Cardigan Fashion Blog Posts

Welcome to the cardigan blog post section of Apparel Search. A cardigan is a type of knitted garment that has an open front: commonly cardigans have buttons — a garment that is tied is instead considered a robe — while a more modern version has no buttons and hangs open by design. By contrast, a pullover does not open in front but must be pulled over the head to be worn. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search, and it links the cardigan sweater definition at the top.

Cardigan Fashion Blog Posts

About Cardigans

Two posts sit in this index. Burberry Wrap Cardigan Look from Kokun is a styling post: a wrap cardigan presented as the achievable version of a runway look. David Beckham Keeping the Cardigan Chic is the menswear entry — a celebrity post showing the cardigan worn as a deliberate alternative to a jacket, the use that returned the garment to men's fashion in these years. Between them they cover the cardigan's modern position: no longer only a layer against cold, but a soft-structured piece that finishes an outfit for either sex.

Cardigans may be machine- or hand-knitted, and the knit decides the garment's character. Fine-gauge cardigans in cotton, silk blends or merino wool wear like shirts and layer under jackets; chunky cable-knit and shawl-collar cardigans wear like outerwear. Closures divide the family further — button fronts, zip fronts, belted wraps and open-front draped styles — and length runs from cropped bolero cuts to long duster cardigans. The guides linked in the topic block below cover women's and men's cardigan sweaters, cable knit, cotton, silk, merino and kimono sleeve styles, and the questions page there answers whether a cardigan is always a sweater.

The cardigan's usefulness is temperature management: it is the layer put on and taken off as a day moves between outdoors, transit and heated or air-conditioned rooms, which is why it survives every change of fashion while pullovers cycle. Fit points are consistent across styles — the shoulder seam should sit at the shoulder, the buttoned front should not pull across the chest, and sleeves should reach the wrist bone. Care is the standard knitwear rule: fold rather than hang, wash cool and gently, and dry flat so the open front keeps its line.