https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 06 May 2026 11:33:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1379431 Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:54:44 +0000 Lisa 1379431@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A great question. &nbsp;I have been generally moving away from cardigans myself, although the one style that has been catching my eye are one's that look more like a jacket. &nbsp;I actually have <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=1018497&amp;vid=1&amp;pid=142403002">this one on order</a> from Gap. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1374131 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 05:00:42 +0000 Sveta 1374131@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div>It is such a relief I am not alone in my confusion! Thank you all for your replies.</div><div>Both my cardigans are past their prime so I am not wearing them out of the house anymore. This question was more geared towards the future: should I try cardigans again? If they are similar to the ones I have then I know I don't feel enough fab in them. However if the current style is very different then I can give it a try....but the fact that Angie does not like the cardigans for her own style gives me pause as our style preferences are pretty similar...<br />Ornella, I LOVE your waterfall cardigans on you, you wear them to perfection. I hope you can still wear them and do not feel dated.<br />Suz, you are so smart! You are the current cardigan expert!<br />Angie - thank you for taking the time to reply out of&nbsp;busy day. I "think" I get it but I guess I have to visit to stores and try some to know for sure.</div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1374053 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:47:04 +0000 Carla 1374053@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Glad you asked this question, Sveta. When I saw Angie's outfit post, I kind of sucked in my breath...</p> <p>I have such a poison eye for this look, and don't really get it. Think I will sit on the sidelines, watch, and learn. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373856 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:20:28 +0000 Style Fan 1373856@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Texstyle that is what these long cardigans look like to me.&nbsp; Maude!&nbsp; I could never put my finger on it until you wrote that.&nbsp; Maude or a bathrobe.&nbsp; Sveta you look awesome in everything. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373855 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:18:29 +0000 Windchime 1373855@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm very glad you asked this question, Sveta! Reading through everyone's responses will help me with my own cardigan curating.</p> <p>How do you feel in the two outfits you pictured? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373852 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:11:37 +0000 Angie 1373852@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Chiming in quickly to echo Marley and Suz. Current cardigans have more presence, Sveta&nbsp;-&nbsp;and are <i>at least</i> fluid - oversized is even more fashionable. Long and angular. Coccoon. Simple Arty Drape. Or chunky and short. Moto. Big collar. I'm sure you get the picture.&nbsp;</p> <p>To answer Peri's question - her cardigan looked a little dated to my eye. Too flouncy and ruffle-y on the collar - but not bad.&nbsp;</p> <p>Keep #1.&nbsp;</p> <p>Off to party with Inge and Greg for Inge's last weekend in Seattle. xo&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373850 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:06:40 +0000 Gaylene 1373850@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think Suz has nailed it. The newer cardigans are not as fitted in the sleeve and armhole and have more volume in the body. I think #1 channels more of this look than #2.</p> <p>It constantly surprises me how these small details add up to such a different overall effect. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373836 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:03:45 +0000 texstyle 1373836@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Really glad you asked this Sveta - I have two long cardis I was wondering about too. One just bought this past spring so I'm wearing it no matter. I don't love the big chunky look on myself and my weather doesn't require the added bulk (or more cardi purchases). I feel like your #1 especially looks very similar to the BR one and the #2 is really great on you so I wouldn't care if it were not the "trendy" cardi of the moment. I have to admit, the really long ones I still associate with the show Maude from many, many years ago so I'm sitting that particular trend out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373810 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:18:23 +0000 carter 1373810@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look amazing in everything, so I really don't notice the "dated" factor at all. Certainly you could never look frumpy! I do see that the more generous cut of the first one could make it more current though. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373804 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:51:58 +0000 PalmFronds 1373804@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Glad you started this thread because I was confused too! I agree with everyone here though that you could pull off the more dramatic fuller styles. They make me feel and look like I'm wearing a bathrobe, so sad. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373803 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:48:46 +0000 crutcher 1373803@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love your bf &nbsp;in picture 1...I definitely think it still works...These things go in and out, don't they?.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373795 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:20:00 +0000 Style Fan 1373795@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>First I think you look great in both pictures.&nbsp; I didn't get into the long BF cardigan look because it also made my shoulders look even more mini and I felt like I was wearing a bathrobe.&nbsp; The newer ones seem more chunky so may have a different effect.&nbsp; </p> <p>The shape of the new ones might be different as well.&nbsp; That is my take on it.</p> <p>This is coming from someone who wears head to toe fleece starting in November until February when I go to Florida.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373788 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 09:11:47 +0000 Suz 1373788@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The Angie pick BR one below (that Tanya modelled in her grey/ silver outfit) is made of a relatively thin merino. Ditto some of the J. Crew ones out now.&nbsp;</p> <p>So it's not necessarily a textural thing. I think your first one still looks current.