Wool Zip Cardigan

Most cardigans button, which means most cardigans open in a row of gaps and pull the eye sideways. This one zips. Closed to the throat it reads as a sweater with a clean vertical line down the chest; worn open it behaves like a light jacket over a shirt. The knit is a marled wool that the maker claims is entirely wool — eight colourways, each one photographed on the same model in the same room rather than recoloured on a computer, which is why the eight frames below look like eight garments and not one garment in eight tints.

A zip, not a row of buttons

A zip holds the front flat and carries the eye up to the collar, so a knitted cardigan can be worn to a table without the placket gaping. The stand collar is what makes it work closed: it meets the jaw instead of folding away from it.

What a knit this weight is for

A mid-weight wool knit springs back after a day of wear and holds a crease at the cuff, which is why it sits between a shirt and a jacket in a wardrobe. Worn over a tee it is a layer for a cold room; worn under a coat it adds warmth without adding bulk at the shoulder.

Pure wool, as the maker says

The listing claims 100% wool and names no other fibre anywhere in it, but it publishes no blend panel and no test report. We could not verify it, so we quote the claim rather than repeat it.

Details

• Colour: Mid grey · Mist grey · Black · Deep blue-green · Postal green · Wine · Heathered brown · Heathered cream
• Size: M · L · XL · XXL · XXXL · 4XL, as the stall lists them. Chest, sleeve and length DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
• Material: The stall’s title claims 100% 羊毛 (wool) and no other fibre is named anywhere in the listing, but no blend panel and no test report is published. The composition is the maker’s claim, so it is DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
• Fit: Straight through the body and close at the shoulders, with a stand collar that zips to the throat and ribbed cuffs and hem

Care

• Cool hand wash or a wool cycle, no bleach, then dry flat: a wool knit that goes on a hanger wet stretches at the shoulder and never comes back.
• Pills that appear under the arms are the short fibres working loose, not a fault — take them off with a knit comb rather than a razor.
• Let the cardigan rest a day between wears; wool recovers its shape with time rather than with washing.

Why we chose it

Because the stall photographed all eight colourways on one model in one room instead of recolouring a single frame, because every published frame is free of overlays, and because a zip-front wool knit is the layer the menswear side of this catalogue did not have.

One piece is fine. Buy a single piece at the price shown, or ask for a trade quote from ten units — written by a person, never read off a table.