In Praise of Cardigans

[Accy cyclist]

What @Drago thinks he looks like in a cardigan
View attachment 759819
The reality
View attachment 759818

Pray do tell! Being close to 80, are you similar to the top one, or the bottom one?🤔 🧐

 

[FrankCrank]

Back in the seventies, Tank-Tops were de rigueur. I can clearly remember wearing them, but alas, no photographic evidence.

Here's what they looked like

The pipe was optional.

 

[Gwylan]

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

View attachment 759807

And racy pockets!

 

[Drago]

Back in the seventies, Tank-Tops were de rigueur. I can clearly remember wearing them, but alas, no photographic evidence.

Here's what they looked like
View attachment 759837

The pipe was optional.

Tank tops are the work of Satan! All the promise of a cardigan, but with restricted access and no arms.

 

[FrankCrank]

Tank tops are the work of Satan! All the promise of a cardigan, but with restricted access and no arms.

yeah-but, fashion innit

 

[Drago]

Pray do tell! Being close to 80, are you similar to the top one, or the bottom one?🤔 🧐

Top work, milord. The manner in which you just owned the bounder was devastatingly casual.

These are the sort of strokes wooly jumper wearers try and pull, and we should be vigilant at all times.

 

[lazybloke]

I've yet to see a cardi that wouldn't make me look a generation older and a throwback to another era.

I prefer a nicely-fitted zip-necked pullover, properly made from sheep. Todays is from M&S.

 

[Sterlo]

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.🤔

+1 for that one, I remember my Mum used to have a knitting machine (if anyone remembers them) and churn out no end of fashionable knitwear that I'm sure even the poorest charity shops would decline nowadays.

 

[All uphill]

Tank tops are the work of Satan! All the promise of a cardigan, but with restricted access and no arms.

I'm sorry, but you are just wrong.

Tank tops are for athletic men and women, about to speed off to fight a fire.

Cardigans are for old men dozing off in front of the fire.

 

[Jenkins]

Pray do tell! Being close to 80, are you similar to the top one, or the bottom one?🤔 🧐

Neither - as a practical fleece wearing type, I am neither knitting pattern man or funeral plan sales ad man.

 

[Drago]

I've yet to see a cardi that wouldn't make me look a generation older and a throwback to another era.

You talk like that's a bad thing?

 

[lazybloke]

You talk like that's a bad thing?

Actually it's two generations older.

I do follow one fashion cue of my late grandfather (shoes), but he was born over a century ago and his cardigans aren't my thing.


Ahhh, just had a flashback to him crawling around on all fours playing 'dinosaurs' with my youngest. He was in his mid-to-late 90s. Amazing!

 

[Drago]

And it's the humble cardigan that kept him warm and fit enough to play with the bairns in his 90s!

 

[Alex321]

+1 for that one, I remember my Mum used to have a knitting machine (if anyone remembers them) and churn out no end of fashionable knitwear that I'm sure even the poorest charity shops would decline nowadays.

My mother in law had several knitting machines, which my wife inherited when she died. She used to knit enough to sell on a small scale.

We gave the last one to a charity shop a few years ago.

 

[Alex321]

You need a nice Morris Oxford to go with it.

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

I actually owned a Morris Oxford for a couple of years in the 80's.

The car I had after it was a Morris Marina estate, with an identical engine (as far as I could tell).