&nbsp;</p> <p>I do think most of the new ones have a slightly different shape: more oversized, and either a cocoon shape or arty draping of some kind (not exactly like the old waterfalls, more in the collar area). Most of all, the newer ones are more oversized. Again, your first one fits into the category.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373781 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 07:03:47 +0000 Deb 1373781@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The current styles are thicker, bulkier and shaped differently than the ones you have pictured. I think I prefer you in your cute jackets than in these cardigans. In saying that, the second one does look good in this outfit. Since you are tall, you could look very good in the on trend style. A belt can add interest to them too. Worth a try at least. If you are not comfortable with the style, pass it by and continue to use these older ones in your loungewear capsule. Winter cardigans aren't for everyone and I agree with Ornella, cardigans can be just a support act. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373775 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 06:11:02 +0000 Ornella 1373775@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Add me to the chorus. I practically live in Angie's yesterday's formula, but I could also instantly see my existing elements for it are a bit&nbsp;meh for the reasons Beth Ann mentions. I generally find BF cardigans are not flattering on me because of the deep Vneck which visually pulls my shoulders in, so most have been demoted for loungewear.&nbsp;Then there was a question on the forum&nbsp;if the waterfall cardigans are still current. Oops, that would be my favourite contender for this formula&nbsp;(and my&nbsp;all time favourite cardigan btw) potentially out of the game too, although it somewhat ticks the 'dramatic' box so I should be OK I hope.</p> <p>Of the two shown, I prefer&nbsp;the second one as it looks like it could be star of the show, not just support act which cardigans usually are. I am curious to see it with black bottoms as in the photo, but with booties and non-patterened top. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373744 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:44:34 +0000 Beth Ann 1373744@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Me too, Sveta!&nbsp; To my eye (um, such that it is) your cardis, which would have seemed "relaxed" to us a couple of years ago, are now a classic fit.&nbsp; I suspect the newer versions are more textured and dramatic in scale --- something you can surely pull of with your elegance and height.</p> <p>I like the fluidity and lightness of your first cardi, and the bold black tipping of the second is a great bit of structure and framing.&nbsp; As long as they're in good condition, I think they still seem current, just more classic that "boyfriendy," if you know what I mean.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373743 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:43:06 +0000 Marley 1373743@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think that the cardi in your first pic would still work - but the one in the 2nd pic looks dated to me because it is a more fitted style.</p> <p>I really don't know though - I'm confused as well! &nbsp;&nbsp;I almost never wear a cardigan because I feel frumpy no matter what the fit or style!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373739 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:37:27 +0000 Anonymous 1373739@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm curious too! </p> <p>I've got a bunch of the boyfriend style ones. I actually started buying those as my default over the past few years once the shorter, crew-neck styles Firecracker mentioned started feeling a little blah and conservative.&nbsp;</p> <p>They still feel modern to me, although I'm sometimes a little oblivious to when things start to be passé. &nbsp;I do feel like looser boyfriends are maybe more current than more fitted ones, but also feel like&nbsp;more fitted ones are sort of a current classic, rather than a potentially outdated classic&nbsp;like the shorter&nbsp;crew-necks.</p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373727 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:18:17 +0000 Anonymous 1373727@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I know what you mean. I still have a couple of merino boyfriend cardies that have not been worn for awhile but one especially is probably too fitted to be current. Yours look fine to me...beyond fine, they are fab on you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373726 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:17:18 +0000 AJ 1373726@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sveta, it looks to me like the ones in today's post are chunky/textured. The first is very long, the second has a cocoon shape, and the third is mixed media. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373710 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 03:58:35 +0000 Karie 1373710@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I hope #1 is still current because I have a very similar cardi. I like #2 a lot, but I think the newer styles are looser fitting. I'm curious to see what everyone else says. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373705 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 03:50:11 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 1373705@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm confused, too, Sveta. I think yours still look current, though. My impression is that Angie was steering us toward cardigans that are really different from the classic round-neck, high-hip length ones that can look old-fashioned if not worn somehow creatively. <br />I'm just swooning over outfit 2! I love the colors, especially how the shoes and scarf echo each other. Maybe the boyfriend in that outfit is a little closer fitting than the newest ones, but I still love the look and think it's plenty modern. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/confused-by-the-current-cardigan-style#post-1373701 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 03:43:14 +0000 Sveta 1373701@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Angie's post today got me thinking what is the current cardigan style. I went through the previous <a rel="nofollow" href="http://youlookfab.com/2014/09/17/weekly-roundup-current-cardigans/">post of cardigan finds </a>and it got me totally confused.&nbsp;<br />I own 2 BF cardigans from 4 years ago (see pictures). Both are long, roomy and thin in fabrication. I have not worn them for a couple of years because I do not feel fab in them (they are demoted to loungewear now). I thought this is because they are not current anymore - but I see similar styles in Angie's picks. Is this BF style still current or is there something different about the new cardigans I don't notice in the pictures? </p>