What I wore this week: knitwear

‘Jumpers are what you keep stuffed in a big drawer; knitwear is what you hang in your wardrobe’

Jumpers aren’t really fashion at all. They are just clothes, which are quite different. They are about as far from the experimental, leather-culotte school of dressing as you can get. Something you wear to keep warm, as you might wear a dressing gown on cold mornings. A lot of the time, you don’t even plan them as part of an outfit: you get dressed of a morning, in jeans and a shirt or whatever, and then put a jumper on top later.

But it’s January, and I don’t know about you but I don’t feel like wearing leather culottes now. On the other hand, I expect to spend most days in jumpers. So let’s talk about jumpers. At this point we should differentiate between jumpers and knitwear. Jumpers are what you keep stuffed in a big drawer; knitwear is what you hang in your wardrobe. Jumpers are practical; knitwear has a crisp-winter-walk, marshmallows-in-the-hot-chocolate lifestyle thing going on.