Cardigan is the absolute basic garment in the wardrobe of a
woman as well as the classic cocktail dresses by the legendary Coco Chanel,
either comfortable denim pans. The little black dress or denim never outdate
the same as cardigans which are regularly exploited by the reputed designers in
the variety of style and color and texture.
Cardigans are trendy irrespective of the season and it is
warm and comfortable in the cold winter days and in cool summer evenings when
you go out.
As the trendy garment, cardigan is now one of the
foundations of casual style for urban beauties, though that can boast with the
decent history.
This garment of women wear has got its name from the British
Earl Cardigan who widely practiced and set trends for woolen sweaters to
protect from cold. As the real dandy, James Cardigan preferred that sweater
from wool to the traditional outfit even when going for the army journeys
and the garment won the hearts of British military officers. Later on cardigans
became the popular garment in the civil society, for both men and women
throughout the world.
Knitted cardigan – the basic level of the casual style wear
The spectrum of models provokes the thoughts to make
cardigans as the part of any ensemble, apart from the evening dress. A variety
of casual ensembles is quite countless. The knitted cardigan goes well with the
ordinary jeans and the top, warm trousers for winter wear, short skirt with
trendy high boots.
The knitted cardigans come as the strict and official
garment and loose and even baggy to be have comfort. As a rule, the length of
the knitted cardigan is still classic with the length a little bit beneath the
waist line irrespective of the style, though a few designers offer short models
or the contrasting long cardigans to hide thighs.
Woolen cardigans are perfect for the autumn and winter
seasons when we have the chance to create trendy layered ensembles. The perfect
example is the winter collection by the fashion brand DSquared2, with the
classic knitted cardigans as the base of fashion images of women wear.
DSquared2 designers recommend that we wear cardigans from
the thin and delicate wool of neutral shades of grey, light pink and beige with
the shirts, pants or skirts, warm jackets and must-have accessory is the long
and loose scarf to add some zest to the attire.
Sandwich ensembles with the cardigan as the basic element
were launched by the reputed designer Maurizio Pecoraro. He presented long
cardigans made from delicate wool pf classic grey color matching with the
official style office trousers and woolen dresses.
The fashion brand Etro demonstrated the high style when
launched single-color cardigans to the middle of thigh with the flamboyant
vivid blouses that creates the enjoyable impression. The Salvatore Ferragamo brand
included in his autumn-winter ’09 collection luxury cardigans – long, of
delicate knitting trimmed with fluffy fur.
Knitted cardigans for spring wear
It seems that warm and knitted cardigans go perfectly with gloomy
nasty weather when women are only glad to hide from the sharp wind in autumn
and winter seasons. However, the majority of reputed designers and brands
accentuated cardigans for spring and summer of 2010. The specific peculiarity of such cardigans is
the unique knitting and gaudy color reminding of spring and summer shades. So,
Jason Wu, the American designer, launched stylish knitted cardigans of short
models with the sleeves of three-quarters long of buoyant canary yellow color
in his latest collection. The cardigans are offered with short skirts. Lacoste
brand experimented with the knitted cardigan from the delicate white-snow wool
to make it an element of the casual ensemble with sporty elements – loose light
trousers of white color, sports shoes, a plain white top and a knitted cardigan
to match the image.
The spring-summer collection by Oscar de la Renta presented the knitted cardigan
as the trendy complement to the evening wear. The designer showed his works in
exclusive elegant cardigans of loose delicate knitting and special tailoring,
with the intensive blue color to match the knee-size skirt of the same blue
color and the trendy motton blue belt to accentuate the waist line, while the
Vena Cava brand demonstrated the series of classic curtail knitted cardigans of
grey color from the thinnest wool with the sleeves of three-quarters length.
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