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This article was originally published September 22, 2023.
It has been updated to include even more sweaters.
You brought your own icedIce Spice Pumpkin Spice Munchkin Dunkin drink?
Theres a coldness in the air, and were bundling up in our matching Vulture sweaters.
Dont you think knits look great on-camera?
And unlike some more glamorous, out-there costumes, theres somethingaccessiblyaspirational about a good sweater.
Theres no more enviable item to wear when whiling away the last days of a grandly doomed romance.
Alison Willmore
Claire Daness poof-shouldered sweater fromThe Essex Serpent
There are many flavors of fine-but-non-notable TV.
Theres comforting procedural rhythms but otherwise unmemorable.
Theres I reliably smiled, but I never once laughed.
But what it does have going for it is Daness entire wardrobe, and especially this sweater.
Its shoulders appear to float above her arms like low-slung storm clouds.
Pairing that with Cher gives her an immense power.
Its a beautiful piece.
She is both swathed in it and the center of attention.
Her cuffed sleeves make it perfectly lived in.
Rebecca Alter
Kurt Cobains thrifted cardigan onUnplugged
A thrifted sweater is such a get.
Firstly, the grunge era was huge for layering as a whole.
Flannels, sweaters, jean jackets sometimes all three in the same outfit over bike shorts.
It was a lawless time.
Secondly, that thing is so bedraggled.
The studio lighting catches the pills on Kurts sweater just like the flyaways in his hair.
Its a studied, shabby look, one that became hagiography after he died.
Truer words were never spoken.
If she liked something, it was good, and if she hated something, it was bad.
Whats with the muumuu?
The die was cast: Big sweaters werenotcool.
But thats mortal stuff.
Roxana Hadadi
Bonnies Ralph Laurenlooking cardigan inBig Little Lies
Big Little Liesreinvented cardigan culture.
What was once a cashmere wrap or simple throw became anemblem of brooding mothers and divorced housewives everywhere.
The best knit to appear on the shows two seasons was Bonnies (Zoe Kravitz) Ralph Laurenesque cardigan.
We dont actually see her) confess to murder.
The Monterey moms need to know.
), and former Los Angeles Laker Rick Fox played a former Los Angeles Laker turned loan shark.
There were kidnappings and abductions and secret children and surprise marriages.
It was basically a primetime soap opera in which no romantic relationship or dangerous subplot was too unthinkable.
Yet amid all that schlock, what lingers in my brain most is this thing they madeBethany Joy Lenzwear.
Twenty years later, I still love it.
Does God even give a damn about the tragic death ofJenny, the worlds most perfect miniature donkey?
You already know the answer to that, andBansheesmakes you sit with it.
Rachel Reilly onlyhatedthe look because she knew she couldnt pull it off herself.
This sweater absolutely contributes to the films confusing catalogue-shoot aura, but its so worth it.
I would absolutely place an order for it with the lighthouses stockist.
Or at least the prime minister of Malaysia.
Logans (controversial!)
Tasked with finding a Mrs.
Clause, Tim Allens Scott Calvin is on a blind date with a Christmas-obsessed Molly Shannon.
I Feel Like a Woman!
I Feel Like Some Christmas!E.P.H.
Every sweater perfectly conveys the inner lives of the characters who wear them.
Liv Tylers Corey is innocent and naive, just like her baby-blue pullover.
Renee Zellwegers Gina is seductive, like her mostly unbuttoned black cardigan.
And Johnny Whitworths A.J.
wears a big, ratty, Cobain-y cardigan that pegs him as the tortured sweetie of the workplace.
Susan Lyall, the films costume designer, put her whole machine-knit acrylic pussy into that movie.
Selena Gomezs red sweater inOnly Murders in the Building
Ill do anything to bring up Selena Gomez!
Taylor Swift, but also me.
After every episode ofOnly Murders in the Building, I find myself Googling where to buy Selena Gomez costumes.
It features big buttons to bring out Hunnams big … eyes … further accentuated by tortoiseshell glasses.
This sweater screams scholar and high class and acts as the perfect foil to his characters use of violence.
(Although hes notthatviolent, compared to the other titular gentlemen.)
These men need garments that can stand up to that task, and thats exactly what their sweaters provide.
The fact thatThe Lighthouseis in black-and-white just serves to make the sweaters gruffness all the more intense.
While we could intuit that Willem Dafoes is hot pink, not knowing makes him all the more aspirational.J.P.F.
Frank Sobotkas ugly Who, me?
sweater onThe Wire
Clothes are probably not the first thing you think about when consideringThe Wire.
Its not that his sweater signifies that sense of giving up.
Now we just put our hands in the next guys pocket.
But this is more than just dated clothing.
Just like the sweaters, no matter how intricate his patterns, he will never be fashionable.
But we cannot just throw him away!
The Dudes outfits are, pretty clearly, thrifted and stretched out and splotched with spilled White Russians.
eBay sellers now ask $250 or so for this particular model.
At least its an ethos.
(Listen, its a very strange movie.)
Foys sweater is pure 80s goodness, something that would slot seamlessly intoDerry Girlsor a Wham!
Her frizzy hair makes it perfect.
I love the whole thing.
Its what Insta-moms imagine themselves wearing on the first day of pumpkin-spice season.
They cant see it yet.
Jen Chaney
