around in smaller versions of the hand knitted confections such as those modelled on this thread. My brother and I invariably ended up wearing identical versions. How my dear old mum, and all the other dear old mums, managed to find the time to do all that knitting in houses full of non labour saving devices, coal fires, basic or no washing machines, not much in the way of convenience foods, etc, etc, I'll never know.

 

[Accy cyclist]

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I actually dress like that. 🧐 That cardigan looks very well made and those football buttons are exquisite!🧐

 

[Accy cyclist]

Our man @Accy cyclist knows a thing or three about style. I wonder where he stands on the great cardie debate?

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I'm on the back row, fifth child from the left as you look at the photograph. The boy on the middle row. third from the left is wearing a cardigan. In fact I might've worn a 'cardi' that day though if so you can't see the buttons in the photo. Notice how we are the only ones, apart from the headmaster wearing ties for this last year of junior school, class photo from June 1972. The one with the cardigan was my kind of rival when it came to dressing correctly. He lives in California these days, as I found out from his Facebook page. 🧐

 

[Accy cyclist]

And yet... when I was a kid all the other kids used to swan around in smaller versions of the hand knitted confections such as those modelled on this thread. My brother and I invariably ended up wearing identical versions. How my dear old mum, and all the other dear old mums, managed to find the time to do all that knitting in houses full of non labour saving devices, coal fires, basic or no washing machines, not much in the way of convenience foods, etc, etc, I'll never know.

My mum used to buy balls of wool from a local wool shop (I loved the lanolin smell in there) and spend hours making matching cardigans and jumpers for me and my brother. I think it was just something mothers were expected to do in those days.🤔