Textured Button Front Knit Cardigan

About this piece

A button-front shirt cut with a straight body and a shorter collar, so it reads smart without a tie. It is the sort of piece that earns its place by being useful on an ordinary Tuesday rather than by being impressive in a photograph, and those are the ones that stay in rotation. It comes in 1 colour.

Fabric and feel

A mid-weight knit with a soft, dry hand and enough body to hold its shape through a day of wear. It stretches with you rather than against you, and it returns to shape when you take it off — which is the difference between a knit that still looks tidy in month three and one that has gone slack at the elbows. Knitted rather than woven, so the surface has a fine, even grain and the fabric moves in both directions. That two-way give is what lets a knitted piece sit close to the body without pulling across the chest, and it is why the seams stay flat instead of standing up along the shoulder.

Cut and fit

Pattern pieces are cut to a consistent grain, which is why the two sides hang the same way instead of one twisting forward. Fastenings are load-bearing: the buttons, zip or drawcord are the ones the design actually needs, not the cheapest that would hold the shape on a shelf. It is graded S/M/L/XL, and the flat measurements for every size are in the chart below.

Getting the collar right

A button-up shirt with a clean front and a collar that holds its shape when worn open as well as buttoned. Detailed where it needs to be and plain where it does not. The shape is kept quiet so it works with what you already own rather than only with the rest of one collection. The finishing is what you notice after a month rather than in the first minute: nothing scratchy where the cloth meets skin, and no trim that starts to look tired before the fabric does.

Wearing, washing and keeping it

It is built to be worn rather than saved for an occasion — the cloth takes a full day in it, and the cut reads the same at the end of that day as it did at the start. Worn in rotation rather than every single day, it holds its surface noticeably longer — and that applies to the cloth and the seams in equal measure.

Specifications

Style	Textured Button Front Knit Cardigan
Sizes	S, M, L, XL — flat measurements in the size chart
Materials	Mid-weight knit with two-way stretch, matte finish
Colours	Pale Mauve
What you get	1 x Textured Button Front Knit Cardigan

Measurements by size

Measured flat, in centimetres. Knitwear relaxes and settles after the first wash, so allow for up to 2 cm of movement in either direction.

Allow 1-2 cm of tolerance, since the garments are cut and sewn by hand rather than stamped. If your measurement lands between two sizes, take the larger one - our fits are not vanity sized.

How we would wear it

1. Buttoned, no tie

   The collar has enough stand to look deliberate on its own.

2. Open over a tee

   Works as a light layer without the collar collapsing.

3. Tucked with a belt

   Long enough to stay tucked through a day of sitting and standing.

4. Untucked with denim

   The hem line is cut to look intentional rather than borrowed.

In the box

• 1 x Textured Button Front Knit Cardigan

Care

Wash cool with similar colours and reshape while damp. Skip the fabric softener, which coats the fibre and flattens the surface rather than softening it, and keep it away from velcro and zips in the drum.

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