The image shows details of a women’s button-up cardigan sweater:
Style Positioning: This cardigan combines a casual, relaxed style with a touch of French vintage design. The short cut and loose silhouette retain the gentle texture of a cardigan while creating a chic, effortless street style, suitable for various daily wear occasions.
Fit Advantages: Featuring a short, high-waisted cut, the length is 5-8cm above the waistline, effectively elongating the lower body and optimizing body proportions. The overall silhouette is slightly oversized, with dropped shoulders, providing excellent coverage for broad shoulders and a thick back, making it flattering for various body types, from S to XL sizes.
It comes in classic, versatile colors that can be paired with different materials such as denim, leather, knitwear, and cotton/linen bottoms/innerwear. It has a soft and gentle visual texture, suitable for spring, autumn, and winter color palettes.
Functionality: The cardigan design offers versatility, allowing for multiple ways to wear it. It can be worn alone as a top or layered over T-shirts, tank tops, or blouses. It can be worn directly in spring and autumn, and layered under coats or down jackets in winter for added warmth and style.
Basic Material: The main fabric is a combed cotton blend wool yarn (70% cotton, 25% wool, 5% spandex). The combed cotton makes the fabric soft, skin-friendly, breathable, and sweat-absorbent, without any itching when worn close to the skin. The wool component enhances the warmth and fluffiness of the fabric, avoiding the thinness of ordinary cotton cardigans. The small amount of spandex provides moderate elasticity, ensuring comfort and preventing deformation.
Fabric Texture: The fabric has a matte finish, without the harsh shine of synthetic fibers, giving it a more sophisticated look. The texture is soft yet substantial, not flimsy or limp, supporting the cardigan’s silhouette while ensuring comfort. Durability: The blended fabric has a pilling resistance rating of 4 or higher, making it resistant to pilling from everyday wear and friction; the colorfastness is 3-4, meaning it won’t easily fade or bleed after washing, maintaining the purity of the off-white color for a long time.
Collar Design: Features a collarless round neck (baseball collar) design with a moderately widened neckline that fits the neck curve without being too tight, avoiding the stuffiness of a high collar. It’s also more casual than a V-neck and suits various face shapes, especially round and square faces, softening harsh facial contours.
Placket and Buttons: The placket features a straight single-row button design. The buttons are vintage-style metal round buttons (approximately 2.5cm in diameter) with an antique finish and a light gold vintage texture, creating a contrast in material and color with the off-white fabric, making them a visual highlight. There are 5 buttons, evenly spaced, ensuring ease of wear and a neat placket line.
Sleeve Design: Features lantern sleeves (puff sleeves). The sleeves are gathered from the shoulder to the elbow, creating a natural fullness. The cuffs are gathered (ribbed), contrasting with the loose sleeves and creating a vintage and sweet atmosphere. The sleeves are regular length, covering the wrists, flattering the arms and concealing flabby upper arms.
Body and Hem: The body has a straight cut with no side slits. The hem is finished with a flat ribbed edge, approximately 3cm wide, complementing the texture of the garment and preventing deformation and curling of the hem, giving the cardigan a more structured look. Main Texture: The body and sleeves feature a three-dimensional waffle weave (honeycomb pattern), with evenly sized grids (approximately 1.5cm x 1.5cm each). The raised, three-dimensional structure creates a visual texture, breaking the monotony of a solid-colored cardigan. The gaps in the waffle weave trap air, improving the fabric’s warmth and breathability.
Ribbed Details: The neckline edges, placket sides, mankiety, and hem feature vertical fine ribbing (rib knit), with a width of approximately 0.5cm. The fine, vertical texture contrasts with the main waffle weave, adding depth to the design. The vertical ribbing provides excellent elasticity, allowing the neckline, mankiety, and hem to fit the body better, while also providing a neat finish and preventing sagging edges.
Knitting Process: Using a double-sided jacquard knitting process, the texture is more three-dimensional, with high consistency between the front and back sides, and no obvious loose threads or skipped stitches, resulting in fine workmanship. The stitch density is controlled at 12 stitches per inch, ensuring the texture is dense and resistant to snagging or tearing.
Casual Everyday Scenes: Pair with denim shorts, jeans, or sweatpants, and white sneakers or canvas shoes. Suitable for everyday outings such as shopping, visiting cafes, and walking in the park, creating a relaxed and casual style.
Light Commuting Scenes: Layer over a white shirt or knit camisole, paired with trousers or a skirt, and loafers or leather shoes. The cardigan as an outer layer adds depth to the outfit without appearing too casual, suitable for creative workplaces and light office environments.
Dating/Gathering Scenes: Layer over a floral slip dress or silk camisole, paired with knee-high boots or Mary Jane shoes. Wear the cardigan open or buttoned with 1-2 buttons to create a gentle and sweet French atmosphere, suitable for dates and gatherings with friends. Vacation setting: At the beach or in a pastoral resort, pair it with a floral maxi dress or wide-leg pants. The cardigan can protect against temperature changes in the morning and evening, and also complements the relaxed vacation atmosphere, resulting in great photos.
Layering setting: In winter, wear it as a middle layer under a wool coat, down jacket, or parka. It provides warmth and allows you to showcase your outfit details when you take off your outer layer, avoiding a monotonous look.
